The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

ARTICLES OF incorporation were recently
filed in Keokuk. Iowa, for the Chicago,
Kansas & Western. The capital stock is
S31, 500,0 coo. The road is part of the pro-
posed extension of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe road to Chicago.
THE lamps in the torch of the Liberty
statue were again lighted on the 22d and
will henceforth be kept burning by the
Lighthouse Board.
COMMANDER SAMPSON, Superintendent
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in his
annual report recommends change in the
academic course for naval cadets by re-
duction from six to four years in the course
of study. He proposes to abolish the two
years. course at sea.
CAPTAIN HAYES has returned to Red Fcrt,
l. T., after Ousting the Oklahoma boomers.
CHERRY, LEACH & Co., dealers in agricul-
tural implements, Aberdeen, Oak, made
an assignment. The assets are $4,000; IL
abilities, $4,000.
Two freight trains collided near Lacey
on the Iowa Central, five miles north of
Oskaloosa, the other morning, instantly
killing Fireman Martin, seriously injurin e
the engineer and brakeman. The engineer
of the train going south disobeyed orders
to sidetrack the train at Lacey. The loss
to the company is $4,000.
AT Amsterdam, n. Y, recently there
were wholesale arrests of the Knights of
Labor pickets, male and female, around
the mills.
THE Shans of Burmah are organizing to
offer desperate resistance to the British if
they attempt to seize the ruby mines in the
Shan country.
AUSTRIA has commenced to issue money
orders to England and the British colonies
in sums of 200 forms and under.
The jury disagreed in the case of the
New York ex-Alderman McQu aid, charged
with accepting doodle"
WILLIAM IA YDEN, furniture and desk
manufacturer, of Chicago, has assigned.
The amount of liabilities and assets are IN
known. The firm has done an extensive
business.
Two drovers were killed, together with
large number of cattle, by a collision be-
tween cattle trains on the Northwestern
railroad, at haywood, near Chicago, re-
Gently.
SMALL PoX is spreading rapidly in Upper
Austria. a dozen villages are already in
fected and five or six deaths are reported
daily.
JERRY CALLAHAN, his wife and son, aged
twelve years, and Mrs. Foley, of Lafayette,
n. Y, were struck by a train at Syracuse.
N. Y, recently on the Oswego & Syracuse
railroad. Mrs. Callahan and her son were
instantly killed and Mr.. Callahan and Mrs.
Foley fatally injured.
THE agents of the Inman line have re-
ceived audispatch from Liverpool stating
that the steamship City of Chester was not
damaged, the fire being confined to the
cargo.
A CHICAGO lawyer named Skinner was
convicted recently in London of forging a
letter of credit. He received q sentence of
five years imprisonment
A DISPATCH from harrington, n. s., saws
the British steamer Sulina, Captain Pot
ter, from Antwerp November 4, for Boston.
is ashore at Cape Sable.
j. B. PHILLIPS & Co., dealers in aericul-
tural implements. Milwaukee. has as
signed. Liabilities unknown. Nominal as
sets, $4,000.
| different navy yards and stations, as shown
by the annual report of Rear Admiral
Harmony, is 81, $3.50, 020.
The schooner Anna B. Hoffres with a
crew of six men left Mobile, Ala, six
weeks ago with lumber for New Haven.
Conn. She has not been reported since,
and is thought to have foundered.
SUPERINTENDENT RICHARD HOLLAND. of
the Enterprise Coal Company, of Mount
Carmel Pa, was run over by a freight
train the other morning and instantly
killed