Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
A MAN answering the observation of

| SllcOtt has been traced to Ottawa, Ont.
He was greatly changed in appearance;
his hair was dark brown. By inquiries
he made it was thought he was trying
to leave the country via British Column
bia. He had plenty of money.
CHRISTMAS day, 1889, will long be re-
membered in the United States for the
phenomenal mildness Of the weather.
WILLIAM GRAHAM, of Gainesville,
Ga, stenographer of the Cherokee jul
dietary circuit, and Anna Jones were
married recently. The bride is seven
teen years old and is daughter of Rev.
Sam Jones. The parents opposed the
marriage.
SwITZER, NEwITTER & Co. and other
firms were burned out at Vicksburg,
Miss, on the night of the oath. The
loss was $4,000.
IT is reported that horses in Austria
are afflicted with the prevailing infu-
enZa.
HEAVY storms were reported on the
18th from various places in New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, accom-
panied by loss of life.
THE recent California rains proved
especially disastrous to railroad prop
erty. In places the tracks were eight
cen feet deep in water.
JOHN P. JONES and William II.
Palmer were found dead in hotel at
Bethlehem, Pa, having blown out the
gas the night before.
The four stamp clerks in the Chicago
pOst-office are very much worried over
the unaccountable disappearance of
stamps since last July. Every effort to
solve the mystery has been failure.
SURGEON-GENERAL HAMILTON, of
the marine hospital service, has pre-
pared regulations to prevent the intro
duction of leprosy into the United
States.
Two old ladies' living alone near De
Witt, N. Y, were asphyxiated by coal
gas the other night.
TEN cars of a Wabash freight train
went down an embankment at Delphi,
Ind. Three tramps were slightly hurt.
LENA SCHIPP, poor woman of
Omaha, Neb., deserted by her husband,
has been terribly afflicted. She left
her three children the other morning to
go out washing when the house burned
and all three persisted. One was babe
six months old.
IT is said that the Indians in the
vicinity of Fort Sully are raiding and
killing settlers.
THE United States Cruiser Charles
ton went into service at San Francisco
on the 26th.
THE Salvation Army people in Swift
erland still continue to defy the au-
thOrities, and more vigorous measures
than ever are proposed.
THE Pittsburgh Southern Coal Com
pany, the syndicate of large river coal |
operators which was formed three years
ago with capital stock of $1,000, 900,
has gone into liquidation.
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, was afflicted |
with a race riot on Christmas day.
One colored man was fatally and an
other seriously wounded. A veritable
reign Of terror existed at Jessup, Ga,
the killed numbering ten and the negro
Brewers outlaw gang being hunted by
armed parties of whites.
FIRE broke out the other evening in
the Everett building, corner of Nassau
and Ann streets, New York, and burned
for hours. Loss to occupants and
$4,000.
MRS. Cox has placed temporarily in
The National Museum at Washington
.he jewels and other decorations given
her husband, the late Congressman
Cox. Later on they will be returned
% the Sultan, as custom in Moham-
nedan circles requires that such ex-
1ensive gifts shall be returned TO the
lOnOr when the recipient dies.
DIR. GAMBLE has returned to LeOla,
}. D., from trip to Heyd, the settle
nent of the scene of the diphtheria ep-
demic. He has the names of thirty
even Russian children who have died
# the disease. Only two have recov-
red, and number are still sick.
THE United States secret service
las received information that Her
ninie Thibault, who ran away with
'ilcott, the defaulting cashier of the
louise of Representatives, had returned
o New York. .