Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-18
JOHN L. sULL1vAx, the pugilist, was ar.

vile, Tenn, on the 18th to await reQuisi
ton from Governor Lowry, of Mississippi
Sullivan attempted resistance, throwing
himself into a pugilistic attitude, but
revolver thrust into his face quieted min
and he surrendered. Later he was re-
leased By order of the circuit court anC
received an ovation from an immense
crowd OF admirers.
JOHN MALONE, a prominent citizen o.
Chattanooga, Tenn, was killed at Rising
Fawn. Ga, the other night, by being rur
over by a train on the Great Southern
road.
In an engagement recently sixty der
wishes were killed by the Egyptians.
The steamboat Crystal City. plying be-
tween St Louis and Grand Tower, Ill.
sank seventy miles below St Louis the
other night No one was injured
THE lockout against the Glasgow rivet-
ers has been withdrawn.
A DISEASE resembling dysentery is cpl
demic at New Canton. Ill Seven deaths
have already occurred, nearly all among
children.
WHAT is supposed to be gold. silver and
copper ore has been discovered in War
rem County, n. Y. in the mountains.
TROOPS have been ordered to Egypt
from Malta by the British Government.
THE labor troubles at the Homestead
mills (Carnegie's steel plant) took active
shape on the 18th, strikers maltreating an
employment agent and three German
workmen brought on to take their places.
No disturbances were reported on the
Orange celebration of the 18th of July.
THE strike anon the sailors of Liver
pool, Eng, has collapsed, the men accept
ing the terms offered by their employers.
To add still further to the railroad COM
! plications it was announced at Chicago on
the 18th that the Grand Trunk had cut
! grain rates.
IT was stated that Wiley Matthews, the
escaped Bald Knobber, had killed two
men in Boone County, Ark, who had at
tempted his capture.
The Magdeburg sugar ring being unable
to meet the settlement was compelled to
ask weeks grace, which the Sugar Ex-
port Association declined to grant The
collapse caused a fall of four marks in
Hamburg.
THE President has granted a respite till
August in the cases of Jack Spaniard,
Joseph Matin and Elsie Jayne, convicted
in the United States court of the Western
district of Arkansas of murder in the In
dian Territory.
A JAIL at jacksonville, Ore, containing
three prisoners was discovered to be on fire
the other morning and before the cells could
be reached to liberate them the prisoners
died from suffocation. The origin of the
fire vas a mystery.
ED. FRITZ, a laborer, was torn to shreds
in the drum of the cable power house at
Denver, Col, recently.
A TERRIBLE storm ragged at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, on the y h, creating much alarm
for the safety of shipping.
JUDGE HORTON, of Chicago, refused
habeas corpus for Lawyer BegQs, charged
with completely in the murder of DR..
Cronin.
FIRE starting in bakery at Fresno,
Cal, the other morning. destroyed half a
block of brick buildings, causing 5000, 600
loss.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed the Panama Canal Relief bill in
the form in which it was adopted by the
Senate.
AFTER fifteen months of contention
with the union, the employers of Indian
apolis stone cutters have acceded to the
demand for eight hours as days work.
THE Russian Government has totally
suppressed the Lutheran Church.
Two thousand bakers of Berlin have
gone on a strike.
NINE side acked freight cars in Pater-
son, n. j., ran pown grade suddenly the
other day, jumped several switches and
coliided with an engine and train. One
man was fatally injured and great dam
age was done.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has tele-
graphed his approval of the course of the
Emigrant Commissioners at New York in
OBTAINING the emigrants sent to Agent
Nell, of the Southern Pacific railroad, by
Wrighton & Son, of London, and ordered
the immediate return of every man sent
to Agent Nell, under the law prohibiting
the importa ion of contract laborers.
Two men named Horner and Reifsnyder
were killed in barn ten miles south of
Gettysburg, Pa, recently by a stroke OF
lightning. The barn was set on fire and
destroyed.
THE remains of Mrs. Tyler were inferred
beside those of ex-President Tyler at
Richmond Va
The steel cruiser Baltimore returaed to
Cramps yard at Baltimore recently after 4
satisfactory test of sea maneuvering. The
engines averaged 10 knots on develop.
mert of S. 700 horse power.