The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-25
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
A BOLD bank robbery was committed at
Bradford, Pa, on the night of Septem-
Der Il.
On September 18th skiff in the Monon-
gahela River, near Pittsburgh, containing
John Williams, colored, and three sons,
was run down by an excursion steamer,
killing the father and seriously injuring
the sons.
OLIVER WORMALD, a painter of Buffalo,
N. Y, proposes to go over Niagara Falls
in an hermedcally sealed rubber ball,
covered with tarred rope. He will take
air enough to last him fifteen minutes, and
he anticipates no trouble in getting over all
right. 1t is novel scheme, and will per-
baps be tried this fall.
The most important political matter for
several days past is to be found in the pub
Iication of additional letters from Mr..
Blaine, called Mulligan letters. Mr..
Blaine's friends claim that the letters cam
not injure him, while his political enemies
are positive they will. They have been
the basis for many late editorials.
THE Attorney General of New Jersey,
having been asked recently for an opinion,
declares National Bank officers eligible on
an electoral ticket, they not being officials
of the United States.
THE Garfield COmmitte for the State of
New York reports having collected &c.
1922 for the monument ot Cleveland.
AN Indian tablet, seven inches long, was
recently plowed up in field near Doyles-
town, Pa. The matter is an important one
for geologistS, since if the stone could be
proved genuine it would settle in the af-
firmative the question of the co-existence
Of man and the mammoth.
Two great concerts were organized in
New York for the cholera sufferers of
France ana Italy.
MRS. ANN RUTTER, of Reading, Pa.
while suffering from mild attack of one
o. Harrison'S revivals, imagined herself a
funeral pyre and set fire TO it. She held a
club and beat away those who attempted
t. save her. She said she was Offering a
sacrifice to the Lord.
THE sixteenth annual reunion of the
Army of the Cumberland began at Roch-
ester, n. V, September 18th. General
Sheridan presided and delivered a brief
address. Among the distinguished veter-
ans present was General John A. Logan.
THE miners strike in the Pittsburgh
coal district is being aggressively main
tained. The mine-owners find it almost
impossible to find men to work at less than
the strikes demand. 1t is not improbable
that compromise may be agreed on. 1t
is reported that some of the operators are
already employing union men at the price
they have asked.
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placed in nomination. w. L. Ellsworth, of
Pennsylvania, is tbs nominee of the Amer
ican Political Alliance. Charles H. Water
man, of New York, is the candidate for
Vice-President on the same ticket.
The Rev. j. f. Smith, of Boston, who
wrote the national hymn entitled Gamer
ica,,' celebrated his golden wedding at
Newton Centre, September 10Th. About
four hundred people responded to invita-
tions and sat through the singing of the
hymn.
A STATUE of General John F. Reynolds,
who fell at Gettysburg, was recently un-
veiled at Harrisburg, in front of the City
Hall.
MRS. JOSEPH STEVENS, of Hollisterville,
Pa, who was for years in the habit of eat
trichinasiS that she constantly pleads
with her friends TO kill her. The worms
keep her flesh in perpetual motion, and
frequently twist out from the muscles in
wriGgling masses.
Mr.. BLAINE wrote a letter TO William
Walter Phelps on his marriage, which the
latter has made public. In the letter he
says that he was married i'll 1851 at Pitts
burg, but that he had been secretly mar
ried in Kentucky some time before. Fear
ing that the Kentucky marriage was not
valid, he afterwards had a ceremony per-
formed at PittSburg.
RINDsKoFF Bros. 6 Co., of New York
City, made an assignment on September
18Th with 5000, 900 liabilities. The prefer
ences were divided among firms all over
the country. Their sales last year exceeded
a million dollars, and the members of the
firm are all of high standing and favor
ably known for their charities and public
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