Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-16

| Tacoma, W. T.. with about $50, 900 secured
| from friends. He took train for New
York, where he formerly resided. His
liabilities will aggregate over 100000.
IT is reported that Sir Charles RusselPs
fee for acting as counsel for the Parnell-
ties is 10000.
SPOKANE won the Kentucky Derby at
Louisville on the 9th; Proctor Knott, 2;
Once Again. 8; time, 2:34H; distance, one
and a half miles.
FIFTY thousand miners have struck in
the Dortmund Germany mining district,
causing all iron furnaces to shut down.
ABOUT l, 200 employees in the great Pull
man shops at Pullman, Ill, have been laid
off temporarily because of lack of orders.
THE strike of the workmen in the Allie
gheny Bessemer steel works at Duquesne,
Pa, has resulted in the virtual defeat Of
the men, every department being filled by
non union men.
A DISPATCH from Little Rock, Ark. says:
Deputy Sheriff Oliver T. Bentley, Thomas
C. Hoovey, Charles Ward. Fred Gunter,
John Heard, Thomas and William Wells
have been brought in under arrest from
Morrilton. They are charged with impli-
cation in the ballot box robbery at Plum
merville on the night of November g. The
arrests created something of sensation.
ALMOST every business house in the viii
lage of Shrub Oak. Westchester County,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire the other
night Loss $4,000
AT Kaska William colliery, near Mid
dleport Pa, recently a cage containing
ten miners was wrecked by a car being
pushed over the top of the shaft by two
Hungarian laborers The shaft was 500
feet deep and all the men were killed, be-
ing horribly crushed and mangled.
THERE is complaint from all quarters
that lake business is dull beyond every
expectation.
Two women were killed and several
workmen injured by the collapsing of an
old house in Boston recently.
THE commander of the British cruiser
Rapid has hoisted the British flag over the
Suwarrow islands, in the Southern Pacific
Ocean.
1T has been decided to hold the next con-
vention of the Y. NJ. G.. A at Kansas City,
Mo.
THE games of the international chess
tournament resulted as follows: Mason
beat Blackburn; Delmar beat Judd; Del
mar beat Mason; Lipschutz beat Tauben-
haus; Burn beat Burrille; Showalter beat
Gossip; Martinez beat Pollock; ]. W.
Baird drew with Hanham. Drawn games
only were played.
GREAT damage was done to fruits, gar
den truck and Fl overs about Belvidere
Ill, the other night by fierce hail and
rain storm.
THE condemned Bald Knobbers, John
Matthews, Dave Walker and Bill Walker,
were executed at Ozark, Mo-, on the 10th,
under distressing circumstances, the ap
paratus not being properly adjusted, ne
cessitating the dropping of Bill Walker
second time
DURING a conflict at Bochum, West
phalia, between military and striking
miners, the other day, two men were
killed and many wounded. In another
conflict at Bracket three men were killed
by the troops.
THE lake steamer Chemung, Of the same
line as the Owego has made the trip from
Buffalo to Chicago in fifty-four hours,
beating the Owego's record
A STORM passed over Pennsylvania and
parts of New York on the afternoon of the
10th, causing wholesale destruction of
buildings and serious INF ury to persons.
The lightning caused the death of a miner
at Mahanoy City, also of William Clapper,
at Gulf Summit Panics occurred in a
silk mill at Pottsville, also in Barnum's
circus while performing at Williamsport
JUDGE BARRETT, in the New York Su-
preme Court, gave judgment dissolving
the Electric Sugar Refining Company,
Alex Cameron, representing the corpora
ton, consenting thereto. R. Burnham
Moffett was appointed receiver and di-
rected to furnish a bond of $40, 900.
NEAR Wingate, N. NJ. on the Atlantic
& Pacific, quarrel arose between four
Zuni Indians and four cowboys, but for
the time being nothing serious happened.
Later on the quarrel was renewed, when
pistols were drawn and a pitched battle
ensued resulting in the killing of all four
Indians and the serious wounding of one
cowboy. The whites were arrested.
The Window Glass Workers Associa-
ton has issued an order boycotting and
blacklisting all foreign glass workers who
come to this country hereafter.
The Whitecap warning received by
Schweinfurth, the Beekmanite leader, of
Rockford, l., has resulted in the insur-
ance companies canceling all policies on
his home known as Heaven" and the
structure is now at the mercy of the
Whitecaps and the elements.
The net earnings of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern railroad during
the year 1888 were $771, 446.