Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

man, has been ordered by the Chicago
court to answer the questions in the
suit brought by Telegrapher Randall
for being blacklisted.
ENGLANDi is preparing to bring press
ure to bear on Switzerland to induce
that country to cease its prosecutions of
the Salvation Army bands, most of
whom are English.
DANIEL NJ. BOWMAN, ex-editor of
the WOodford (Ky.) Sun, was killed re-
Gently by falling off a train on the
| MonOn road.
THE sheet mill of the Brooke Iron
Company at Birdsboro, Pa, is closed
by strike of nailers, who demand
three per cent. per keg increase.
BAD weather affected the calling
custom of New Years day in many
cities. There are many indications,
however, of the practice falling into
disuse.
Two New York policemen died on
the 1st as a result of influenza.
The ''robber gas bill'' has been We
toed by Mayor Nconan, of st. Louis.
WIEN the King of Italy finished his
address to the Parliamentary deputa-
tions at the Quirinal on the 1st man
threw a copper box with lighted fuse
into the midst. He was arrested, and
said he did it for revenge.
The Royal Palace at Laeken,
Belgium, was destroyed by fire on the
1st. A governess of Princess Clemen-
tine lost her life. There were reports
of incendiariSm.
THE London Chronicle has report
that Mr.. Parnell, at a meeting of the
Irish party to be held Immediately be-
fore the opening of Parliament, will
fully deny O'Shea's scandal charges.
CHARLES II. FAxoN, of Jefferson
vile, Ind, committed suicide on the
day Of his marriage.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylva-
MIA, has issued warrants for the execu-
tion of four murderers February 90.
CURTIN s. Co., iron manufacturers of
Bellefonte, Pa, have assigned with
100000 liabilities.
A MULE caused the derailment of a
passenger engine and three coaches
twenty miles from Pine Bluff, Ark,
the other night. Several passengers
were bruised but none seriously injured.
THE public debt decreased during
the month of December So, Us, ,095.39.
1t now stands, less cash in the treas
ury, 81, ,O52, 952, ,91133.
THE works of the Edison Electric
Light Company, New York, burned re-
Gently, causing much inconvenience to
parties using incandescent lights.
AN unknown man recently attempted
to murder Father Kelly, of Oneida, n.
Y, by striking him with an iron bar.
Previously an attempt had been made
to poison the priest.
AN Interstate cattlemen's conven-
ton has been called to meet at Fort
Worth, Tex, March IL.
PART of another human body, i'm
possible to be identified, has been taken
from the ruins of the Thanksgiving
day fire in Boston.
THE italian steamer Persia was
ashore on the island of Corsica on the
Cd. She had 139 passengers on board.
Six of them were rescued, but the fate
of the others was uncertain.
FIVE hundred hemp producers and
workingmen of Lexington, Ky, have
sent petition to the Ways and Means
Committee against any change in the
present tariff on hemp.
ABOUT fifty men attacked the temple
of the PentecoSt band at Tuscola, ILL.,,
and broke its windows with stones.
Fifteen men and women, members of
the band, were in sO-called frances at
the time of the attack.
THE gas regulator building at Econ
omy, Pa, was wrecked and George
Kirschbaum, aged forty, was instantly
killed and John Becker badly hurt by
an explosion recently.
TELEGRAMS from the American and
English eclipse expeditions to Africa
show tieSe expeditions failed to secure
photographs on December 21 Of the
corona, owing to cloudy weather. The
cable between Cayenne, South Ameri-
ca, and Trinidad is broken and no news
has been received from the eclipse par
ties sent out by the Lick Observatory
and by the Royal Astronomical Society
to stations in South America.