The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-11
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
Two men who were being taken to the
Kingston Penitentiary from Port Arthur,
leaped over the side of the steamer in Lake
Superior. One was drowned.
GEORGE B. CHURCH, a stock broker of
Albion, n. Y, has assigned his property to
secure debts of fifty thousand dollars, Civ
ing preference to his mother and sister.
Mrs. SMITH, of Hunters Point, Long
Island, was awakened by the attempt of a
burglar to take a diamond ring from her
finger. She instantly seized revolver and
drove the intruder from the house, firing
two shots at him.
JALER Cook caught two escaping pris-
oners at Bennington, VT, but lost two
fingers.
SAMUEL LowDEN, a New York builder,
was reported missing the other day. He left
with about thirty thousand dollars in cash,
his debts aggregating fifty thousand dol
lars.
THE pigiron business of Pittsburgh, Pa,
continues in very unsatisfactory condi-
tion. Restriction of production is the
order of the day.
RUTTENBER, an editor and newspaper
proprietor, of Fonda, n. Y, was arrested
recently for arson. He was heavily in
debt, and to retrieve himself promised a
reward to printer named Chanter if he
would fire the building, the contents of
which he had insured. The result was
forty-thousand dollar fire followed by the
arrest of Chanter and Ruttenber.
HENRY B. ANTHONY, who died at Provi-
dence, in his seventieth year, was Cover
nor of Rhode Island in 1919, was serving
his fifth consecutive term in the Senate
and had three times been chosen President
pro tenn. of that body. For many years he
edited the Providence Journal,
MARTIN WEINBERGER was privately exc
cuted at Pittsburgh the other day for the
murder of peddler near Sewickley two
.Eears ago. Weinberger is said to be the
second Hebrew in the United States who
has perished on the gallows.
A wRECKING company of Boston has con-
tracted to deliver the Tallapoosa at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard for thirty-five thou
sand dollars.
CHARLES j. OSBORNE has been appointed
receiver of the Wall Street Bank, and has
received orders to pay dividend of sixty
five per cent. to depositors.
THE Saratoga County National Bank at
Waterford, N. Y, intends to close up its
affairs. The failure is also announced of
McKenna & Radcliff, grain brokers of De-
troit, where the junior member was once
President of the Board of Trade.
The window-glaSs factories and most of
the bottle factories at Pittsburgh, Pa,
lately resumed after the usual vacation,
giving employment to several thousand
men.
THE Rev. Milton S. Terry, s. T. D., of
the Forty-third Street Methodist Church of
New York, a few days since accepted the
Professorship of Greek of the Garrett
Biblical Institute at Evanston, Ill.
RICE & HUTCHINs' shoe factory at Marl-
boro, Mass, was destroyed by fire Sep
tember ID. About two hundred hands
were thrown out of employment. The loss
is about sixty thousand dollars.
Mr.. BONNER is said to have offered sixty
thousand dollars for JayEye-See.
S. R. STODDARD, of literary note, has
padded his own canoe from New York to
Bar Harbor lately.
The New Jersey courts have decided
that land under water pre-empted for oys.
ter planting may be taken by any third
party whenever the pre-emptor fails to
plant the young shellfish. This decision
Overrules practice of thirty years stand
ing.
THE paper manufacturers of Boston are
indignant at the action of the Government
in prohibiting for three months the land.
ing of imported rags.
of d. D.
from food for forty-eight days because of
Christ's fast in the wilderness, and then
passed away. Her weight was reduced
from two hundred and seventy-five pounds
to one hundred and two.
ANDREW JACKSON, a capitalist of Ham
mond's Station, n. Y, was lately found
on the railway track with both legs sew
cred. Before dying he accused two neigh.
bors of throwing him under a train, and
they were arrested ct Mechanicsville. The
feud grew out of lawsuit.
PRIvATR HENRY's remains at Long Is
land City will not be exhumed.
q ESCAPING gas in a sleeping apartment
recently caused the death of Charles Hill,
bank cashier at New Brunswick, n. ].
An attorney of Syracuse, representing
HAouSAPHld "OuldH, mas dpplIou IOE let.
ters of administration on the $4,000 estate
of Catholic priest named Guerdet. The
latter paid for the girls education in
convent at st. Louis. She claims to be his
daughter, and hints that she can tell
startling tale at the proper time.
A HUSBAND at Newport, r. l., recently
pursued his wife with a razor until she
jumped out of two-story window.
In its answer to the libel suit instituted
by James G. Blaine the indianapolis SEN
tiRel denied that its statements in regard
TO the seduction of Miss Stanwood, her
marriage to Blaine under threats, and the
birth of child three months subsequently,
were in any particular false. The defend
ant fled number of questions to be an
swered by Blaine under oath.
A FIGHT of forty-five rounds, with hard
gloves, between Jim McHugh, of Glasgow,
and Dave Fitzgerald, of Toronto, occurred
recently at Rockaway Beach, Long Island.
Both were seriously injured, and the ref
cree declared the contest a draw because
of interference by the spectators.
THE WEST.
The Touring mill of j. B. NJ. Kehlor, at
Waterloo, ILL.,, containing large amount
OF grain, was burned recently. The loss