Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-03
MIsCFIJ,ANEOUS.

CHRISTMAS, 1855, Will be long Yemem bered
in the United States for its many disasters.
In addition to the burning of the steamer
John Il. Hanna at Plaquemine, La, by
which thirty lives were lost, the Left
Ericsson steamer was burned near Seattle,
Wash. T., with a loss of seven lives, three
skaters lost their lives at Lake Village, n.
H., six pleasure seekers were drowned in
the bay of San Francisco, the freight
steamer Silver Star was sunk off Bar Har-
Dor, N. H, two trainmen were killed in a
wreck on the Midland road at Lime creek,
Col, the Olympic Theater at Ashland,
Wis, was burned, Charles Stacker per-
ished in a tenement house fire at New
York, seven young boys were badly
burned while firing a toy cannon at Au-
gusta, Ga, half million dollars was con-
sumed in a fire at Cincinnati and three
firemen were injured, and Marblehead,
Mass, wasralmost entirely destroyed by a
terrible confagration. In addition. there
was quite a list of minor fatalities and
disasters.
EXECUTIONS have been issued against
Robert G. Totten, of the firm of Totten &
Co., iron founders and machinists of Pitts
burgh, Pa, for $114,0OO. The cause of the
embarrassment was not known.
THE mutilated remains of human body
in two parcels were found in East Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, on the 26th.
Indications were that a terrible crime had
been committed.
THE New York Graphic has changed
hands and also changed politics. Here
after it will be Republican in politics and
strongly in favor of protective tariff.
The second official inquiry into the cir
cumstances of the late alleged accident to
the Cars train at Borkia, has resulted in
ascribing the disaster to crime and not to
accident.
IT is stated that Henry j. Page, general
agent of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St
Louis & Chicago Railroad Company, the
Big Four" will resign and go
to Chicago as traffic manager Of the West
ern Indiana & Belt Line railway.
FHE British steamer Storm Queen has
foundered in the Bay of Biscay. Her cap
tain and five other persons were drowned.
A GROCERY store on South State Street,
Chicago, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire early the other morning, and an un-
known man, supposed to have been a burg
lar was burned to death. A barrel of oil
exploded during the fire and Frank Polo,
who was standing outside the store, was
fatally burned.
Ex-JUDGE ROBERT A JOHNSON commit
ted suicide at Avondale, near Cincinnati.
recently. About two months ago Mrs.
Johnston died, and the judge was unable to
withstand his grief.
WILLIAM WESTERNBERGER died of hy-
drophobia at Logan, o., recently. The night
prior to his death the physicians put him in
l. 49, 20
pieces. 1t took four or five strong men to
hold him when attacked by convulsion.
The President has granted pardon In
the case of Bishop 4. A. Kimball. con-
victed at the September term of the First
District Court of Utah of polygamy and
sentenced to eight months Imprisonment
The prisoner is in an advanced stage of
consumption.
FIVE men were killed and two badly
hurt by the falling of earth in an excava-
walton at Denver, Col, on the 26th. The
accident was due to carelessness on the
part of the gas company in laying pipe.
A PANIC occurred at York, Pa, due to a
collapsing floor at an entertainment
Christmas night Three hundred persons
had narrow escapes, and many were
bruised.
Two young ladies named Smith were
drowned near East Brady, Pa, by boat
upsetting Christmas day. The two young
men with them and another girl were res
cued in an exhausted condition.
A BROKEN switch at Helena, Mont, on
the 26:h, caused the death of fireman
named Moore and serious injury of pas
senger. The engine and one coach were
overturned.
The lamp of a sleeping pumpman in the
Norrie mine near Ironwood, Mich, caused
$1,000 damage the other night.
FINE cod fishing grounds have been dis
covered off Queen Charlotte's islands.
British America.
Two men were overcome by foul gas in
q well at Saline, Mich, recently and died
before they could be rescued.
EARLY the other morning the town of
Auburn, north of Grand Forks, OAK, was
almost wiped out by fire, the business por-
ton of the place being destroyed. A
scarcity of water and fire apparatus made
the buildings an easy prey to the flames.
TIE Richmond (Va-) Wing has sus-
pended Its goodwill was purchased by
the Richmond Times.
E L HARPER, the Cincinnati bank
wrecker who became insane recently, has
recovered so far that he has been again
placed at work in the Ohio penitentiary.