Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS,

THIRTY mild cases of Russian influ
enza are reported at Duluth, MINI.
NINE business houses i'll LeeSburg
Ind, were destroyed by fire the othel
day; loss, S25, 900.
THE new coast defense vessel nov
being built in San Francisco will be
named the Monterey.
"A DISPATCH from st. Paul de Loanda
says the American solar eclipse party
made some fairly successful expert.
mentS, although clouds interfered.
SIXTEEN men were buried by falling
earth in the Lane mine, Calveras
County, Cal, on the 23d. No hope OF
their recovery alive existed.
IT is stated at New Orleans that
Jake Kilrain will be offered by the
Southern Athletic Club the professor
ship of boxing, and that he will accept
the position and make New Orleans his
permanent home.
The Philadelphia newspaper proprie-
tors decided to refuse the demand of
the printers for As cents per 1000 ems
instead of 40 cents.
BURKE, defaulting treasurer of
Louisiana, is reported to be in Spanish
Honduras.
AT Mare Island hayward, San Fran
cisco, the other night boat was upset
and four men were drowned, five being
rescued. Among the drowned was a
sailor of the Trenton, who escaped dire
peril at Samoa.
A MALIGNANT outbreak of diph-
liberia is reported in the Russian set
Element of Eureka, Mcpherson County,
S. D.
NOTICE has been given to the steel
mill and blast employees of the Lacka-
wanna Coal and Iron Company that on
January an advance of wages of from
to 10 per cent. will go into effect.
This affects over 1900 men and is JUS
titled by the increased price of steel
rails.
AT Yaquina City, Ore, five persons
were swept overheard and drowned by
a heavy sea as the steam schooner Far
alone was being tOwed across the bar
THE London Daily News says that
Germany will send an ironclad to Bra
I'll to protect the German colonists on
the Rio Grande.
JOSEPH STOTT, forty three years of
age, jewelry merchant of Providence,
r. l., who has been i'll some time, left
his house early the other morning and
went to the track of the Old Colony
railroad, waited for the Short Line
train, placed his neck across the rails
and was beheaded.
MADAME BONNEMAIN an enthusi-
astic supporter of General Boulanger,
has just inherited 81 SOC, 900, the bulk
of which she will devote to the Gener-
al's cause.
THE City Council of st. Louis has
appointed committee to give the re-
cent passage of the gas bill, which is
alleged to he a big swindle and steal,
thorough overhauling and TO ascertain
if possible whether any ''boodle" was
used and by whom. A majority of the
committee is composed of the opponents
of the bill.
The Secretary of the Interior has
allowed S5,779 of the original claim of
Smith & Smith, of Cove County, Kan,
amounting to Sl7,l for depredations
committed by the Northern CHEYENNE
Indians in 1878.
). ID. REvELL. formerly station agent
at Wilmette, ILL.,, and his wife and
child, while crossing the tracks, were
struck by passing train and all killed.
BY a tail end collision of freight
trains on the Lake Erie & Western road
near GlenwOOd, the other morning,
thirteen cars of grain and two car loads
OF hogs were completely wrecked and
the locomotive badly damaged. Traffic
was delayed nearly all day.
A SERIOUS race riot occurred at
JeSSup, Ga, on Christmas day. Two
whites and several negroes were killed
and many wounded.
FRENCH doctors think the prevailing
influenza very serious malady if re-
lapseS occur.
The instruction in Brazil in favor
of the monarchy was suppressed after
some trouble.
SEVEN prisoners escaped from the
penltentiary at Kingston, Ont, ON
Christmas eve, after overcoming and
gagging their keepers.
SOUTHERN Ute Indians of Colorado
are anxious for their speedy removal to
Utah.
WHILE returning from Christmas
eve dance Miss Mamie Campbell and |
her escort, Benjamin Lovett, were
struck by the oyster express on the
pennsylvania railroad, near Pitts
burgh, Pa. Miss Campbell received in
Juries that resulted in her death in a |
few hours, and Lovett was fatally hurt. |
WHILE number Of men and women |
were skating on the Ruhr at Warden,
Rhenish Prussia, the other day the ice |
gave way and three of the skaters were |
swept under the ice and drowned.