Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-12-05

LEECHBURG, Pa, was visited by q
fire ON the 26th which rendered twenty
families homeless and destroyed $780,
600 worth OF property.
JOHN MCCARTY, the convict who Il
the Rhode Island State prison murder.
Ously assaulted murderer LaCoste
hanged himself in dark cell. LaCoSte
will recover.
A DECISION has been rendered in the
Illinois Supreme Court adverse to the
Chicago gas trust. The parties inter
ested were endeavoring to reorganize a
new trust on lines that it was thought
might stand.
PROTRACTED rains and floods have
disheartened Virginia farmers. Cot
ton is rOtting in the fields and the
ground is so wet it can not be hauled
out.
THE Mexican Senate has passed a
bill for the coinage of $500, 900 worth of
copper cents.
THE safe of the Pacific Express Com
pany at Fort Worth, Tex, was opened
the other night by some one who knew
the combination and Sc, 800 taken.
THE National silver convention adj
jOurned sine die at st. Louis on the
18th. The delegates were given a
Thanksgiving dinner at the Merchants
Exchange in the evening.
Boston suffered by disastrous con-
lagration on the 2Sth, commencing in
the granite building owned by Jordan,
Marsh s. Co., Bedford and Kingston
streets, adjacent to where the great fire
Of 1872 started. Two acres of build
ings were burned over. The loss was
put at 81, U00, 900; insurance, 81, 800, 600.
Seven or eight persons were seriously
injured during the progress Of the
flames.
NEW manufactures in the State Of
NuevO Leon, Mexico, are to be guaran-
teed twenty years exemption from con-
tributions and taxes.
TAYLOR and Duren, Americans I'M
der sentence of death at Guaymas,
Mexico, for train robbery, escaped re-
Gently, but Taylor was recaptured.
THE dock workers of Bristol, En-
gland, struck recently because the mer-
chants threatened to discharge the tim
Der runners who refused to work with
foreign crews.
EMIN PASTA has sent to the Anti
Slavery Society a communication, i'll
which he thanked the society for its
sympathy and expressed regret for the
loss of the Equatorial provinces. He
says that Notwithstanding his unfor
tunate experiences he still hopes to be
able to do effective work against the
slave trade.
NJ. GAUTIER, chief of the detectives
of Belgium, has been dismissed for en-
plOying men to induce striking miners
to commit outrages.
BY an explosion in a colliery at
BOchum, Germany, the other day four
teen persons were killed and four in
jured.
BY landslide at the entrance to the
tunnel near Pattenburg, n. j., recent
ly an engine house was destroyed, the
engineer killed and the railroad blocked
for twelve hours.
THE great football match between
Yale and Princeton took place at Berk-
ley Oval, New York, on Thanksgiving
day. 1t was a hard-fought game which
finally resulted in favor of Princeton by
a score of 10 to 0. There were about |
10000 persons present ON the ground !
and the enthusiasm and excitement |
was something tremendous. One OF
the players named George, of Prince |
ton, was quite seriously injured, the |
igament of his left ankle being broken.
BUSINESS failures Dm's report) for
the seven days ended November %,
numbered 249, compared with 277 the
previous week and 232 the correspond
ng week of last year.
A PARTY of American engineers is
examining the Guanajato mines, in
Mexico, with a view to purchasing
hem. They report the mines to be in
excellent condition.
FIRE broke out in one of the mills of
he Hartford Carpet Company at
rhOmpsonville, Conn, the other night.
The building burned was Il brick, five
stories high and 800 feet long.