Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-11

and other buildings were destroyed and
much other damage done.
FIRE destroyed the fve-story brick
building, SO to A Canal street. Chicago,
recently. Loss about $3.50 900, fairly in
sured.
A TORNADO struck the southeastern part
of Bridgeton, n. j., on the evening Of
the Sd.
LATER reports Of the destructive prairie
fires in Dakota show that several lives
were lost. The farm property destroyed
was immense. A wind storm accelerated
the flames which proved so destructive.
SwIFr's packing house, Chicago, took
fire on the morning of the 9th, resulting
in loss of 100000.
REV. CHARLES SIDNEY HURD, lately
of the PaImerston Unitarian Chapel. Bos-
ton, committed suicide in London, En-
gland, on the 4th. He left America March
Is last and in a letter mentioned his diff
culties as the reason for taking his life
A COLLISION between freight trains oc-
Cured recently at Browns Cross Roads,
Tenn, on the Nashville & Decatur rail-
road Both engines and sixteen cars were
totally wrecked and Ernest c. Green and
n. L. Eby, brakemen, were killed and AL
bert Finch, fireman, was severely hurt
A BAILIFF was shot dead at Coleraine.
County Londonderry, Ireland, recently.
The murdered man had charge of a farm
from which the tenant had been evicted
OVER fifty employees of the Government
printing Office at Washington have been
laid off because of the adjournment of
Congress.
ONE hundred and forty Alsatians have
been fined GOO marks each for failing to re-
port for service in the German army.
Ex-Governor CROSBY, of Montana, re-
Gently threatened to sue Russell B. Har-
rison, son of the President and in 1887
president of the Montana Live Stock
Journal Company, for libel. Harrison
promised to retract the charges
Two freight trains coliied the other
morning near + ,no Nv. Harry Wilson,
a brakeman, an / J. H. Mysegarder, a
farmer, were killed aud fourteen cars
were wrecked.
FOREST fires have been raging around
Courtenay, Oak. One hundred families
were deprived of absolutely every thing.
The losses reached fully $3.50, 900.
Mrs. MARY P. TERRY, of jefferson, Tex,
has begun suit at Gainesville, Tex, to re-
cover $780, 900 worth of property at that
place sold by her husband without her
authority thirty years ago.
THE British man-of- war Calliope has
arrived at Sydney, N. S. W., all safe from
Samoa She reports the floating of the
Nipsic, which was not greatly damaged.
THE town Of Leola was almost entirely
destroyed by the recent prairie fires in
Dakota
BERNARD BLUME and others are under
arrest at Brooklyn, N. Y, charged with
starting incendiary fires in various places.
Their plan was to rent a building and, af-
ter insuring the supposed goods, set it on
fire.
THE posse engaged in tine evictions on
the Des Moines river lands in Iowa were
fired on by concealed parties with Win
chesters as a warning. No one was hurt.
IT is thought that troops will be needed
to suppress the settlers threatening dis
orders on the Des Moines river lands.
ALLARD & Sons, fine art importers of
New York and Paris, are accused of ex-
tensive smuggling operations. A dis
charged employe of the firm divulged the
crime and the New York manager was
placed under arrest and evidences of
smuggling discovered.
ISAAC RICH & Co., extensive fish deal
ers Of Boston, have failed. Liabilities,
$200, 900; nominal assets, $225. 900.
A NEPHEW of ex-President Guzman
Blanco, of Venezuela, has been arrested
while trying to escape to the United
States on a charge of forgeries, by which
he secured $23, 900.
SENATOR PLUMB and Representative
Peters called on the President on the 9th
in behalf of two Kansas men, named
Miller and Woods, convicted of having
committed murder in the Indian Territory
and sentenced to be hanged.
A STORM which demolished many houses
and started several fires ragged throughout
Southern Hungary on the 5th.
The River Nile was reported rapidly
falling and the outlook for Egypt was
serious.
IT is positively denied at Albuquerque,
n. NJ. that there is any truth in the report
of deadly fight between officers and train
robbers in Arizona. The officers never
even struck the trail of the outlaws.
THE cruiser Atlanta, now at Aspinwall,
has been ordered by telegraph to New
York. 1t is the intention to send the
Yorktown to New York April 90, so that
the latest efforts at naval construction
may be seen at the centennial celebration.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended April numbered 222,
compared with 240 the previous week and
227 the corresponding week of last year.