The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Mexican National railway has bred
completed to Patzcuova in the State e!
Michoacan.
A TORNADO recently crossed the track OF
the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago
railroad, two miles west of Forest, Ind. II
blew down a tree, which scraped the side
of the fast express east injuring ten or
twelve passengers. The town of Dunkirk
was struck and four persons killed and be-
tween fifteen and twenty injured. Several
buildings were blown down and many more
unroofed.
! CLEARING house returns for week ended
May 10 showed an average increase of So
compared with the corresponding week Of
last year. In New York the increase was
81
AMERICAN railway securities were de-
pressed in London, in sympathy with tho
depression in New York. during the week
ended May Is. The depression was alleged
| to be due to the labor troubles
THE firms of Davis, Trabue & Co., whole
| sale dealers in cotton; Trabue, Davis &
Co., cotton factors, and Davis, Mallory &
! Co., Wholesale dealers in dry goods and no.
! tions, Louisville, KY, have made assign
S5O00O0. The firms were connected.
By the fall of a scaffold at Salem, Mass,
recently, one man was killed and another
badly hurt.
Mrs. HOOP, of Jackson, Mich, was killed
recently by bath of alcohol and corrosive
sublimate, administered by mistake.
TIE American fishing schooner Ella N.
Doughty, Captain Warren Doughty, was
seized recently in New Brunswick for vio-
lating the Canadian fishery laws.
THE Court of Claims has decided that the
Government is liable for the payment of
the French spoliatien claims.
THE board of police commissioners of
Boston have ordered the closing of barber
shops on Sundays hereafter.
II Lincoln County, W. Va, recently, a
widow named Donegan, crazed by religious
excitement, murdered her three daughters
with carving knife.
CRAIG q LowRIE, heavy oil operators,
failed at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th. The
failure caused panic in the oil market.
ONLY two of six men who were on the cat
boat which capsized off Coney Island re-
Gently were drowned. The others were
picked up by yacht.
PLIN WHITE, the notorious confidence
man, died in the Green mountains of Ver-
mont recently, of malignant carbuncle.
Ex-COLLECTOR PLATO, of Corpus Christi,
Tex, has been convicted of embezzlement
of Government funds.
TEXAS & Pacific stockholders have ap-
pointed protective committee of three to
look after their interests.
AT recent meeting of Cuban deputies
several of them announced that they would
oppose the new Cuban loan.
A RECENT dispatch from Eufaula, l. T.,
says: Deputy United States Marshal An
drews and posse of three have been NOR
tally wounded by Bill Pigeon, the notei
desperate, whom they were attempting to
arrest. Pigeon recently killed Deputy Mar
shall Richardson. Twelve murders are
charged against him.
A DISASTROUS fire at Akron. O., recently,
caused the death of four children of Mrs
Mooney and the serious injury of several
other persons.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau has received
reports showing that cholera in q violent
form has appeared in the village of Crata-
gene, France.
DISPATCHES from Cape Coast Castle, the
capital of the Gold Coast, West Africa, say
that a conflict was proceeding between the
Becquahs and Adansis, two native tribes.
and that in consequence all trade with the
interior was temporarily stopped. The
Becquahs recently captured forty-five Ger
man traders and killed them all by the
most horrible tortures and mutilations.
THE John B. Jeffrey Printing Company,
of Chicago. has been declared insOlvent
EXCITEMENT among American fishermen
was reported increasing in consequence CT |
fresh seizures by Canadian authorities. |
Threats were made of going armed to the |
Canadian fishing banks, but cooler heads /
thought the matter could he amicab ly set |
tied by the two Governments.
TIE Government of Switzerland is TAX
ing active measures to put an end in that |
country to the propagation of the doctrines
of the Mormon Church. Numerous arrests
Of Mormon missionaries have been made
and it is probable that more will follow
CAPTAIN kEYEs and Lieutenant Ward
have been arrested by General Miles for
in following the hostiles at the
time of the Calabasas trouble.
THREE men were probably fatally burned
by an explosion in Franks chemical fac
tory, Jersey City, N. j., recently. The loss
was $1,000.