Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-30

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JOHN SLIP was killed at Pittsburgh
Pa, recently by a natural gas explosion
His house was wrecked and severa
members of his family and others wer,
seriously injured.
A THREATENED junction of the Obi,
and Tennessee rivers at Paducah, KY.
greatly alarms the residents.
The grand jury at Denver, Col, ha
indicted the Secretary of State and othe
persons for frauds in public contracts.
THE disgraceful row at the Polisl
cemetery at Plymouth, Pa, was followed
by horrible and disgusting proceedings
! One of the factions disinterred severa
of the dead of the opposing faction
| throwing the remains into the roadway
The ghouls were finally routed by q
deputy sheriff and posse.
Four negroes, brothers, are in Jail al
Raleigh, n. c., charged with hoodooism
JAMES BLACKWELL and his two sons
were drowned recently while crossing
the Tradewater, near Providence, KY.
j. w. AVERY, of North Carolina, a
clerk employed in the geological survey
Office at Washington, by mistake took a
drink of carbolic acid from an unlabled
bottle which he thought contained
whisky and died in few minutes.
AN aged couple named Comstock,
while returning from funeral at Wal
ton, Conn.,, were run into by train on
the Danbury & Norwalk railroad and
both were fatally injured.
THE board of guardians of the work
house at Cork, Ireland, has been Off
cially dissolved for adopting political
resolutions.
The Milwaukee express on the Chi
cago & Northwestern recently ran into
funeral procession at Chicago, killing
four of the mourners.
PORTS, the noted Des Moines search
er," has been sentenced to three years
in the Iowa penitentiary on the indict-
ment for perjury growing out of his
liquor seizures. Hamilton, his code
fendant, was acquitted.
THIRTEEN prominent young men living
at Givinnsville, Ind, have been arrested
on suspicion of being Whitecaps.
By an explosion in a colliery near
Newport, Pa, five miners were killed.
In the district court at Fort Worth,
Tex, jury allowed c. E. Bebee $1,000
damages for being placed on the black
list by the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company.
The Missouri Pacific has followed the
Chicago & Alton and the Wabash and
has made livestock rate of X cents
from Missouri river and intermediate
points to St. Louis and East st. Louis.
The supposed express robbers and
murderers, Brown, Wallace and Dulaney,
were identified by Engineer Spaulding,
at Brownsville. Tex, and held in S., 900
bail each. They were already under
1000 bail for cattle stealing.
JESSIE DEAN REYNOLDS, an actress, COM
mitted suicide in New York because of
jealousy.
T. G. MEGIBBEN, of Cynthiana, KY, is
lead. He was wealthy distiller and
prominent turf man.
AN apparently new disease has broken
put among the horses in the vicinity of
Springfield ILL.,, and several have died. |
Cases are also reported from Macon
County. The disease has some symp-
toms of ordinary typhoid fever, and the |
are puzzled about it, 1t |
appears to affect colts and young horses
most.
THE British steamer Sandman had |
errible mishap on her recent trip from /
Portland. Me-, to Liverpool. Heavy
eas smashed the funnel and the steam
-auge burst. Three of the crew were
,illed.
In a duel between Edouard Roths-
hild, son of Baron Alphonse Roths-
hild. and the Marquis de Gouy in Paris
he other day, the Marquis was wounded.
JOHN PLANKINToN, the former partner
# the Armours in the pork packing busi-
less, was reported lying dangerously
ick at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 24th
B. P. HUTCHINSON, the noted grain
perator at Chicago, was recently
windlcd of many thousand dollars by a
rusted clerk. NJ. P. Dickinson, an
'ther operator, also suffered.
BUSINESS failures (Dun'S report) for
he seven days ended January 23 num-
ered 33S, compared with $50 the pre-
iOus week and 342 the corresponding
Teek of last year.