The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-21
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A REPORT was published in the New
York Times recently that the Greedy party
was not so harmonious as had been thought
1t was said that characterization manifested
itself and that Private Henry had beer
shot and his body eaten. Interviews will
Secretary Chandler and General Hazer
give color to the report, and it is probable
that Congressional inquiry will be or
dered.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY admitted in an in
terview that Private Henry had been shot
He says that Henry was in the habit Of
stealing food and they killed him to pre-
serve their own lives. He says there may
have been isolated cases of cannibalism.
A FURTHER suspension of the window
glass factories at Pittsburgh was probable
j. q. BLAINE spoke at a public meeting
at Maranacook, Me-, on the 18th. There
was large crowd present to hear him
and considerable enthusiasm was mani.
tested:
NOTICE of a reduction of five per cent.
in the wages of the weavers in the Barna-
by Bingham mill at Fall River, Mass, has
been posted. There was no apparent dan
ger of strike of the weavers.
The New York Petroleum Exchange has
adopted a resolution forbidding all confer
ence exchanges from connecting by tele-
graph or telephone with any oil exchange
not member of the conference of oil ex-
changes. If two-thirds of the conference
of oil exchanges adopt a similar resolution
it will become law.
JOHN WALLACE, formerly an employe of
Paymaster Daniels at Philadelphia, was
held in $1,000 bail for trial on charge of
embezzlement by the United States Gov
eminent.
j. BRUCE HALSTED, Professor of Higher
Mathematics at Princeton, has been elected
to similar position in the University of
Texas.
The American Bankers Association as
sembled in annual convention at Saratoga,
N. Y, on the 18th. Quite large repre-
sentation of prominent bankers were pres
ent. The meeting was called to order by
President Lyman T. Gage, of Chicago, who
delivered the inaugural address.
The annual convention of the Irish Ma.
tional League commenced on the 18Th in
Boston.
THE schedule of jeremiah Steebman, in.
show liabilities, So, 900; nominal assets,
$4,000; actual assets, $4,000.
SCHEDULES of the insolvent jewelry firm
of Goodman & Rosenberger, of New York,
show liabilities, 100000; nominal assets,
$1,000; actual assets, $4,000.
THE town of North East, near Erie, Pa,
was destroyed by fire recently. The loss
amounted TO 100000.
w. II. DUPAY, lessee of st. Marks Hotel,
Stapleton, L. l., abandoned the hotel to
escape his creditors. Dupay was disap-
pointed in the expectation of good sea.
son.
THE Prohibitionists of the First New
Jersey District have nominated Samuel B.
Harbinson for Congress.
JAMES B. REILLY, of Pottsville, Pa, was
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Thirteenth District.
MICHAEL MCDONALD, engineer in q. box
mill at Milford, Mass, caught his sleeve in
the screw of shaft, and for some time was
whirled at the rate of four hundred revoIu-
tons per minute. Every stitch of clothing
was torn from his body, but when he fell to
the floor he was absolutely uninjured.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY has asked for an
inquiry into the execution of Private
Henry for stealing provisions from the
Arctic party on the 9th of last June.
THE body of Lieutenant Kislingbury, of
the Greedy Arctic expedition, was exhumed
the other day. The remains showed that
the fieshy parts had been distracted, cor
roborating the charges that the survivors
had been addicted to cannibalism.
JAMES G. BLAINE has commenced suit
against the indianapolis Sentinel for pub
fishing certain scandalous charges relat-
ing to his early life in Kentucky.
A PHILADELPHIA company struck an.
other heavy gas vein recently at Home
wood, Pa, inside the city limits.
THE American Yacht Club gave dinner
at Delmonico's, New York, on the 10Th, to
the officers of the Greedy relief expedition.
Frank r. Lawrence presided. The well
come of President Lawrence was responded
TO by Commander Schley. Other speeches
were made in which Commander Schley
was highly complimented on the success of
his expedition.
THE New York grand jury has found
seven indictments again.t Frederick Man.
delbaum, her son, Julius, and her confiden-
tial man, Stroude, for receiving stolen
goods.