Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-28
JAY GouLp, on ACCOUNT of ill health. has

ware. Lackawauna g. Western.
Four, San Francisco policemen hav
been indicted for receiving brides from
keepers of Chinese gambling dens.
d. Il. SMITH, negro who has been in
| ducing hands to leave the vicinity of Ar
tesla, Miss, for Arkansas was hanged re-
Gently by unknown persons.
FIRE in Norfolk, Va, early the other
morning destroyed two dry goods houses
and huge stock of lumber, causing S5O,-
900 loss.
FoRTY-EIGHT children ranging in age
from eighteen months to three years died
in and about Wabash. Ind, in the past
two weeks from diphtheria and mem
branous Group. Not a victim escaped.
THE British ship St Joseph, which left
England for New York October last with
twenty-six men on board, has been given
up for lost.
A GENUINE blizzard ragged in Dakota and
Minnesota to as far south as Kansas and
Missouri on the 21st and 22d.
GEORGE SMITH, aged sixty, foreman of a
gang of laborers excavating for flats in
New York City, was blown to pieces re-
Gently by the explosion of fifteen pounds
of dynamite in the tool box.
THE much talked of Parnell letters were
u
Pigott, on the Dist.
COMPLAINTS of an uni discrimination
in rates against the city of Memphis have
been filed with the Interstate Commerce
Commission by the Memphis Freight Bu-
reau against the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company, the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis Railway Company and the
Southern Railway and Steamship Asso-
citation.
WHILE two girls, Mile and Winnie
Peterson, were returning from school re-
Gently in the northern part of Atkin
County, Mimi, they were attacked and
completely devoured by timber wolves, a
few scattered bones and shreds of cloth
ing alone remaining as the horrible testi-
mony of the children's fate.
THE Spanish mail steamer Isle de Cuba,
plying between Spain and Cuba, has been
wrecked off Corunna and is total loss
All the officers, crew and passengers were
saved.
THE Interstate Commerce Railway AS
ISOLATION (the ''gentlemen's agreement")
was organized at Chicago on the 21st.
Considerable skepticism existed as to its
continuance. The membership is composed
of eighteen out of twenty-five Western
roads.
THE Secretary of the Navy has con-
tracted with NJ. E. Pickering & Co., of
New York, for the delivery of 1900 tons of
coal at the United States coaling station
at Page Page, Samoa, at the rate of S13 %
per ton.
GERMAN papers assert that Klein, the
American who is charged by Germany
with having led the Mataafaites in Samoa
when the Germans were repulsed in De-
cember last, was born at Lahr and served
as a sergeant in the German army during
the Franco-Prussian war. He was, so it
is stated, subsequently compelled to leave
Germany and went to America.
MAX BERNSTEIN, a candidate for the
office of Rabbi, has been sentenced in Ber-
lin to Imprisonment for three months for
drawing blood from Christian boy.
Four German ironclads at Genoa have
been ordered to sail for Samoa immedi-
ately.
MISS MINNIE MARsEALEs, young lady
of Norwalk, O., died in a dentists chair
the other day. She had taken chloroform
preparatory to having her teeth drawn,
and it caused her heart to cease beating.
A WARRANT was issued at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the ODD fol- the arrest of Colonel
W. w. Dudley, of the Republican National
Committee.
A DYNAMITE bomb was thrown into the
Wesleyan College building at New Middle
town, Conn.,, recently by some foolhardy
student. Doors and windows were shat
tered and son of ex-Congressman Hub
bard, of West Virginia, was seriously in
jured.
FEBRUARY great fire broke out in
Shidsnoki, Japan, extending down streets
and destroyed 1000 houses, including
temples, schools and hospitals. On the
following day fire at Yokosuka ruined 500
houses and burned to death three men.
On the same day ten houses were de-
stroyed at Joshua and fifteen at Toxic. =
= JUDGE CLARK JILLsoN. of the First
Southern Worcester Mass district court,
has closed his inquest on the body OF Lila
Hoyle, begun nearly a year and q half
ago. His return is as follows: "She
came to her death as the result of the I'M
lawful act of some person other than her.
self"
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN POWDER
LY, of the knights of Labor, has issued
his second call within year for per capita
contributions from members of the order.
AvALANCHEs in Switzerland recently
have destroyed many houses and caused
a number of deaths.