Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-02-25
FEAR HYDR0PHOBIA.
Nine Persons Bitten by q Rabid
Dog at a Lumber Camp.
WOMAN LEADS A BAND OF ROBBERS,
A Montana Gambler Shoots His Mistress,
Cuts Ills Throat and Then Jumps Into
the Rivsr-Mrs. Beecher Dying
Circus Seats Collapse.

MuscoGEE, I. T., Feb. 23.-Nine per-
sons we're bitten by rabid dog at Val
ley Dale, lumber camp, so miles
northwest Of Muscogee, Sunday, and
as the day approaches for the symp-
toms of hydrophobia to appear the
alarm and anxiety Of the victims and
their friends increases. DR.. Appleton,
Of Tulsa, who owns two madstones is
treating the patients. The stones it
is said, adhere to the wounds from four
to five hours, when they are placed in
bowl of fresh milk, which cleanses
them of the virus. A citizen from
Tulsa states that a great many ques-
ton the wisdom OF DR.. Appleton in re-
lying wholly upon this Anticipated
method of preventing. hydrophobia.
"The dog was known to have had a
bad case of the rabies" said the Tulsa
gentleman, "and the delusion of
maidstone will not save the victims"
WOMAN LEADS A BAND OF ROBBERS.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. ga band OF
robbers, under the leadership OF a
woman, was revealed here yesterday
when Mrs. Matte Carter, Patrick
OBrien, q junkshop dealer; Dad
lIagerty, teamster; John and Joel
Bloom and John Danvern, were locked
in Jail on warrants sworn out by De-
tective D. II. lIarbaugh, Of st. Louis, in
the employ of the Southern railway.
The detective has been working on the
case, and he has collected evidence to
show that during that time the gang
has stolen goods from the railroad cars
to the value of at least $4,000. 1t is
alleged that a railroad clerk is impli-
Gated in the plot, and more arrests are
expected to follow. The gang has con-
fined itself mostly to breaking seals
and robbing wheat cars.
DOUBLE MONTANA TRAGEDY.
MIssoULA, Mont, Feb. 23.-Soon after
midnight Sunday morning William
Morley, a gambler, shot and killed
Blanch Renaud, with whom he had
been living; shot but only slightly
wounded her friend, Bess McCunlea,
and after failing to shoot himself,
jumped into the river, where his frozen
body was found with his throat cut
from ear to ear. Morley had lived in
Colorado, and claimed to to have es-
capped from the penitentiary of either
North or South Carolina, coming from
there to this state last year. He was
an intimate friend of Frank Dresser,
who murdered his wife at Butte last
week.
MRS HENRY WARD BEECHER DYING.
STANFORD, Conn, Feb. 23.-Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher had another re-
lapse late yesterday afternoon and at
no time since she was confined to her
room, about the middle of December,
has her condition been considered so
hopeless by members of her family
There is a general weakness Of all the
vital organs, which presages a speedy
dissolution, and it is thought the end
will come within "a hours.
CIRCUS SEATS COLLAPSE.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Feb. 28.-At q
circus here last night section of the
elevated seats collapsed precipitating
800 persons to the ground. Six may
die. Many were more or less bruised.
The seats were of heavy six-inch beams
tied to upright beams with ropes. 1t
is claimed by the circus managers that
one OF the ropes was cut.