The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-03

a REPORT from Sicily says: The lava at
Mount Etna is advancing toward Pecolosi
at the rate of 40 inches hourly, and is now
within one kilometre of the town. The ad-
jacent country is also menaced and the in
habitants are flying from their homes. All
the streams and waterways in the district
have dried up and a water famine prevails.
Snow to the depth of several inches has
fallen II Northern Vermont and much
damage to crops was feared.
a DYNAMITE factory at Valencia, Spain,
was destroyed recently by an explosion
which killed twelve men.
The British ship William Law went
ashore at West Sentary, n. s., recently,
and was total wreck. Two seamen were
drowned. The loss was $4,000.
THE trial of Herr Most commenced in
New York on the 9th.
The Royal Electric Light Works of Mont
real were burned recently. The loss was
$4,000
Ex-ALDERMAN DUFFY was arrested re-
Gently in New York charged with being
connected with the Broadway surface rail
road bribery case.
THE stables of the Philip Best Brewing
Company at Pittsburgh, Pa, were burned
recently. a number of employees having
narrow escapes. Thirteen horses pc rished
in the flames.
IT is thought certain in New York
that W. J. Warner. implicated with FerG.
Ward, escaped to Europe by way of Bor-
deaux, and is now hiding somewhere on
the continent.
- l-oiI ofE all
ship. Marion County, Florida, burned re-
Gently and three children lost their lives.
A TRAIN on the Virginia Midland road.
bound north, went through the trestle near
Priddy's, Va, the other day, injuring sew
eral people.
a STRIKE took place on the Church street
New York; surface railroad on the 9th.
The road is owned by president Hart
of the Third Avenue Company, and the
strike is the first of series.
THE United States Fish Commission have
succeeded perfectly in the attempt to pro
pagate Holsters artificially.
The other night the over-laden floors of
the Valley City mills at Grand Rapids,
Mich, gave way, precipitating the ma
chinery and five hundred tons of wheat
and -four to the basement. The damage
was over 100000.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days end
ed May % numbered For the United
States. 155; Canada, %: total, 1S2; COM
pared with 167 the week previous.
A STEAMER Of the line of the Sarnia Trans
portation Company struck and stranded on
Green Island shoal, off Mississuaga, Mich.
recently. The passengers were landed at
Bruce mines.
COLONEL H. H. FISHER, cast iron pipe
manufacturer, of Allentown, Pa, has
failed with an Indebtedness of about $780,
COG
The clothing of Mrs. ". S. Kent, of Kent,
O., caught fire from a stove recently and
she was so badly burned that she died.
THE jury at New York found Herr Most,
SchencS and another anarchist guilty OF
melting a riot. Sentence was deferred.
WHEAT fell lower in Chicago on the 2Sth
than had been known for many years.
Cablegrams had depressing effect on the
market.
CHARGES of misusing funds have been
made against John A. Deane, of New
York, who for a number of years has acted
as COUNSEL lOI Tue DupllSU Mis-
sionary Union.
EDWARD l.. JONES, acting as master in
chancery at New York has decided that
the Pacific railway, of Missouri, shall pay
over to R. L. Cutting and others the sum
of S459, COO, which was received as a COM
promise from the Atlantic q Pacific and
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Companies.
FORMAL charges of corruption have been
preferred in the Canadian Parliament
against DR.. Cameron, a member of that
BODY.
Miss MAMIE GIDDINGs and Horace Mad
en- school teachers of Elkhart, Ind, were
drowned near Bristol, Ind, the other even
ing by the upsetting of a boat in which
they had been fishing.
THE Reading Railroad Coal and Iron
Company's statement for April shows a de-
crease of gross earnings, S252, 800; increase
of expenses, S2i5,0F; decrease of net earn
ings, S467, ,407, as compared with 1885.
MILES SELLS, prominent cotton man OF
st. Louis, has received a number of reports
from Arkansas and Mississippi and the
upper portion of Louisiana reporting ex-
ceedingly dry weather, backward crop
and decreased acreage, the planters conse
quently being very seriously alarmed.