The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-02

The creditors have appointed comm tee
to arrange a settlement.
The Holland Chambers have passed the
bill increasing the duty on foreign raw
sugars.
IT is reported that the Halifax On. S.
Sugar Refinery Company is in financial
difficulty. The refinery is one of the largest
and best known in the world. The concern
has acapital of 81, 900 600 and has been in
operation only a few years
DAN GRUELLE, of Antioch Mills, near
Cynthiana, KY, who secreted money from
his creditors, was mobbed and lynched by
them, though they had promised to save
him on disclosure of the money.
THE Kllenville IN. W Press announces
| its former editor, Deputy State Comp
! troller Thomas E. Benedict, has been ten
dered by President Cleveland and accepted
the position of Public Printer at Washing
| ton.
The Delaware & Hudson Canal Com
pany7s freight depot at Saratoga, n. Y,
was burned the other night. Loss, $780,
OO9
CRASDALL's toy factory at Montrose,
Susquehanna County, Pa, and thirteen
business houses and two residences were
burned the other night. The loss was s75,-
coo.
JOHN j. CAMPBELL, ex city attorney, COM
mitted suicide recently by shooting himself
through the head at Kansas City, Mo.
JOHN S. BRADFORD, assignee of the old
Springfield QlL) Savings Bank, has begun
suit against Congressman William NJ
Springer for $4,000, to recover a loan
claimed to have been made to Springer
years ago, with interest thereon.
A PASSENGER train on the Missouri Pacific
was wrecked ten miles east of Warrens-
burg, Mo-, on the 9th. A clerk in the mail
car was killed and about twenty passen-
gers seriously and fatally injured.
SISTER EULALIE, the Superioress of the
Immaculate Academy, at Newport, KY,
was burned to death in bed recently.
THE schooner Belle Mitchell, from Chi
cago to Ogdensburg with corn, went
ashore near Port Colborne, Ont, recently
during fog. She was on rocky bottom.
but was making no water
The business failures for the week ended
August 20 in the United States aggregated
III and i'll Canada 80, against total of lSG
the previous week.
THE experts sent from Washington to
count the money in the United States sub
treasury at Philadelphia have completed
their task and found that the money and
the accounts balanced to penny. The ex
perts counted about s27, OO0, 900, of which
Sl5,O00,OOO was silver.
BAYOU SARA, La, was burned on the 9th.
The total loss was estimated at over Sis
900. The principal sufferers are Graham q
Co., 100000; insurance, S75, 600. There was
no doubt that it was of inceudiary origin.
A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire has ragged in
Potter and Sully Counties, D. T. Potter
was almost barren waste and Sully was
badly burned. There was no way of eStim-
ating the damage.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MOORE and party, who
were supposed to have been lost in the re-
cent storm off Indianola, Tex, reached
their destination in safety. Captain Bal
ley, who was also reported lost, managed
to save himself.
A PARTY of six young men, consisting of
Ed Guy, Walter Guy, George Glover, Harry
Wilson, Frank G1y and Bud Marsh, started
up the river from the foot of Madison
street, CovingtOn, KY, recently, to indulge
in SEEMING and fishing on the Dayton sand
bar. Their boat was swamped by passing
steamer. All were drowned except Frank
Guy and Marsh.
AT Ganonoque, Ont, the other day there
was a race between four canoes with sails,
two English and two Americans. The two
American boats came in first. One CT the
English crafts nearly sank and did not
finish.
A COMPANY made up of Western and
Southern capitalists has been organized at
Wilmington, S. c., with 100000 capital, to
carry on a lumber business in North Caro-
lima and Florida. The company has secured
large tracts of lumber lands in both States
Sergeant-at-Arms Canaday, of the United
States Senate, has been elected president
of this concern.
HERMAN JARTTZ, aged twenty-seven, q
fresco painter, while working on the cell
lingo Christ church, Cincinnati, fell thir-
ty-five feet from the scafoIding to the
floor, breaking his neck.
Four of the employees narrowly escaped
death in a fire at the hat and cap manu-
factory of Jacobson & Paulson, Chicago,
on the 9th.