The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
AT Stockholm, Sweden the editor of the
Suerigs IydingS has been fined and sent, to
prison for five years for publishing articles
insulting the Prince and Princess of Wales
and the Princess Royal of Sweden.
THE British elections, so far as heard
from on the oath, showed Conservative
gains.
THE United States Fish Commission car
No. left Washington with carp for distri
button for the following points: Memphis,
for West Tennessee and Arkansas; Jack
son, for Mississippi; New Orleans and
Shreveport, for Louisiana, and Dallas and
Austin for Texas.
CONWAY, a fourishing little village of
some 5000 inhabitants, twenty miles from
Little Rock, Ark, on the Fort Smith Rail-
way, was visited by terrible conhagra-
tion the other night. Every merchant in
town suffered more or less, the total dam
age reaching 100000.
DALEY's HOTEL, ST Louis, q cheap lodg-
ing house, was on fire the other night
There was great excitement, q woman
jumping from third-story window and
being seriously injured. After the fire was
extinguished an unknown man WAS found
in the building fatally burned.
JACOB SNIDER, an employe at the Pith-
Cow mandatory, Louisville, had his head
crushed recently between the elevator and
floor, killing him instantly.
THE Minneapolis Touring mills extern
sively shut down on the 25th, the mills
being only worked to one-half their capac-
ity.
FOUR children were killed under the
ruins of one-story rookery which fell at
Jersey City, N. j., recently. A man and
woman and two or three other children
were injured. The owner of the building
was arrested for manslaughter.
THE Powers on the 25th instructed Prince
Alexander of Bulgaria to agree to the
armistice. King Milan has given orders
to his troops to cease hostiiities.
THE Postmaster General has arranged
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
to expedite the mail service between New
ork and ST. Louis so that postal car
leaving New York at 7:3Op. m. will arrive
in st. Louis at5:45 on the second morning
instead OF a. Iii. as at present.
A BROKEN rail on the Chester & Lenoir
Narrow Gauge Road threw ali the cars of
the passenger train off the track and down
an embankment near Gastonia. n. c., re-
Gently. Twenty passengers were in the
first-class and ten in the second class cars.
Twelve persons, including four ladies,
were severely hurt.
AS A west-bound freight train from
Asheville approached the Deepwater iron
bridge at Warm Sping, N. c., the other
morning, the engine struck a rock which
had fallen upon the track. The engine,
tender and three cars were thrown into the
river in water forty feet deep. Engineer
George Parrish, of Lvnchburg, Va, and
Fireman James Whitfield went down with
the wreck.
THE Austrian Government was reported
concentrating troops in Herzegovina. One
regiment from Lower Austria, one from
Upper Austria and one from Hungary have
gone to Bosnia, via Slavonia. The whole
force is to form military Gordon on the
frontier of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
COLONEL ALBERT HOWELL, a brother-of
Evan p. Howell, editor in chief of the
Constitution and General Manager of the
depot, was shot at Atlanta, Ga, by Henry
c. Pope, on the 25th. Howell was reported
in serious condition.
THE mystery surrounding the assassin
alton of ex-Mayor Bowman, of East st.
Louis, was unsolved on the 25th. The taking
OF testimony before the Coroner's Jury was
completed, and verdict to the effect that
deceased came to his death at the hands of
some party or parties unknown was rem
dered.
GOVERNOR MOODY, of Oregon, through
Captain John Mullen, Oregon's State
Agent filed formal complaints with Sec
retary Lamar, at Washington, recently.
against the Commissioner of the General
Land Office for his failure to issue patents
to Oregon for lands heretofore approved
TO said State by Secretary Lamar's prede-
cesSor, and for permitting contests to be
initiated for said lands after such appro-
val.
CHARLES L. DAVIS, proprietor of the
Davis Consolidated Show, while handling
pistol in his room at the Southern Hotel
at New Orleans, the weapon was accident
ally discharged, fatally wouuding his wife.
A few minutes afterward Davis put the
muzZle to his own head and fired, causing
almost instant death. Mrs. Davis is also
dead. Davis was from Mayfield, XIV. His
wife was formerly Miss Annie Wigger-
man.
DISPATCHES from London of the Goth
showed further Conservative gains. The
Conservatives had gained &c seats. only
losing six.
PRINCE ALEXANDER refuse the armistice
offered by Servia and at the head of 5O. 600
men invaded that country on the 26th. The
Servians fed in all directions.
HENRY N. SMITH. the New York broker
who failed some time ago, has filed his
schedule. HIS liabilities are stated to be
81, ,Sse, ,40S; nominal assets, S6O9, lis; actual
assets, $2O2,s $50. Among his creditors are
William Heath & Co., also insolveut, ST.
lSs, ,755, also for Different amount not
stated, and Woerishoffer & Co., S711.S39.
THANKSGIVING day was generally OBJ
served throughout the country on the 2esh.
In the churches reference was made to the
character of the late Vice President Hen
bricks.