Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-23

with the religious duties of Catholics.
Two freight trains collided at Sny-
dertOwn, Pa Ten cars were wrecked.
Conductor Diefenderfer was killed and
several of the crew hurt.
THE marble statue of President Gar
field, intended to form part of the
Garfield memorial structure now in
process of construction at Cleveland,
O., will be admitted free of duty.
By the explosion of the boiler of a
steam shovel used in excavating at
Fallston, Pa, one man was killed and
fourteen more or less seriously injured.
In his will the late Congressman w.
D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, left all his
property to his wife and four children.
Its value was not known.
A SLIGHT but pronounced shock OF
earthquake was felt generally at Co.
lumbia, S. c., on the 18th. There was,
however, no alarm.
AN extensive robbery of Turkish
priority bonds and Mexican National
Bank shares occurred recently while
they were in transit from Paris to
London.
THE long contest for the st. Louis
postmastership ended in the appoint
ment of John B. Harlow
FOUR persons were drowned recently
by the capsiZing of a boat in pond
near Carmi, Ill.
BLACK measles is epidemic at Fords-
vile, KY.
THE great artesian well at Woon-
socket, n. D., has formed forty acre
lake of warm water and on half pres
sure throws solid stream $50 feet.
THE Walpole (Mass.) emery mills
have been destroyed by fire, causing
$50, 900 loss. All was insured.
A. W. MERRICK's residence in
Minneapolis, Mimi, was destroyed
by fire the other night, causing $4,000
loss.
JOHN H. LYNCH, the principal mer-
chant tailor of Detroit, Mich. has
failed with heavy liabilities. Cause,
unreasonable weather.
HENRY GUINEUP has been arrested
in New York State charged with hav-
ing attempted to wreck a Chicago s.
Northwestern railroad veStibule train
in Jackson County, Wis, nearly year
ago.
THE Althea Hill-Sharon divorce suit
has been finally disposed of adversely
to Mrs. Terry.
THE Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima has granted new trial to Father
Boyle, the Catholic priest convicted of
rape and sentenced to be hanged.
TWELVE Armenian women whose
relatives were murdered by Kurds have
arrived at st. Petersburg to implore an
interview with the Gar, having been
refused hearing in Constantinople.
EDITOR PARKE, of London, who |
charged Earl Euston with gross i'm
was convicted of criminal |
libel and sentenced to one years i'm
IN the hastings court at Petersburg,
Va, the grand jury returned mot a
rue bill'' in the case OF General Will
lam Malone, charged with feloniously |
Herbert Harrison on the night |
If November 5.
THE President has not yet signed the
opening the Sioux lands
n South Dakota and will not do so I'M
ii spring, as he is averse to compell-
ng the would-be settlers to camp out
Turing the winter and thus subject
themselves to bad weather.
ARTOLA BROTHERS, bankers of Lon
lon, Paris and Madrid, have been de-
Jared bankrupt. Their liabilities are
2. 000, 900.
TRADE and navigation returns show
'anada's trade with the United States
"a, 100000, against SSO,OOO,OOO with
IIeat Britain.
THREE negroes were drowned recent
Y by the upsetting of skiff on the
'ombigbee river near Aberdeen. Miss.
LUCIUs D. STONE, dealer in sad
lery, San Francisco, has filed a petit
ion in insolvency. Liabilities, $685.
90; assets, not known.
PHYSICIANS claim the epidemic la
rippe is on the decline at Washington,
six deaths resulting from it
Tere reported on the 10th. Recent adj
itions to the influenza include First
assistant Treasurer Bachelor and
Clerk Baynes, of the
treasury Department.