The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-10
THE WEST.

THE Denver & Rio Grande road is unable
to meet interest to the amount of S655,917
on its consolidated bonds.
A CHARTER has been secured at Spring
| field by C. r. Vandercook and others to
build a railway from Chicago to Batavia,
at cost of 100000.
FAIRBANKS, PALMER & Co., subscription
book publishers, of Chicago, have been
closed out by the sheriff.
THE committee appointed by the citiz ms
of Eastern Montana telegraphed Secretary
Teller, urging the immediate removal of
the North Cheyenne Indians, now on the
Tongue and Rosebud. There were more
than nine hundred without rations, starry
ing and nothing to subsist on, except range
cattle, which they were killing in large
numbers.
ALLAN PINKERToN, the famous detective.
died in Chicago resently. He had been
gradually sinking from the effects of ma
larial fever, contracted some weeks ago
while on visit in the South. Deceased was
born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1919.
AT st. Louis it was recently asserted
that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad had cut rates to all Iowa points
to eight cents per hundred pounds.
THE Democratic Convention at Peoria,
ILL.,, on the ID, nominated Carter H. Har-
rison, of Chicago, for Governor.
w. B. KNIGHT, City Engineer of Kansas
City, was assaulted on the street the other
night by James Pryor, contractor. Pryor
struck at him with a whip and he was
severely injured.
W. R MCGILL, President of the Cincin-
natl & Eastern Railroad, fell from bag
gage car at Winchester, o., the other day,
down ravine fifty feet deep. He was in
stantly killed.
NATHAN STEVENS, great Western Pas
senger Agent of the Pennsylvania Rail:
road, died at st. Louis recently of pneu.
monia, after a brief illness. Mr.. Stevens
was connected with the Pennsylvania &
Alton Railroad for many years. He was
well known through the West.
A VIOLENT wind storm, followed bv
heavy rain passed through the southern
portion of Dayton, o., the other day, up
roofing trees and dnroofng houses. Barns
in the country were upset, and general
damage to wheat was done.
Two HUNDRED laborers employed in
Michigan by the Lake Shore & Western
Railway travelled on fiat-cars two days and
nights, without food, to make a demand at
the Milwaukee office for wages due them.
They were driven away by the police,
after attempting to break in the doors.
AT the works of the Calumet Iron and
Steel company, near Chicago, four men
S,tffncot aH l,,-%l
gas while cleaning chimney.
MILO HoYT, a wealthy Choctaw, refused
to pay the permit tax for several white !
men is his employ, and his stock was at.
tached. Soon afterward the District Court i
House was burned, and on suspicion of in |
cendiarism Hovt was followed INFO the |
Cherokee country by an armed force, and |
there were signs of serious trouble.
CHERRrE & Co., of Chicago, dealers in !
pig iron and rails, failed and made vol. /
untary assignment recently. The Iiabili. |
ties were $50, 900, assets nominally S7JO, 900 |
and actually at least S6O0,0O0.
JOHN WUsTUH, was killed at Aspin,
Col, by accidentally having tree fall up
on him the other day.
SHERMAN EoUP and Levi Moore, while
in field, near Findlay, o., re-
GENTLY became heated, and, endeavoring TO
cool off by taking eopious draughts of cold
water, suddenly became prostras ed, and
we're in critical condition.
A CYCLONE storm swept through the
southern portion OF Sioux City on the
evening of the 4th. A funnel-shaped cloud
moving with great rapidity and giving out
roaring Sot1nn a |
gushing phenomena. Damage, 5000.