The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Two men were killed ana several OUnefS
injured and $4,000 worth OF property de-
stroyed by careless switchman leaving a
switch open at East Liverpool, o., where
by freight train was wrecked.
THE war feeling in France against Ger
many was reported growing in intensity.
All German goods were forbidden sale, and
the police were ordered to prosecute any
one selling a map of France without
Alsace- Lorraine
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER BURRIDGE, of
Troy, n, Y, has disappeared with So, 700
sent to the Office from New York City.
THE Mexicans are reported to be aroused
over the arrest and extradition of Juan
Angel, alias Coy, the leader of the party
accused of killing the sheriff of Karnes
County, Tex, during the Daileyville politi-
cal riots. He was arrested in New Laredo
on a requistion of Governor Ireland.
THE four men charged with the murder of
Rev. Haddoc5 at Sioux City, Iowa, were
held in bonds of $4,000 each at Sioux City.
THE other day George Allen, a laboring
man, was crushed and instantly killed by
the caving in of an embankment near the
distillery at Kansas City.
ALL the coopers of Minneapolis, 200 in
number, have struck for two cents more
pay for making each barrel
A VERY violent gale ravaged the gulf
during October IL and u. The Louisiana
rice crops were badly damaged and other
losses were incalculable.
A NUMBER of Mormons met in London
recently and condemned the American
Government.
THE Mexican Government has declared
forfeited the contract improving the har-
Dor of Vera Cruz.
FREEMAN FEARNLEY has disappeared
from his place of business, IA South Water
street, Chicago, and it is said that he has
gone to Canada. He was president of the
corporation running the line of refrigerator
cars over the Illinois Central, Louisville
New Albany & Chicago, and Eastern
Illinois, to which was also added general
commission business.
AT Long Island City, n. Y, recently,
William Dunn, aged nineteen, fell into a
vat of boiling water at Feuchwanger &
TOdd's chemical works. He soon died.
The experts examining the accounts of
ex-Treasurer HOllingsw orth at Vincennes,
Ind, report a shortage of $1,000.
QUITE number ofgypsies were gathered
together at Duquoin, ILL.,, recently, train
ing horses for the races.
WRLE trying torpedo water we'll in a
refinery at Findlay, o., recently, Charles
O'Donnell was terribly mangled and killed
by premature explosion of nitro-glycer-
inc. Considerable property was damaged.
The Brooklyn Presbytery has found Rev.
Benjamin Staunton, pastor of the Fort
Green Presbyterian Church, guilty of I'M
ministerial acts, in the shape OF whipping
his wife, etc.
THE Knights of Labor reelected the old
officials, Powderly, Gritfiths, Turner, etc
THE German soldiers are to be armed
with repeating rifles.
THE State Department is informed that
the pulling down of the American flag on
a schooner seized at Shelburne was the
result of misunderstanding for which
the Canadian officers have apologized.
THE Eastern knitting mills have decided
TO shut down for period. Twenty-Five
thousand employees sre thereby thrown out
of work
The switchmen of the Minneapolis, St
Louis, Manitoba, Northern Pacific and Chi
cago, Minneapolis & Omaha railroa DIS quit
work on the 18th. 1t was unknown what
the strike was about
THE schedules of assignment of j. De
Rivera & Co., of New York, show liabili-
ties 81, 14S, 245, with assets merely nominal.
BCCKNER & WOODBRIDGE, Hopkinsville,
KY, tobacco warehousemen, have failed.
Liabilities, SIS, 600; assets, $4,000
The Congregational convention has de-
cided against applicants. who thought it
no harm to read Sunday newspapers.
PINKERTON has run down ]. F. J. Brad
ley, the defaulting Pullman manager of
Chicago.
ADvICEs from the South show a great in
crease in manu- features.
THE Ohio Presbyterian Synod has de
nounced Sunday newspapers.
THERE was a rumor in FL Paso, Tex, on
the 14th that ex-President Gonzales, of
Mexico, had been assassinated-
By wreck the other morning near Bon
ner City, Kan, Roadmaster D. F. Moore,
of the Topeka, Salina & Western railway,
was killed
THERE have been several more arrests at
Vienna on account of the anarchist plots
The waterworks at Kankakee, Ill, were
blown over the other day. The tower was
125 feet high, 20 feet across, was of boiler
iron and cost $4,000. The wind blew
down trees and chimneys and tore off roofs.
No lives were lost.
The Missouri Pacific directors, at a meet
ing in st. Louis recently, added S4OOOO00
TO the capital stock of the company and
decided to increase their bonded indebted |
ness 5000, 600