The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-16
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bushels.
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SAMUEL TILDEN has written a letter tc
the Committee of the National Democratic
Convention relative to the resolutions
adopted concerning him. He urges re.
form in the National administration.
JOHN F. STEINMAN, the oldest merchant
in Pennsylvania, died October 9Th on his
farm near Lancaster, aged sixty-five. He
was veteran of the war of 1872.
THE Opera House at South Bethlehem,
Pa, and four adjoining buildings were de-
stroyed by fire not long since. The loss is
about 100000. During the progress of the
flames some whisky barrels were rolled in
to the street. The firemen broke in the
heads and partook freely of the liquor.
Many of them became helplessly drunk.
One man was fatally injured.
THE men employed in Oliver Brothers &
Phillips rolling-mill at Pittsburgh, Pa,
lately refused to accept a reduction of 121l
per cent. in their wages. The proprietors
suspended work, thus throwing 5000 msn
out of employment.
CARRIAGE containing George and Alice
Hall, of Stanford, VT, was struck by an
express train at Graylock crossing. Both
occupants were instantly killed. The
young mans body remained on the engine
pilot, while the body of the young lady
was thrown one hundred feet on a bank ten
feet high.
NINE. JANISCH tainted recently in New
York in the third act of the play Louisa"
-ol 10 III -o1l H1-b bor
physicians that she needed rest, and that
the swOon was a serious symptom in the
complications so often brought on by over
work.
The Johnson well, near Butler, Pa,
which has been doubly guarded by fierce
bulldogs and men armed with shotguns,
and made mystery of, was completed re-
Gently, and is dry, or nearly so. The well
was drilled thirty-seven feet below the
stray sand without striking oil. The lower
sand is close and hard, and after shooting
the venture may prove small well. The
Scheidmantle well, the next important
venture, is due very soon. If the Scheid-
mantle should prove dry it Will practically
condemn all the new work southwest of the
present Developments.
THE safes of Noble & Sons, and Tomlin-
son & Son, at Perry, N. Y, were blown
open few nights ago and robbed of S25,-
600 of Arkansas bonds, also other securities
and money.
Rev. w. S. OSMAN was lately arrested at
Stanford, Conn.,, charged with thu serious
crime of outraging the twelve-year-old
daughter of Mr.. Jimmerson, in whose fam
ba 1o1 Tla S,,T |,
was sensational in the extreme, the mo her
o. the little girl being anxious to kill the
defendant. The minister had formerly
been a sailor, and afterwards a liquor
dealer, but he became convert during a
revival in 1871, and had been preaching
ever since. He was held over in the sum
of 81 800.
ABOUT 10000 persons assembled at the
Northampton Campground, near Spring
field, Mass, on October Sbh, to celebrate
the centennial of the independence of
American Methodism.
MARY HENDERSON, girl of seventeen,
employed by the United States Cartridge
Company, lately died a fearful death at
Lowell, Mass, by getting a small bullet
accidentally lodged in her ear.
THE Fort Pitt Iron and Steel Works, at
Pittsburgh, Pa, which have been closed
down for nearly three months past, re-
sumed, giving employment to several hun
dred men.
THOMAS MALLoY, Sergeant at the Ma
tional Soldiers Home at Tayus, Me-, was
killed few days ago by crooked liquor
dealers, whose wagon he was searching for
suspected goods.
YOUNG man recently made inquiry at
Princeton, n. j., for his two brothers,
whom he claimed had not reached home
from school during the summer. He was
unknown at Princeton, but took board at
good hotel. He was told that his brothers
left college year ago. He then went to a
saloon and afterwards down the canal and
disappeared. 1t was thought he was killed
by canal men, or committed suicide.
BURGLARS lately raided the town of
Perry, N. Y, securing about $1,000 worth
of plunder.
AFTER the Court of Appeals of New York
had declared unconstitutional the act of
1882 forbldding the manufacture of cigars
in tenement houses, the Legislature passed
q new law to the same effect. The Supreme
court recently declared that the law in
vaded the rights of the citizens and was
unconstitutional.
AT secret conference of paper manu-
facturers held in Philadelphia on the Sth,
reports were made of a short supply of
rags all over the country, owing to the
Government embargo on imported rags
from the East, and it was determined to
call a meeting to be held in Cleveland. 1t
was thought determined effort would
be made to force the price up an average
OF two cents pound. The supply of rags
in port and on the water will only keep
the mills going until December l. The
large paper dealers in Chicago and other
cities, East and West, are serving their
customers with notices to the effect that
they are compelled to withdraw former
quotations and give prices on amounts,
or from day to day. The writing paper
manufacturers agreed, at a meeting held
in Boston an the 9Th, to advance prices two
cents per pound, and to maintain the adj
vanced rates.
THE WEST.
TIE unusually warm weather of the last
OF September and the first of October is
something unaccountable even to weather
prophets and meteorologists. Early in
October the thermometer at jackson,