The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-28

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President ARTHUR recently received al
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, Com
mander Schley, Commander Coffin, Lieu
tenant Emory, Chief Engineer Melville
and dozen other officers of the Greedy ex
pedition.
The secret service division is in posses.
sion of a new counterfeit ten dollar note on
the Third National Bank of Cincinnati. II
is series B. l., with chocolate colored back,
vignette on the face. The note has a
coarse, scratchy appearance, not very well
executed
THE EAST.
there was a Butler demonstration at
Providence, r. l., on the 18th. About three
thousand persons were present. The de-
monstration was considered a failure in
point of mum bers, ten thousand at least
being expected.
j. J. WOODWARD, one of the physicians
who attended President Garfield after the
assassination, died in Philadelphia the
other day.
VANDERBILT refused to state to reporter
the amount of the consideration he re-
ceiyed from Robert Bonner for the trotter,
Maud S. Guesses range from $4,000 to
100000. The mare will not be allowed on
the turf unless Jay-Eye-See beats her rec
ord, when a free exhibition of her speed
will be given.
SCHEDULES in the insolvent assignment
Of Hand& Ellsworth, paper manufacturers,
Beekman street, New York, show liabilities
of $2S1, 900; nominal assets, 1884, 900; actual
assets, So, 5S1.
VINCENT L. BRADFORD, of Philadelphia,
bequeaths his library of law books to the
Washington and Lee University, to be
added to the books for which he had pre-
viously given the institution money. The
testatOr's collection Of paintings also goes
TO the Washington and Lee University.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Army of the Cumberland, of which Gen.
eral Sheridan is President, will be held at
Rochester, n. Y, September Il and IS.
THE failure of Werner g. Merritt, fruit
importers of Philadelphia, is reported
Liabilities, 100000.
JUDGE BARTLETT, of New York, granted
an attachment against the property of John
z. Dickinson, defaulting cashier of the Wall
Street Bank, in a suit by the bank for the
recovery of $4,000.
ARCHBISHOP Ryan was installed at Phil
Rdelpnia on the 10Th, in the presence of
about ten thousand persons.
GRAHAM, LODGE & Co., wholesale white
goods, of Philadelphia, failed recently.
Liabilities unknown.
Z. L. MINGER, JR., wholesale canned
goods, Philadelphia, was reported embar-
raised by the failure of Warner & Merritt
AN official report shows a deficiency of
S4S5, 474 in the accounts of the Wall Street
Bank in New York. Suit has been brought
TO forfeit the franchise, and Judge Bartlett
enjoined the officers from disposing of any
of its property.
IT having been rumored that compro-
mise was being arranged in New York by
which Ferdinand Ward would be released,
another order of arrest was obtained by
William H. Bingham, broker, who brings
suit for $4,000 obtained by the firm of
Grant & Ward under false representa-
tiOns.
The Buck Ridge mine, owned by
Philadelphia and Reading Coal &
Company, was recently reported or
A LARGE and enthusiastic meetiD i
producers recently held at Oil C. :,
unanimously resolved to stop the u
til January /, 1856. This will &C he |
production to a great extent, en-
eighthsof the producing wells am BILE |
territory is in the hands of mem the |
association
THE First National Bank, of N, n. !
Y, suspended on the 21st, int fence |
of the mysterious disappear; # the |
President, A. S. Warner. W. was adj |
miniStratOr of the Burrows valued |
at s, OOG 900, and with his dis rance is |
coupled the poisoning of uR. Bur-
rows, one of the heirs. Av ark cloud |
was reported TO be resting amer.
In attempting to extin. the fire in |
the Buck Ridge mine, Shar Pa, seven |
men lost their lives. The ton was to |
flood the mine by bori, lole through |
from the Greenback thirty-six
feet long. While thus ed, gas and
fire broke through, the seven
workmen and setting eenback mine
also on fire. Loss thu 100000.
MRS PARNELL has holding con-
ference at Boston wi RS of the Irish
National Land LeaG eyeral Catholic
bishops. She exp that she had ex-
pressed no prefe' as to Presidential
candida tes, but to secure a pledge
from enc or the party for the intro
ductlen free OF d many articles pre-
duced in lreI Itch do not compete
with Americ: r.
The Rep $ of Connecticut have
nominated nor Henry II. Harri.
son, of Ne ~.
HE ell ely carved Italian marble
column lvernor Edward Morgan at
Cedar emetery, Conn, was ruined
by fire Their night.
Nv ;ht trains coSlided recently in
the Y yard Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
roa - Columbia. Pa. The caboose and
gonuola car Of the front train and the en-
CINE snd four cars of the rear train, the
latter filled with sheep aud hogs, were
mashed. The wreck caught fire and was
consumed. Upward of eight hundred ami
mails were killed.
THERE was a heavy rain, accompanied
by thunder and lightning, on the odd at
Dover, n. H. Many persons were Killed
by lightning, and houses were damaged.
Miles of telegraph and telephone wires ,
were blown down.
THE WEST. 1
j. L. RIPLEY has resigned the Assistant '
General Freight Agency of the Wabash l