Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-31

JUDGE PRESDERGAsr has issued war
rants for the arrest of w. E Kent and
Thomas E. Downey, Chicago Fifth ward
politicians, charged with procuring a
change of names of election judges by
false representations.
THE jury in the case of Assemblyman
Smith, of New York City, charged with
bribery at elections, were unable to agree
and were discharged.
THE following amounts were pledged to
the New York Worlds Fair on the oath:
C. Vanderbilt, 500, 900; New York Central
& Hudson River Railroad Company, 500, =
900; Wagner Palace Car Company, $50, =
600; Joseph Pulitzer, so, 600
The Episcopal convention adjourned
sine die at New York on the oath.
FIFTEEN farms near Fergus Fails, Mimi,
have been devastated by prairie fires.
THE recent wheat growers convention
at St Louis, after the adoption of resolu-
tons, elected the following officers: Pres
ident, Hon. Norman J. Colman, of Mis-
souri,, with the privilege of naming his
own secretary; executive board, W. L.
Scott and A. D. Noe, of Kentucky; n. j.
Colman and U. S. Hall, of Missouri; E. H.
Murphy and P. A. O'Dell. of Minnesota
nois; Calvin Cole and George Gibson, of
Oregon; Walter n. Allen and ex-Gover-
nor Charles Robinson, of Kansas; J. A.
Coates and D. A. Eppson, of Indiana; n.
o. Walker, of Tennessee, and H n. Sar-
gent of Ohio.
THE Russian Government has offered
prizes of 2. 600 francs and large gold and
several silver medals for the best essays
on the part John Howard took in prison
reforms, to be delivered at the fourth in
ternational prison congress in Russia next
year.
The strike of the switchmen at Evans
vile, Ind, has ended in the defeat of the
men, many of whom have lost their places.
GEORGE CURTIS and Charles KiAmick
have been held for trial at Ashland, Wis,
on the charge of being principals in a
prize fight
AN explosion of dynamite in Montreal.
Can, the other morning caused one death
and the serious injury of five other per-
sons.
THREE trainmen lost their lives in burn
ing oil by a wreck and explosion on the
Lake Erie & Western at Kokomo recently.
Their awful fate was the work of I'M
known miscreants who placed an obstruc-
ton on the track.
DESTRUCTIVE wood fires were reported
at Winchester, forty miles below Pine
Bluff, Ark.
REV. J. w. PowELL's private bank at
Fostoria, o., has closed its doors. The
assets and liabilities are each about S24,-
600.
BY the premature explosion of cannon
during a political meeting at GAINESVILLE,
O., William hewitt was blown fifty feet
and fatally injured.
FIRE in Port Leyden, n. Y, the other
night destroyed nine business houses and
seventeen dwellings causing 500, 900 loss
with $50, 900 insurance.
THE State Departments estimates for
1S90-91 aggregate about $4,000 OO0 The
principal new item is s., 900 for new furni-
ture for the department rooms.
MICHAEL DAVITT asserts that the Pigott
forgeries were known to be forgeries by
Mr.. Houston, secretary of the Loyal and
Patriotic Union, before they were pub
lished in the London Times.
GEORGE SABoURIN, aged twenty-one,
working on a new Congregational church
at Newport, Vt, recently fell eighty feet
from the spire and was fatally injured.
A BATTLE is reported to have taken
place on the island of Savaii between the
forces of Malietoa and Tamasese. Which
parry won was not known.
JAY GOULD thinks that the combination
of railroads, as often mooted, is not at
present feasible.
The negroes concerned in the fatal riot
ing on Navassa island, West Indies, have
been landed at Baltimore and jailed.
Two children were fatally injured at
Franklin, Pa. They had found a dyna-
mite bomb and were playing with it when
it exploded. Eight other children were
seriously hurt.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October "a numbered,
including Canada, 225, compared with 254
the corresponding week of last year.
CHARLES MCILvAIN, nineteen years old,
murderer of Christian w. Luca while
committing burglary on the night of Au-
gust 21-22 last has been sentenced to
death by electricity at Sing Sing prison
in the week beginning December 8.
AT the instance of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Chung
Lee, Buffalo IN. " laundryman, has
been arrested for abducting two little
girls from their homes.
A SUPPOSED Tascott was arrested at
Reading, Pa, on the 25th. The detectives
were sure of their man.