Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS,


QUITE a heavy snow fell throughout
/ Northern Michigan on the 22d
THE typhoid symptoms among the Yale
students at New Haven, Conn, is causing
| increased uneasiness. Several men who
showed mild symptoms of typhoid fever
have been sent to their homes to recuper-
ate.
The large Touring mill of the L. C.
Porter Milling Company at Winona, Mimi,
has been burned TO the ground The ca
pacity of the mill was 400 barrels daily.
Loss, $3.50, 000 with fair insurance.
MAX BOXER and Chris Ficken were suf-
located in bed at New York recently.
The gas had been left to escape.
Ell Rio REY, the celebrated two-year-
old colt, was thought to be stricken with
pneumonia at Westchester, n. Y.
FoUR persons were burned to death by
the burning of the steamer Quinto i'll the
bay of Quinto. Canada.
SEVERAL vessels went ashore in bunch
at Winnetka, Lake Michigan, the other
night. The Evanston lifeboat went 10 the
rescue of the crews.
A DECISION of the Iowa Supreme Court
extends the nuisance" feature of the
Prohibition law over the property of de-
PENDANTS. The breweries at Burlington
valued at $500, 900 were therefore rendered
valueless.
HEAVY storms around Los Angeles, Cal,
have inflicted considerable damage.
JUDGE A. NJ. BRYANT, of Whitewright,
Tex, was killed recently by his runaway
team. He was caught between the wagon
box and tree and mangled to death. He
was seventy years old.
PIETRo BARANovSKL, a Pole, was hanged
at Pottsville, Pa, recently for the murder
of two women, which was committed while
he was robbing house.
MAJOR BURKE, ex-Treasurer of Louisi-
ana, has been indicted for the bond
frauds.
HARRY NJ LoEHR, the tax boodler of
Bloomington, Ill, has been sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary.
The wheat growers of the Mississippi
valley met in convention at st. Louis on
the 23d.
AN alliance is reported between the Chi
cago & Northwestern and the Union Pa
cific systems The c. & N. is under con-
troll of the Vanderbilts and the report
gave rise to considerable speculation.
A MEETING was held at Washington on
the night of the 23i to perfect an organ
ization for securing the Worlds Fair in
that city.
BY the explosion Of the boiler of steam
cotton gin near Pleasant Plains, Ark, the
other day, Flavel and Alphonso Robert
son. brothers, were fatally and two other
men seriously hurt
IT is the general impression of officials
at the Navy Department that the board of
survey recently ordered on the Ossippee
will report in favor of condemning the
vessel.
JUDGE NORRIS, of the United States
District Court of Baltimore. has decided
that the sinking of oyster pirate boats by
the State vessels was perfectly justifiable
AN unknown man was found burned to
death in the Pendleton lodging house in
Duluth, MINI.
Two of the employees of the Pension
Office whose pensions were rerated have
been officially requested to refund to the
Government the extra money paid to them
on account of such rerating.
IT is stated at Shanghai that the COL
lapse of the railway scheme is due to
French insistence upon the enforcement
of an article in an old treaty emitting
France to supply the personnel and ma
terial for any Chinese railway.
A PLOT to release prisoners at Sing Sing
has been frustrated.
ADMIRAL GILLIS reports from Monte
video that yellow fever is spreading in
Brazil and is likely to give serious trouble
during the coming summer.
GIANT powder was exploded in the bed
of Oscar Steinberg, sign painter, at
Butte, Mont, while he was asleep the
other night, and he was fatally injured.
His wife and son were arrested for the
| crime.
AN autopsy has been had on the body of
William Burns a saloon passenger on the
steamer HOndO, who died on the steamers
arrival at New York quarantine 1t
showed conclusively that Burns died of
| yellow fever.
THE requirements of the United States
sinking fund for the present fiscal year,
estimated at S4S, O00, 900. have been met
the bonds purchased on the oath bringing
the total Of this fund up to the amount re-
| quired by law.
The examination of witnesses in the
| Cronin case commenced at Chicago on the
| oath.
The annualreport of the supervising in
spector of steam vessels shows that dur
ing fifteen years past the number of steam
vessels in the United States has increased
from ass to G. rs.
HE Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
eided that railway company allowing
newsooys on its cars is responsible for
any damages that they may receive. This
is the first decision of its kind and is Of
great Importance to railroad people.
The will of the late E. G. Babbitt. the
wealthy soap manufacturer of New York,
has been probated- His widow is left the
family home and 500, 600 cash in trust for
their daughter Ida Another daughter,
Lila E. Bahbitt is left $4,000 cash and
100000 of New York Central & Hudson
River railroad stock.
FIVE hundred Chicago tailors struck on
the Gath.