Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
DEAD IN A VISD9V.
A New York Butcher Asyhy <. atod
While Writing to Els Wife.
4 LYyCnIyG LIKELY IN EISIUCEY.
Twenty Three sophomores susprnded at
the Iowa state tniversity--t Train
Accident Death ut q Cruising
An ExpI0siOn-A Runaway.

New York. Jan. 31.-Otto c. Delfs, q
German butcher, sat dead all night
long in the window OF his store, at 1903
Third avenue, in full view Of passers-
by. The little gas stove in the glass
booth he had in his place was pouring
gas into the place while he sat there
with pen in his hand, apparently try.
ing to write to his wife, and was being
slowly asphyxiated. Delfs went 10 the
store and to the booth after he had had
his supper and turned the gas on and
tried to write a letter to his wife. He
was dead in little while, and as he
sat there many Of his acquaintances
passed by, believing that he was at
tending to business.
A LYNcHING LIKELY IN KENTUCKY.
MAyFIELD, KY, Jan. 3l.-People
have been hocking here by every pos
sible mode Of conveyance, in expecta'
tion that the negro Bob Blanks, would
be brought in, At eight o'clock last
night mob started to take the negro
wife.murderer, Will Tut, from Jail
and lynch him, but they were per.
suaded to desist. Everybody here be-
lieves that the story that Bob Blanks
was arrested at Brooklyn, ILL.,, Satur-
day is blind. Nevertheless, officers
are expected to arrive with him at any
moment II he is brought in he will
be lynched in style that for savage
ness will throw the Paris, Tex, lynch
ing into the shade.
soPHoMoREs SUSPENDED.
Iowa CITY, la, Jan. Sl.-Twenty'
three members of the sophomore class
were suspended from the state univer'
sity here for the part they took in pre-.
venting the annual freshmen banquet,
held two weeks ago. On the nightap'
pointed for the banquet number OF
freshmen, including three young Ia
dies, were abducted forcibly, put into
carriages and driven away into the
country. While the ladies were being
forced into the carriages, one Of them
had the tendons of her knee loosened
in the struggle and she will be Grip
pied for life.
A TRAIN ACCIDENT,
OLD Town, Me-, Jan. 3l.-The st.
John train No. 30, known also as the
provincial express, was wrecked in the
cut at 0rono Basin Mills, and six cars,
including the smoker were turned
topsy-turvy into the ditch. One of the
passenger cars, in which were a large
number Of persons, was almost ntirely
demolished. Four persons were killed
and 80 injured, several probably
fatally.
DEATH AT THE CROSSING.
JOLIET, ILL.,, Jan. Sl.-The sleigh in
which were Christy Byrne, senior
alderman of the Sixth ward, and his
wife and child was struck by Santa
Fe passenger engine at what is known
as Patterson's crossing, just south ol
here. Byrne was killed and his wife
may die.
A STEAMSHIPS BOILER EPPLODEs.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Jan. 31.-The boiler
of the steamship Benjamin Sewall, just
sailing with coal for San Francisco,
exploded this morning. Four men
were badly injured and one, Max
vogle, will probably die. The boiler
was blown 100 feet in the air and
landed on scow 75 feet away.
FATAL RUNAWAY.
GUTHRIE, Ok, Jan. 3l.-While Henry
Sumner, wife and baby were returning
home from church near Buckland,
their horses ran away, throwing all
out, killing Sumner and fatally injur-
ing his wife.