The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-15

at Pittsburgh and Allegheny was expected.
The manufacturers were reported to have
made compact to reduce wages in all
shops, % as to bring down the cost of pro-
duction, and the moulders, who are well
than accept the reduction.
GEORGE BAKER was found lying on the
truck of one Of the cars of the limited ex-
press the other morning when the train
reached Enan Station, forty miles west Of
Pittsburgh, Pa. He was nearly dead, and
said he had ridden on the truck from Chi
cago, a distance of over four hundred
miles.
ROLAND G. HAZARD, the stockholder
upon whose complaint receiver was ap-
pointed for the Credit Mobilier of America,
has filed in the United States Circuit Court
at Philadelphia, an answer to the petition
of the Union Pacific Railway Company for
the removal of Oliver Ames from the Re
ceivership.
PRoF. s. d. GROSS, an eminent surgeon,
died recently in Philadelphia. He had
been elected an honorary member of many
of the medical societies of Europe.
AT an entertainment the other night in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in aid of
the Home for Confederate Soldiers at
Richmond, the house was well filed, and
Henry Ward Beecher presided.
w. II. MEYER, of Lockport, n. Y, who
several years ago was convicted Of embez-
zling large amount from the Niagara
County National Bank, and who served
term in Auburn on a charge of forgery,
was recently sued in the Supreme Court
for the amount of the deficiency by said
bank and judgment obtained against
him for $4,000.
JOSEPH P. AscH's furniture factory at
Norwalk, Conn.,, burned recently. Loss,
5000. Sixty hands were thrown out OF
employment. l f.
Ex-ALDERMAN FITZGERALD, champion
"go-as-you-please" pedestrian, was wei
coined home by 10000 residents of Long
Island.
THE steamer City of Portland, plying BE-
tween Portland, Me-, and st. Johns, n. B.,
struck ledge near Fisherman's Island, re-
Gently and broke up. The passengers and
crew were saved. Loss, $125,OO0.
THE remains of DIR. Samuel D. Gross, of
Philadelphia, were cremated at Washing
ton, Thursday.
TIE Alice Oates Opera Troupe was
stranded at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently. The
company for some time had been playing
to exceedingly small houses.
PATRICK SHEA, serving a five years sem
tence in the western penitentiary of Penn
sylvania for burglary, was recently iden-
titled as the murderer of Policeman Pat
rick Duray in st. Louis in 1882. .....
THE belief was general in New York that
the condition of the broken Marine Bank
was worse than anticipated. 1t was feared
that depositors would come very badly off.
II was reported that the affairs of Grant
& Ward, the firm which went down with
the Marine Bank of New York, were in
far worse condition than at first expected.
One report said the liabilities reached up
to 10000, 900, while the assets would turn
out to be small. General Grant was
believed to have been sadly victimized, as
he was in the habit of giving his notes for
worthless paper. .f rs s
Ex-MAYoR SANDERS, of Lawrence, Mass,
has been held for trial for ballot-box stuff
ing.
DANIEL c. ritter and Alexander Burket
were crossing the Allegheny River recently
at Freeport, Pa, in q sandboat, when it
sprung a leak, and the two men were,
drowned.