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


wages. The masters throughout Scotland
are in favor of general lockout unless the
men abate their demand Thirty-fve
thousand miners would be involved in
such a lockout
THE gale ravaging the gulf caused
frightful calamity at Sabine Pass, Tex, on
the 18th. The whole of the town was
swept away and fifty lives lost out of
population Of two hundred.
BUFFALO, n. Y, was seriously damaged
by hurricane ON the 18th. The ''island"
was flooded. Two lives were known to be
lost, but little was known of the effects of
the storm. which was widespread over the
Central States.
EAsTPoRT. Me-, was reported on fire on
the night of the 18th.
THE storm of the 14th started freight
car from siding near Old Deposit, KY.
1t ran on the main track, and was run into
by south bound Louisville & Nashville
freight, causing a wreck. Two unknown
tramps stealing ride on the cow-catcher
were killed.
CUTTING on transcontinental rates is be-
ing done openly in San Francisco.
THE state of siege in Madrid has been
raised.
THE Londonderry corporation has
adopted an address of loyalty to the Lord
Lieutenant Of Ireland.
THERE is a great rush of foreigners to be
naturalized in various cities in the Union,
especially New York and Chicago.
E. C. WALKER and Lillian Harmon, the
free lovers of Valley Falls, Kan, have
been found guilty of illegal cohabitation.
In the circuit court at Baltimore, Nd, in
a case of the Cigarmakers' Union against
an Individual for counterfeting a label
placed on union-made cigars, Judge Phelps
decided against the defendants stating
that the label was the property of the
Cigarmakers' Union, though the body
might not be Incorporated nor exist in the
form of partnership.
WITHIN the past few days eleven Italian
regiments have been armed with repeating
rifles. The work of altering the present
rifles into repeaters proceeds night and
day.
CAPTAIN BAILEY, bar pilot at Port Eads,
reports that there were twenty-six lives
lost during the recent storm on the bay,
leading from the gulf in the direction of
and back of the quarantine station.
THE business failures of the week ended
October IA aggregated 179 as compared
with 1870 the previous week.
JUDGE TULEY. of Chicago, has dissolved
the injunction against the order prohibit
ing the sale of milk taken from the cows at
the quara distilleries.
JAMES CoNNELL's saw mill at Port Ar
thur, British America, was destroyed by
fire the other night. Loss, 100000.
THE glass factory of King Sen & Co., at
Pittsburgh, Pa, was partially destroyed
by fire the other night. The loss was S46
0OO
TWENTY FIVE thousand dollars worth of
stolen bonds was recently accidentally
unearthed near Newark, n. ]. The treas
urer of the township has been accused of
purloining the bonds, but it is now believed
he will be exonerated.
A GENERAL change of time, it is said, will
go into effect on most of the railroads
of the country November A.
THE trial of James Titus for the murder
of Title Smith, at Belvidere, n. j., ended
in verdict OF murder in the first degree.
THE fire at Eastport, Me, on the night of
the 18th, destroyed $500 900 worth of prop
erty Many families were rendered home
less.
A HURRICANE was blowing off the coast
of England on the 18th. Two wrecks were
off Bantry Bay.
GERMANY'S exports to America during
the last fiscal year were 500, 100000 greater
than in the preceding year
IN Austro-Hungary on the 14th there
were forty-seven new cases of and twenty
two deaths from cholera.
The disaster at Sabine Pass, Tex, proved
to be worse than the first reports. Over one
hundred persons were drowned, the sur
vivors being left in state of terrible suf-
fering. The force of the storm was some
thing fearful, only six houses being left
standing.
JOHN H. GREEN, of Brooklyn, N Y, has
filed a petition with the city clerk Of De-
troit, Mich, asking the city to vacate or
pay for all the property occupied by
Twenty third street, south of Howard
street Mr.. Green claims to have a valid
title to this tract, which is estimated to be
worth more than 81, 000,QO0.
ROBERT JAMESON, a stone mason, was
Knocked from scaffold by falling stone in
Detroit. Mich, recently, and killed.