Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS,

| ploded at the Peterhof station Just pre-
vious to the Gar leaving for Copenhagen.
The station was wrecked and a signal
man was killed.
MRS. JOSEPHINE GURLEY, now in the
Joliet QlL) penitentiary for abducting
Annie Redmond of Chicago, has confessed
that the child was stolen to go as a child
actress in a snap company.
| The New York Daily Graphic, which
has been in financial difficulties for a long
time, has suspended publication.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN was arrested at
Boston recently on a writ sworn out by
| O. NJ. Miller. of Toledo, o., on Judgment
note for 81 900. Train says the debt grew
out of transaction in 1872 and says he
will not pay it as it is unjust
SHERIFF FLAcK, William Flack, his son,
Judge Ambrose Mcneil, Joseph l. Weeks,
referee in the Flack divorce case, and Mrs.
Raymond have been indicted for conspir-
acy in connection with the Flack divorce
suit.
A FREIGHT train crashed into a passen-
ger coach of the Rock Island road on the
outskirts of Chicago on the evening of the
oath. Five passengers were killed and
seven seriously wounded. The engineer
of the freight was said to have been in
toxicated at the time.
On the night of the oath number of
robbers boarded the Santa Fe train ten
miles south of Fort Worth, Tex, and after
intimidating the railroad men and passen-
gers robbed the express of two money
packages of s., 900 and escaped.
The National Bankers Association met
in annual convention at Kansas City, No.,
on the 25th.
THE fast mail train on the Mobile &
Ohio road was held up the other morning
by robbers at Buckatunna, Wayne County,
Miss, and the mail car rifed.
LEWIS Bros & Co., the dry goods COM
mission merchants of New York, have
made their formal offer to their creditors
to compromise at ok cents on the dollar.
This is ~ cents more than they and the
assignee thought they could pay when
their schedules were fled.
ELIZA Cook, the English poetess, died
on the 18th. She was born in 1918
THE men employed in Parnell's quarry,
Ireland, threatened to strike recently be-
cause of an obnoxious foreman.
The boiler at the sawmill of Pritz Bros,
Berlin, Pa, exploded recently. John
Pritz, Edward Pritz, Oliver Ross, David
Ross and David Baker were instantly
killed. Two brothers named Brant were
badly injured.
Sol PURNELL4 negro. was hanged re-
Gently by a mob at Winona, Miss. He had
assaulted a white girl.
The jury in the Ives case at New York
disagreed, standing ten for conviction
and two for acquittal. He was remauded
to the Tombs for a new trial.
IT is reported that Christians in Crete
are being logged and tortured and wom-
en- subjected to gross indignities. A
Greek gunboat has been dispatched to
Crete to put a stop TO outrages
A RACINE, Wis, special says: Rev. A.
+. Packepe a Lutheran minister who
came here two years ago, has absconded
with portion of the money raised to
build a new church. He caused a split in
the congre cation shortly after his arrival.
ALONG the line of the Mississippi Gen.
trail the whites are organizing in oppo-
sition to the blacks, already organized. A
grave state of affairs exists.
A MISS GLEASON was killed and Mr.. and
Mrs. Gale were seriously injured by their
carriage being struck by freight train
recently at Hardin, near Greeley, Col.
The schooner Alpha, of Port Townsend,
Wash, is thought to have been lost at
sea.
FIVE hundred men working OF the Bay
de Chaleurs railway, in Canada, have
struck for several months back pay,
amounting to $4,000
BLISS & Co.'s syrup factory at Kansas
City, No., was burned out early on the
morning Of the 9th. Loss, $50, 000 In
surance on contents, $4,000.
BRISK snow storm prevailed on the
18th in Northern and Western Wisconsin.
Two miners were killed by black damp
in an abandoned shaft near Pottsville Pa,
recently.
EMERY's large soap factory, Ivorydale,
o., was destroyed by fire the other night,
causing S125 600 damage
HE Temple Of Heaven at Pekin, China,
containing the great throne Of the sacred
dragon, has been destroyed by fire.
The n. Latin and Rand powder mill at
Cressona, Pa, blew up recently. The ex-
plosion was terrific in force. William
Schropp Samuel Stotsf and Henry Reid
were killed and a number of other work
zen injured.
By the collapse of an unfinished house
In Milan, Italy, five persons were killed
and twenty injured.
THE fifth annual convention of the Ger
man-American technicker verein was il
session in Washington.
AT the business meeting of the society
OF the Army Of the Tennessee held at Gin
cinnati on the 26th, officers were elected
as follows: President General W. T.
sherman; recording secretary, Colonel l.
NJ Dayton; treasurer, General Force;
corresponding secretary, General A. Hick-
enlooper.