Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-02-13

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Standard refinery at Lima, o.
PORTLAND, Ore, has been badly
flooded by rapidly melting snow. Many
bridges have been swept away in the
Willamette valley.
f. A. WALTON, clerk of the Pacific
Express Company's Office at Dallas, Tex
has absconded. He took with him &
package of bills to the amount of S35,
600 and by an artful scheme got several
days start of the hue and cry.
ANDREW CARNEGIE proposes to donate
81 ZOO, 900 to Pittsburgh, Pa, for a pub
lie library.
A TERRIBLE mine explosion occurred
at Aberyschan, Wales, on the 9th
Three hundred men were imprisoned
two-thirds of whom were rescued alive
the rest being dead.
RUSSIAN influenza is reported to be
raging to such an extent in the lumber
regions of Wisconsin and Minnesota as
to almost prevent logging operations.
Many deaths are reported.
THE bank examiner has decided to
wind up the affairs of the American
Building & Loan Association of Mime
apolis, MINI. The concern was nomi-
nally capitalized at SO, 200, 600.
B. NJ. SECRETAN and others connected
with the collapse of the Societie des
Metaux, of Paris, have been ordered to
be handed over to the correctional police
to be dealt with.
THE cases of the Anarchists Fielder,
Srla H. al
up in the Supreme Court for re-
view. Should the matter result favor
ably for the prisoners, it will vltiate the
judgment that consigned Spies, Lingg,
Fischer, Engel and Parsons to the gal
lows.
TWENTY-FIVE companies of London
dock owners have signed the agreement
recently made to fight the labor unions
of men employed in handling freight
and in other dock occupations.
THE body of William Thacker, pur-
chasing agent of the Big Sandy Lumber
Company, of West Virginia, has been
found in the mountains of that State.
He had been murdered for money.
MANY dangerous icebergs are reported
in the path of Atlantic steamers.
MAJOR PANITZA and four of his accom-
plices in the plot to assassinate Prince
Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, are reported to
have been shot.
THERE was collapse in the pig iron
market of Scotland owing to the tenn
pOrary suspension of payment by NJ. S.
Wells, prominent broker.
THE Mexican quarantine against hogs
from the United States has been re-
moved.
THREE men were badly injured by
Baltimore & Ohio train running into
snow drift near Connellsville, Pa, on
the 9TH.
The President has approved the act
for bridge across the Missouri river
near the mouth of the Kansas river.
THE passage of the bill in the North
Dakota Legislature authorizing lotteries
is likely to prove hurtful to certain
Government officials who were said to
be interested, the President and his
Cabinet being much incensed at this
dubious act of the new State.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) Tor
the seven days ended FEBRUARY 6 num-
1ered Including Canada) 921, compared
with POI the previous week and SOB the
week of last year.
BY the explosion of cylinder of the
boilers of new British cruiser at Mar
gate, England, two men were killed and
ten injured.
Rev. DIR. BALL, who brought a libel
suit against the New York Evening
Post, growing out of the scandals in the
of 1884, lost his case at Buff
falO, n. Y, on the 18th, the jury return
ing the verdict, ''No cause for action"
TROUBLES we're reported between
white and black railroad laborers in
Bibbs County, Ala. At night while a
party of whites were going through
wood they were ambushed by negroes,
two being killed and three wounded.
HENRY FAUNCE, the outraged timer
of Aberdeen, Miss, has been located
and will be taken to Washington to tes-
tify before the Senate committee
THE New York Legislature viii in
vestigate Judge BOokstaver's relations
to the Flack divorce case.
MUCH havoc was created by wind and
sleet in Western Pennsylvania On the
9TH. At Blairsville, near Pittsburgh,
two men were killed by walls falling in.