The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE steamer burned on Lake Superior
recently proved to be the Prussia of the
Western Express line, plying between
Montreal and Duluth. The passengers
and crew were all saved, but the boat and
cargo were an entire loss.
IL a cellar in Chinatown, San Francisco,
a number of Cinnamon were found boiling
down the bones of their deceased country
men, preparatory to sending them back to
China. The stencil was unbearable and
the sanitary officers confscated the entire
stock.
AS A passenger train on the Kentucky
Central Road was approaching Lexington,
KY, the other day, at a high rate of speed,
the engine left the rails and plunged down
thirty foot embankment. Engineer
Frank Watts and Fireman H. c. Burger
were instantly killed. Several passengers
and trainmen were also badly injured.
JUMBO, the $4,000 elephant, was killed
on the railroad track half mile east of st.
Thomas, Ont, the other night. His keeper
was leading him along the track to load
him when a freight train came up behind
unnoticed and ran him down. He was in
jured SO badly that he died in thirty min
utes.
The second and deciding race between
the Puritan and Genesta yachts came off
successfully on the 10th. the race being
won by the Puritan, with one minute and
thirty eight seconds to spare. The race
was a very close one, but the result leaves
the international cup, won by the America
in 1851, still on this side of the Atlantic.
The time of the Puritan was 5:03:14; that
of the Genesta, 5:04:5a.
A BLOCK of buildings, including the Will
lard and Phoenix Hotels, at Hot Springs,
Ark, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
so, 600; insurance, one-fourth.
WALTON & Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa, have
commenced suit against a number of their
miners who went out on strike without CIV
ing thirty days notice as called for in the
agreements.
THE seven convicts who some weeks
since escaped from their guards in a camp
near Little Rock have been located in the
Maumelle mountains, eighteen or twenty
miles above Little Rock. They have con-
structed fort cut of boulders and are
armed with rifles
THE request to abolish carload rates,
made by Chicago and st. Louis merchants.
was refused point blank by the Classical
ton Committee of the railroads at St.
Paul, MIMI, on the 10th.
REPORTS from Collinsville, ILL.,, are that
much discomfort has again broken out
among the coal miners in that vicinity
owing to a refusal of the mine owners to
pay a half cent increase per bushel for
mining.
A PANIC prevailed in the London silver
market on the 10th Prices dropped to the
lowest point recorded for the century.
ONE thousand coal miners in the Akron,
| CO., district who struck a few DAYS before
held meeting on the 10th and decided to
return to work at the reduction. They will
receive Is cents per ton.
THE Bank of Varde, of Copenhagen.
Denmark, has suspended in Consequence of
the loss of its entire capital through frauds
| One of the directors of the bank vas one
the largest defauIters- Several Of the
bank officials have been arrested.
AN enormous stray balloon recently fell
at Monmouth, III. No one ~as in the ear,
and it was not known from whenos &c
came.
TIE Norwegian bark Rogaiand, Capt ain
Han. 'en, capsized recently while on a voy-
age from Parrsboro, n. s., to Conway.
The sec ond mate, Seaman Hendrinen and
Nilsson and a boy were rescued from a
raft They were in an exhausted eoudi-
ton. The Captain and other members of
the crew persisted.
THE Cincinn 4ti Price Current says that
its report indicat ties that the present corn
crop of the country viii aggregate 1,9OO.-
co., 600 bushels, an increase of 195, 000, 900
bushels or nearly II psr cent. over last ys$T.