Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-02-27

tied with being brilliant success
The Bloch Bros, tobacco manufactur
ers of Wheeling, w. Va, whose plact
had been seized by the Government fol
selling overweight packages, recently
compromised and were allowed to re
open. No criminal charges were made
ANDREW CARNEGIE's free public Ii
brary at Allegheny City, Pa, was for
mally opened on the 10th by President
Harrison.
JOHN LESSONS frame residence Al
Kingston, Ont, was on fire recently
Four children were suffocated in bed.
Rev. JOHN LANCE was murdered in
Union County, Ga, the other night II
is supposed that the crime was com.
mitted by moonshiners, who feared
that Lance would expose them.
The arrest of ]. B. Kelley at St
Louis for supposed connection with the
Cronin murder at Chicago turned out
to be case of mistaken identity.
THE Navsssa rioters" were SEN
fenced at Baltimore, Nd, on the goth.
George S. Key, Henry Jeffrey and Ed
ward Smith, convicted of murder, were
sentenced to be hanged March %. The
fourteen men tried upon charges of
menslaughter were sentenced to terms
in the Albany, n. Y, penitentiary rang
ing from two to ten years.
ATToRNEY-GENERALS TAPP has written
an official letter to Bank Examiner
Kenyon in which he says the facts
in the report of the latter in regard to
the American Building & Loan Associa-
ton of Minnesota do not constitute
sufficient grounds for proceedings
against the association.
No more four per cent bonds will be
purchased by the Treasury Department
until further notice.
LETTERS from the City of Mexico re-
port terrible ravages by influenza.
JACOB SCHooP and Thomas J. Cole
were hanged at Philadelphia on the Goth.
Schoop was baker and killed his en-
ploye for the poor mans savings, leav-
ing his body in Paramount Park. Cole
killed a companion while drunk.
WILLIAM S. HOPKINS was hanged at
Bellefonte, Pa, on the Goth. He was
given two drops, the rope breaking at
the first fall.
THREE miners were instantly killed
at Aspen, Col, recently, two by scaffold-
ing giving way and one by a fall of rock.
ST. JoHN's Roman Catholic Church at
Greenbush, n. Y, was destroyed by fire
the other day. Loss, SIS, 600; insurance,
$42, 900.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended February 20 num-
bered 271. For the corresponding week
of last year the figures were 27O.
THE retiring State Treasurer of Missis-
sippi, Colonel w. S. Hemingway, was
reported $3.50, ZOO short. 1t was said,
however, that every thing could be ex-
planned.
ONE thousand miners of the Central
Coal Company, of Springfield, Ill, re-
Gently quit work because not paid the
wages due them.
THREE thousand aborigines and many
been attacked with leprosy. The dis
ease is spreading at an alarming rate.
Louise Michel talks of going to their
succor.
THERE was serious fire in Toledo,
o., ON the morning of the 21st, breaking
out in Breckinridge's fruit can factory.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, one-half.
THE Toledo (O.) Pump Company's
works have been seized by the sheriff.
The failure is total.
THE Gerhard Paper Company, of Buff
falo and Detroit, has assigned; assets
and liabilities unknown.
THE jury in Bishop Dub's case at
o., returned verdict of
guilty. He was suspended from office
until the meeting of the general confer
ence in September, 1891, when the case
will be reopened.
THERE have been two bad accidents
with engines and snow plows in Cali
fornia. Near Sisson there was a col
lision of the engines caused by coup
ling breaking. Several of the laborers
were killed. At Cape Point mills five
locomotives were wrecked. Two men
were killed and two injured.
CHARGES have been made of cutting
on the new Missouri river rates and an
feeling exists among
freight men.
TRAFFIC MANAGER SARGENT, of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
road, pronounces the Atoms Federal |
railroad control scheme ncnsensical.