The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-10

representative of the steamship cein-
panies, the former proposed that the latter
pay for the maintenance of the emigrants
landed here who have tickets TO warrior e
points of destination in the West. The
representatives of the steamship &C NINA,
MES declined doing any more the N thew
are now compelled to do by law, <hsch !.
to pay fifty cents a head on neh suui
grant.
A SPECIAL express on the rev Yor, Cen.
trail Railroad ran through an omen switch
into a freight train recer civ. The two en-
gines and six cars WERE wrecked. a brake
man injured, and TIE passengers badly
shaken up.
In Carmela, n. J., exJailer Merrick,
convicted of manslaughter for killing a
prisoner nam I'd James Burns, was sen
fenced to ten years in the State prison
AT New York the lockout of plumbets
has ended. Each side satisfied.
THE Neptune House, at Rockaway,
burned recently. The guests all escaped.
Loss, SIS, 900.
AT New York On the 81 nine cases of
sunstrOEe took place. None were fatal
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the ID, the Steel
Finish Shape Association of the United
States completed its organization and adj
journed.
The other evening while Patrick Con-
nelly, a shooter for torpedo company,
was filling shell with nitro-glycerine at
Clarendon, Pa, it exploded, blowing Con-
nelly into pieces.
WAsHINGToN's statue in Riverside Park,
IL. al.
the presence of large number of specta-
tors. The statue was gift of the Public
Schools of that city.
1T was said that creditors of the Wabash
system have attached thirty-eight thou
sand shares OF Union Pacific stock regis
tered in Boston in the name of Sidney
Dillon. {
ABE BUzzARD, the mountain bandit OF
Pennsylvania, was shot in the shoulder the
other night, and his hiding place was known.
STEAMERS leaving New York for Europe
one day recently carried Christine Nilsson,
Theodore Thomas, Scaria, Winkelmann
and Frau Materna.
A BIG fish drowned little fisherman at
POrtlond, Me-, the other day. Charley
Carey, about eight years old went fishing
on the shore of the Back Bay. He hooked
a large fish, chung to the line, and was
pulled into the water and drowned.
A JUDICIAL COURT presided over by
Bishop Harris of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at New York acquitted Rev. DIR.
Bristow of all charges of immortality and
restored him unstained to the ministry,
reversing the action of the Newark con-
ference.
JOHN VANDEUR, a crippled janitOr of
Gramercy Flats, New York, was sand
bagged, red-peppered and robbed of three
hundred dollars rents which he had col
lected recently. Both robbers escaped.
THE superb gold cup which was won by
James r. Keene's horse Foxhall at the As
cot races in England i'll 1882 has been lying
in the Custom House at New York for
nearly year. When it reached this coun-
try Mr.. Keene declined to pay the heavy
duties upon it, and the Collector of the Port
has therefore kept it in close custody. In
a week or two, ii not claimed by its owner,
the cup will be advertised for sale in ac-
cordance with the law.
THE employees of the branches of the
Central Railway of New Jersey were be-
ing paid their May wages on the , IN
slant, but they said they would not resume
work until the June payments We're also
made.