Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-12-12

The Kaiser has wired Stanley and
Emin that he sympathiZes with them
and sends congratulations and well
comes them home. Mackinnon, the
chairman of the Emin relief commit
tee, was summoned to Windsor Castle
by Queen Victoria where he dined and
slept.
THE Cherokee Legislature has agreed
to resolution for the appointment of
Commission to meet the United
States Commission to consider the sale
of the Cherokee Strip.
J. p. WILLIS. deputy United States
marshal, and City Marshal Morgan
were both killed in pistol encounter
recently at Holden. Mo.
THE Baltimore Board of Trade has
passed resolutions opposing the grant
ing of subsidies or bountieS to foster
American shipping interests.
SQUIRE +. TAYLOR, sOn-in-law of
Hon. Alex Caldwell, ex-United States
Senator, committed suicide at Leaven-
worth, Kan, recently by shooting him
self through the right temple. He had
been respondent lately, but nothing
was kiaOwn sufficient to account for his
suicide
TIE dcAuliffe-Daly fight at Boston
ended in draw at the end of the lif-
teenth round
ENIN PASTA had a serious accident
at BagamOyO the day after his arrival.
Owing to his nearsightedness he mis-
took the height of a railing and fell
twenty feet, fracturing his skull.
TIE boiler on the sugar plantation of
a planter named Meredith exploded at
Colfax, La, recently. killing six men
and two women. all negroes, and
wounding several others.
TIE Brotherhood managers claim
that they have signed all the baseball
players they need.
Six of the men arrested at ArdmOre,
l. T., charged with the train robbery
near Berwyn, have been released by
United States Commissioner Hooker,
at Purcell, having satisfactorily proven
an alibi.
TIE well known Monongahela Hotel,
Pittsburgh, Pa, was burned on the 5th.
Loss, about 100000. The 200 guests
of the house had to make a rapid exit
for life.
TIIECOrOner'S jury was of the opinion
that the many telegraph wires had
much to do with preventing the rescue
of the unfortunate persons who lost
their lives in the burning of the Mime
apoliS Tribune building.
TIE Miner House at East Tawas,
Mich, took fire recently. Two charred
bodies were found in the ruins.
TIE house of John Madden at Kings
ton, Ont, caught fire the other night
and while he and his wife were trying
to eXtinguish the flames their means of
escape were cut off and both perished.
GOVERNOR MILLETT, of South Da-
kota, says there are 600 families in
Minor County who are starving to
death. The Governor was soliciting
aid for the destitute.
SILCOTT, cashier of Sergeant-at-Arms
LeedOm, of the House of Representa-
tives, has disappeared with $4,000,
money due congressman and others Oh |
etc. LeedOm was under bond |
to make good his cashiers defalcationS.
TIE boiler in Governor JackSOn's !
Sawmill at Marion, Md, exploded re-
Gently. William Dennis, aged twenty |
two years, was killed, and William |
Dixon probably fatally hurt. Richard |
Martin had a foot blown off and two |
or three others were seriously injured. |
JOHN KENDAROOCH and Annie
ChomO have been indicted for the mur-
der of the wOman's husband, a paralyt-
ic, who was found hanging to a bed
post in POtSdam, Pa, on November q. |
DURING trial in Judge BlantOn's
court room at Marshall, Tex, opposing
lawyers got into dispute and weap-
OnS were drawn. The result was that
State Representative Alexander Pope
was mortally wounded, dying the same
lay, and Senator w. II. Pope, his
was seriously wounded iii two
places. Another lawyer was also hurt.
WILLIAM PETERS, secretary of a
Cincinnati building and loan aSSocia-
ton, has confessed having embezzled
$4,000. lie is now in jail.
CHARLES JOHNSON, colOred, has been
hanged at Gadsden, Ala, for the muir
ler of a policeman in November, 1883.