The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-05

bridge giving way. SeYeral persons were
drowned. The people were watching {
fire on a tug when the accident occurred.
AN inquiry has been commenced al
| Chicago into irregularities said to exist il
| the Cook County Hospital and the Jefferson
Insane Asylum.
FERD. WARD was convicted in New
| York of larceny in the first degree on the
2Sth. The sentence was postponed. Il
would probably be ten years imprison
| ment.
HENRY KELLEN, in the Missouri peni-
| tentiary, has confessed that he was con-
cerned in the Coolidge, Kan, train robbery
in 1888, and that Abe Waller and Fred A.
Bunk were the other parties.
The steamer Hackensack, of the Hobo
ken Ferry line, came into collision with
the ocean steamer Servia at New
York recently. 4 great panic prevailed
on both vessels. In his fright, John Nal.
10y, a sailor on the Servia, jumped over
board and was drowned.
Two striking coal miners, named Smith
and Johnson, who were trying to persuade
non union men TO quit work, were arrested
at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently on the charge
of conspiracy.
AN express train on the railway from
Lisbon to Madrid recently left the rails
while on a bridge over a river near the
boundary between Spain and Portugal.
The train fell into the river and several
persons were killed and many injured.
ABoAT containing a whole family, father,
mother and child, was capsized in the st.
Lawrence near Montreal and all were
drowned.
H. n. PIHKYEY, charged with aiding the
Arkansas Valley Land and Cattle Com
pany, an English corporation, to defraud
the Government out of the larger part of
$4,000 acres of public domain in Bent
County, Col, was arrested in st. Louis re-
Gently. Pinkney was formerly a clerk in
the Pueblo Land Office, and he and S. c
Bloomfield, manager of the cattle COM
pany, were charged with fraudulently
conspiring to acquire the land. Bloom
field was convicted, but Pinkney forfeited
his bond and fed.
A DISPATCH from Dallas says: Colonel
j. n. Simpson, President of the Texas Cat
tlemen's Association, declines to call the
convention to elect delegates to the st.
Louis convention. He says while the stock
men of Northern Texas are unanimously
in favor of calling a convention, those of
South and West Texas do not seem to
want it.
SIX or seven employees of the Roberts
Laundry, West Twenty y-sixth street, New
York, were seriously scalded the other
morning by the explosion of a steam drum.
N4I,o -, u,
flour mills of Bush 6 Co., at Seymour,
Ind, totally destroying them. The Ohio
& Mississippi Railroad shops and two
dwellings were also damaged. The loss is
100000; insurance on mill, $24 900.
ONaccount of:the prevalence of diphthe-
ria in Mt. Vernon, o., the pu bile schools
were closed by direction of the Board of
Education.
DR.. KIMBALL, Director of the Mint, has
reduced the estimate of the appropriation
for the mint service for the next fiscal
year over $21G, 900, compared with the esti-
mates for the present year, and over 5000
as compared with the actual expenditures
of the last year.
A FEARFUL explosion occurred recently
in the mines at Colquechaca, Bolivia.
Several persons were killed.
THE monthly oil report from Pennsylva-
nia shows the following totals: Wells
completed, S91; new production, 5,654 bar
rels; dry holes, forty-three.
IT is charged that Nelson Crist. real
estate and insurance agent of Niagara
Falls, N. Y, who was recently killed by
the cars, bad defrauded persons to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
BUSINESS failures of the seven DAYS
ended October 80 numbered: For the
United States, 174: for Canada, %; total
of POI, as compared with la the week
previous.
WHILE j. P. Myers, painter was rig
ging a scaffOld about the spire of the Meth
odist Church at Clinton, ILL.,, his foot
slipped and he fell over one hundred feet
TO the ground and was killed instantly.
w. L. SIMMONS, a grain dealer at Sand
witch, ILL.,, made an assignment recently.
Liabilities, 900: assets, $30,O9O
THE half-breed prisoners at Regina and
Stony Mountain have forwarded a petit
ton to the Dominion Government begging
for mercy.
THE remains of lion tanner named
Stewart, with the dead body of lion be-
side him, have been found in room at 3
small hamlet just outside of Paris.