The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-09
MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS
THE first fourteen French spoliation
claims cases have been submitted for the
decision of the United States Court OF
Claims.
AN immense bituminous coal pool is said
to exist in the East for the purpose of put
ting prices up twenty-five to thirty per
cent.
AT Mason, Neb., recently, Mackendorff's
store was destroyed by fire. The second
story was used for sleeping rooms. Mr..
Mackendorff broke his leg in jumping to
the ground His son and j. j. Hoagland
and Malcolm Miller were burned to death.
Two hundred and sixty men were dis
charged from the department of construc-
ton and repair in the Brooklyn navy yard
on the Both.
THE agents of all the transportation COM
panies of Norfolk, Va, have received cir
cular letter from Hon. Barton Myers,
mayor of Norfolk, ordering them to sus-
pend all Sunday work on their lines or
suffer the penalty of the law.
Much damage was done recently by a
dam bursting at Langter's cotton mills
near Columbia, S. G. The accident was
thought to be due to an earthquake which
loosened the foundations.
FIRE recently broke out among the cot
ton on the city cotton platform at Raleigh,
NC. About 1000 bales were destroyed.
The loss was s5O,OO0; insured.
IT was believed in Belgium that the
thieves who stole the registered mail in
that country were hiding in England.
GEORGE C. ELLIOTT & SoNs, carriage
dealers, Providence, R. l., have assigned
1t was said that from SO 900 to 100000 in
paper was out
A BLIZZARD on the 1st stopped railr Dad
traffic fer some time in the Northwest. AT
Brainerd, Mimi, the thermometer was
twenty-three degrees below zero.
FoURnegroes were lynched near De kalb,
Tex, the other night for the murder of d
farmer named George Taafe.
THE glass blowers in several New Jersey
factories have handed in their Knights ol
Labor charters rather than strike against
the apprentice system.
A BILL to foreclose the first mortgage Of
S1,5l7,OO0 on the Chicago division of the
Central Iowa Railroad Company of Iowa
was filed in the civil court at Chicago OF
the 1st by the Central Trust Company oi
New York.
THE statement to the effect that there
was to be an advance of from twenty -fiv'
to thirty per cent. in bituminous coal wa:
denied by all the prominent operators il
Western Pennsylvania aud Ohio.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has directed com
mandants at all navy yards to utilize ma
rine guards under their commands il
watching and protecting Government
property at their stations.
THE mystery in the Moen-Wilson cas-
has been lifted by Wilson avowing himsel
, to be the son of Moen, born a short tim
after Moen was married to his mother.
IL an interview at New York P. D. Al
mour, the pork packer, said to the reporte
that the recent Packingtown strikes ha
unsettled confidence. He wanted to il
crease his facilities but could secure n
one who would dare to lay brick on hi
premises He would be compelled to Civ
: it up and extend his interests further Wes
= THIRTY men were instantly killed by a
explosion in the Lemore colliery in Dul
ham, Eng, on the 2d.
a SPECIAL from Peru, Ind, says: "Tf
S loss by hog cholera in this county ht
e reached S25, 900 and the disease is still pr
!, vailing.
!. SIX men were killed and thirteen ser
;. ously injured by cross sea which brol
in the deck of the steamer Western Ian,
X seven days out from Antwerp and boun
# for New York.
|, PATRICK RILEY, William Mccarthy, Hug
;n4r Niaharrca far.
bly, burned in the converting departnel
of the Edgar Thomas steel works at Bra
y docks, Pa, the other morning by the acc
8; dental lowering of the converter.
:. THERE was a panic among the stoC
speculators at San Francisco on the :
caused by recent heavy failures.
THE President on the I'd issued a pro
lamation promulgating an extraditiC
l. treaty with Japan, which he ratified aft
c being amended by the Senate last June.
n MAYOR GUILLoTTE, of New Orleans, h
q suspended Chief of Police Bachemin f
g incompetency, charging him also with ell
beZZlement
e Irwas rumored on the I'd that the steaI
/. ship Chandernager, with 1900 Fren,
'e troops on board, had foundered during
y cyclone, and that all hands were lost II
report was denied by the French Cover
nent.
l. COMMISSIONER HALLET, of the Unit
Y States Court at Boston, has refused to issl
ir a warrant against Philip l. Moen for pc
y jury, on the complaint of Levi Wilson. T
records of the town of Oxford, Mass, she
. that Levi Wilson was born there on L
e cember l, 1853, eleven months after Nj
1T Moen died.
e The house of Jesse Stockford, near Es
= Saginaw, Mich, was burned the other nigl
One child perished in the flames, and a
other was burned so badly that death e
lt sued next morning. Stcckford and
J wife were also badly burned.