The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-16

! the Sth. Four or five men were badly hurt
THE wife of a man named Babinsky, ar
rested for keeping 'fence," recently at
tempted to bride Justice Tearney, of Lake,
near Chicago, with two SIS bills
ITALIAN parents named Calmon left the
dead body of their infant in the bunk of a
steamship which recently arrived in New
York. No search could find the heartless
parents.
ERNEST SCHILLISG, once coachman for
| Giovanni P. Morosini and later Mr.. Moro
sinfs son-in-law and conductor on Sixth
| avenue car, quit railroading very suddenly
the other day, and took his trunk and dis
appeared with it from his boarding house
It is stated that Morosini was so much
| pleased at his daughters abandonment of
her husband that be sent Schilling (the
husband) his check for 200.
THERE will be meeting of the st. Louis
Chicago and Kansas City lines interested
in the Memphis business in st. Louis Sep
TENDER 20 tue object being, if possible, to
meet an agreement on provision rates.
THE United ireland says no power in
Great Britain can collect the landlords
tribute in Ireland in the face of organized,
united and level-headed people.
FIVE cars arrived at the Union Depot at
Kansas City on the 9th, filled with Odd
Fellows from the Rocky Mountains on
their way to the annual meeting Of the
Grand Lodge at Boston.
OK the afternoon of the 9th there was a
formal transfer made of the Memphis, Bir-
mingham & Atlantic railroad to the Kan
sas City, Springfield & Memphis railroad.
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new board was elected.
SPECULAToRs have formed a syndicate to
buy up property at Charleston at earth
quake prices.
The excursion steamer Empire State,
with 400 passengers, was recently reported
ashore a mile and a half below Sandy
Hook. There was quite sea on and a
dense fog. The other excursion steamers
are coming in cautiously.
DURING the past two months repeated at
temps have been made to burn down the
National stock yards in East ST. Louis and
two of the fires started by the incendiaries
caused considerable damage to the pens
and sheds, but were extinguished before
the flames had communicated to any of the
large packing houses. The perpetrators of
these outrages remained unknown until
recently when John Colly, the night watch
man, at Whitaker's packing house discov-
cred several boys attempting to set the
house on fire.
A CASE that physicians pronounced gen.
uine Asiatic cholera was recently reported
at Taunton, Mass. The patient was
young lady, who died i'll few hours after
being attacked
WHILE recently playing in the wheat in
an elevator at Millersville, ILL.,, Charles,
aged fifteen, only son of N. G. Okey,
prominent and wealthy farmer, was
smOthered to death by being sucked down
into bin which was being emptied.
The socialists of New York are making
great preparations for reception to be
given TO DR.. Edward Aveling, a socialistic
leader in England, and Wilhelm Lieb-
knecht, prominent German socialist and
member of the German Parliament, Sep
TENDER 10, at Union Park.
A TELEGRAM to France from the Bishop of
Tonquin recently said that 200 Christians
had been massacred and forty villages
burned in the province of Manhoa, and that
5000 Christians are perIshing of hunger.
THE steamer Kenilworth arrived at Bal
IlnOTe, MI, u suOIG JllIle HSO anu drought
official reports of the great hurricane which
passed over Jamaica on August 10. The
damage was severe, many people being
killed and great loss of property expert
enced.
DAILY, one of the 1854 dynamiters, was re-
ported dying in prison on September IL,
and the National League adopted resolu-
tioH expressing Indignation at the Govern
ment for refusing to allow Days relatives |
TO visit him.
IT was rumored that the yacht Puritan |
was being prepared for an ocean race with !
the Galatea.
WHEN Mr.. Taylor, agent of the Marquis !
of Ely, boarded the Waterford Company's |
steamer at Waterford few days ago, to |
return to Duncannon. all the passengers |
left the steamer, taking with /
them their cattle, goods, etc.
DISPATCHES to Bradstreet'S for the week |
ended September 10 report trade bright
and growing better in all sections of the
A LEADING grain circular from London
recently stated that the prospects for the
British crops were not improving. Heavy
rains had fallen, delaying the harvest and
depreciating the quality and condition.