Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-21

THE strike of the weavers of Fall River,
Mass, has been made worse by the shut
ting down of mills employing :, 1000 persons
in other departments.
THE Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports that the total value of the exports Of
beef and hog products during the month of
February. 1889. were s., 462. 422; February,
1888, SC, 523. .3S7. The values of dairy pro-
ducts were: February, 1889, $3.50. .421; Feb
ruary, 1888, S274, ,6O6.
THE glass works of Stewart, Easter &
Co., Marion, Ind, have been destroyed by
fire. Loss, SO, 900.
THE Pope has approved the statutes of
the Washington University.
S. E. GROSS, the well known real estate
man of Chicago, has been nominated for
mayor by the Labor party.
MATTE HOBBS Yves burned to death in
Paris, Ark. the other day, and four other
persons badly hurt in trying to save her.
Her dress caught from a brush fire.
AFTER two days discussion the Inter-
State Miners and Operators joint con-
vention, at Columbus, o., ended in the
dissolution of the agreement. The effect
on wages will probably be bad.
THE Newfoundland Government will re-
bait and outfits to American vessels this
year. Cutters are already guarding the
whole coast.
In rounding curve near Fairview, N
NJ, the other day, an Atlantic & Pacific
freight engine and fifteen cars were
wrecked and Brakeman Oliver Ferguson
was fatally injured.
FIRE in Newman, Ga, the other night
destroyed the leading business square, in
Guiding the public library. Loss, S54, 900.
MRS. GENERAL GRANT has sent check
for $25 to the Confederate Soldiers Home
at Austin, Tex.
A BATTERY of boilers exploded at the
West Point boiler works, Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 14th, killing five or six of the work.
men and injuring many others.
A NUMBER of miners were imprisoned by
fall of rock in the Black Diamond mine
at Shamokin, Pa, on the 14th. 1t was
hardly thought they could be rescued
alive.
FIVE sailors were drowned by the wreck
of the American brig Agnes Barton off the
Virginia coast recently.
CAPTAIN SETH w. Cox, a prominent
railroad contractor of Birmingham, Ala,
was run over the other night by freight
train and killed.
THE jury in the trial of Thomas P. Kerr
the famous New York Doodle alderman,
for bribery returned a verdict of mot
guilty"
The Acting Solicitor-General of New
Mexico has given a lengthy opinion de-
claring unconstitutional the Livestock
Inspection bill recently passed by the
Territorial Legislature.
ORDERS have been to prepare the Adams
at Mare Island, California, for years
cruise and the Iroquois at the same yard
for a three years. cruise
BY the fall of trestle below Stanford,
KY, the other day freight engine and
two cars were wrecked and the fireman
and tramp were fatally injured.
ALL of the six miners confined by the
falls of rock and coal at the Black Dia-
mond mine near Mount Carmel. Pa, were
rescued alive and we'll
THE cotton warehouse and platform of
Cely Bros, at Greenville, S. c., was burned
the other day with 1900 bales of cotton.
The fire was caused by a spark from a
passing engine.
THE Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
MED the motion to correct the judgment in
the case of Fielden and others against the
people, and at last the Anarchist case"
has been disposed of so far as the Supreme
Court is concerned.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has decided
the act of the late Legislature cutting off
the fees of the Supreme Court reporter
and making the office salaried one un-
THE eleven colleries of the Lehigh and
Coal Company about Wilkes
barre Pa, which have been idle since
February %. will resume with nearly 5000
employees.
BY an explosion of fire damp in col
liery near MIN es, France recently, fifteen
persons were killed and six injured.
A LARGE number of citizens of Green
vile, S. c., have been warned by White
caps that unless they behaved themselves,
stopped playing cards and stayed at home
nights they would each receive thirty
nine lasheS.
BUSINESS failures Oun's report) for the
seven days ended March IA numbered 261,
with 2S1 the previous week and
22S the corresponding week of last year.
THE bodies of W. j. Flowers, his wife
and two children were found in the ruins
of their residence at Hollow Rock, near
Memphis, Tenn, recently. There were
suspicious of robbery, murder and arson.