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

IxcENDIARns destroyed the big sawmill
at Norrie. Wis, during the recent storm,
causing S65. 900 loss.
By an explosion OF naphtha in the cool
| ing room of Apsley & Cofin's rubber fac
tory, Marlborough, Mass, recently one
man was killed, another badly burned and
200 damage done.
THE Commercial of Chattanooga, Tenn,
a Republican campaign paper, has sus-
! pended Lack of support was the cause.
No assignments of places in the coming
! inaugural parade will be made until a
week before March 4. One hundred Colo
rado cowboys are expected to participate.
| MICHAEL KEATING, a messenger in the
War Department, fell down a stairway
area in that building in Washington re-
Gently and was instantly killed. He was
intoxicated.
THE American brigantine Josefa was
fined s., 900 by the Spanish authorities at
Porto Rico because of a few packages of
corn starch being missing, which were
marked on the manifest. The owners have
made complaint to Secretary Bayard, on
the ground that the fine was outrageous
| for trivial mistake.
SEVERAL shocks of earthquake were felt
on the 9th in Eastern and Southeastern
| Spain.
A FALSE alarm of fire in the Berliner
| Theater, Berlin, the other night, caused q
| temporary panic, but no one was injured.
A NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION
! was organized at Ithaca, n. Y, on the 9th
by leading Eastern scientists, with Prof.
James Hall, New York State geologist, as
president.
MICHAEL O'MARA, aged twenty three,
tripped and fell while hunting near Flem-
ingsburg. KY, the other day. and his gun
was discharged, killing his seleven-year-old
brother Robert.
THE Louisville (Ky.) Trotting Associa-
ton, John E Green, president, has ceased
to exist.
The report of a race war at Lamar,
Miss, was denied.
NEAR Terpp, Oak, the other morning a
number of Russian settlers got into
quarrel with American settlers over the
possession of a goose. The result was
that several Russians were stabbed, but
not fatally. while one of the Americans
was fatally injured
FORTY settlers crossed the Canadian
river at Purcell, L T., recently. bound for
Oklahoma.
was guiIlotined at Paris on the morning of
the 2Sth. He refused to confess and died
protesting his innocence. He had been a
companion of Pranzini, guiIlotined some
time ago for a similar offense.
A SHELL burst in a powder magazine at
Messina, Sicily, the other morning, killing
sixteen soldiers and injuring many others.
THE State of Texas, it is announced, has
To- 90 nfc de
What has not been taken up belongs now
to schools, asylums. etc.
IT is said tobacco pool has been formed
at Louisville, KY, under the name of tae
Tobacco Board Consolidation.
THE fast trial trips of the new dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius in Delaware bay were
pronounced a success.
THE State Department after inquiry
could find no ground for interference in
the case of the brig Josefa. fined $1,000 for
being short twenty Packages of corn and
starch at Porto Rico.
THE other night the west bound train on
the Cincinnati, Selma & Mobile was de-
rallied about five miles from Selma, Ala.
Two coaches were partially turned over
and the passengers badly shaken up, but
nobody was seriously hurt There was
also an accident in the morning near
Selma, on the East Tennessee road, by
which sixteen passengers were bruised up.
FIRE in Dongola, ILL.,, the other morning
destroyed eight business houses, causing
$35, 900 loss.
THE final dividend of 20 per cent max
ing the amount paid 100 per cent has been
paid by the Comptroller of the Treasury
to the creditors Of the Second National
Bank Of Xenia, o.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended December q numbered
299, compared with 81 the previous week
and 263 the corresponding week last year.
CHARLES SHAw-LEFEBRE, Viscount Ev-
ersley, died recently, aged ninety -four
years. He was for many years a promi-
nent British statesman.
AMELIE THURIN, seventeen years of age,
who was employed as a domestic in
Chicago private family, upon retiring blew
out the gas and was found dead in bed the
other morning.
MRS. HENRY MARTIN and Miss Kate
Powers, two ladies living in one OF the
suburbs OF Chicago, while driving across
the Rock Island road track at Forty-sev-
enth street recently, were struck by
locomotive and instantly killed, their
bodies being terribly mutilated before the
train could be stopped.
THE business portion of Deloraine. Man.,
was burned the other morning. Loss,