Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-12-22
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near death at Pittsburg, Pa. .
Snow is two feet deep on a level at
Newport, R. l., and traffic is suspended.
A bank with Indian Chief W. G. Rog-
ers as president has been opened at
Shiatook. l. T. ~
The Mexican board Of health denies
stories of starvation and disease in the
state of Sinaloa.
The annual meeting Of Indian terri
tory teachers will he held at Ardmore
on December 2S.
The electric line connecting South
McAlester and Hartshorne, l. T., will
be completed January rs.
A Rock Island freight train was
wrecked near Gracemont, Ok, and
seven cars were destroyed.
Lawton, Ok, will work to have the
state prison of the new state located
in the Wichita mountains.
A storm at Vineyard Haven, Mass,
drove Is schooners ashore, the damage
being the greatest since 1898. "
Montgomery Ward & Co.. the Chi
cago mail order house. will establish
branch in Kansas City, Mo.
The Epworth Hotel company, oper-
ators of q large brick hotel near the
worlds fair, made an assignment.
a Judson Milburn, founder Of Milburn,
l. T., was killed on the street Of that
town by Charles Bunch, a business
man.
Three feet of snow on the level was
the record in the east end of Long is
land, N. Y, and as a result trains were
delayed.
The sash and door factory of Philip
Rim & Co., Crosby and Halstead
street, Chicago was destroyed by fire.
Loss. 100000.
Rev. Luther H. Trowbridge, of De-
troit, Mich, for 80 years editor Of the
Christian Herald Of that city, died in
Los Angeles. Cal.
Belgium'S national pavilion at the
worlds faiy is the first Of the foreign
buildings upon which the work OF
demolition has begun.
The next annual convention OF the
National Association of State Dairy
and Food Departments will be held at
Portland, Ore, June 20-25. =
The National Educational associa-
tion will hold its forty-fourth annual
convention at ,Asbury Park and Ocean
Grove, N. J.. July 8 to Z, 1905.
At St Joseph, Mo-, L. ]. Byarlay, a
photographer, has sued DR.. W. J. Bell
for $4,000 damages, alleging that Bell
aleniated Mrs. Bysrlay's affections.
The youngest grandmother" record
in Kansas is held by Mrs. Henry
Rooms, of Atehison, who at the age Of
IS has a granddaughter two years old.
Secretary Of War Taft, will detail
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, retired,
to act as adjutant general on the stan
of Gov. W, L. Douglas, Of Massachu-1
setts
An International waterway commits
sion is to be appointed by the United
States and Canadian governments tol
report upon. waters adjacent to the
boundary line.
Rev., DR.. Michael Burnham, for ten
years pastor of Pilgrim Congregational
church, one of the most wealthy and
in st. Louis, handed In his
resignation Sunday.
A B. Mcqueen and wife, Of Atchison,
Kan, who located in Kansas In 1858,
will celebrate their sixtieth wedding
Sunday.
William L. Elkins, the Philadelphia
street railway and gas operator and
who died November s, 1908,
left an estate worth $S1, 57s, 26S.44.
The forty-seventh annual meeting OF
the Missouri Horticultural society viii
be held at Neosho, Mo-, December 20,
Il and %. Railroads have granted re-
iuced rates
Justice jerks, OF the appellate divi-
ion OF the New York state supreme
,ourt. handed dwon a decision that an
Injunction against organizing a strike
,annot stand.