Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-09-16
NEWS NOTES.

Mrs Maggie Beaseley is under arrest
at Kansas City, KAN, charged with
burglarizing the residence of Fred
Mari.
Champion Bob Fitzsimmons refuses
to accept the SEQ, 900 offer of u New Or
leans club for IA fight between him and
Corbett
The city building inspector of st.
Joseph, Mo-, has condemned the county
jail because he considers IL unsafe for
occupancy.
In the Illinois district Of the Chero-
kee nation there have been 81 killings,
most of which were first degree muir
ders, since 1895.
O. r. Woodruff, a prominent business
man of Louisville, KY, has sued his
wife for divorce, alleging that she
practices necromancy.
Thieves entered the Office of the Ad-
vance Thresher Co., at Kansas City,
Mo-, during business hours, and stole
$3.50 in cash and checks.
The republican campaign in Ohio
was formally opened at Burton on the
18th. Senators Hanna and Foraker
and ex-Gov. Charles Foster spoke.
At Charlottesville, Ind, Dandy jim,
owned by j. M. Battle, of St Louis,
trotted a mile in 2;lO over half mile
track, breaking the worlds record of
2:1O4.
At Sheepshcad Bay, N. Y, on the
18th the great three-year-old Orna-
ment was defeated in the great east
ern handicap race by Hamburg Il ten
year-old.
At a dance near Atwood, Kan,
Charles Peoples and Henry Hall
fought with revolvers to settle a long
standing feud. Both were mortally
wounded.
At Kansas City, Mo-, j. L. Brady, a
fruit dealer at Az independence ave-
nue., and his wife and two children
were seriously poisoned from eating
corned beef
The Oklahoma State Fair association
has fixed the dates for the first state
fair for October Lilo, at Guthrie. The
great feature of the fair will be cot
ton palace
Indian chiefs of the Shoshone and
Bannock Indian tribes have sold $50, 900
acres of land in the Fort Hull, Ida,
reservation, which will soon be opened
for settlement.
At Lynn, Mass, two maiden sisters,
Harriet and Matilda Sheldon, aged So
and So respectively, were burned to
death by the explosion of gasoline at
stove where they were cooking.
Rev. Dr. Abel Stevens died at San
Sose, Cal, on the nth, aged 0S. lie
was at one time editor of the New
York Christian Advocate and was
known as the "historian of Metho-
dism.'
At Fort Scott, Kan, after prelimi-
nary trial George Finch and Bert Dix
on were held for the murder of Frank
Swoilord, of Piedmont, Mo-, in Fort
Scott in 1894. Finch's aunt swore that
he confessed the murder to her
At Niles, Mich, on the night of the
nth 1900 people were thrown into a
panic at the opera house by cries OF
fire A number Of people were seri-
ously injured and that no one was
killed was simply miracle.
In Madison county, Ark, posse
headed by Grant Phillips went to the
home of Jerry Slocum to run him
away. The latter had gathered some
friends and in an exchange of shots by
both sides Phillips was killed and
three of his party seriously wounded.
News from London says England is
approaching a labor crisis similar to
the one the United States witnessed at
Homestead a few years ago. Federated
employers have banded to smash trade
unionism. The trades union congress
has taken up the challenge and will
work to unite all union men in a feder-
alton to render mutual assistance in
lighting employers.