Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-12-19

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dents of the unfortunate city were
killed and about IS injured. The
calamity was due to an alarm of fire.
BY collision between local freight
and a work train near Charlottesville,
Ind, the other day a fireman was
killed and three men badly hurt.
ANDREW KUsT, a workman at the
Mosler safe and lock factory, at Gin
cinnati, was struck and killed by a
portion of big emery wheel, which
burst while running at high speed.
A DISPATCH from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
says: Kettle Jacks" gang of horse
and cattle thieves in the Big Horn val
ley, eleven in number, are reported to
have been lynched by band of settlers.
THERE is rumor that Silcott, the
defaulter, is on his way to Chilli.
Rev. J. r. KENDRICK was found
dead in bed by the side of his wife at
PoughkeepSie, n. Y, the other morn
ing. He was at one time president Of
Vassar College and was widely known.
BOMBAY dispatches say there will be
no famine i'll the Madras presidency.
Rain has fallen and supplies have gone
from the north.
1t is now openly stated that gross
frauds are being perpetrated in Kansas
under the preteXt of voting bonds for
sugar manufacture.
NEW YORK sheep breeders prefer
the abolition of internal taxation to any
reduction of the tariff
IT is reported from Rio de Janeiro
that the jewels of the Empress of
Brazil have been stolen. They were
exceedingly valuable.
LOUIS WILKOwsKI, the mayor of
Starke, Fla, was shot and killed by
Albert Thrasher at Gainesville, Fla,
recently. The affair was due, it was
said, to family complications.
THE Johnstown, Pa, theater owner,
in whose place the panic occurred, has
been censured for not having a proper
number of exits.
A STRIKE was reported in progress at
Woburn, Mass. All the leather manu-
featuring shops were closed. Efforts
to adjust rates proved futile. Two
thousand men were out of work.
MCDONALD, the alleged candy
poisoner of st. Johns, N. B., has been
proven insane.
By a cave in at Bundys coal mine
near Butler, Pa, one miner was killed
and another fatally injured.
JOHN TIERNEY, a wealthy railroad
contractor, fell from a construction
train near Granburg, Tex, and was
horribly injured.
THE threatened strike of the coal
porters employed by the London gas
companies has been averted by arbitra.
ton.
BEFORE adjourning the Indiana
State Grange declared in favor of Chi
cago as the place for holding the
Worlds Fair.
ALL the printers in Berne, Switzer-
land, have struck for higher wages.
Several papers were unable to issue
their usual editions.
OWING to the scarcity of farm labor
ers in Germany, the project of import
ing Chinese farm hands has been re-
ceived with great favor.
JUDGE SAMUEL MAXWELL, a men,
Der of the Supreme Court of Nebraska
since the admission of the State, has
been offered the position of chief at
torney for the Consolidated Street Rail-
way Company of Omaha, with $4,000
salary.
SEVERAL days ago the trainmen of
the Pratt mines, near Birmingham,
Ala, struck for higher wages. Later
over 1900 free miners stopped work,
demanding that the trainmen's request
be granted. They say that they will
not run the risk of operating the mines
with green hands, and propose to sup
port the strikers.
ENGLISH newspapers, without eX-
ception, print extended obituary no
tees of the poet Browning, bestowing
upon his achievements a measure of
praise which they as unanimously
withheld from him during his life.
They agree that he possessed and dis
played high degree of genius, but are
inclined to the belief that much of
what passed for admiration of his
works was really affectation.