Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-12

stroyed q, 900, 900 feet Of lumber, 1000, 600
shingles, a three-story brick warehouse
and contents consisting of doors, sashes
glass, etc, together with sheds, tramways
and other property. making total loss of
S314, 900, on which the insurance was $40 =
500.
HEAVY frost fell throughout the North
west on the night of the 4th.
An unknown woman committed suicide
at Niagara Falls the other morning by
jumping into the water above the falls
She was about twenty-five years old, had
red hair and wore black dress She was
alive when she went over the falls, as
she was seen to raise her head
WHILE the Government lighter was
blowing up schooner in the St Johns
river near Jacksonville, Fla, a can of
dynamite exploded prematurely, tearing
the lighter to pieces, killing R I. Moore.
son of the captain, and a colored man
named Powell and seriously in5uring En-
gineer Dunn.
An explosion occurred in the ironstone
pit of the Maurice Wood colliery at Mid
lothian, Scotland. recently. Sixty miners
were imprisoned. Four dead bodies were
recovered and it was thought the others
were dead
ATTORNEY HoGG. of Texas,
has instituted suit to declare SIG. 900, 900 of
mortgage BONDS issued by the Interna-
tional & Great Northern Railroad Com
pany null and void. 1t was alleged the
mortgaged bonds were really watered
stock and therefore illegal under the law.
BISHOP MCQUADE has excommunicated
James Kelly and William Dempsey, prom
inent Catholics of Waterloo. n. Y, be-
cause they brought DR.. McGlynu there
to deliver a lecture upon ''Father Lam
bert a Priest Who Went to Rome, and
What He Got There" Both men belonged
to Father Lambert's old parish.
THE employees Of the Santa Fe, who
were affected by the 10 per cent reduc-
tion last spring, have all along been look
ing for a restoration, until the recent
furry created by the resignation of Presi-
dent Strong. 1t has been given out from
official sources that a restoration would
not be made. but on the other hand that a
reduction of from 10 to % per cent. is i'm
minent
THE reunion of the blue and the gray
with Texas pioneers closed at Fort Worth
on the 9th with grand ball.
CAPTAIN WIssMANN, with 400 men, has
started for Mpwapwa to punish Bushir
for killing Officer Nielsen, of the East
Africa Company.
The British ship Winston. coal laden,
from Sydney to San Francisco, was
wrecked on Starbuck island about July l..
The captain and eight of the crew were
missing, the rest being rescued.
ONLY fourteen of the sixty imprisoned
miners at Midlothian, Scotland, succeeded
in escaping.
THE Douglass (Mass.) Axe Company
has failed. Affairs were in bad shape
with Dennison Dana, the treasurer, miss
ing.
The London dock companies on the 9Th
agreed to consider proposal for the six
penny rate to commence next January.
The strikers were advised to accept the
and the trouble was probably
ended.
AT Rising Fawn (Ga. furnaces recently
three negro convicts were killed by a pre-
mature explosion of dynamite. The acci-
dent was the result of the mems careless
ness.
FIRE broke out back of j. Forbes saloon
at Linkville, Ore, recently and lin two
hours the whole business part of the town
was in ashes. The loss was about $50,
900. Ben Monroe was severely burned.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended September numbered
POI, compared with 211 the previous week
and 224 the corresponding week of last
year.
A TERRIBLE explosion Of dynamite oc-
Cured in a cartridge factory at Antwerp,
on the 6 b, resulting in a shock
ing loss of life and a disastrous confagra-
ton. 1t was estima ed that 500 persons
we're killed and 200 wounded.
AT the meeting of the board of directors
Of the Santa Fe railroad at Boston on the
5th, William B. Strong handed in his res
gnation as president and director.
Allen Marvel was elected to fill the va
,ancy.
The haste of a passenger brakeman at
the switch at Plymouth, O., TO get to his
rain caused him to turn the switch before
he last sleeper had entirely passed and it
vas overturned and five persons were in
ured.
LETTERS from stockmen in Northern
Wyoming say that the Big Horn mount
lins were ablaZe and the loss from the
destruction of timber, ranches and other
would reach $500, 900.
CHARLES MORT, who was injured on the
'evenue steamer Fessenden during the
iham naval battle at Milwaukee, Wis, is
lead.