The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-18
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of L IttSburgh, fa., mas increased It's capita
stock to $3,0O0,OOO.
THE brakemen on the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh railroad at Wheeling, W. Va, lef
their trains on the 18th. The men refused
to give any reason for their act.
The suit brought by the Government
against the Bell Telephone Company il
the Circuit Court at Cincinnati ended il
favor of the company on the 18th. Justic'
I Sage dismissed the case on the ground o.
want of jurisdiction.
An explosion occurred in the cigar boz
mandatory of Henry H. Shep & Co.
Nos. 1904 and 17O6 Randolph street, Phila.
delphia, on the 18th, which blew out the
rear wall, badly injuring a number Of
young men, women and girls, and imperil
ing the lives of 100 or more. The building
then took fire.
THE Italian rivers Pc and Odige have
overfowed and submerged the country
along their sources. At Albenga the high
waters of the Pc dislodged the railway
bridge while train was crossing, precip
itating the cars and passengers into the
river. Five persons were drowned.
The strikers at the hog abbatoir on
Hackensack meadows, n. j., all went
back to work on the 18th at an increase OF
wages. The company refused to dismiss
the two foremen as the strikers demanded,
and also refused to treat with a committee
from the Knights of Labor.
PEOPLE from Bald Knob recently raided
Chadwick, Christian County, Mo-, for the
purpose of breaking up the saloons. The
people of Chadwick. however, opened fire
on them and one man was seriously
wounded.
THE steamboat Northerner, loaded with
lime, ran ashore at Kelly's Island in Lake
Erie on the 18th and was burned.
THE building known as Moody's Church,
La Sale street, Chicago, was destroyed by
fire early on the morning of the 18th.
The New York Board of Health has con-
demned $3.50 gallons of wine in that city
which had been made by W. j. Booream
out of dried fruits, such as currants, rails
ms aud peaches of low grade, macerated
with water, mixed with a percentage of
sugar and fermented.
FITCHs, boot and shoe manufacturers, of
Worcester, Mass, have assigned. Liabili-
THE Violet Cameron troupe, Lord Ions
dale, manager, ended in failure. The en-
gagements in American cities have been
cancelled and the troupe ordered home.
THE village of Townshend, VT, was re-
ported on fire on the night of the 18th.
ST. PETERS Catholic Church, Allegheny
City, Pa, was destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss, 100000.
THE Ghizai rebels in Afghanistan have
been attacked by the Afghan General sent
to subdue them and badly defeated. The
General sent to Cabul ten cart loads of
heads of rebels killed in battle as a token
of the victory his forces had won.
THE Harding Casino in Berlin, Germany,
took fire the other night while ball was
in progress. Four persons were killed and
a large number injured.
INFORMATION has been received that
much alarm exists in Madrid in conse-
quence of the report of a threatened out
break against the Government and that
taken. News from Catalonia show that a
hard state of feeling prevails among the
people and rising is feared.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt in the
province of Beira, Portugal, on the 10Th
Much alarm was felt in Lisbon.
IT is denied that champion prize fight
took place in England as alleged, and that
a noted pugilist was killed.
CHARLES J. BYLEs, agent of the Missouri
Pacific freight department at Leaven-
worth, Kan, was mysteriously missing on
the 18th.
SOLICITOR GENBaAL jerks says there
is no intention to abandon the Bell tele-
phone case.
A DISPATCH from South of France says
that floods have caused enormous damage
in that region. The railway at Ventimig-
liza appears to have suffered severely 1t
will require a months labor to reopen the
road.
WILLIAM KENNEDY, aged thirty, fell into
a tub of boiling lime water at Newark, O.,
and was horribly scalded.
THE Duffy Malt Whisky Company, of
New York, has been placed in the hands of
Henry Stockbridge, as receiver.
The Director of the Mint, Dr. Kimball,
announces that the supply of nickels and
pennies in the country is INSULT cient. The
director attributed the great demand, in
part to the tendency in minor coin to I'M
equal circulation through want of accept
ability, especially at banks.