The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-11

| has made a contract with Prof King, tn
aeronaut, to write out his experiences il
balloon ascensions and to prepare
treatise upon the atmospheric condition
above the clouds. He is to be paid 500 TO
the job.
MANY persons were driven out of thei
houses at Belleville, Ont, recently by al
overflow OF the NORA river, caused by al
ice gorge.
THE night of the I'd of February was re
ported extremely cold in the West anC
Northwest. At Chicago it was Is below
zero.
THE Commissioner of Pensions estimates
that s75, 300, COO will be required for pensions
the next fiscal year.
The Nova Scotia Sugar Refining Com
pany, of Halifax, N. s., suspended recent
| Iy. Liabilities, 1905, 81; assets, 1856, S11.
THE Commercial Bulletin, of New York
estimates the January fire loss of the
| United States and Canada at S12,0O0,OO0
| 81, 900, 600 more than the average January
loss in the past ten years. There were six.
teen large fires, on which the loss aggre.
| gated IS, 600, 600, or more than 40 per cent
| of the entire fire waste of the month.
| Two armed Carlist recruiting agents have
| been arrested at Valencia.
J. nj. BURFoRD, a merchant of Saybrook,
ILL.,, failed the other day with $4,000 habil-
| tiles and $4,000 assets.
In the French Chamber of Deputies on the
4th, during the debate of the motion to dis
pose of the crown diamonds by sale, the
Comte L'Anjuinaise, speaking in opposi-
ton to the motion, predicted the overthrow
of the Republic. Instantly the Chamber
was thrown into a state of chaos and the
| air was filed with bowls and groans.
A DISPATCH from Chillicothe, O., states
that excitement prevails in the vicinity of
Lattaville, Ross County, cover the alleged
discovery of silver on farm. Specimens
of the ore were sent to a mining expert,
who declared it rich silver quartz.
The United States Government has
awarded to Captain Miller and Second Of
ficer Roberts of the Lord Cough each gold
watch and chain, and to Seamen John Pur-
cell, Samuel Pry, 81. Dix and Thomas E.
Wart each S25 in recognition of the rescue
of the captain and crew Of the American
schooner Cleopatra off the coast Of Massa-
chusetts on December
HERBERT, the Captain of the tug boat
that capsized boat of the Austrian cor
vette in North river, New York, drowning
six of the crew, has been held for culpable
negligence.
THE street car strike in New York ended
in the companies acceding to the demands
of the men.
A NUMBER of the evicted striking coke
workers of Uniontown, Pa, have brought
suit against the company for damages.
ALBERT COOLEY, a farmer living three
miles from McGregor, Iowa, with his en-
tire family, consisting of his wife, two
boys and one girl, were all burned to
death in their house the other night.
THE President has pardoned George R.
Sims, convicted of conspiracy to defraud
the Government in pension cases and SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment
VEREsCHAGIN, the Austrian artist, in q
letter to the Viennese editors, says he pos
sesses proof that there is letter in the
hands of the police showing completely on
the part of the highest personages in Vienna
in egging on the wretches who threw vitrol
on his pictures.
IN small switch house, near East st.
Louis recently, while six men were crowded
oIOUHu GHc sCONt, MALICIOUS SCOunQTei OF
a tomfool poured coal oil down the stove
pipe. The men were terribly burned and it
was thought would lose their eyesight. The
perpetrator was unknown.
AN aged and eccentric lady living near
Mt. Pleasant, O., was recently robbed,
murdered and burned in her dwelling by
unknown parties.
PRINCE BISMARCK has ordered the haul
ing down of the German flag on the islands
of the Caroline group occupied by the Ger
mans previous to the decision of the Pope
AN entire hazing party was recently ex-
PEELED from the State Normal College at
KutZtown, Pa.
AGAUDALoUPE canyon special says: A
courier is just in and reports the arrival
of Lieutenant Maus at Longs ranch with
Chief Mana, one buck and four women as
hostages pending the surrender of the re-
mainder of the hostiles.
THE notorious Russian Nihilist Isanoff
has been captured. The men who tracked
him have been rewarded with 5000 roubles
CABLE orders have been received in Win
nipeg, Man., to begin the construction of
the Hudson Bay railroad from Winnipeg to
Fort Churchill
THE business failures for the seven DAYS
ended the 4th numbered: For the United
States, 2S3; for Canada, 81; total, 2S7; as
against 2S9 the week previous.