The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

SERIOUS fires were reported prevailing
in the woods and pastures five miles west
of Akron, o., ON the 10Th.
AT New York on the 10Th Police In
spector Byrnes arrested jake Sharp, of
Broadway railroad notoriety, on a bench
warrant issued on an Indictment found
against him by the grand jury for bribing
doodle" aldermen to vote for the Broad
way railroad franchise. James Richmond,
president of the Broadway railroad, was
also taken into custody.
THE markets were somewhat affected on
the 10Th by the announcement of several
failures, six of them occurring in the East
ern States.
SMALL-PoX is working fearful ravages in
Cochamba, Bolivia, and children are re-
ported to be dying daily by the hundreds.
GREAT CONSERVATION was recently caused
among the officers of the United States
war vessels, Saratoga and Portsmouth, at
Newport, r. l., by the seizure of about 200
cases of wines and a quantity of fans and
fancy articles found aboard these vessels
by the custom authorities. The vessels
had just returned from a European cruise.
The packing house strike at Chicago on
the 18th, although it was declared over,
ended in the fatal woundng of two men
by Pinkerton guards. The guards were
jeered at by a mob while in a train on
their return to Chicago, when they pointed
their rifles out of the windows and fired
with the above fatal result. Great excite
ment was occaSioned.
AT Camden, n. j.. recently forty en-
ployes of Wheatly Bros, shoe manufac-
turers, No. % Market street, went out on a
strike because of the taking on of ''objec-
tionable" hands.
FIVE men were killed recently by the fall
of construction train down an embank-
ment on the Colorado division of the Bur-
lington & Missouri River railroad, nine
miles west of Fairfield, Neb.
AT Blue rapids, near LeaEenworth, Kan.
recently, father and two of his sons were
drowned while on a nutting expedition.
Three of the boys were capsized in the
water. The father rescued one but was
drowned himself with the other two. The
mother who witness ed the accident be-
came a raving maniac.
HIRsCH Bros. & Co. and Hirsch &
Lowenstein, of Nashville, Tenn, dry
goods, have failed with liabilities amount
ing to 100000.
THE volcano of Tenugueragua, in the re-
public of Ecuador, is continuously in &C
tivity.
THE French recently were reported to
have had fight with about two thousand
pirates near Hooloc, Tonquin. More than
five hundred Annamites were killed, their
Notifications and magazines destroyed and
lot of cannon and small arms captured.
EDWARD +. HALL committed suicide in
New York recently. He had been presi-
dent of the San Francisco Stock Exchange,
but removed to New York, where he spec
ulated on Wall street. His losses were
supposed to have caused his suicide.
THE twenty-third annual convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
assembled in the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, on the Goth.
The much talked of contest over the will
of Samuel J. Tlden proved to be nothing
but talk. The document was admitted to
probate at New York on the Goth without
opposition on the part of any of the heirs.
JOHN PARKER, an old farmer of Mt.
Pleasant. o., and his female domestic were
tortured by masked robbers the other
night to force a confession of supposed
hidden wealth.
The Knights of Labor convention at
Richmond, Va, adjourned sine die on the
Goth.
ACTION was taken on the Goth against
all the saloon keepers of Dubuque, Iowa,
not before prosecuted. The number was
forty making a total of 1S5 saloons with
owners of premises now before the courts
on injunctionS.
RUMoRs were rife in Washington on the
10th that Architect Bell would shortly be
suspended.
TIE Grand Duke Nicholas, heir to the
Russian throne, is reported seriously i'll
THE smoking car of train on the Ashe.
vile & Spartansburg road rolled down an
embankment near Asheviile, \. C., recent
", and several persons were injured.
WHILE David Evans, aged fifty years,
and his son, William, aged fourteen, of
Millport, Carbon County, Pa, were cross
ing tunnel the other morning, it caved
in, burying them under a mountain of
earth. 1t viii take months to recover their
bodies
THE boiler of saw mill near Chronicle,
Ala, exploded the other day killing two
men and wounding three others.
a SMALL son of \. J. Duval, of Argenta,
Ark, has died of hydrophohia- caused by
puPpy's bite few weeks ago.