Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08

| THERE was cIouQDurSI at atkins
Glen, N. Y, on the 1st.
The Algerian, a merchant vessel sunk
at Aultsville, Ont, the other day. The
crew and passengers were saved
THE rainfall in the Pennsylvania coal
regions was very heavy recently and a
number of collieries were compelled to
shut down. The streams were greatly
swollen and the majority of the collieries
in the Mahoning valley were drowned out.
FIVE hundred striking Italian railroad
Iaborers near Pittsburgh, Pa, recently
engaged in a riot. Two were killed.
Snow storms and icy rains prevail
throughout Switzerland and the streams
are beyond their banks.
KANSAS CITY won ball game at Balti-
| more on the LIST.
The Chicago worlds fair committee
held a meeting recently and elected
Mayor Cregier president Two hundred
representative men were present and an
| executive committee was appointed.
THE Bethlehem (Pa-) Iron Company has
voluntarily increased the wages of its
puddlers fifty-five cents day.
THE treasure, footing up about $500, 900,
lost on the steamer Granada OFF the west
ern coast of Mexico. has been recovered
1t is reported that cattle are dying at
the rate of forty or fifty a day from
splenetic fever in the Texas Panhandle.
W. j. JOHNSON & Co., leather dealers Of
Boston. have assigned with $55. 600 direct
and $40, 900 contingent liabilities. The
assets are said to be ample.
ABRAHAM FINKBoNE, aged twenty-six,
accused of arson, hanged himself in the
Jail at Reading, Pa, the other night
THE latest effort of Ives and Staynor,
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road manipulators, to secure release from
the New York Jail has failed.
ELEVEN business houses in Fennville,
Aich., were destroyed by fire the other
night causing $35, 900 loss. A tramp's
carelessness was the cause.
Two cases of giant powder exploded in
pit No 6 at Marquette, Mich, recently.
Two men and three boys were killed.
WoRKMEN succeeded in opening the gate
of the Feltvile dam near Plainfeld n. j.,
which had been closed for years with
weeds. etc, and the threatened danger of
break of the embankment was passed
A PASSENGER train left the rails on the
South Park (CoL) railroad and fell down
an embankment The engineer was killed
and the fireman was seriously hurt. Sew
eral passengers were injured.
A CLoUDBURST on the 1st did consider
able damage at Watkins Glen. n. Y.
A RAILROAD deal was reported by the
Chicago Times by which the Chicago &
Alton would purchase or lease the old
Kansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. Itwas
not thought likely. however, by the gen.
eral public that the Union Pacific would
lose control of its terminal at Kansas
City.
MANDAN, OAK, was devastated by fire
on the afternoon of the I'd.
TREASURER COLEMAN, recently default
ing in Warren County, O., is $63, 900 short.
REV. SAM SHARPE, a colored preacher,
of Lebanon, KY, has been killed for liv-
ing with another mans wife.
A QUARREL over a hog worth 81 has
caused an armed feud between the Smiths
and Slushers near Pineville, KY.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 1 numbered 30,
compared with 216 the previous week and
PIG the corresponding week of last year.
ABOUT a third of the coke workers of
the Connellsville region in Pennsylvania
are on a strike for higher wages.
The miners of Durham, Eng, have
voted by a majority of one to accept the
10 per cent advance offered by the mine
owners.
NEWS from Gunnison, Col, recently was
that the Utes were off their reservation
and were intimidating settlers.
The price of THE Angelus"-5S0,6 $50
francs-has been paid to the French MN
lister of Fine Arts. and Millet's picture
will soon be brought to America. Several
European artists expressed the opinion
that the picture was any thing but the
grand work of art as generally thought.
A SOUTH BOUND train on the Delaware
& Hudson went through an open switch
at Kenwood Junction, n. Y, recently.
Thomas Commit, a passenger, was killed
and five persons were more or less injured.
SOLICITOR SCOTT, of the Pennsylvania
road, denies that the company has insli-
tuted proceedings against the South Fork
Fishing Club, of Pittsburgh. for damages
caused by the Conemaugh floods.
c. NJ. HULL, editor of the Bolivar Coun-
ty Democrat at Rosedale, Miss, was killed
the other day by L. A. Weissinger, editor
of the Bolivar County Review, at that
place. The Review was lately established
and the two editors had engaged in Bit
ter personal warfare in their respective
columns.