Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-14
A FREE FIGHT.
An Exciting Time at q Colored
Revival Meeting.
FIVE YOUNG SKATERS DROWNED,
A County Treasurer's Alleged Shortage-A
Clerk Killed by Burglara-A Messen-
ger Boys Theft Wisconsin
Fishermen In Peril.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. 13-In .
colored Baptist church at Yellow
Bayou, in Chicot county last night one
man was killed, another fatally
wounded and several Others badly
hurt. A revival was in progress at the
church Rev. Henry Walker, the pas
tor, read a chapter in the Bible, and
Deacon Austin Williams passed the
plate for the offerings As he set
the nat containing few small
coins upon the pulpit, the preacher
made a remark which Williams
did not like and he slapped Walker in
the mouth. Walker attacked the
deacon, knocking him to the floor
with q cane. A free fight ensued, in
which partisans joined, using razors
and clubs. Walker, with his razor,
cut Williams throat, killing him al
most instantly. A negro, name not
known, received fatal cut, and about
a dozen others were slashed more or
less painfully. Several arrests were
made, including Walker, who is under
a heavy guard to prevent being lynched.
FIVE YOUNG SKATERS DROWNED.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 13.-Fve children
were drowned in this city yesterday
afternoon while skating. At Kossuth
avenue and Ashland place crowd OF
children were skating on the ice in an
old quarry. The ice gave way and the
children were prec ipitated into the
water and drowned before help could
reach them. They were: Amanda
Arnold, uged Is; Arthur Arnold, aged
10; George Matthews, aged 9; Sadie
Matthers, agel IA. John Gleason, aged
IS, who made a heroic attempt to
rescue his playmates, fell into the
water, and as result is in serious
condition. In another part Of the city
AL Volmer, aged II, was drowned in q
pond while skating.
A TREAsURER's ALLEGED SHORTAGE
ST. LOUIS, Jan. ia special from
Webster City, Mo-, says: After strenu-
Gus efforts, bonds were secured yester.
day in the sum OF $4,000 for County
Treasurer J. W. $. Lindley, who is said
to be over $780, 900 short. The board Of
supervisors will be in session all this
week, investigating the shortage, and
1t has just been given out that $50, 900
will be nearer the amount than $50, 900.
Lindley was an active member Of the
Baptist church, and 1t was through his
church relations that he secured bail.
He is said to have spent the money on
the Chicago board Of trade.
A CLERK KILLED BY BURGLARS
FAYETTEVILLE Ark, Jan. 1.-two
heavily armed men attempted to hold
up the store of W. H. Whitmore, at st.
Paul, Ark, about nine o'clock last
night. CROUCH Craig, clerk, was sho.
in the abdomen. He died five hours
later John Rush, one Of the robbers,
was captured, but the man who killed
Craig escaped.
A MESSENGER BOYS THEFT.
LANCASTER Pa, Jan. 1a-William
Leibold, II years of age, until recently
a messenger boy for telegraph COM
pany here, has spent $4,000 stolen
money since last October in gambling
and fast living, and yesterday was
Jailed with barely penny left.
FISHERMEN IN PERIL
MARINETTE, Wis. Jan. 10 "A sudden
movement of the ice IN Green bay has
carried out number of fishermen who
had shanties and nets on the ice. 1t Is
renortpu that two ar, lost