Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

WILLIAM SCHICK and Mrs. Hannah
Becker were killed and Henry Pfstner
was fatally injured in Louisville KY, re-
Gently while trying to cross a track in
front of a train.
MCKEAN & APPLETON, shoe manufacture
ers at Salem, Mass, have made an assign
ment with $50 900 liabilities.
TWENTY FTvE seamen of the bark Little
Ohio. of New Bedford, Mass. persisted
when that vessel was wrecked in the
Behring sea, October 8. last year. The
remaining eight survivors were brought
to Alaska by the Thetis.
ADvICEs from Assouan state that the
advance of the dervishes is continuous,
though slow. A skirmish had occurred
between Egyptian patrols and dervish
outposts, during which sixty dervishes
were killed.
HEAVY rains were reported in Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia on the Both and 31st.
Overlooking rivers and creeks caused the
stoppage of many mills and the derange-
ment of railroad travel
THE will of the late Charlemagne Tower
has been admitted to probate at Philadel-
phia. He leaves all his estate in trust for
his family. His estate is said to be worth
many millions of dollars.
CHOLERA is reported as prevailing at
Bessarabia.
The Indians at Mile Lac, Mimi, re-
ceived fresh consignments of frewater
from Mora and Little Falls last week, and
the result was a big drunk. Three were
reported dead.
The Journeymen Plumbers. Gas and
Steam Filters Laborers' Union has de-
cided to sever its connection with the
Knights of Labor. This means the deser-
ton of about Is, coo men from the ranks of
that organization.
a DOUBLE execution took place at Louis
willie, KY, on the 31st. Charles Dilger
was hanged for the murder of two police
men and Harry Smart for the murder of a
man and woman while going down the
river in boat Dilger's execution was
bungled, the moose slipping, necessitating
his being dropped twice through the trap.
SEVEN shipwrecked Norwegian sailors
have been picked uD by the steamer Mag
ara and landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
THE Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton
passenger train was wrecked at Oxford,
| o., on the night of the 3lst Twelve or
| fourteen persons were killed and injured.
The Spanish Government has advised
the Pope that in case he finds it necessary
to leave Rome he should find asylum in
Portugal. 1t is understood that the same
advice has been given to the Pope by
| Austria.
A HARMLESS earthquake shock was felt
in California on the morning of the 31st
DR. G. II. CANTRELL, physician of the
Arkansas penitentiary, asserts that Jim
Burrows, the Genoa train robber, died in
the prison hospital October g. 1855 of
| typho-malarial fever.
LACK Of water caused boiler explosion
east of Fairfield. ILL.,, the other day. One
man was killed and two fatally injured
The Sierras and Milton stage was
stopped by two highwaymen near Cooper
oils, Cal Wells, Fargo & Co.'s safe was
blown open, but found to contain nothing
Seventy-fve dollars taken from the pas
sengers was all the robbers secured.
The memorial concentrating the land
ing Of the Pilgrims was dedicated at
plymouth, Mass, on the 1st
TIE July sanitary reports to the Marine
Hospital Service from Philadelphia and
Chicago show that the latter leads the
former IN population and is the second
city in the Union. The population is
placed as follows: Chicago, 1,100 600;
| PuAG5 4,O4U, 40.
HE Richmond (Va-l railroad stables
were struck by lightning the other day
and burned Sixty mules and horses and
seven street cars were consumed.
HE New York Graphic is again in
trouble. Reporters and clerks are clamor-
ing for salaries. A syndicate, headed by
steve b. Elkius, was supposed to own it
HE public debt statement issued
August i, showed an increase during July
OF Sl,olI, 3la5L The cause of the increase
was due principally to pension payments.