The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-19
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE backbone of the strike among the
miners at Shawnee, O., was broken by sew
eral of the companies giving the advance
asked.
THE scaffolding of the new iron bridge
at Keithsburg, ILL.,, fell into the river the
other day, and Patrick Conway, Jamas
McCanna and John Olsen were buried un-
der the debris in the bottom of the river.
All lived in the East. Two others were
seriously injured.
ADvICES from Melbourne say that no
credence was given there to the report that
the natives of FLY River murdered all the
members of the Sydney Geographical As
sociation's expedition to New Guinea.
THE charge of indecent assault preferred
against Editor Stead and others in the
Armstrong case in London ended in a ver-
dict of guilty and they were sentenced as
follows: Stead, three months; Rebecca
Jarrett, six months; Sampson Jacques,
one month; all without hard labor; and
Madame Louise Morey, six months with
hard labor.
THE Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
October 81 last, there was exported from
the United States 475, 5,022, 634 gallons of
mineral oils valued at 81, ,59S ,4a4; the ex-
port during a similar period last year
amounted to 442 ,979,72 gallons valued at
So, ,4G7, ,O25.
GEORGE j. FRAYER, express agent, teIe-
phone agent and postmaster at Glencoe,
Ont, has absconded, taking with him be-
tween six and seven thousand dollars. He
took a woman with him, leaving his wife
in destitute circumstances.
THE court martial selected to try Lieu
tenant Colonel Sneathen, of the Eighteenth
Regiment for conduct prejudicial to mill
tary discipline in purchasing pay warrants
at discount from men during the State
encampment at Lake Conneaut, convened
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th.
FORTY SEVEN stowaways were recently
discovered in the hold of a vessel which
was about to sail for America from Glas-
cow.
MICHAEL MYERS, one of the jurors in
the famous Walkup poisoning case at En-
poria, Kan, dropped dead of heart dis
ease at his home near Neosho Rapids. Mr..
Myers was one of the six jurymen who
voted from first to last for Mrs. Walkup's
acquittal. He was about forty-six years
of age.
FORTY persons were affected recently at
Chattanooga, Tenn, by drinking water
from well, which, it was thought, had
been poisoned.
FORD and Murphy, of New Orleans, who
were sentenced to be hanged on November
Is, for the murder of Captain Murphy,
have been granted a respite for thirty days
by the Governor.
THE committee which had been arbitrat-
ing between the knights of Labor and the
Mallory Steamship Company at Galveston
adopted a resolution recommending that
Agent Sawyer, whenever he needs labor,
give the preference to the men who were
at work on the wharf at the time of the
strike.
SIXTY students of the Ohio Wesleyan
University, at Delaware, near Cleveland,
O., recently attended the opera house to
witness q production of Richard I'LL" by
Fred Warde. They did so in violation of
a rule of the institution, for which nine
students were suspended for the remainder
of the term, the other fifty-one being COM
PEELED to sign an agreement not to repeat
the offense.
THE German-Americans recently ex-
PEELED from the island of Foehry Schleswig
have also been ordered to leave Prussia.
Two naturaliZed Americans, natives of
Tarp and Schottenburg. have also been or
dered to leave, one by the end of Novem-
ber, and the other by the end of the year.
THE Washington express on the lBalti
more & Ohio Railroad, going west, went
over an embankment near Collinsville, Pa,
the other morning and was badly wrecked.
Congressman Boyle, of Fayette County,
and fifteen others were seriously injured.
THE clearing house returns for week
ended November showed an average ia-
crease of 4S6 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New York
the increase was 62.5.
An explosion of gas occurred at the Pine
iron works village near Reading, Pa, re-
Gently. jeremiah Nmmerly, William Eagle
and William Baughber were frightfully
burned.
A DISPATCH from Washington saws: The
court martial at Fort Ayer, which tried
eighteen signal service men on charges of
insubordination, found all guilty and sem
fenced them to be publicly reprimanded by
the Chief Signal Officer. 1t is said that
the Court was satisfied that the offense
was due to ignorance of military law.
The japanese Postal Commission ac-
com panied by the Japanese Minister, called
at the Post-ofice Department., Washing
ton, OF the 18th. They were received by
enson. who explained the American sys-
tenn and escorted them through the yari.
Gus bureaus of the department.