The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

| MISCELLANEOUS.
j. WALLACE WALKER & Co.'s fourstory
warehouse in Chicago, filled with tea, cot
| fee and sugar, collapsed the other morning.
Loss, 100000.
THE four-masted schooner z. D. Sudbury,
of Mobile, went ashore seventy miles south
of Brownsville, Tex, recently. She proved
q total wreck. The crew were saved.
DISCHARGED Chinese soldiers invaded one
of the leading pawnshops of Hucking,
China, and looted the place, after killing
forty-six employees and the proprietor.
TEXAS fever is reported ravaging cattle
in the vicinity of Chicago. Pleuro-pneu-
monia, on the 2Sth was as virulent as ever
RoACH's mills at Haywood, Lancashire
England, were destroyed by fire recently.
The steamer Suffolk has gone to pieces on
the Lizard point, England. The crew es-
capped.
AN explosion of an ammonia tank took
place in the Carlton Clubhouse at New
York recently, setting fire to the building.
At fourth-story window appeared a red
headed man clamoring for help from the
flames. 1t was Tom Ochiltree, of Texas.
He was rescued.
A SENSATIONAL report was telegraphed
from Ottawa, Can, onsthe 29th, of whole
sale massacre of white settlers in the Brit
ish Northwest by Crowfoot Indians. The
report was afterward denied as without
foundation.
CHOLERA still RACES throughout Japan.
There were SAP deaths in nine days.
The French are preparing for the per-
manent occupation of the New Hebrides.
Mrs. A. d. OWENS of Cresswell, N c.,
hired three darkies to drown her husband
Their courage failed them, but one of them
while burglarizing Owens store shot and
killed him and was in turn killed by the
authorities while resisting arrest. The
other two and the woman are under az
rest.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA, imported from Chi
cago, is reported existing in three counties
of Virginia.
THE spinners' strike at Burnley, Eng,
which caused the stoppage of $4,000 spin
dies, has terminated, the workmen having
accepted a reduction of five per cent. in
wages.
A LARGE number of dismissals have been
made in the Government printing Office at
Washington. Public Printer Benedict
claims that his predecessor purposely eat
up the appropriation so that his successor
should have the obloquy of making the dis
charges.
THERE is a movement among Southern
cotton planters not to sell oil-seed this year
to the American Cotton Oil Company,
which is a monopoly. They will use the
seed as a manure to replenish their lands,
which sadly need it.
THE Cree Indians are reported killing
cattle by the wholesale in Montana.
THOUSANDS of birds of all kinds were
killed by flying against telephone and cleo
trio light wires and towers at Danville, Ill,
the other night. 1t was supposed they were
in transit south and were attracted by the
electric lights.
THE tide in New York harbor on the 18th
reached aa unprecedented height.
Four hundred socialists ma de demon
stration at Leipsic, Germany, on the 2Sth,
by marching through the streets with the
expelled socialist leader Schumann at their
head, waving red flags, denouncing the
Government, etc. The police dispersed
them after q stubborn fight.
AT Housteu, Tex, the other day an I'M
known man assassinated Mike Hennessey,
chief OF the detective agency.
The Southwestern Passenger Associa-
ton was in session at Chicago recently to
arrange basis of pooling, but nothing was
accomplished
A TERRIFIC explosion Of dynamite oc
Cured in the Ditmar powder works at
Bartow-on-the-Sound, n. Y, ION the 3Oth
Four men were blown to atoms. The
shock was felt at extreme distances and
was at first thought to be an earthquake.
The whisky pool met at Cincinnati on !
the 3Oth and increased the price of whisky |
to <l.la The Chicago and Peoria distill- |
cries wanted TO raise the price two cents to |
SLA The CiRcinna tians desired it to re- |
main st $L12 The price fixed was a com
promise
A S. GAGE & Co., wholesale milliners.
of Chicago, have confessed Judgment in |
favor of the First National Bank for s97,-
200 Liabilities are estimated at S15O,O 900. /
and assets at $s5O,OO0.
A TREMENDOUS cavern occurred in the
banks in front of TurnerviiIe. /
La, recently.
IT was rumored in Berlin, on the LIST.
that plot to blow up the train on which /
the Gar was about to travel had been I'M
earthed in st. Petersburg.
TWENTY-FIVE of the 100 balls sent from
The Chicago distillery before the quaran-
line to Tripplet ranch. Kankakee County.
ILL.,, have died, presumably of pleuro-pneu-
nonia. l.
WILLIAM E. GOULD, the Portland Mel 1.
'ond defaulter, has been sentenced to ten /
Tears in the ''pen-"
TIE East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia |;
unnel under Missionary Ridge, which
aved in last winter, has been entirely re
'uilt, and trains are running through on
chedule time.