Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-29


Reading, Pa, has assigned. Assets, SEQ, .
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A TERRIBLE wreck, occurred on the
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville
at Flat Gap creek, near Knoxville, Tenn.
Judge George Andrews, S 7. Powers and
Alexander Reeder, three prominent citi-
zens of Tennessee, were killed and many
other well known people were injured.
J. VANDERBosCH's pretzeI factory on
Larrabee street, Chicago. burned the
other morning. Loss. $4,000. a stable
adjoining also burned and five horses and
a cow were burned to death.
The yacht Celt sunk in Lake Huron a
few days ago Those on board escaped in
the yawl, and after being adrift on tine
lake for two days were picked up by a
passing steamer.
WHILE Ex-Governor Robie, of Maine,
was walking near his farm the other day
he was attacked with a whip by two
FreDchmen.
Two Pennsylvanians were arrested re-
Gently on their return from Europe for
goods.
THE much talked of blue Grass
Palace" was opened by Governor LARA
ACCORDING to reports of county clerks
of Kansas, the population of the State has
decreased considerably since 1881 In
some counties there have been substan-
tial gains, but generally the returns are
unsatisfactory and give rise to various
conjectures.
THE sentence of Mrs. Maybrick was
commuted to penal servitude for life.
A GRoCERYAAN named Luca, of Brook
lyn, n. Y, was recently murdered by a
burglar named McElwain. whom he caught
robbing his store.
BUD RENAUD, for aiding the Sullivan
Kilrain fight, was fined $500 at Purvis,
Miss.
CATE CHANG PING, the Chinese laborer
who tried to break the validity of the
Scott Exclusion law but failed, has been
sent back to China.
AN ordinance has been passed by the
City Council of Guthrie, Ok, granting
franchise for twenty years to a company
to run a lottery in that city similar to the
Louisiana.
JOSEPH FRANA, who went to the door OF
his house in Chicago early the other
morning for breath of fresh air, was shot
dead bv an unknown assassin.
THE New York Metropolitan Museum of
Art has just acquired several pieces of
work of great archaeological and artistic
interest from Italy.
A WARRANT has been issued for the ar
rest of Gideon Brown, of Boston, on a
charge of larceny. He is in Montreal and
says he will return to Boston in a few
days and settle up his tangled business
affairs.
The west side of the town of Fairmount
Ill, was entirely destroyed by fire the
other morning. Loss, $4,000.
jim MCCOY, the noted desperado of
Southwestern Texas, was hanged at San
Antonio recently for the murder of Sheriff
Mckinney on December 26, 1856.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 90 numbered
2O6 compared with 213 the previous week
and PA the corresponding week of last
year.
BARNUM's circus train was wrecked
near Watertown, n. Y, on the night of
the 22d. A number of the animals were
killed, the loss being $4,000
JIMMY HOPE, the famous bank robber,
has been discharged from the prison at
Auburn, n. ". his time having expired.
He left for New York.
A RACE riot was reported recently at
Mount Pleasant few miles from Charles
ton, S. C. A negro woman had been shot
by a white man and the blacks were
gathering to lynch him. The Governor
ordered troops to the scene.
A WARRANT against Gideon p. Brown,
the absconding merchant of Providence.
has been issued from the Crown office in
Montreal
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress to pur-
chase the extensive wooden mills of James
Lee & Sons, of Bridgeport Pa, by an En-
glish syndicate.
THE four murderers of women Patrick
Packenham, Jack Lewis, colored, James
Nolan and Ferdinand Carolin, were
hanged in the yard of the Tombs prison,
at New York, on the 23i.
The Empire and Phoenix Touring mills,
of st. GATHERINGS, Ont, burned the other
The Empire mills was one of
the finest and largest in Canada, and
was erected only few years ago at a
cost of nearly 500, 0O0
THREE trainmen were killed and about
twenty more injured by disastrous coll
lision on the Baltimore & Ohio near Pc
troeum, W. Va. The accident was due to
conflicting telegraph orders.
THE new Government dry dock at the
navy yard at Norfolk, Va, will be finished
10 and that at New York No
vember l.