The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-24

gardner. The liabilities were about 500,
| 900 and the assets not ascertainable.
THE small town of Mission, near San
Jose, CAL, was totally destroyed by fire
the other night. The loss was $4,000, and
the insurance small. When the water was
exhausted claret was used to extinguish
the flames and prevent the destruction OF
the old Mission Church.
GRAssHoPPERs were destroying sugar
cane in the State of Vera Cruz, Mex, in the
vicinity of Cordova particularly.
A DOMESTIC employed in a household at
Litchfield, ILL.,, was so badly frightened OF
the Fourth of July by fire-cracker explo
ded at her feet that she has been in a hys.
terical condition from that time. and it was
feared will become insane.
THE San Francisco Call published re-
Gently reports from all the agricultural
counties Of California. They showed loss
by the June rains to wheat 135, 900 tons;
barley $1,000. The loss ON wheat was
equivalent to TX per cent. of the gross
yield, estimated in May at 100000 bush.
els, barley at II per cent. on the May esti
mate of 100000. The loss of the hay crop
was 40 per cent. Farmers incur additional
lodged grain.
THE banking house of Fletcher & Sharpe,
of Indianapolis, suspended on the 18th.
Liabilities, $1,SOO,OOO; assets reported
large.
A RECENT Bloomington, Ind, special
said: A boiler at Carter's saw mill, in the
southwest part of the county, exploded
and blew the mill to atoms. Over a dozen
were in the structure at the time. John
Carter, Wesley Carter, William Graves
and G.. Crever were instantly killed. All
the others were severely injured.
AT Litcnfield, ILL.,, John R. Eden was
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Ninth District.
CHARLES Putty, who for the past eight
years collected bridgefare on railroad trains
crossing the river at st. Louis, was knocked
from the bridge recently by Chicago &;
Alton train, and before assistance could
reach him, was drowned.
AT Chicago the trestle work of the ska
ting rink in course of erection on West
Washington street, near Curtis, fell the
other afternoon and killed three workmen
and injured dozen others.
A COLLISION the other night on the Den.
yer grade of the st. Louis & San Francisco
Railroad between two freight trains, re-
suited in the death of William Harris,
fireman, fatally injuring another fireman,
name unknown.
THE first car load of California beer ever
shipped East left San Francisco the other
day consigned to Chicago. 1t was ordered
re dt1o 70 ha Of oil
fornia grown barley.
TWENTY-FIVE young thoroughbreds be-
longing to General Rowett, of Carlinville,
ILL.,, and the Wildwood stable, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, were sold at auction recently.
George Rye, of Little Rock, Ark, paid
s., 200 for the three-year-old colt, Bob Cook,
by Ten Brock, out of Jennie c. Bob Cook
ran third for the Illinois Derby.
THE formal opening of the Wisconsin,
Iowa & Nebraska Railway to Cedar Falls.
Iowa, was celebrated on the 10Th by din
ner given by citizens of Cedar Falls to the
wholesale business men of Des MoineS.
The Indiana Republican State Central
Committee decided to open the campaign
in Indianapolis the last week in August.
General John A. Logan will be the prin-
cipal speaker.
In the Sharon-Hill divorce case at San
Francisco Judge Sullivan refused to allow
the ink used in the body of the alleged
marriage contract and signature to be sub
mitted to chemical test unless counsel on
both sides agreed. Miss HIPS counsel re
fused. Sharon's counsel thereupon an
nounced their cases closed.
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pany, of Pendleton, Ind, deny that they
have failed. Business was suspended for
the purpose of consultation with deposit
ors. The bank opened the following day
and business proceeded as usual.
JOHN HOFFMAN, employed on the Mil
waukee Daily Sentinel, was shot and MOI =
tally wounded by Gustav Prier recently.
THE private banking house of A. & J. c.
Harrison, of Indianapolis, notwithstanding
the assurances given by the latter gentle,
man the day before, did not open its doors
on the 18th. The claims of depositors were
said to amount to about $500, 000-other liza
bilities not stated.
HARMON, SPRUANcE & Co., one of the
oldest and most conservative houses on the
Chicago Board of Trade, announced its sus-
pension recently. The firm was understood
to have been "short" in the neighborhood
of 100000 bushels of corn, and to have
lost both on the descending and ascending
market. The liabilities were estimated at
500, 900.
CoTTER, BEATTIE & Co., general mer
chants and lumber manufacturers at Ovid,
Mich, made an assignment recently. The
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failure there within two days.
E. F. TALK has been appointed Commits
sioner of the Burlington and Wabash Pool
in place of NJ. Knight, resigned.
In Howard County, Ind, the other night,
Mrs. William Tubley was shot and killed
by some unknown party.