Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-21
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There are 1l5,6zO pensioners HI inc
Topeka (Kan.) agency.
Five people died from the heat in
Greater New York on Tuesday.
At Earlboro, Ok. John Kane shot
his wife to death and then suicided
Lightning struck the Mexican pa
vilion at the worlds fair with consid-
cradle damage.
There is excitement at Stroud. Oh.
over the alleged discovery Of radium
clay In extensive deposits.
Robert Crimson. of Reno, New, has
been appointed United States marshal
for Nevada, vice Emmitt, deceased.
Judge Callahan. of Chicago, holds
that a drunkard Is irresponsible and
cannot be compelled to pay his saloon
bills-
Fire destroyed the Wolfe & Sons
mills at Okeene, Ok, including 1000
bushels of wheat and 700 sacks Of -four.
Loss, $4,000.
Lambert Neihaus, convicted at St
Louis Of killing Thomas Fluegel on
December 20 last, was sentenced to
hang on September 8.
Fire destroyed the new paint shop of
the Michigan Central railroad at West
Detroit Mich, and carshed nearby, in
Guiding a dozen box cars.
Mrs. Henry sabin-B Brown, under ar
rest in Stockton. Cal. for a diamond
robbery in Chicago, has forfeited her
bond Of $500 and Is a fugitive.
The entire plant Of the McCloud
(Cai.) Lumber company, the largest
lumber plant in the state, is tied up
by a strike. About 1900 men are af-
fected.
The Cripple Creek (Col.) Mine Own
ers' association has issued 4.033 recon-
mendation cards. which = absolutely
necessary to obtain employment in the
district
The Iowa republican state conven-
ton, which convened to-day, has 30
little of excitement In store that the
attendance of delegates Is smaller than
In some years.
Rev. T. G. Richards, Of T%orrington,
Conn, one of the editors of the Con-
gregationalist, has been offered the
presidency of the Congregational uni
versity at Austin, Tex.
Positive proof that the train robber
who was killed on Divide creek, COL.
June 8, was not the notorious bandit,
Harvey Logan, has been secured BY
an examination Of the body.
The government weather bureaus
weekly summary says: Corn has ex-
perienced a week Of exceptionally IA
vorable weather conditions and has
made rapid growth generally in all dis
tricts."
In San Francisco over 600 union
brewers, employed In 20 breweries,
struck for an advance of wages from
500 to $22 a week. There is a big sup
ply Of beer on hand and the breweries
possibly. may shut down
The government has begun negotia-
lions with Delaware Indians regard
ing their acceptance of $751; 900 in lieu
of all claims against the government.
Muskogee, l. T., has 10 oil wells that
average 80 barrels a day each.
There were 23,494 carloads Of ex-
hibits, material and supplies delivered
on the worlds fair grounds between
December, 1902, and June 80, 1904, d.
vided as follows: Exhibits, Abs;
construction material, 17,403; coal, l.
1874 supplies. 90.
The Humphrey hotel at Susanville,
in Lassen county, Cal, caught fire and
was entirely destroyed. With the ex-
ception of two children, a daughter OF
Mrs. L. A. Parry and a SOL of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. R Miller, the occupants es-
capped. The children were burned to
death.
Weary Of turmoil and h%ardships n
countered while struggling for a liv-
ing In the face Of strikes and lock-
outs, 90 families left Chicago IN Tues
day afternoon to return to Austria
Hungary. There they will receive less
pay, they say, but their employment
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