The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-30

liott's iewelry store at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the evening Of the ed, smashing the
windows and stealing between 5000 and
5000 worth of diamonds and watches.
They then drove away and escaped.
GERMAN students in Switzerland have
been ordered to rejoin their regiments i'm
mediately Many officers ON furlough have
also been ordered to return to Germany.
ERNEST ScHILLING, the husband OF Vic
toria Morosini, who recently enlisted in the
marines at the Brooklyn navy yard, has
been transferred to the barracks at Nor
folk, Va Schilling enlisted under the name
of Gallogley.
A HELENA (Ark.) special says: ''The
Phillips County Wheel and Agricultural
Organization adopted resolutions calling on
the National Cotton Planters Association
and ali cotton exchanges of the country to
substitute cotton wrapping for cotton bales,
instead of jute bagging. claiming it makes
a better bale and would create demand
for the lower grades OF cotton"
SAMUEL WALLIS, Of Louisiana, has been
appointed national microscopic under the
oleomargarine act.
SPAIN will establish colony on the Uruni
river, West Africa
THE PRAY Manufacturing Company, Of
Minneapolis, Mimi, assigned to Jabez b.
Robinson. Liabilities, S290,OO0; assets,
S2j0,000.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared fifth dividend of ten per cent. in
favor of the creditors Of the Pacific Ma
tional Bank of Boston. This makes in all
thirty per cent. paid on claims proved,
amounting to 1898, l40.
THE contract for the construction of the
oF = @Ia ~haT nf
in Cincinnati has been awarded to NOrcross
& Co., Worcester. Mass, for 1924 600. Wor-
cester granite is the material chosen. This
bid does not include excavation and cary
ing, which will make the total cost $500, 600.
THE Naval Board of Improvements has
reported to Secretary Whitney that the
Tennessee can not be repaired within the
statutory limit of twenty per cent and will
have to be condemned.
COMPTROLLER DURHAM has disallowed the
claim OF John S. Mosby for S5,0l3, collected
as fees while consul at Hong Kong.
THE steamer Saltillo arrived at Boston on
the 23d from Hull, bringing Captain Stevens
and seven men of the crew of the bark
Kriolith, taken off that vessel, which was
in a sinking condition. One man, Frank
Cook, had been washed overheard and
drowned.
THE scheme for new line of steamers
from Newport News to Liverpool, it is now
reported by the agents of the Mississippi
Valley & Newport News Railway Company,
has been definitely realized. 1t is an
nounced that arrangements have been
made by the Newport News Company with
an English Steamship Company for 4 weekly
line Of steamers.
THE street car strike at Brooklyn ended
on the 23d after one days ''tie up" The
company conceded the demands of the men.
THE farm house of Caleb RUSSELL near
Saybrook, O., caught fire at an early hour
the other morning. When the neighbors
arrived Russell, who was eighty years old,
and his wife, aged fifty, had escaped from
the house, but they were so much over
come by the heat and smoke that they died
shortly afterward. A demented son who
slept upstairs was burned to death.
A PASSENGER tram on the Asheville &
Spartansburg railroad was thrown from the
track near Fletcher's, n. c., the other
morning and twelve persons were hurt.
De BRAZZA, the French explorer, says he
will quit working for France if the Cham
ber reduces the estimates for the Congo.
The great snow storm IN Europe ceased
on the 23d. but the railway blockade at
Dresden aud Leipsic continued. a postal
service by sledges was started between
Chemnitz, Penig, Leipsic and other centers
A telegram from Chemritz says that coal
and provisions are very scarce there, and
that there is a great want of cattle for
slaughter.
CIGARMAKE3S' Assembly No 1914, Phila-
delphia, have surrendered their Knight of
Labor charter, and will stick to their union.
JOHN FORsTNER, a journeyman jeweler
with Samuel Simpson. Philadelphia Jew
eler, dropped dead recently. His employer
having great respect for him went to the
dead mans rooms to arrange his things.
There he found 5000 in iewelry, which
Forstner had stolen from him.
TIE Rock Island and the Alton roads. at
Chicago on the 23d. notified Commissioner
Midgley that, commencing January l. 1857,
they would cease to pay any of the expenses
incurred by the present Pacific Coast Asso-
citation. From this action it was inferred
that the Pacific Coast Association would
cease to exist January !, 1857.
II. P. FoRwOoD, the Louisville cotton
merchant who failed last year has been ad-
judged insane. His failure was the cause
OF his insanity.
THE directors of the Cincinnati. New Or
leans q Texas Pacific road met in Cincin-
natl on the 23d, accepted the e5:gnation of
President Frank S. Bond and elected Vice
President Charles Schiff to the presidency.