Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-28

Elgin, Ill. The plant is valued at Sl2,
000,O
IT is reported that the Emperor o.
Germany intends to build new palact
on the avenue Inter den Linden on the
site of the Royal Academy of Arts.
EMILE OLIvIER's new book has JUS
been published in Paris. He contend.
that the best form of government is {
monarchy. He predicts that Cesar
will yet arise in America unless she
''mltigates her Omnivorous DemOc
racy," and that still more surely viii
one arise in France if the state is de-
livered over to the cynical vOracity OF
politicians"
JUDGE FOSTER, of the United States
District Court at Topeka, Kan, has
decided that the Texas court has juris-
| dlctlon over crimes committed in No
Man'S-Land. The prisoners charged
with the murder of Sheriff Cross and
posse were considerably upset by the
decision as they expected otherwise.
a MASS meeting was held at Lake
Providence, La, recently and sum of
money raised to employ detectives to
ferret out the parties who fired into
the Jewish firms stores.
THE trial of Caleb Rucker, on the
charge of aiding the escape of the Bald
Knobber prisoners from the Ozark
Mo- Jail, closed with a verdict of not
guilty.
THE heaviest verdict for damages re-
turned by Kentucky jury for years
was given recently at Louisville in the
suit of NJ. Tierney against the Stand
ard Oil Company. The jury gave the
plaintiff $4,000. Tierney was a Louis
vile & Nashville freight conductor and
was hurt by the explosion of car load
of naphtha belonging to the defendant
company.
THE two women charged as being old
Mrs. Bender and her daughter Kate
have been held at Oswego, Kan, with
out bail, to await action by the grand
jury.
THERE was bad fire recently at
Baldwinsville, N. Y, the Upson block
being destroyed at loss of S25O,OOO.
SEVEN miners were buried under
rock in mine at Negaunee, Mich, re-
Gently, but five escaped. One was in
stantly killed and the seventh fatally
injured.
ELMER STARKEY, the boy matricide
of Eaton, o., who was to have been
hanged, has been given new trial by
the Ohio Supreme Court.
THE United States steamer Rosedale,
loaded with $4,000 bushels of wheat,
was recently aground near Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, in Canadian waters.
JAKE BUZZARD, one of the famous
Welsh mountain outlaws, died in the
Eastern Pennsylvania prison recently.
THE chief of the Mile Lacs Chippe-
wa Indians in Minnesota is in Little
Falls, Mimi, to endeavor to induce the
Government to drive white squatters
off their reservation, large portion of
which was lately given up.
THE Crane 81 Waters Hosiery Manu-
featuring Company, of Millburg, Mass,
has assigned with unknown assets and
liabilities.
THE National Palace of San Saliva
dor has been completely destroyed by
fire. The Government archives were
totally consumed. No lives were lost.
THE Provisional Government has is
sued a decree establishing universal
suffrage throughout the republic of
Brazil.
FIRE in Osceola, Iowa, destroyed ten
frame business houses, causing $4,000
loss.
THE Chicago gas trust has secured
40, 900 acres of gas lands in Indiana and
proposes to supply Chicago with natural
gas.
POSTMASTER-GENERAL WANAMA-
KER has directed that the free deliv-
cry system be established on January
l, 1890, at jefferson City, Mo-; Green
Bay, Wis; Washington, Pa; Iona,
Mich; Santa Rosa, Cal, and Creston,
Iowa.
THE Federal Steel Company, a gigan-
tic corporation, formed for the purpose
Of combining all the wire, wire nail
and barbed wire manufacturing plants
Of the country and controlling these
three great industries, has been formal
" organized at Cleveland, o.