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

GENERAL
ONE of the east-bound Michigan
Central freight trains crashed into
the rear of an extra east-bound freight
on Grand river bridge near Cayuga,
Ont, recently. The caboose and nine
teen cars and the locomotive fell
twenty feet into the river. The train
men escaped.
IT was reported at Lisbon on the 9Th
that Lord Salisbury had sent a sharp
note tC Portugal, demanding satisfac-
ton for Major Serpa Pinto's attack on
African tribes under Britishprotection.
THE Louisville 6 Nashville railway
directors have declared a semi-annual
dividend of three per cent.
The American window glass trust
has advanced prices ten per cent.
EMPRESS AUGUSTA, the aged widow
of Emperor William l. of Germany,
died on the 7th. She had been attacked
with the prevailing influenza.
F. B. CLARKE, traffic manager of the
Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis .&
Omaha, has resigned.
SOLDIERS were on duty in Berne,
Switzerland, to prevent the riot threat
ened by the striking printers Of that
city.
THE Peters pence for 1889 yielded to
the Pope $50, 600 less than in 1888. The
legacies bequeathed to the Pope during
the year amounted to SS00,090.
MANY persons broke through the ice
while skating at Lubbock, Germany, the
other day. Eight were drowned.
The Lick observatory expedition to
South America obtained some good
views of the recent eclipse of the sun.
ACTING urOn hints received from
Germany, the Gar has instituted in
quiry to the end of ascertaining the
truth in regard to the recent shooting
of eXiles in Siberia. He has just
learned the details of the affair and or
dered the culprits tried Immediately.
AN official degree promulgated in
Brazil prOclaims the separation of
Church and State; guarantees religious
liberty and equality and continues the
life stipends granted under the mon
archy.
ELLIS Il Co., general merchants of
Smiths Falls and Carleton, Can, have
gone to the United States with $4,000
worth of goods secured from Montreal
merchants.
THE infant King Alfonso of Spain
was dangerously sick on the 9th.
THE steamer Iowa, from Boston to
Liverpool, lost $40 out of 625 head of
cattle owing to stormy weather.
IT is announced as a positive fact
that the American Association has de-
cided to play club in Brooklyn, and
that it does not care whether the move
causes further disruption in the base
ball world or not.
PRESIDENT HUGHITT, of the Chicago
d Northwestern railroad, has issued a
public notice, claiming on behalf of
his company the ''mile square" on the
Sioux reservation at Pierre, S. D., over
which there has been so much trouble
lately.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended January num-
bered 373. Last year they numbered
3S1.
DIR. DOELLINGER, the head of the
''Old Catholic movement in Southern
Germany and one of the famous oppo-
nents of Papal infallibility, is dead.
He was taken with influenza.
JANE SPEERs, an old woman of To-
ronto, Ont, who lived alone, waskilled
by thieves recently.
IT is seni-oflicially stated that Lord
Salisbury regards the reply of Senior
Comes to the last British note, relative
to the Anglo-POrtuguese dispute con-
cerning territory in East Africa, as af-
fording the basis for an amicable set
tlement of the trouble.