Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-23

place in the constitution.
THE powder magazine OF the fortress at
Konigstein, SaXony, was struck by light
ming the other day, which caused an ex-
pIosion. The magazine contained thou
sands of shells, but nobody was hurt.
The Southern Freight Association has
advanced rates on grain and hay TO all
Southern points, l cent per 100 pounds,
except to coast and Florida points, which
were advanced 4 cents per 100 pounds.
Rates on -four in sacks and barrels to last
named points were also advanced cents
per 100 pounds. New rates TO take effect
June /.
On July the State Treasurer will pay
the last dollar of the Iowa State debt.
THE Sioux Indians at the Yankton
agency will negotiate with the Govern
ment for the sale of seven townships in
the north part of their reservation. The
tract will furnish homes of 160 acres to
1000 families.
ST. SAUvEUR, a suburb of Quebec, was
seriously damaged by fire on the night of
the 18th, 500 frame buildings being de-
stroyed. In demolishing buildings to
prevent the flames spreading, two soldiers
were killed by an explosion.
The wife and two children of Lewis
Palmer were burned to death at Rockdale,
Tex, recently. The unfortunate woman
dropped a lighted lamp which set the
house on fire
COMMISSIONER STOCKSLAGER has refused
to allow the Government acre" at Guth-
RE, Oklahoma, to be used to build a first
class theater" on. The petition was signed
by its mayor, City Council and prominent
citizens.
THE Alliance and Wheel convention at
Birmingham, Ala, rejected the bagging
trusts offer of jute bagging at rates equal
to five cents per pound though cotton
bagging costs no less than 12h cents per
pound. The convention had no faith in
the trust
EIGHT workmen were recently injured,
three seriously. by a freight train on the
Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston rail-
road backing out from siding on which
a work train was standing.
PASSENGERS on arriving trains at Ash
land, Wis, ON the 10th reported from three
to five inches of snow all over Northern
Wisconsin.
The American Meat Company, recently
organized, of which ex-senator Warner
Miller is president, has agreed upon terms
with the officers of the American Cattle
Trust by which the two corporations will
work in harmony.
The steamship Columbia, which arrived
at Astoria, Ore, on the 10Th, brought a re-
port of the loss of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation COmpany'S magnificent side
wheel iron steamer Alaskan, which is re-
ported to have foundered off Cape Blanc,
while on her way from Portland to San
Francisco.
THE doctors who performed an autopsy
on Mind Reader Bishops body so soon
after his supposed death have been held
in s., 500 each to await the result of the
coroner's investigation.
FIRMIN APIANo, an Indian, was hanged
at Tucson, Ariz., on the 18th for the MUIR
der of Patrick Ford, prospector. This
was the first execution of an Indian in
Arizona under the recent decision of the
Supreme Court, which gives to the Terri
torial courts jurisdiction over all the In
dian criminals.
BUSINESS failures DAMS report) for the
seven days ended May 16 numbered 252,
compared with 227 the previous week and
1S9 the corresponding week last year.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
West End Mining Company, corporation
owning iron mines in Hunterdon County.
n. j., and in Pennsylvania. The liabili-
ties of the company are reported to be
from $500, 900 to $780, 900 greater than its
assets.
IT is stated at Cettinje. the capital of
Montenegro, that the Christians are being
massacred by Turks on the Montenegrin
frontier.
J. I. STEWARDS big packing house at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was destroyed by
fire recently with all its contents. Loss,
500, 600; well insured.
A FIERCE hail storm visited the section
between Dewitt and Clinton, Iowa, doing
great damage to crops and window glass.
By the bursting of a mold filed with
liquid iron in the Union works, San Fran
cisco, recently, eleven men We're badly
burned.
SEVENTEEN able bodied miners, heads
of families, recently applied to the poor
board of Pleasant Valley, Pa, for relief.
They claimed to be on the verge of star
walton.
AT the South Glastonbury Comm May
festival the other night over one hundred
persons were poisoned by eating ice
cream. Physicians in attendance ex-
pressed but slight hopes for the recovery
of thirty-four of the victims.