Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-12-30
SCALpED IN A HILL
Wcmans Hair Caught in Machinery
and Torn from Her Head.
4 LARGE PIPE ORGAN DESTROYED.
Fire Consumes the INSTRUMENT In the Great
Northern Hotel Mt ChicsgO-Durrant
Denied q Writ WOn,an's Con-
fo.sIOn- Wsinand Murder.

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 30. Mrs. Charles
Moore, an employe of the wooden mill
OF this city, had narrow escape from
q horrible death shortly before the
mill closed last evening. As it was,
she has not hair left on her head.
She was attending one Of her looms,
and being required to stoop under the
machinery for something that had
fallen. her hair, which was tied in
knot on top Of her head, was caught
and actually woven into the cloth that
was then in course of manufacture.
Her screams brought help promptly,
but not until her head was as bare as
though she had been scalped by an In.
dian warrior Mrs. Moore showed
much grit after her frightful expert
ence, and went to her home alone and
applied the proper ointments to her
scalp from which she suffered intense
pain.
A LARGE PIPE ORGAN BURNED.
CHICAGO, Dec 29.-Fire late yester-
day afternoon destroyed the large pipe
organ in the Office Of the Great North
ern hotel, entailing a loss OF SO, 900
upon the management of the hotel.
Although the fire was confined entirely
to the pipe organ, 1t sent out such
clouds of smoke that many Of the
guests became alarmed and serious
panic was narrowly averted The
Searle & Horeth company of this city,
was banqueting its employees when
the fire broke out, and the feasters
were compelled to adjourn their ban
quet in hurry. Later, when the fire
was out, they resumed their feasting.
by curious coincidence the last air
played by the organ before its destruc-
ton was "There'll Be Hot Time in
the Old Town Tonight"
DURRANT DENIED A WRIT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30. Late yes
terday afternoon the supreme court,
after having heard the matter argued
In chambers denied the application Of
the attorneys for W. II. 7. Durrant,
the condemned murderer of Blanche
Lamont, for writ Of probable cause.
1t was contended by Durrant's counsel
that Judge Bahr erred in having fixed
the date for the execution Of their
client within less than 90 days after
the date upon which he was recon-
mitted to the custody Of the warden Of
San Quentin prison. The supreme
court, however, after hearing the
points relied upon for reversal, denied
the petition unanimously.
A wOMAN's CONFESSION.
CLINTON, Ia, Dec. 99.-Theodore Bur-
loch and Ernestine Burloch were ar
rested last night charged with the
murder of Charles Selhausen, the
womans former husband, in Septem-
Der. The body Of Selhausen was ex-
humed last night, and the autopsy dis
closed poison. Burloch had boarded
with the Selhausens and the husband
had become jealous, compelling Bur-
loch to leave. Upon Selhausen's death
he returned, and week ago married
the widow. The woman confessed,
after the arrest, that she had killed
Selhausen with rat poison, and impli-
Gated Burloch.
FOUR HELD FOR wETNAND MURDER.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20. AT the conclu-
sion of the inquest yesterday the cor
oner's jury held William Roberts,
James Murphy, Fred Snider and W. j.
Nolan responsible for the death of
Jacob Weinand, who was mysteriously
strangled last week. Murphy and
Roberts are named as principals and
Snider and Nolan as accessories. The
prisoners heard the verdict read with
out any outward show Of emotion and
were remanded to the hold.over.
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