The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-04

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ANOTHER revolution is looked for in Son.
ora, Mexico.
THE banking house of William II. Dustin
& Co., Lincoln, ILL.,, closed its doors on the
18th. Liabilities, 100000.
THE Inman International Steamship
Company has been registered with a CAPT.
tai of 81, 100000.
THE Toledo Peoria & Warsaw railroad
was sold by the United States marshal at
Chicago recently for 81 $40, 900, to John n.
Bowers, who represented Charles Moran
and Thomas Denny, representing the first
mortgage bondholders.
The Chicago Coal Exchange has ad
vanced the retail price of coal twenty five
cents per ton for November.
A Boston special says: despite the
rumors which have been widely circulated
that the Chicago, Burlington & Northern
and st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail-
roads are to be consolidated, the best
authority is given for denying this state
ment.
THE National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation ended its session at Topeka, Kan,
on the 2Sth, after adopting platform and
electng officers as follows: Hon. William
Dudley Foulke, president; Lucy Stone,
chairman; Julia Ward Howe, secretary.
THE grand jury at Plymouth, Mass, has
indicted Knights of Labor officers who Or
dered out the men at Emery's shoe fac
tory for using boycotted leather.
THE steamer Lake Huron of the Canada
Shipping Company grounded at Belle
Classe, below Quebec, the other day. The
passengers landed in safety.
The Dustin bank failure at Lincoln, IL,
was greater than at first report. Dustin's
Montana liabilities foot up $500, 600 with
only $4,000 assets. The loss to the de-
positors is 100000 1t is barely possible
Dustin will pay twenty-five cents on the
dollar.
IT was thought that at least seventeen
lives were lost in the burning and wreck Of
the passenger train near Portage, Wis.
AT Forest Green, Mo-, the other night,
four children of a colored woman named
Green were burned to death. She had
locked The children in the house while she
went visiting.
A LEADING Liverpool grain circular says:
''The market has been fairly steady with
out activity. Sellers are not offering free
ly. Values have scarcely changed. Eng
lish wheat in the provincial markets is Cd
to Is lower"
THREE millers were killed by single
stroke of lightning at Pouille, France, re-
Gently.
R. S. SPRoULE, who was convicted of
killing Thomas Hammill at Victoria, B. c.,
in June, 1885, was hanged on the Goth. He
protested his innocence. Sproule was an
& off Io1
made to save his life without avail.
A SERIOUS smash up occurred recently
at Gassett's station, on the Central Yer
mont railroad. No. 4, mixed freight and
passenger train, was run into in the rear
by an extra freight train following it. No.
g, another freight train, then ran into the
rear of the extra on a bridge, wreckng
all three trains. No one was seriously in
jured, bat the damage to rolling stock was
large.
THE Canadian steam barge Isaac May
has been seized at Chicago for towing an
other Canadian vessel between that city
and South Chicago, contrary to law.
SEVENTEEN stores at Franklin, N. c.,
were destroyed by fire recently. Loss, $780,
co.,
A NEW post-office in Dakota has just been
named Bartholdi by the Post-office Depart
ment.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
in New York City by which all
the electrical companies have agreed to
take stock in the subway company and
put their wires under ground.
A BOILER explosion at Little Rock, Ark,
recently injured several persons and killed
Frank Waters and MI. and Mrs. George
Chandler.
A FREIGHT elevator fell ninety feet the
other day at Boston. j. W. Knowles
Henry Currier and Simon Morris were
and probably fatally hurt.
A GREAT strike of printers is threatened
in Berlin. The men contend that the tariff
recently decided upon is proving unfair,
and they give their employees until January
to consider the matter. The strike will
involve almost every newspaper in Berlin. |
ADvICEs from Braila, Roumania, says
that few erish preparations for war ere
being made in Southern Russia. A num-
Der of ironclads are expected at Sebasto-
pol, several transports are riding out at
anchor in the harbor of Odessa and tor.
pedo boats are leaving Sebastopol for |
Varna.