Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

AMERICAN artists complain bitterly of
the treatment accorded them by officials
of the Paris Exposition in regard to space.
CENSUS COMMISSIONER PORTER an
nounces that he will not make any more
appointments in his bureau for some time.
WHITECAPs have notified Rev. George
Jacob Schweinfurth. who is worshiped
as Christ by the Beekmanites of Rock
ford, Ill.,, to leave the city in ten days. If
he does not go they say they will break
into his house, take him to the woods, tar
and feather him, and roast him alive.
THE town of Spaulding, Mimi, of 500 in
habitants, was half destroyed by fire on
the It'll. Three hundred people were rem =
dered homeless. No lives were lost
GENERAL BADEAU was $500 short in his
accounts when Consul at Havana, and
General Grant was his bondsman. The
Government has entered suit to collect
that sum from General Grants estate.
THE War Department has completed and
published the allotment of the $500, 600 ap-
propriated by Congress for the equipment
of the militia. The allotments are based
on the representation of the States in Con-
gress. For Kansas the amount is IS, 94S
and for Missouri SIS, 1SS.
THE twenty-eighth international con-
vention of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION was called to order at Phila-
delphia on the Sth by General O. o. How
ard, U. S. A., vice. president of the last
convention. There were about 1000 dele
gates present from all parts of the world.
THE National Association of Lumber
Dealers held its twelfth annual meeting at
Chicago on the Sth. There were about
| fifty members present
TWENTY FIVE acres of ground closely
built up with small dwelling houses were
swept by fire in the suburban village OF
Moreland, near Chicago, on the Sth, and
seventy families were rendered homeless.
A CONFLICT has occurred between the
| strikers and the military at Essen, Ger
many. The soldiers fired upon the strikers
killing three men and wounding five
others.
THE steamship City of Paris of the In.
man line, which arrived at Sandy Hook
on the Sth, has broken all records from
| Queenstown Her corrected time was
8 days, % hours and minutes. The best
previous time on record, which was made
by the Etruria, was 6 days, 1 hour and IS
| minutes.
RESPONSIBLE parties from Samedor
Mont, report that large party of Pine
Ridge Sioux. led by Grasshopper, have
come into the Tongue river agency for the
purpose of getting up sun-dance among
the Cheyennes. An outbreak was feared
| FOREST fires are burning in the Shawan.
gunk mountains and the Catskills. also in
the highlands below Newburgh and also
on the Fishkill mountains, of New York.
MAT RAsT and August Young were
crushed between two sections of packet
train at Champion, Mich, recently
Young was instantly killed and Rast died
in half an hour.
| WHILE crossing the Michigan tracks al
Kalamazoo recently, a street car was rur
into by a switch engine. The result wa.
the horrible mangling to death of six Of
| the passengers, all ladies' Two otkel
lady passengers were injured while the
only two male passengers escaped IN.
hurt
An old smoking car, out of repair, brok;
down on the track of the Valley railroad
near Cley Gland O., the other day, causing
the death of two passengers and seriou.
injury of four others.
NATHANIEL THAYER and Francis Blod
gett, of Boston, and William ]. Rotch, o.
New Bedford. are directors in the new
steel trust with a capital of So, 0O0 600
that has been formed by the North Chi
cago Rolling Mill Company.
SECRETARY TRACY has extended for foul
months and four days the time allowed
the Union Iron works in San Francisco
in which to complete cruiser No 8 9TH,
San Francisco). This is one of the larg,
1000 ton cruisers which was contracted
for October 81 1887, at cost of s.. 42S 900