Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-16
THE WEST.

| 1HE compulsory ScHOOl law IldS DeoL
put to the test at Shelbyville, Ill, and
Mrs. Jane AFFORD, who kept her boy
at home because she WIS so poor that
he had to assist in making living, is
in Jail. Five dollars and costs was the
penalty attached and the poor woman,
unable to pay, was put in prison.
THE explosion of lamp caused the
destruction of a furniture factory at
Manistee, Mich. William Chambers
perished. Loss, $4,000.
JUDGE WALLACE, in the Superior
Court at San Francisco, has decided the
case of the American Sugar Refinery
Company adversely to the trust.
w. T. BAKER has been elected presi-
dent of the Chicago Board of Trade.
For the first time in many years the
honor was conferred without contest.
J. G. Stoner defeated Yep Brosseau
in close fight for the vice-presidency.
LIBERTY, Mo-, was the scene of a
sensational killing on the evening of
the 7th, a stranger named LuytOn
being killed by the representing
county attorney, James L. Sheetz. No
cause was known for the affair.
A REAR end collision in the suburbs
of Poplar Bluffs, Mo-, caused the wreck
ing of an engine, a cabOose and seven
loaded cars. Two persons were in
jured.
HEAVY rains in Southern Illinois
have caused washouts on the Toledo,
st. Louis & Kansas City and Wabash
branch roads near EdwardSville.
THE other morning as a street car on
Fourth street, st. Louis, was bowling
along the two horses ran against a
broken electric wire. The shock killed
both horses and stunned the driver
ELLA WHITE, a female forger, re-
Gently arrested in Chicago for swindling
people of Elmira, n. Y, out of $50, 900,
has escaped from the jail there.
The Western Union building at st.
Louis was destroyed by fire recently.
The cause was said to be crossed elec-
trio light wires.
THE roof of one Of the rooms in the
Boyd coal mine at Knob NoSter, Mo-,
caved in and caught three men, Jeff
Allen, Roam Blum, and Charles Izen-
hart, crushing them severely, though
their wounds are not necessarily fatal.
SToCKMEN met at Topeka, Kan, on
the 8th and passed resolutions denounc-
ing the alleged Big Four dressed beef
combine.
FIVE miners were entombed by a
cave in at the Victory coal mines,
Trinidad, Col, on The 8th, with but
small hopes of their recovery alive.
ALL of the stove foundries in Cincin-
natl are closed. 1t is claimed that
there is an overstock on hand, and that
work will be resumed in March. There
is much suffering among the hundreds
out of work.
IsIDORE MoNASCH, secretary of the
Turner Building Association of Min
Mimi, has been arrested for
$4,000 of the funds. He
threatens revenge.
THE West Indianapolis hominy mill,
owned by c. E. Hall, which was run
ming day and night was destroyed by
fire the other morning. Loss, S75, 600.
The C9ur d'Alene Indians of Idaho
have signed treaty for the sale of D.
600 acres of their reservation.
THE Ohio Democratic caucus chose
Calvin S. Brice as It's nominee for the
United States Senate.
THE Patoka river at Jasper, Ind,
has been on rampage.
INFLUENZA has demoralized the
Missouri peniteHtiary.
TwENTY-NINE Germans at Walt
ham, Mimi, were recently suffering
from trichinosis, caused by eating raw
pork. A boy has died.
JUDGE SHEPARD, of the Chicago Su-
perior Court, has made perpetual the
injunction prohibiting the West Side
Cab Company from using State street
in that city.