Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

TWELVE inches OF snow Tell At Den
yer. Col, on the 29th.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has de-
cided that the recent anneXations OF
Chicago are valid
A BRAKEMAN named Reetcrs was
killed at Beaver Falls, Pa, by a freight
train telescoping the observation car of
the Chicago limited on the Pittsburgh
& Fort Wayne. Two other trainmcn
were seriously injured.
THE Westinghouse Electric Light
Company has secured contract to
erect a central station for large cleo
trio light plant in Pelin, China.
ADvICES from Brisbane state that the
natives of Southwest New Guinea have
massacred Rev. Mr.. Savage, who was
sent out by the London Missionary So
ciety, a number of native teachers and
the crew of the cutter Mary, belonging
to the society.
THE great new steel bridge over the
Ohio river at Cairo, ILL.,, has been tested
and finally thrown open to traffic, 1t is
two miles long, while its approaches are
twice that length.
A TREASURY warrant for 1898 has
been issued in favor OF IIonore Levrie,
Company r, First Wisconsin cavalry,
now residing in Chicago, the amount
due him as his portion of the reward
offered by the Government for the cap
ture of JEFF Davis.
THE steamer Kanawaha, from New
port News has arrived at New York
with the crew of the steamer Cleopatra,
twenty-SiX in number, and the crew of
thirteen of the steamboat Crystal Wave,
which were both sunk in collision off
the Capes of Delaware.
A CABLE at Danbury, Conn, used in
transporting heavy granite blocks broke
recently. Two Italian laborers were
instantly killed and six others injured.
ONE of the large boilers of the Bel
laire blast furnace at Bellaire. O., ex-
ploded recently with terrible force,
cracking two other boilers in the main
battery and wrecking the boiler room.
The damage was $685. ZOO.
AT Pecos City. Tex, the other morn
ing the bodies of two Cinnamon were
found in the ruins of burned laundry.
Both skulls had been crushed in with a
coupling pin. There was no clew to the
murdererS.
IT is the opinion of the State Depart
ment that unless an Indictment against
eX-State Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana,
now in London covers some other crime
than that of embezzlement or misap-
preparation of funds. he can not be
mOlested while he remains in Great
Britain.
THE rebellious Polish parishioners at
Plymouth, Pa, attempted to blow up,
with dynamite, double frame block
house attached to the parish church.
Bishop O'llara was receiving rent from
the property, which angered the Poles.
COAL sheds at Chicago belonging to
the Lehigh Valley Company burned re-
Gently. Loss, 5000
THE contract for one of the new
cruisers has been secured by Harrison
Loring, of South Boston
A CHICAGO paper says that Canadian
Pacific line of six steel freight and pas
senger steamers will be running be-
tween Chicago, Milwaukee and Glad
stone and Owen Sound before the sea-
son of 1890 is far advanced
NEWS reached Pineville, KY. on the
night of the 2lst that Judge Lewis came
up with Howard and his gang the day
before on Martins Fork and killed six
OF Howard's gang without losing a man.
The reported purchase of the Chicago
& Alton by the Vanderbilts and alliance
with the Union Pacific has been en-
phatically denied in various circles.