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


Germany, recently and rolled over an en-
bankment The official report stated that
seven were killed and forty injured,
many of the latter would probably die.
THE general convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church of America was
opened on the ID at New York.
The grand jury which investigated the
charges of bribery against the Detroit
(Mich.) aldermen have brought in a
second indictment against Alderman
Lauder on the charge of accepting bribe
! In connection with the appointment of
meat Inspector. The first Indictment
brought in against Alderman Lauder was
! for a similar offense.
| A HowLING mob recently surrounded the
I office at Johnstown, Pa, where the work
men of the State were to be paid and had
it not been for a detail of militia with
fixed bayonets there would have been
trouble. The men had waited around in
the cold for nearly two days for their
money.
! The tin plate mill at the Exposition at
Pitts sburgh, Pa, was put in operation the
other day under the supervision of w. G.
/ Cronnemeyer, secretary of the American
1 Tin Plate Association, and it was demon
strated that tin plates could be made in
this country as well as England.
THE other morning Arthur Ricuert
aged twenty-nine, shot his wife, Elvie,
| aged thirty, in the left temple and plac-
! ing the weapon against his own head end
ed his own existence. Mrs. Ricuert will
die.
BY the caving in OF a sewer trench in
Eau Claire, Wis, two men were killed, a
third fatally injured and two more badly
hurt
TIE annual meeting of the National As
sociation of Wool Manufacturers was
held at New York on the I'd with closed
doors. The resolutions adopted urge
upon Congress the necessity of revision
of the tariff. and especially the tariff on
raw material and manufactured woolen
goods in such a manner that both indus
tries should be properly protected
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, on the I'd was bril-
liantly Illuminated and the houses deco
rated, it being the Inauguration of the
carnival The trades parade and display
was pronounced success, fully 1000 peo-
pie being in line with floats, etc.
AT the deep-water convention at To-
peka, Kan, the whole day of the I'd was
occupied in making speeches and nothing
material was accomplished.
DISPATCH from Buffalo. n. Y, says
that the two-masted schooner George
Finney, with a cargo of 10000 bushels Of
wheat from Toledo, encountered water
spout while off Port Colborne recently
which damaged her considerably.
EARTEQUAKE shocks were felt in the
City of Mexico and surrounding country
on the ID
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires were reported
raging in Mclean County. fifty mile!
north of Bismarck, n. Oak, which were
driven by the wind at a speed of sixty
miles an hour. The town of Washburr
had narrow escape, the flames reaching
within the limits. Many of the farmers
lost all they had.
TIE Priests of Pallas parade at Kansai
, City on the night OF the Sd was very i'm
posing and grand affair. Eighteen coun
tries were typified in the beautiful floats
The weather was perfect the crowd wa
: large and there was nothing to mar tn,
success of the occasion.
GENERAL FAULKNER was found guilt,
, at New York of making false report o
the Dansville National Bank in 1887. H
got a seven years. sentence.
DURING the progress of a prayer meet
: ing in a Presbyterian church at Mos
B Point Miss, the other night some un
7 known person fred into the edifice an,
killed Daniel McInnis and his little daugh
ter, Nellie, and seriously wounded Henr,
| Blumer
TIE Department of State has receive,
a telegram from General Franklin, Unite,
States Commissioner-General to the Pari
o Exposition, saying that the United State
Y exhibit has been awarded fifty-thre
\ grand prizes, 199 gold medals, 211 silve
medals, 2lS bronze medals and 30 honor
able mentions.
L CHARLES SPARKS, a deputy Unitet
a States marshal was killed at Bell Green
= Franklin County, Ala, recently by Loc
o Ezzoll, who was resisting arrest Tn
: desperate escaped.
An explosion in the Red Jacket shaft O
J the Calumet and Hecla mine in the Uppe
Z Michigan peninsula killed two meu
fatally injured two more and severely in
r jured seven others. The explosion wa
a due to miner striking a charge of dyna
mite with pick.
THE steamship Earnmoor, which saile
u from Baltimore, Nd, for Rio Janeiro An
q gust % foundered at sea September
and it was thought the crew Of ninstes
were lost