The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-06
MISCELLANEOUS,


THE steamer Isle Royale, owned by
Cooley, Lovague & Co., of Duluth, and
plying between Duluth and Port Arthur,
sprung a leak on the 9th and sank near
Susick Island. All the passengers and
crew were saved. She was valued at 3d.
600 and was fully insured.
ADUEL between w. B. Walker and Sam
uel ]. Dalton, of Aberdeen, Miss, was
frustrated recently by the arrest of the
parties at Starkville. They were on their
way to Memphis to arrange for fight.
ONE hundred female employees in the
weaving department of the cotton mills at
Evansville, Ind, struck the other day on
account of a reduction of 10 per cent. in
their wages.
THE other evening, during a heavy thun-
der storm, lightning struck the house of w.
J. Rains, at Lovelady, Tex. Six children,
playing on the veranda, were Frustrated
by the shock, one of whom died. Two
others were in a critical condition and
could hardly survive. Mrs. Rains was
severely Frustrated.
THE clerks in the Fourth Auditors Office
at Washington were dismissed on the 29th
for various causes. Their places were filled
by transfers from other offices.
T. K. MILLS, Secretary of the Iowa Le-
gion of Honor, his daughter and her friend,
Miss Hull, were drowned in the Cedar
River, about fourteen miles below Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, the other morning.
A FIRE broke out in Williams & Co.'s
planning mill at Memphis, Tenn, recently,
burning that building together with 1,000,-
600 feet of lumber; also the warehouse, and
W. N. Wilkerson & Co.'s warehouse, two
brick residences on Gayoso street, Sale,
Cole & Co.'s warehouse on the corner of
Gayoso and fernando streets, and eight
small dwellings. Total loss about $125, 900;
one-third insured.
THE United States Consul at Denia,
Spain, reported to the State Department
at Washington by cable that cholera had
been officially declared at that port.
The rate of postage on letters from the
United States to Australia and New Zea-
land via England, Brindisi and the Suez
Canal has been reduced from 10 to u cents,
making it uniform with the rate via San
Francisco.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Manns-
vile, N. Y, the other morning. Every
store in town, nine dwellings and the
Church of the Disciples were burned.
Loss estimated $1,000; insurance, 81, 900.
TIE committee appointed to inquire into
the disclosures recently made by the Pail
Nail Gazette reported the charges of i'm
morality againstthe rich classes of London
as substantially true.
BEN SIMPSON, the United States Marshal
of Kansas, was reported to have sent in his
resignation.
A soUTH-BoUND passenger train on the
Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line division
of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
Railroad, when rounding a curve a mile
north of Delphi, Ind, ran into a drove of
cattle. Baggagemaster Robinson was badly
hurt and eight head of cattle were killed.
There were fifty passengers aboard, none
of whom were hurt.
EXTENSIVE frauds have been discovered
in the accounts of the Munster Bank IRE
land). Mr.. Farquharson, one of the joint
managers of the Dublin branch, is missing
with $3.50, 900 of the banks funds.
THE employees of the Westinghouse Air
l. L
been notified that their wages will be re-
duced from per cent. in some instances to
33H per cent. in others. The average re-
duction is 20 per cent.
THE people of Huesca, Spain, have risen
in revolt against the execution of the ex-
else laws. The rioting was serious. The
enraged people attacked the Office of the
excise collector and burned it to the
ground.
THE other evening the Brentwood and
Cisco (Tex.) stage was robbed a mile and
a half south of Cisco by two mounted men.
RECEIVER BROWN, of Brown, Bonneu &
Co., at Youngstown, o., has signed an
agreement to pay the Amalgamated Asso-
cations scale of prices. The works en-
ploy 1000 men.
In the whole of Spain on the 10Th there
were reported S,16S new cases of cholera
and ,253 deaths.
TERRIBLE and destructive storms, ac-
companied by thunder and lightning, have
prevailed over the southern provinces of
France. In Rodez, the capital of the
province of Aveyon, lightning set fire to
the priests seminary.
SECRETARY BAYARD received a dispatch
from the United States Consul at Mar
settles on the S0th saying that the recent
report of an outbreak of cholera in France
was unfounded.
JEROME E. MANNING, an attorney, has
been disbarred from practicing before the
Court Of Alabama Claims for alleged inso-
lence to the court.
MAUD S. trotted mile in 2:OSX at Cleye-
land, O., on the S0th, the quickest mile
ever made.
SIXTY Russian criminals, who had been
sentenced to exile N Siberia recently,
while en- route rose against their guards
and, although unarmed, began desperate
fight for liberty. The battle lasted long
time and the soldiers were absolutely un-
able to conquer their manacled assailants.
Twenty of the convIcts were shot dead
and of the other forty thirty succeeded in
making their escape