Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-06-18
photographic pREvIrIEs.

Agents Of the government seized
ten thousand rounds Of ammunition
poses in Cuba.
Secretary Hester's statement Of the
worlds visible supply Of cotton shows
total. OF 2,S72.067 against S.Osb,SSs
last week.
X Northern Pacific service between
Butte and Billings to the east, and be-
tween Butte and Deer Lodge to the
west, was resumed Friday.
Business failures in the United
States for Ghe week ending June IL
number 1853 which compares with 22b
last week. and 161 in the like week OF
1907.
John McGreer, a landscape arties,
50 years Of age, who until recently
lived in Chicago, was drowned in the
Hudson river Friday as the result Of
an accident.
Petitions are being circulated In ILL.,
nois for the nomination on the Demo
cratic ticket Of John Mitchell. former
head of the miners union, for the Of
fee Of governor.
The Allison Glass works Of Cen
tralia, Ills, employing 800 men, has
filed petition in bankruptcy. The
liabilities are given as $184,000 with
assets of $4,000.
In the capitol graft cases at Harris
burg, Pa, the jury was ordered to
acQuit ex-Treasurer Snyder, ex-Auditor
Nautilus and the ex-superintendent Of
grounds and buildings, Shumaker.
Within the next few days, 1t is said
the case Of VIM. F. Walker, the al.
legged defaulting banker of New Bril-
tain, Conn, will come up for final de-
cision in the supreme court Of Mexico.
The Lucltania clipped seven min
utes from the record of her sister ship,
the Mauretania, on her last trip from
to New York. The time
was four days, 20 hours and eight
minutes.
John Vines Wright, the eldest liv-
ing ex-member of congress, died FRI
day at Washington. He held the
unique distinction Of making more
treaties with the Indians than any
other man.
Indiana Republicans warmly well
coined Vice President Fairbanks at
the Columbia club at Indianapolis Fri.
day night, the occasion being re-
ception given in his honor by the Of
iicers Of the club.
John Barrett, director Of the inter
bureau of the American Re-
publics, who has been looking inform
ally after the arrangements for the
diplomats at the Chicago, convention,
left for that city Friday.
Gov. Hughes of New York has en-
phatically reiterated his former de-
claration that under no circum-
stances would he accept the nomina-
lion for vice president from the Re-
publican national convention.
The contest in the Seventh Iowa
district between A. 7.
Hull and Judge Prouty, contestants
Tor place on the Republican ticket
Is still undecided. Latest figures
however, place Hull's majority at five.
More than a dozen persons were
hurt, none of them seriously, late
Friday at Capitol Heights, suburb
Of Montgomery, when the platform
Used to accommodate participants in
The unwilling of statute of Gen.
Robert e. Lee, collapsed.
The estimate submitted by the West
srn Union company Of slightly in ex-
cess Of 100000, was increased to
Il ,9O7,77O, while the valuation OF
he Postal company was fixed at $4S,-
$40, practically double the company's
igures, by the Oklahoma state board
Of equalization.
Rear Admiral w. T. Burwell, COM
nandant of the navy yard at Puget
Sound, Wash. has been relieved or
hat duty and ordered home prepare
,ory to retirement on July Is. Capt.
!. A. Rodgers, inspector of the third
lighthouse district, Tompkinsville, N.
T., has been designated to succeed
4 dmiral BurWell