The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
THE EAST,

THE EAST.
THE Massachusetts Prohibition conven
tion has been postponed to September 10.
AT the Democrat District Convention al
Portland, Me-, Nathaniel Cleves was
nominated for Congress. The GreenbacE
Convention also nominated Cleves fol
Congress.
THE loss of Baldwin Locomotive Work:
at Philadelphia was estimated at Sl50,0OO
Fully insured.
A RECENT severe hail storm in Lancaster
Pa, did much damage to buildings, besides
destroying the tobacco crop.
j. OGDEN WITHERSPooN, the New York
broker who suicided short time ago, has
been billed as a swindler. He purchased 8
bill of exchange for $4,000, and then de
sired it exchanged for two smaller bills
hese were given him, when he returned a
forged bill for &c 900, which was DESTROYED
The genuine bill he subsequently got dis
counted.
AN Internal machine was found in the
Post-office at New York recently. 1t was
addressed to an Italian and was concealed
in cigar box. The suspicious appearance
caused it to be opened from the bottom
when cooked pistol and dynamite cart
ridges were found.
The steamer Amsterdam, bound TO New
York, grounded on bar off Sable Island
recently. About three hundred persons
were on board. In landing some of the
Passengers a boat got swamped and six
men were drowned.
AN explosion at an oil refinery at Green
point, L. l., recently, caused a loss of
$1,000.
The managers of the Central Vermont
Road have purchased the Ogdensburg &
Lake Champlain Road.
THREE boxes, each containing infant re-
mains, were discovered recently, under a
doorstep in Cohoes, n. Y.
The wages of the weavers in the Wyman
& Chase mill at Woonsocket, r. l., were
reduced from nine to eight cents per
cut. The mill was only running alternate
weeks.
The strike of coal miners in the fourth
pool, Monongahela City, is practically at
an end. The miners have given up the
strike as hopeless. Many have returned
TO work at operators figures.
DAVIS cracker and Perkins coffee and
spice mills were damaged in Boston re-
Gently by fire. Loss $4,000.
HENRY a. FREDERICK and DR.. J. B..
Welda surrendered to the Philadelphia
officials. They confessed to body stealing.
JAY GoULD'S handsome hotel and club
house on Charles Island, opposite Milford
House, was burned the other night.
KATIE CURRY, girl of seven years, at
Oil City, Pa, attempted to kindle a fire
with kerosene. Her clothes ignited, and
before assistance could be rendered she
was burned to crisp, the flesh dropping
from the bones.
ANOTHER heavy gas well was struck in
Pittsburgh. at Hamewood in the Twenty
first Ward, this time on the property of
Dillworth Brothers.
SOLOMON and David and Frank Slusher.
of Nescopeck, Pa, in sinking we'll were
overcome by foul air. Solomon and David
died Frank was unconscious, but would
recover.
A Young man named Cheney Ames, a
shoe dealer at Elmore's Corners, Kingston.
N. Y. shot himself through the heart the
other morning because his girl went riding
with rival suitor.
WILLIAM j. LANSING, lawyer in Co.
hoes. n Y, was charged with drunken
ness. He tried to sill himself in the court
room When returned to the station house
he seized 3 kerosene oil can and drank a
quantity of oil.
HE depression in the iron business in
Pittsburgh Pa, is said 80 be greater at
present than fora nGmber of years. Many
mills that continued in operation through
the panie of 1873 are now closed, while
others that had plenty of orders then are
running slack.
HE Board Of Aldermen of New Yoxk
has voted in favor ola horse railroad in
Broadway.
JESSE g. CARTER and Frank u. HYDE,
cowboy and ranchman respectively, the
former from San Francisco. and the latter
from Wyoming, were sentenced in New
York to the State prison, two years each,
for burglary.
JOHN RoAcH's ship yard at Chester, Pa,
was on fire on the Sth. The loss was re-
ported at first to be very heavy, but Roach
says that it will not amount to more than
So, COO
Four roughs were arrested in Science
fady, n. Y, recently, for interfering with
the Salvation Army. An uproar eusued.
and crowd of fifteen hundred persons
foilowed the prisoners to jail threatening
their rescue and also threatening to burn
the Salvation barracks.
A DISPATCH from New York says: Com |
modore Garrisca's inventory shows liabili.
ties, $14, 40, 22s; nominal assets, S17.677..
e2S; actual assets, S. go, S1S.
SEVERAL cases of Texas fever and pleu. |
ro-pneumonia have been discovered among |
the cattle in the vicinity of Lancaster, Pa.