The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-02
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
AFTER war of several months against
the New York Tribune, the typographical
union of New York has been successful,
and the Tribune is union Office. The
matter was partly effected by the National
Republican Committee, who did not desire
to incur the enmity of 1000 men in New
York, who were members of various labor
unions, in cooperation with the printers.
THE steam tug Rescue recently went to
the wreck of the Tallapoosa with pontoons
TO be used in raising the sunken vessel.
B. ID. SKINNER, clerk in leading bank
ing house in New York, lately died from
an overdose of morphine, after suffering
for months from poor health. His father
is a clergyman in Chicago.
THE Commissioners appointed by the
State of New York to appraise property at
Niagara Falls desired for an International
park, have agreed upon a valuation ag-
gregating s., 403, S29, the principal awards
being less than half the prices demanded.
Goat Island is appraised at S525,00O.
NEARLY all the grating for the Baltimore
& Philadelphia road has been completed,
and freight trains are to be run by New
Years day. The Susquehanna bridge is to
have a span of $40 feet, and will be thirty
feet above high-water mark.
The Collector of Customs at New York
has been orderd by the Treasury Depart
1nent to admit free of duty the Ascot cup
won in England two years ago by Keene's
FoxhaR.
THE Middlesex dye-works at Somerville,
Mass, valued at $250, 900, were burned re-
bTiIdipo- of rouSon
Mich, and twelve stores at Sand Lake,
were destroyed by fire on the same day.
On September oath Joseph Sarver was
hanged at Indiana, Pa, for the murder of
dis father. Michael hurry was hanged at
Ebeasbury, in the same State, for the MUIR
der of John Hencuff in October, 1885.
WHILE walking home from ball at
Rochester, n. H., two young French
Canadians were struck by lightning Sep
TENDER oath. Thelad was instantly killed;
the girl was so terribly scorched that she
has become insane.
OvERwoRK was perhaps the cause of the
recent suicide of L. J. Brown, leading
dry goods merchant of Fitchburg, Mass.
The conflicting interests represented in
the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph
Company have presented to the New York
Supreme Court the names of James G..
Smith and Richard S. Newcombe as re-
ceiyers. These interests are said to in
volve vast sums.
JOHN LORD TAYLOR, an eminent Congre
gational clergyman, recently died at And
over, Mass.
PARyIEs from New York, who intend to
form "a Episcopal colony, have purchased
from the Santa Fe Road tract of 10000
acres in Mora County, New Mexico, sit
uated in a mountain park.
THE Grand Jury of RUTLAND County,
Vermont, has indicted John B. Page and
J. NJ. Haven, ex-President and ex-Treas-
urer of the RUTLAND road, for the embeZ-
element of $45, 1000.
STAFFORD & Co, who own four mills in
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, lately
called meeting of creditors. Their liza
bilities are $780, 900 and their assets $4,000.
MIXED train on the Brattleboro s.
Whitehall Road in Vermont met with an
accident just west of Dummerston on Sep
TENDER 18th. A freight jumped the track,
carrying with it four others and one pas
.senger coach. They were precipitated
down a twenty-foot embankment. George
II. Richmond, Jamaica, had his skull frac-
tured and subsequently died. his wife
and daughters were seriously injured, and
about twenty other passengers sustained
severe knocks, cuts and bruises.
A MASSACHUSETTS BAY oyster planter
pays boys a cent for every starfish caught
on his beds. He saves $1,000 a year on the
oysters which would be otherwise de-
stroyed, besides profit of two cents on
each starfsh, which he dries and sells.
JOHN W. GARRETT, for many years Pres
ident of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
died on September Goth after along illness.
HERBET c. MASON, we'll known in and
about Boston, shot himself at his country
home near Stockbridge on September 25th.
No cause for the act could be ascertained.