The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-05

winch was on the UdSlS VI twenty live
cents per 100 pounds for grain, and thirty
cents for provisions.
Goss, SAWYER & PACKARD, and Goss &
Sawyer, ship builders of Bath, Maine, have
failed.
BRADLEY F. JOHNSON has been appointed
receiver for Georgia of the Southern Tele-
graph Company.
AT fire in the village of Angola, n. Y,
recently, William Thompson, aged sixty
six, got excited and dropped dead.
CAPTAIN Couch, on the 18th, was re-
ers, six miles from Arkansas City. He
said that he did not surrender to the
troops, but beat retreat.
THE st. Louis Post-DiSpGtch says that
Cunningham, under arrest in London,
charged with being concerned in the recent
explosions, was a well-known dynamiter
of st. Louis, where he was known under
the name of Michael J. Byrne.
THE directors of the Baltimore Corn and
Flour Exchange have elected John Gill, of
Gill & Fisher, President.
THE entire. family of Philip Schrant,
German baker of Philadelphia, was pois-
oned by water impregnated in the pipes
with oxidized lead. a four-y ear-old child
died.
A REPORT comes from down Chattahoo-
chez River, Ga, that Hiram Riley and Bill
Furlow, two fishermen, had been murdered
for their money and their bodies thrown
into the river.
A DISPATCH from Vicksburg, Miss, says:
a break is reported in the Ievee at Desonia,
East Carroll Parish, which will likely prove
disastrous. Residents were apprehensive.
The levee that gave away was run
around" built of frozen earth, which melted
and gave way.
THE Post-office Appropriation bill pro-
vides for the issue of a special ten-cent
stamp, which will entitle letter on which
1t is affixed to immediate delivery to the
person addressed.
IN the Pennsylvania Senate motion to
place the Wife-Beaters' bill on the calen-
dar was carried by 81 yeas to 26 nays
The bill authorizes the use of the lash as a
punishment for wife-b heaters.
MINISTER WEST, in an interview, stated
that Sheldon, the Englishman abducted N
Kansas City last year, had really been at
Quoted by his partners of the Blue Springs
Mills. Sheldon had been attempting 30
swindle them. He was, however, now in
England, and, if proper charges were pre-
ferred against him, would be surrendered.
A DISPATCH from New York dated the
30th, stated that nothing had then been
heald of the whereabouts of S. S. Conant,
the missing assistant editor CT Hdrper'S
Weekly.
THE Texas House of Representatives also
denounces dynamiters.
THE insurance journalists of the United
States met in New York on the 29th.
ORR's dry goods store at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $780,
600.
THE National Board of Trade, lately in
session at Washington, was very severe on
United States Consuls, one member de-
them as mere political barna-
cles. The members were presented to
President Arthur on the 18th.
ALMOST fight took place at the Silver
Convention at Denver, over the question
of chairman. The radicals wanted ex-
Senator Tabor and the conservatives ex-
Governor Grant. Ultimately an agree
ment was reached and Governor Eaton was
chosen.
FAILURES for the week ended January %:
In the United States, 81; Canada, 81;
total, 3J4. Compared with totals of All
and 420 the weeks previous, there was a
decrease in every section of the country,
though failures in the West and South
were still very numerous.
MRS. j. W. REAL, a widow school teacher
at Louisville, KY, was recently burned to
death on account of her clothing catching
fire.
BILL of complaint has been filed at
Atlanta, Ga, asking for a receiver for the
Port Royal & Augusta Railway Company.
A WRECK on the Reading Railroad, near
Greenville, n. j., on the 30th, caused seri-
Gus injuries to twenty-five persons on the
express.
The levees were reported in bad shape
below Helena, Ark, and the river was very
JOHN BRIGHT addressed an immense mass
meeting at Birmingham the other night.
He called upon Parnell to separate himself
from the dynamiters not by silence but by
speech.
THE Kearsarge Hotel, at Concord, n. H.
burned the other day.