The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

! made complaint to Secretary BaYard, OF
American citizens of Dimmit County, Tex,
stealing cattle from Mexicans. The mat
ter was referred to Governor Ireland.
IT was stated recently that the man
ayers of the elevated railroads in New
York had found the electric moter a sue
cess, and would shortly run all their cars
| by this means.
THE employees of the Lackawanna &
Pittsburgh Railroad running from Belfast
Junction to Angelica, n. Y, have struck
because of non-payment of wages. They
claim seven months back pay.
TIE other morning at the lakewood
shaft of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company,
large cage in which nine men were being
lowered, had nearly reached the bottom
when large mass of loose coal and rock
fell from the side of the shaft, instantly
killing four and fatally wOunding two
others, while the other three were seri-
ously injured.
JOHN T. MORGAN, Jr., son of Senator
Morgan of Alabama, and Miss Della Stella
were up the river at Washington on the
night of the 1st in a canoe, and when near
the chain bridge were caught in a squall.
The canoe overturned and both were
drowned.
A BOAT containing a number of working
girls was upset at Oshkosh, Wis, by the
swell from passing steamboat recently.
Two men and four of the girls were
drowned. The girls were crossing the
river to work in the match factory.
A DISPATCH received in Tucson, Ari.,
from Fort Bowie, stated that Geronimo, the
Apache outlaw, had been killed in a fight
which took place in Mexico, when he at
tempted to escape.
| THERE has been heavy run on the Bank
of Ireland, in Tipperary and other places.
At one time it amounted to almost panic.
A YOUNG jockey named Moran was in
stantly killed on the Brighton Beach IN.
" race track, the other day, by col
lision.
WHITE men to the number of $50, armed
with shotguns, attacked the Chinese at
Rock Springs, Wy, recently, driving them
| out of their quarters and killing several.
| The Chinese fed to the hills, when the
white men burned their quarters, destroy
| ing thirty mine houses owned by the coal
company employing the Chinese.
| TIE Allan line steamer Hanoveriau was
recently wrecked off the coast of New
| foundland, in a dense fog. The passen-
gers and crew were saved. 1t was hoped
1 the cargo would also be saved. The acct
dent was due to false steering.
| THE west-bound train on the Chicago &
Alton was boarded twenty miles east of
| Kansas City by four masked men on the
night of the ID, who proceeded to rob the
passengers, obtaining small sums of money
and few trinkets. The robbers were evil
| IDENTIFY green hands, as there was consid-
cradle wealth on the train. The robbers
compelled the brakeman to stop the train,
when they got off and disappeared in the
darkness. A posse was Immediately or
| gapized in Kansas City, who left on a
| special train in pursuit of the desperadoes.
FIRE at Barrow in Furness, Eng, the
other day, destroyed the works of the
! Barrow Shipbuilding Company, causing a
loss of 81 100000 and throwing 1900 men
out of employment.
FEARS were recently expressed that the
cholera might be imported this fall in
Spanish raisins, the crop of which was
large this year in Spain.
AN American was arrested in Paris
about month ago on the charge of trying
to sell worthless Mexican lands, and was
sent to prison. Although he proved his in
nocence he was detained whole month,
| and was released at the instance of Mr..
McLain, United States Minister
THE Sultan of Turkey recently ordered
a decree to be drawn up deposing Tewfk
as Khedive of Egypt and restoring lsmail
to the position.
PRESTON, the Panama rebel, who was
responsible for the burning of Colon was
found guilty by the court-martial and
hung on the 18th of last August.
THE French Government recently issued
an order prohibiting antiGernman demon
strations in France by Spanish residents.
MANY European newspapers think an en-
tirely new phase has been placed upon the
Eastern question by the pending alliance
between England and China, it being con-
sidered a master stroke of the British
Government.
SIDNEY SoMMERS and James Healy,
miners at work in No. ) colliery, Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company, at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
were instantly killed the other morning.
They were buried beneath mass of fallen
coal.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury
has just allowed the claim of Mrs. Gather
! inc Lewis for rent and damage To property
near Annapolis, Nd, used and occupied by
troops under General Butler during the
civil war.
FIRE broke out in a row Of twenty houses
| in West Nineteenth street, New York, at
midnight on the Sd. For time there was
terrible panic among the people inhabit-
ing the dwellings, but all were safely res
cued. While the work of rescue was pro-
ceeding, ladder broke, and four firemen
were seriously injured.
THE Elk Rapids (Mich.) Iron Company
have received an order for 400 tons of
| charcoal iron to be shipped to England,
probably the first iron of Western manu-
tacture ever shipped from this country.
The Commercial Bulletin, of New York,
estimates the nre losses in the United
States and Canada during August at
S5,5OO,OOO. This is decided Improvement
upon the former records, the average of
the fire loss in August for ten years past
being 100000.
The Waterways Convention, at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the 4th adopted resolutions de-
manding equitable appropriations for the
improvement of Western rivers and har-
bors- nd then adjourned.