The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-02

public, is infected with cholera, and other
places along the Rio de Ia Plata are ex.
posed.
THE London city companies have resolved
| to sell their lands in the North Of Ireland
| on easy terms to tenants
THE failure of E. L. Hudson & Co., one of
the largest commercial firms at Brandon,
Miss, is reported. No statement of assets
or liabilities has been made public.
Two children named Weisal were frozen
to death ten miles north of Mandan, d. T.,
recently while looking for lost stock. Two
young men, brothers, named Sims, were
also frozen to death while returning from
work.
A VERDICT has been rendered in favor of
Lord Coleridge in the libel suit brought
against him by his son-in-law, Mr.. Adams
/ FIVE additional regiments have been or
dered to Burmah.
JUDGE SCOTT, on the 25th, granted writ
of supersedeas in the case of the eight con-
demned Chicago anarchists.
The Dominion Oil Company's works, at
Montreal, were burned the other night.
Loss, $4,000; insured.
The steamer Seneca Walker, from New
York, collided with the sloop William May
at Norfolk, Va, recently. The sloop sunk.
No lives were lost.
THE powder mills at Platteville, Grant
County. Wis, blew up the other night.
Twenty thousand pounds of powder were
in them at the time. No one was killed.
A HEAVY cloth curtain which, during the
daytime covers the electric light lenses on
the Statue of Liberty, at New York, caught
fire the other night and fell on the light
woodwork of the staircase in the interior
of the statue, and it was only with hard
work that bad fire was averted, and the
great statue saved from ruin.
AN explosion of damp occurred in
the Conyngham coal mine at Wilkesbarre
Pa, on the morning of the Goth. Between
forty and fifty men were in the mine at the
time, fifteen Of whom were fatally and the
rest seriously injured. The explosion was
caused by carrying a naked lamp into
worked-out chamber.
A HORRIBLE story comes from Ravens
vile, Kan. Rhodes Clements, crazed by
religious excitement, murdered his COM
panion, Samuel Gordon, on the highway,
and was afterward found fea sting on the
remains.
REV. JOSEPH JONES, a brother of Evan
gelist Sam, has been ruled out of his pulpit
by the State conference for use of vile
language while preaching.
AT Meadville, Pa, the other day, Mrs.
Mary Byllesby, aged thrty-seven years,
was burned to death while alone in her
room.
The business failures of the week ended
November % numbered ZIG, as against 242
the previous week.
DURING the past season on the great
lakes thirty-three vessels have been lost
and forty-one passengers drowned. The
underwriters suffered heavily.
CHARLES DRAPER & Sons two rubber
boot lining mills, situated mile apart at
Canton, Mass, were burned about the same
time the other night. 1t was believed they
were set on fire. The loss and insurance
was not stated
The loss of the bark Sarah Anderson
while on a voyage from Coquimbo for Eng
land has been confirmed by advices re-
ceived at Valparaiso. The captain, his wife
and the crew were all lost.
THE Great Western glass works, of st.
hands were discharged.
THE British bark Drumadoon was burned
at Galveston, Tex, recently.
EDITOR PRoHL has been sentenced by the
Supreme Court at Berlin to nine years.
for treason. 1t was proved
that he supplied France, through Captain
with German military and naval
secrets.
a DISPATCH of the Goth from Arcadia,
Miss, says: The destruction of the Wynn
Parish court house by fire of incendiary
origin occurred to-day. The building had
been saturated with coal oil and burned so
rapidly that no time was given to save the !
records.
THE knights of Labor of Bristol, Pa, are |
proposition to buy the hosiery I,
mill of Louis Jones, with whom the opera |
tors can not agree.
ALEX. OsToN, a negro quack, has been |
arrested at Memphis, Tenn, for poisoning
Hannah Chambers and Kissy Bunch, two |
colOred women, who took his medicine
AT Salt Lake City on the Goth Thomas |
Jenkins, formerly Norm on Bishop of the
Fourth Ward, pleaded guilty to an indict. |
nent charging him with unlawful cohabit-
alton. On his promise to hereafter obey |
the law sentence was suspended.