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

THE EAST.
SCHEDULES in the assignment of Pearce
& Hall, manufacturers, were filed at
New York recently. They sho W liabilities
$4,000; nominal assets, S141, OC0; actual
assets, $S1, 900.
POSTMASTER WILLIAM T. KAILEY, of
Camden, n. j., was arrested the other
morning, charged with embezZlement, and
held in $1,000 bail. A warrant was also
issued for the arrest of Assistant Postmas-
ter Jesse K Mines for embezzlement.
Two sons of Thomas Lee, farmer living
on Roaring Creek, near Ashland, Pa, and
man named Kohler, were killed recently
while saving stock from a barn fired by
lightning.
SIXTEEN thousand bushels of No. 3 corn
in boats were found out of condition and
posted on 'change at New York the other
day. The corn was musty and blue eyed.
TEE rumors concerning the retirement of
jay Gould from the Mercantile Trust Com
pany were confirmed by both Gould and
Louis Fitzgerald. Mr.. Gould stated that
he had merely sold out his stock in the
company.
AN auction sale of the property of James
Spectator, began recently. The sales the
first day aggregated $5SS, 12O.
EIGHT families of assisted emigrants ar
rived at New York the other day-four
from Mayo, Ireland, and four from Breslau,
Germany. All were sent back.
THE New York Tribune fresh air fund,
organized to send tenement house children
to the country for two weeks has begun its
summers work. Already ten parties have
gone from the city and many more are
soon to follow.
THE Republicans held a large ratification
meeting in New York on the evening of the
18th. Evarts, Senator Hawley and others
addressed the meeting.
LIZZIE EMMERICH, aged twenty, well
known young lady living near Pittsburgh,
Pa, committed suicide recently by shoot
ing herself in the head. Inability to keep
up with other scholars at school was as
signed as the reason for the deed.
ATTORNEY GENERAL O'BRIEN, of New
York, has given an opinion that parson
age, although on the same lot as the church
to which it belongs, is liable to taxation.
AT Washington, Pa, heavy flow of gas
was struck on Miller's farm, two miles
from the Michigan well, at a depth of
1000 feet.
AT Providence, Radburn, the pitcher for
the Providence Club, was cited by the As
sociation to explain his conduct of the past
few weeks.
MISS EMILY J. LEONARD died at Meriden,
Conn, recently, at the age of forty-six
years. She was widely known as botan-
ist classical scholar and writer on politi-
cal economy.
The Expressmen's Convention at Boston
elected H. W. Dwight, of the United States
and Canada Express Company, President;
E. NJ. Morseman, Vice-President and Gen.
eral Manager of the Pacific Express, Vice
President; Sutherland Dewitt, Secretary
and Treasurer.
AT New York recently the steeple
chaser, Jim MCGOWAN, was seized by the
Sheriff pending a settlement in the Court
of Claims of the rival owners, W. C. DAILY
and ex-Mayor Nolan, of Albany.
The case of the Brush Electric Company
against the United States Electric Lighting
Company was decided by Judge Shipman,
at New York, in favor of the latter. The
suit has been pending four years.
AT an auction in the New York Produce
Exchange for choice of drawers in the
-four and grain tables the following premi-
ums were paid: In the -four stands, $50;
in the grain tables, $40.
THE Fireman's Trust Insurance Com
pany, of New York, was closed up and
policy holders were being re-insured. The
assets were S1SSOOO and the liabilities
ST., 200.
Ar Painted Post. n. V the otbar div
fire destroyed the business part of town,
The Pennsylvania State Agricultural
Society have decided to give a grand
bench show of dogs during their fair in
Philadelphia, which takes place September
16 to 10.
A MILL belonging to the Latin & Rand
Powder Company at Cressana, two miles
from Pittsburgh, exploded the other morn
ing.
WILLIAM d. RHINELANDER, of family of
wealth and antiquity, was indicted at New
York recently, for shooting and wounding
John Drake, the family lawyer.
The strikes of journeymen plasterers
and Knapp & Co.'s shoe hands at Philadel-
phia, have ended. The plasterers got the
advance asked, the shoemakers comprom-
ised.
A DISPATCH from Reading, Pa, thus sum-
marlses the loss by the storm of June 26:
In Chester and Lancaster Counties thirteen
bridges were swept away; in York County,
forty; in Cecil County, Maryland, seven
Teen; In Hartford, twenty; in Frederick,
thirty, and in Carroll County thirty-mak-
ing total of one hundred and fifty bridges
and loss of So, 100000.