Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-20

has granted respites to Peter Baronski
who murdered two women, and James b.
Jacobs, both of whom were to be hanged
June %, to October 90 1t is claimed that
both mel are insane.
A DISPATCH from Columbus, o., saysi
W. B. Brooks & Son, among the largest
operators in the Hooking valley, assigned
recently. Assets, $3.50, 900; liabilities.
$4,000.
The opinion of well-posted people at
Johnstown is that the loss of life will be
between 8 900 and 1000.
TIE thirty fourth biennial session of
the Lutheran Church of the United States
was formally opened at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 18th. A prohibition resolution was
unanimously adopted.
SOME unknown person threw missile
ut Mr.. Gladstone while he was travelling
IN Cornwall recently. 1t missed its mark.
A TERRIBLE fire was reported sweeping
the Wisconsin forests near Superior. Loss,
S500, 900.
THE cabmen of Paris followed up their
strike with a riot on the 18th.
IT is reported in London that members
of the Clan-na-Gael committee who
signed the majority report finding DR..
Cronin guilty of treason to the organiza-
ton and sentencing him to be removed are
James j. Rogers, Brooklyn, n. Y; P. o.
O'Brien. Pittston, Pa; Christopher F.
Byrnes, Saxonville, Mass; John d.
Mcmahon, Rome, n. Y.
WHILE a drum corps composed OF colored
men was parading the streets of Will
mington, Del, the other night crowd or
small boys made an attack upon them.
when the colored men drew pistols and
fired on the boys, killing one and wound
ing several
THE Chippewa Indians Of Mile Lac,
Mimi, went on the war-path after big
dance and drunk, numbering three Swede
families. The Indians were excited by a
rumor that their lands were to be taken.
Immediate steps were taken by the mill
itary to suppress the hostile bucks.
FOURTEEN thousand people are still I'M
registered in the Conemaugh valley. Over
9, 900 bodies have been recovered The
debris at the bridge has been fired. There
was an overpowering odor OF burning
flesh. How many lives were lost will
therefore remain matter of conjecture.
IT is officially announced that the Nor
gan line of steamers have suspended their
trips between New Orleans and Vera Cruz
owing to the rigid quarantine established
by the Louisiana authorities.
THE short session of the Mexican Con-
gress adjourned on the 18th to meet again
September 10.
A MRS. KIRoCHNoR and her grandchild
were suffocated in a tenement house fire
in Norfolk street, New York, the other
evening. An oil stove exploded
AN unknown woman between forty and
fifty y ears old jumped into the rapids of
Niagara river above the falls recently and
her body was whirled over in moment.
She had evidently contemplated suicide.
JUDGE TULEY ordered the release OF
Alexander Sullivan on the writ of habeas
corpus at Chicago on the 14th. He held
that the evidence connecting Sullivan
with the murder of DIR. Cronin was too
weak. Sullivan's bond was fixed at
$40, 900.
AN unknown man was beheaded by
cable cars in San Francisco The other day
the third fatal accident in week
GEORGE and Charles Sherwood, sons OF
railroad conductor, were drowned re-
Gently near Chicago, while trying to swim.
ILLINOIS has been officially quarantined
| against Southern cattle in order to pre-
vent the introduction of Texas fever il
possible.
jim CHALTY, chief of the Snake river
band of Chippewas has conferred with
| Captain Stanch. He said that the recent
trouble was caused by whisky, and there
would be no general uprising, as the In
dams desired to maintain peaceful re-
lations between themselves and the
whites. 1t was stated that only one
white man was killed.
THE crew of the Russian schooner David
has been landed at Southampton, En-
gland. The schooner was sunk by a COL
lision with the North German Lloyd
steamer Trave
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reporD for the
seven DAYS ended June 13 numbered $50
compared with 225 the previous week and
232 the corresponding week OF last year.
AT a public meeting in Cork, Ireland
to express sympathy for the sufferers OF
the Conemaugh valley, after some warm.
hearted speeches had been made SUBJ
scription was opened and in a few min
utes 81, go was contributed.
THERE was a serious conflict between
whites and blacks recently at Given'
store, eighteen miles southeast of Austin
Tex. The trouble originated in a co;ored
Justice of the peace's office. S Z or eigh
men were killed on both sides. The white:
were arming and the negroes were in
furiated and grave fears of worse trouble
| existed.