Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-03-10
COTTON OPERATIVES
The Great Strike at Biddeford, Ma.
Declared OF.
4 FEARFUL FIGHT in KENTUCKY.
Iowa Train Wreckers Sentenced-A Negro
Lynched-Flre In n Tenement Building
Fight Among BARRIERS Burned to
DeAth-Murder aud Suicide.

BIDDEFoRD, Me-, March THE
strike of the $500 employees Of the Pep
perell and Laconia cotton manufacture
ing corporations which began on Jan
uary II, when general reduction of
ten per cent in wages went into effect,
was declared off Saturday afternoon
and the big mills, which have been
silent since that date, started up this
morning The operatives have lost
nearly $4,000 in wages since they
came out on strike and business has
been paralyzed.
FEARFUL FIGHT IN KENTUCKY.
GALLOWAY, KY, March IA bloody
fight took place Saturday evening in
the New Harlan district of Harlan
county in which one man is reported
to have been killed and two others
mortally wounded. The participants
were William Gross and Sam Gross
against Abe Carroll, John Carroll and
Abe Sewell. Knives and pistols were
freely used, and it is said that Sewell
was instantly killed, while William
Gross and one of the CAROLS were fa-
tally injured, the trouble arose over
the killing of q calf belonging to the
Gross brothers by Carroll.
TRAIN.wRECKERs SENTENCED.
CREsTON, la., March Fired Five.
coats and Frank Jackman were SEN
fenced by Judge Towner in the dis.
trict court at Osceola Saturday to i'm.
prisonment for life at hard labor for
attempted train.wrecking. Both are
young men from Clark county. On
the night Of December % they at.
tempted to wreck and rob the Burling.
ton flyer No. near Murray, a small
town east Of here. Part Of the train
was derailed, but no damage was done.
The lives of over 300 passengers were
placed in peril by the wreckers
A NEGRO LYNCHED.
LAKE CoRM0RANT, Miss, March T.
A negro by the name Of Will Jones
was lynched last night by an unknown
mob for outraging colored woman
yesterday. The mob met the officers
while transferring the negro for safe.
keeping, and, taking him from them,
dragged him to telephone pole near
by, where his body was left swinging
in the moonlight The negro was
tried week ago for similar offense,
but the evidence was not sufficient to
convict him.
FIRE IN A TENEMENT BUILDING.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 7.-One OF
the most exciting fires the fire depart
ment has ever been called upon to fight
occurred at 6l4 Webster avenue yester.
day, when one woman was suffocated
and five other people so badly burned
that three may die. Three families
were penned In ramshackle building
and the stairs eaten away while they
slept Only the most rapid work OF
firemen prevented tenement house
horror.
FIGHT AMONG BARRIERS.
TExARKANA, Ark, March THE
fercest street battle ever witnessed in
Texarkana occurred yesterday after
noon. Five men were engaged in the
desperate fight, one of whom was
killed outright another mortally
wounded, the third seriously injured,
while the other two are in hiding and
the extent of their wounds Is not
known. The tragedy occurred in that
portion of the city known as Swan.
poodle, and all the participants were
BARRIERS.
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
GUTHRIE, Ok, March 7. Mrs. Sci.
vania Ross, II widow who had but n
few DAYS ago arrived with her parents
from Kansas City, was burned to death
by her clothes catching fire while en-
camped on the line of the Frisco ex-
tension in Lincoln county.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, March T. While
put walking last night and apparently
cause, Alfred s. lIealy, about
% years old, shot and instantly killed
Miss Libbie Brauschand, Is years old.
and then sent bullet through his
head, He will probably die.