Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
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| BOHEMIAN ana other foreign W0rkmeI
on strike at College Point, L. l., recently
attacked Sulbach & Co.'S silk mills
smashing the windows and preventing
new men going to work
The steamship De Ruyter, from Ant.
werp, went ashore at Scituate, Mass.
The crew reached land with consider.
able difficulty. The vessel was valued
at $3.50, 600.
An avalanche of snow swept down the
| mountain at Wall Cut on the high line
division of the South Park railroad.
near Wheeler, Col A train was buried,
the men being rescued with some trouble.
A roadmaster was carried several thou
sand feet entirely across the river
FORTY armed men of the Smith AMI
Slusser factions had an encounter at
the court house at Barboursville, KY,
the other day. One man only received
serious wound.
The Gar has received threatening
letter from woman signing herself
''Tchibrokoya." The Russian Ministers
also received similar notes.
FIFTEEN Swedes and Hungarians were
in destitute and befuddled condition
at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently. They had
been shipped from Stockholm and
wanted to reach Kansas City, where
they were told houses and lands awaited
them.
THE Ohio State board of penitentiary
managers has recommended to President
Harrison the pardon of Fidelity Bank
wrecker Harper, who has yet four years
to serve.
THE Bank of England has reduced it's
rate of discount from 5 to AZ per cent.
CHARLES LIPPINcoTT, the soda water
apparatus manufacturer of Philadelphia,
confirms the report of negotiations by
British syndicate for the four factories
in this country.
THE town of Reading, Mass, was re-
ported on fire on the morning of the-7th.
Much damage was done.
THE Cleveland and Chicago express
on the Lake Shore road was wrecked
near Buffalo, n. Y, on the night of the
9th. The cause was due to broken
coupling, a Pullman car being piled on
top of the day coach. Seven persons
were killed and about fifteen injured.
THE private banking house of Bellere
ct Freres, branch of the Paris banking
house operated at San Francisco under
that name, has made an assignment. 1t
is believed the liabilities will reach
$500, 900.
THE great pigeon shooting match be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City ended
at Chicago on the 18th in favor of Kansas
City. The scores were 42O and 49,
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended March 6 numbered
260, against total of sol the previous
week. Last year the figures were 2S1.
The Arab power of Uganda, Africa,
has been completely overthrow. Dis
sensions, however, were probable be-
cause of Protestant and Catholic rival |
res.
THE remains of Alderman Hillock, of |
Chicago, were inferred in Rose Hill |
His body had been refused |
nterment at Calvary because he had |
been Mason.
JAMES MCINTOSH, of Spirit Lake,
Iowa, and two young ladies were
drowned recently while driving across
East Okoboji lake in sleigh.
THREE boys were instantly killed re-
emily by an explosion of dust in the
Armstrong furniture factory at Evans
lille, Ind.
GOLD has been discovered in a gravel
,ank near Sioux Falls, S. D. The ex-
ent of the deposit is not known.
A BANK of lead thirty feet high and
ourteen thick has been struck on a
arm near Dubuque, Iowa.
Mrs. ALEXANDER STOKES was burned
o death in her dwelling in Denton,
Id, the other day.
THE Scotland Yard policemen have
violence of conspiracy of desperadoes
n Canada to inveigle rich young men
rom England under the pretense of Sc
uring farms in the colony and murder
ng them. The idea grew out of ths
murder at Niagara Falls.
A LARGE portion of the money stolen
y Express Agent Walton has been re-
overed at Dallas, Tex, where it was
ecreted.
A woNAN's head has been sent to
rince Dolgoroukoff in Russia, signed
Jack the Ripper" The murder was be-
eyed to be connected with Nihilism.