The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-07

| 6plrdcV at S2lU Lake, Was seHtSHSSu 70 INT
| maximum penalty under the law, one yeal
in the county jail
TIE guards at the tombs of Garfield ane
| Grant were withdrawn at midnight on tn,
31st, by order of the Secretary of War.
| VT. WARNER and J. Henry Work, in
dicted for completely with Ferd Ward, re-
Gently made proposition to the Govern.
ment to refund 10 the Marine Bank credit
ors the amount charged in the indictment
| against them, Their offer was declined.
| EUGENE SCHERRER & Co., West India
| merchants, of London, have become bank
rupt. Liabilities, $500, eco; assets said to be
"shadowy."
THE propeller Pequot crushed into the
| ferryboat Alaska at New York recently. No
| lives were lost.
VALENTINE P. SNYDER, of New York, has
been appointed Deputy Comptroller of the
| Currency, vice Langworthy, resigned. Mr..
Snyder went to Washington in March last
as Private Secretary to Secretary Man
ming, and since that time has held various
positions in the Treasury Department.
THE Cork Steam Packet Company has
declared dividend of % per cent, which
| the directors stated was all that was war
ranted by the profits of the company dur
| ing the past year. At the end of 1854 the
| company paid dividend of five per cent.
The difference in the profits of the two
years is due to the boycotting of the line
by the cattle dealers.
TIE shipping of New Brunswick has
fallen off the past year 20,CG0 tons. The
tonnage of vessels registered at St John is
the lowest since 1871. Thirty st. John YES
sells, valued at $3.50, 600, have been lost dur
ing the year and only twenty vessels added.
With two or three exceptions all the ship
yards in the province are idle.
WMKEsBARRE, Pa, is excited over an un-
expected coal discovery.
FIVE Lebanon (Ky.) business houses were
burned the other day.
EPHRAIM BEAsLEY, well-to-do farmer OF
Wilson County, Tenn, accidentally killed
his son, aged six years. Mr.. Beasley, who
is very near-sighted, was chopping wood,
when his son came in front of him and was
struck by the AK, splitting his skull
THE long strike of the river coal miners
was declared virtually over The miners
of Walton, Hayes, RUsher and Munhsll
have returned to work at the 21% cent rate,
and now almost 1900 men are at work at
that place.
THERE was a rumor that Stone Calf, the
Cheyenne chief who died short time ago,
was poisoned by members of his own tribe
who were offended at the part he took in
having the cattlemen removed from the
reservation.
THE Cory City (Pa.) Touring mills were
destroyed by fire the other morning. The
building was a large three-story brick and
was equipped from top to bottom with the
latest improved machinery for the roller
process. The loss was $4,000; insurance,
S2S. 600.
THE fighting recently near Mier, Mexico,
proves to have been battle between a
large band OF smugglers ard customs guards
in which one smuggler was killed and sew
eral wounded. Customs officers captured
a valuable lot of silks, laces and velvets.
A TERRIBLE fire occurred in Detroit,
Mich, on the morning of the 1st. D. NJ.
Ferry & Co.'s seed warehouse, Whites the
ater and other buildings were destroyed,
involving a loss of S1,5O0G9O. Captain
Richard Philbert, of the fire department,
was killed by falling cornice. The insur-
ance Amounted to about S5O0000.
PAsTEUR has undertaken, at his own
cost, to cure eleven persous, bitten by q
mad wolf in a village in Western Russia.
THE annual report of the police depart
ment shows that during the year 1885 &c,
S04 arrests were made in Baltimore.
THERE were $500 fires in New York in
1885, and the total loss was S3,S00,0 600, as
against 2,4O0 fires. with a total loss Of
S3,414, ,647 in 1881. The cost of 1913 build
ings protected during the year is SSH
OO0,000.
THE wholesale dry goods firm of Bates,
Read 6, Cooley, of New York, has been dis
solved.
THE Edgar Thompson blast furnaces at
Braddock, Pa, five in number, were closed
down for an indefinite period on the 3lst,
throwing out of employment 100 men.
THE st. Petersburg Journal says that the
negative result of the Balkan conference
will prevent Russia from joining another
conference.
HERR KRUrP has united with an influen-
tial London syndicate in issuing a London
loan of eS5, 100000 to provide China with
armaments and railways.
IT is stated in Constantinople that Rus
sia insists that Turkey shall fulfill the
article in the Berlin treaty providing for
the execution of religious reforms in Ar
menia