The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-09
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slOOOO,O 900, which is an increase of one
third upon the November average since the
Boston fire of 1872 There were $50 fires
where the reported loss was $1,000 and
over.
THE Opera House block at Brockton,
Mass, was on fire on the night of the I'd.
Loss, S2OO, 900; insurance not stated.
L. B. FRANKEL & Co.. mining stocks,
Virginia City, New, have failed. Liabilities
s9OO,O
WILLIE HINES, aged seventeen, eloped
with Miss Newsome, ten years his senior,
at West Point, Ga, the other day To
prevent pursuit Willie smashed his fathers
carriage and threw his saddle into the
well.
EARLY the other morning an armed mob
went to Brenham, Tex, overpowered the
taller. took ont Shea Fielder, Alfred Jones
and Ephraim Jones, three negroes impli-
Gated in the killing of Devices Bolton at
Llewellyn on the night of the election, and
lynched them.
CHARLES ToNG SING, who was steward of
the Jeanette and also a member OF the
Thetis rescue party, and was afterwards
convicted of assault with intent to kill an
other Chinaman, and sentenced to seven
years imprisonment has been pardoned
by the Governor of New Jersey.
AN incendiary was recently detected
firing a building at Temple, Tex. Being
halted by police officer, he responded by
drawing pistol and shooting. The officer
| then fired, shooting his asSaIlant dead. The
officer was uninjured.
THE excitement on the San Francisco
Stock Exchange continued on the Sd.
Prices were somewhat improved in what
vas termed the middle class. Consolidated
Virginia and other leading stocks were
| lower.
THE Pension Office was recently informed
of the arrest by Special Examiner Paul E.
Williamson of George Foster, of Knoxville,
Tenn, for making false affidavits Foster
has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
one years imprisonment in Albany peni
tentiary.
AN influx of Chinese from British CO.
lumbia into Washington Territory is re-
ported. They walk across the line, no one
being there to stop them.
G. w. TYLER, the lawyer who repre-
sented Miss Hill in the Sharon divorce
case, has been debarred for two years by
the Supreme Court of California for con-
verting to his own use money recovered
on a Judgment for one Of his clients.
THE st. Louis w. C. T. U. hav e passed
resolutions condemning Mrs. Secretary
Whitney and Mrs. President Cleveland for
having alcoholic liquors at a recent enter
| tainment.
THE total number of failures in the
United States reported to BrddStreetS fol
week ended December 2 was 23S against 2Oi
the week previous. The total from Janu-
ary to date was 9,400 against 1928 in
1885. Canada had l,O79 failures this yeal
against l, 1873 last year and l ,297 in 1884.
THE Detroit Pipe Foundry Company's
works burned to the ground recently will
all the patterns and machinery. Loss
500, 900; insurance, $50, 900.
THE amount of Fotheringham IS bail wa
fixed by Judge Normile, of st. Louis, a
1000, which the unfortunate messenger
was unable to give.
CONFLICTING orders caused a passenge
and mail train collision at Muskado, MINI.
recently. Both engines were wrecked.
In the case of the National Soldiers
Home against General Butler the jury a.
Boston found a verdict for SIC, 531. 80 agains
General Butler.
THE schooner Rays Farr, from Muske
gon for Chicago, loaded with slabs, wen
ashore recently near Michigan, Ind. He
crew took to the yawl and managed t
save themselves. They were all more o
less badly frozen, and suffered terribl
| from exposure.
THE purchase of the Russian oil work
l by the Standard Company of America
t denied.
S TIE Amalgamated Association of lro
and Steel Workers will not be represente
at the convention of trades unions to b
held in Columbus, o., next year.
DURING a fire in Valparaiso, Chilli, II
2 Gently three men were burned to death.
f The Hessian Government has agreed
+ negotiate with the Vatican for revisio
of the Hessian laws.
f The Spanish Government has introduce
a bill in the Cortes authorizing the leasin
a of the tobacco monopoly.
n An elevator and mill containing 200
f bushels of wheat was burned at st. Clou
Mimi, the other day. Loss, 100000.