Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-25


been launched at Dul1th, MINI. 1t will
| carry 100, 900 bushels of grain.
FIRE in Columbus. o., the other morn-
| ing did $4,000 damage to the Breyfogle
building and the stock of occupants.
Three firemsn were injured.
THE rumor that Jay Gould was prepar-
ing to buy the Chicago & Alton was de-
clared to be a Wall street fake.
THE New York Times recently pub
lished the outline of scheme to CONSOLE
date on an immense scale several trunk
railroad lines with a capital of 500, 00O. =
0O0 The objective point would be Boston,
which the promoters intended to make
the great metropolis of the continent,
with steamship lines, etc.
A WHITE convict named Wells, working
on the railroad near Paris, KY, was shot
by guard the other day while trying to
escape.
The Irish team won the Elcho challenge
shield at Wimbledon with score of l. $50;
the English, 1.6S4; Scotch. !, 626
THE coal beavers of Superior, Wis,
struck recently for fifty cents an hour, on
which they were beaten in the spring.
The Wabash railway car shops at But
Ter, Ind, were destroyed by fire recently
with several cars. Loss, 100000
JOHN FITZPATRICK. referee; Bud Remand
and Pat Duffy, managers of the excursion
to the prize fight; E. B. Rich, owner of
the fighting ground and Kilrain's host;
J. W. Smith, Rich's clerk, who enter
tanned Sullivan before the fight; D. A.
Gilbert the head carpenter; w. B. Gilbert,
sawyer at the Rich mills. were arraigned
at Purvis. Miss, on the 18th for particIpa
ton in the late prize fight.
A SECRET ballot was taken among the
miners of the Brazil (Ind.) region recently
to determine whether they should resume
work at the operators terms, The prop
ositiOn was defeated.
Two hundred houses were destroyed by
fire at ConstautinOple the other day.
DR.. mellow, the slayer of Captain Daw-
son. at Charleston, S. c., has been ex-
PEELED from the South Carolina Medical
Society.
THE Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin
will demand Sl25, 900 annuities and back
dues which the Government owes them.
THREE men were killed by the bursting
of boiler at Stones planning mill, Chi
cago. The building was blown to atoms
POSTMASTER GRAY, of Givin, Ala, was
shot and killed recently by Burrows, the
ter office a mask which Burrows claimed.
AT Denver, Col, on the 18th warrants
were issued for the arrest of Secretary of
State Rice Sheriff Weber and his part
ner in the furniture firm of Graham &
Webber, and Lawrence & Co, who sup
piled the Assembly, and the State Printers.
Collier & Co.-all charged with conspiracy
to defraud the State.
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four children of Joseph Hulter, planter
living near Star City, Ark, recently and
three of them died. The criminal and his
motive were unknown.
CHURCHILL's mil at Alpena, Mich, was
burned recently. The loss was Sl2Q 900;
insurance, $780, 900.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July IS numbered 20S.
compared with 205 the previous week and
22S the corresponding week last year.
IT was reported at New York on the 18th
that Claus Spreckles was in with the sugar
trust. 1t was believed that the market
was cornered and that grand coup was
meditated.
A MAN supposed to be Jack the Ripper
was arrested in the Whitechapel district
on the morning of the Goth. He had just
killed woman and had the knife on his
person with which he had committed the
deed.
THE Little Kanawha valley in West
Virginia was swept by a cloudburst on the
night of the 18th. At Norristown several
lives were lost.
CHARLES F. COLEMAN, treasurer of
Warren County, O., has been arrested,
charged with embezzlemen-.
THE National Educational Association
at Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th
to meet next year in st. Paul.
Two Indians, White Horse and Black
Eagle, were killed by lightning recently
in their tepee at Standing Rock Agency,
Oak.
PEARCE & RYAN, wholesale liquor deal
ers. of Nashville, Tenn, have assigned.
SOB, 0S9; assets. $3.50, l49.
CHAIRMAN WALKER of the Interstate
Commerce Railway As, ociation, has is
sued a new decision restoring rates on
bullion and ore from Pueblo and Denver
to Missouri river points to the former basis
Of - and "A respectively.
MCQUADE. on trial for boOdleism in the
New York, combine, has been
acquitted.
JUDGE LoNGENECKER says that much
evidence against the men in
dicted for the Cronin murder had been
secured since the last grand jury. The
new grand jury will not touch the case.