The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-22

THE famous Londo n banking house OF
GIvn, Mills, Currie e Co., is about to he in
corpeEated as JOINT stock company with
a capital of $1,000
AT Pittsburgh, on the 18th, the firms of
Oliver Brothers s. Phillips, and the Oliver
& Roberts Wire Company suspended pay
snent. The liabilities were said to amount
to S, COO, go; assets large.
A SHARON, Pa, special says the Kim
berly Railing Mill, which closed down sew
eral weeks ago because of financial
troubles, has resumed
MAIDEN lady, aged abo~t seventy
wears, named Joanna Binklev, was found
dead IN her bed al Sharpsburg, Nd, re-
Gently, evidently dying from coal gas es-
capirg from the stove.
P-dAREsH, an employe of the Milwau-
kee&S st. Paul round-house, while washing
locomotive at Dubuque, Iowa, was acct
deT6ally struck on the head with an iron
roc in the hands Of another employee, max
ing terrible cash and fracturing the skull.
An ANTI Jewish riot occurred at Vilko-
wiz, Russia, recently a party of army
recruits made ferocious attack upon the
Jewish residents. One of tina latter was
killed. The police were powerless to qUGn
tthe riot, but the firemen came to the rescue
and dispersed the rioters.
DANIEL BoDIST, one of the men injured
by the explosion in the saw mill at VIII
Transport, Pa, died next day. 1t was
feared that Augustus Regelmann could
not survive
A YOUNG lady OF twenty years, residing
near Mayfield, KY, was almost instantly
killed by being struck by the engine of the
fast passenger train on the Chesapeake &
Ohio at Cairo, ILL.,, recently. Her name
was Bette Hates
THE well known banking house of John
J. Cisco & Son, of New York, failed On the
18th with liabilities of S2,500,000.
GOVERNOR KNOTT signed the death war
rant of William Neil one of the perpetra-
tors of the Ashland murder.
Miss EMMA BOND, the victim of the ter
rible outrage committed two years ago at
Christian County, ILL.,, was reported dying.
THE police have increased the reward for
the capture of the murderer of Police Com
missioner Rumpf, at Berlin, to $500.
Edmund YATES, the London journalist,
lost his appeal case, and surrendered to
undergo his six months sentence for libel.
He would rank as first-class misdemean-
ant, his imprisonment being merely con-
fnement-
THERE were no failures reported at New
York on the 10th growing out of the Cisco
suspension. The accepted reason for Cis-
co.'s assignment was that the daughters of
the late John G. Cisco, co-heirs with Cisco
of the present firm, insisted on having the
estate liquidated and Withdrawing their
funds from the concern.
THE annual report of the Department of
Agriculture, now in press, makes the rec
ord of corn production for 1884, 1,795, 100000
bushels, wheat nearly 513,000,0O9 and oats
5S3, 900. These aggregates ara the larg-
est ever recorded. The rate of yield is 25.5
bushels corn; wheat IL and oats PA. These
were the figures for the permanent record.
A DISPATCH from Fort Wayne dated the
18th stated the 'Gouble-header" strikers
on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
held possession of the railroad, refusing to
allow any freight trains to move. The
strikers were organized and threatened
violence TO any force attempting to dis
lodge them.
FAILURES for the week ended January
16: United States, $50; Canada, IS; total
420, as compared with total of 4J9 the
previous week. The figures were still
unusually heavy in the Western, Southern
and Middle States. >;..j
A SEVERE storm was raging at Nice on
the 10th. The sea had overfowed Quai
Midi and the promenade Anglaise. The
cellars of hotels and even the villas were
flooded.
THE body of Major Charles B. Brady, of
the st. Louis Republican was incinerated in
the crematory at Lancaster, Pa, with
Masonic hoIors.
THE steamer Cuba from Galveston for
Bremen, arrived off Dover on the 18th.
The cargo in the after hold was on fire.
She asked for assistance, which was sent.
a DISPATCH from Paris to the London
Exchange Telegraph Company says that
m Anarchist plot has been discovered at
Lyons. The plot contemplated the seizure
by night Of arms belonging to the rifle soci-
ETY. and an immediate proclamation of
revolution.
DAVID CLARK, son of the late Senator |
Clark, has been sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment at Milwaukee for counterfeit
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