Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

IT is understood that the Iowa Indians
are willing to take their lands in sever
atty. The Indian Commission will shortly
visit the Kickapoos and the Sac and Fox,
other tribes in the Indian Territory to in
duce them to accede to the terms of the
act
BY the upsetting OF the schooner Laura
in the East river, off New York, the other
morning, three of the crew were drowned
THE Farmers Alliance of Georgia has
decided to build a huge warehouse at At
lanta to handle the products of the farm
ers of the State.
THE three-years-o old daughter of George
Reilly, living near Black River Falls,
Wis, is thought to have been devoured
by bear.
The American Forestry Congress met
In convention at Philadelphia on the 18th.
INDIANAPOLIS and Cleveland have de-
clared in favor of Chicago for the Worlds
Fair.
AT Dothen, Ala, recently, riot occur
red between Alliance men and townspeo-
pie which resulted in the death of two
Alliance men, the mortal wounding of two
oily marshals aud the serious wounding
of five other Alliance and townsmen. The
trouble grew out of the taxation of Alli-
ance property.
SIX persons were killed and three in
jured by an accident on the Mount Au
burn inclined railway at Cincinnati on
the 18th. The machinery refused to act
and a car was precipitated to the bottom
and shattered to fragments.
CAMDEN, o., was badly damaged by fire
on the 10th.
The Mission creek country in Mime
sofa was Tavaged by fires. Much lumber
was burned.
G. B. SQUIREs, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
special agent of the General Land office,
has been dismissed. Squires was formerly
private secretary to Pension Commits
sioner Tanner.
THE International Maritime conference
met at Washington on the 10th. The DEL
egates were cordially welcomed by Sec.
rotary Blaine
AN explosion occurred in a Stafford
shire (England) colliery on the 18th.
Seventy miners were entombed. The
first searching parties found sixty dead
bodies.
THE State of Kansas has been awarded
gold medal for the best agricultural re-
port also a silver medal for its labor re-
port Honorable mention" was awarded
to the Conway Springs and Douglass
Sugar Companies.
WILLIAM DRAPER and John Olsen were
hanged at Placerville, Cal, on the 10Th
for the murder of John Lowell on his
ranch March, 1885 John Myers was
hanged last November for the same crime.
his two accomplices escaping for time
by taking an appeal
The accident on the Mount Auburn in.
clined plane at Cincinnati was caused by a
little piece of iron which got wedged in
! the cutoff valve.
FEARS are expressed that the tour of the
an-American delegates has been over
done, many of them being positively
weary of the rushing from town to town
and the endless sightseeing
A BosToN dispatch says the entire pie 1t
of the Brush Electric Company has been
/ sold to the Thomson Houston Electric
Company for a cash consideration of $S,-
! $50, 600
/ TIE reported railroad collision in COL
orado between Burlington and Union Pa
4 cifc passenger trains was found to be
/ false
The Long Hoi or Red river of China has
been opened to commerce.
In the railway station at Brussels, Bel
! gum lno OIher Jay. passenger train
dashed into buffers at full speed. wreck
! ing several carriages and injuring thirty
/ persons.
By collision between q car left on the
track at Heath, Ind, and freight train
the other morning many cars were
wrecked, one man was killed and several
others were injured.
THREE cases of smallpox were reported
in Boston recently, the first in over q
/ year.
The Missouri Pacific road announces
that 1t will quote established rates be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City in con-
nection with the Illinois Central and Van.
dalia- This opens another line between
Chicago and Kansas City, making eight
I in all