Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

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the Evangelical conference at Shame
kin, Pa He was accused of evil speak.
ing, lying, etc. He had previously been
acquitted of similar charges and their
resurrection threatened to break up the
conference.
THE death of John Jacob Astor, caus-
ing the consolidation of two estates in
his heir, makes William Waldorf Astor
worth $500, OOO, 900, probably the largest
amount within the control of any one
man.
JOSEPH JOHNSON, member of the Nc
Coy band of Eastern Kentucky, has been
assassinated at his home near Pikeville.
AN attempt was made the other night
to wreck the limited express on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad near indie
pendence, o. Three ties were found
wedged into cattle guard and removed
few minutes before the arrival of the
train.
A MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL train col
lided with stock train at Salt Lake,
near Elgin, Ill. Twelve cars of the
stock train were demolished, much stock
killed, two persons fatally injured and
two boys badly hurt.
A THROUGH mail car was burned re-
Gently at Blue creek, Utah. 1t had no
registered letters, fortunately.
A LANDSLIDE on the Chesapeake &
Ohio, 100 miles east of Charleston, w.
Va, caused the wreck of freight train
OF eighteen cars recently. Nobody was
hurt
IT has transpired that Mrs. William
Aston sailed for Europe a few hours
after the death of her brother-in-law,
John Jacob Aston, not knowing that he
was dead. This tends to confirm hints
of an Astor family feud.
A BIG Four passenger train crashed
into freight train near Indianapolis in
a fog the other night. Only one person
was hurt and he not seriously.
COMMANDER MCCALLA, of the Enter
prise, has published denial of the al
legged inhuman acts during the cruise of
the vessel of which he has been accused.
A MASS meeting was held at Cooper
Union, New York, on the 2Sth, denoun-
cling the Gar for the prison abuses in
Siberia.
The hearing in the lard investigation
ended at Washington on the 2sth.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE, Emperor
Frederick's physician, won his libel
suits against the st. james Gazette and
the Times, of London. The Gazette was
to pay him e., 500 and the Times ESQ.
THERE was report at Portland, Ore,
on the 2Sth that Silcott, the defaulting
cashier of the House of Representatives
had been caught at Toledo, a town on
the Northern Pacific.
WALTON, the Pacific Express thief,
was discharged at st. Johns, n. B., the
prosecution acknowledging that the
for his arrest was insufficient.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has referred the
cases of the three condemned Navassa
island murderers to the Attorney-Gen-
eral.
RATES from Chicago to Kansas City
were cut to $500 second class on the
18th. Rates from Kansas City to Chicago
$500, and other points in proportion.
First-class passenger rates averaged
g. 90 more.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report for
the seven days ended February 81 num-
bered sol, compared with 27O the previ-
ous week. Business was less satisfac-
tory.
THE Alaska seal fishery lease has
been awarded to the North American
Commercial Company, of New York and
San Francisco. The Government will
obtain about 81, 600, 600 year under the
new conditions, the old lease giving
800, 600
RICHARD Fl. HAYES, the murderer of
his wife and two children, was hanged
1t Birmingham, Ala, on the 2Sth. He
made confession. 1t was at an at
jempted lynching of HAYES in Decem-
Der, 1883, that ten persons were killed
Ind many wounded, the sheriff ordering
lis deputies to fire on the mob.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN TAULBEE, of Ken
lucky, was shot in the head in the Cap
tol building at Washington on the 2Sth
~ Charles Kincaid, correspondent of
he Louisville Times. He was seriously
wounded. The cause grew out of a
scandal published while Taulbee was in
Congress, the latter (who was large
nam taking every opportunity to pull
Zincaid's nose and otherwise insult him
or the exposure.