The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

The potato blight is spreading in the
South of Ireland.
GEORGIA wants to list new bonds, but
Henry Clews and other holders of repudi-
ated bonds protest.
HENRY Fox and Frank Hughes, of
Georgetown, KY, were recently fatally
beaten in negro quarrel.
The first of the series of races between
the Mayfower and the English cutter Gal
atea for the America cup, which took
place on the eth, was won by the May
flower with twelve minutes two seconds to
spare.
THE Chicago University has been closed
because of a debt of $500 900 due the I'm
ion Mutual Insurance Company of Maine.
THE Nova Scotia crop report has been is
sued by the Department of Agriculture
Roots promise an abundant yield. The
most important grain is oats. Hay will
yield an average crop. The apple crop is
very satisfactory.
WHITE miners attacked imported negroes
near CoshoctOn, o. A good many shots
were exchanged, but no one was killed.
The coroner's jury on the powder ex-
plosion near Chicago recently have CEN
in their magazine and recommended the
removal of all magazines from the town of
! Lake.
Boston master tanners have decided to
have nothing further to do with the
knights of Labor. A strike of Il, 600 men is
threatened.
THE rumors of an outbreak among the
B!ackfeet Indians in Northern Montana
were not confirmed in the War Department
at Washington.
A sEAsERPENT 100 feet long was seen by
two excited gentlemen in the Connecticut
river on the Sth.
THE farmers in Upper Tusalia, Germany,
are asking for a reduction in rent. They
claim that the depression in the agricul-
tural industry is bringing them to the
verge of ruin.
A GREAT fire broke out in the town of
Thorn, Prussia, and destroyed many
houses, rendering 200 families homeless.
THE cases of the fifteen saloonists ar
rested at Alliance, o., a short time ago for
violating the prohibitory ordinance, have
been postponed. Their attorneys will ap-
ply to the United States Circuit Court in
this city for an injunction to restrain the
authorities from enforcing the ordinance.
STEPS have been taken in New York for
the organization of trust company to
raise the funds needed to rebuild the
ruined portion of Charleston, S c.
Two hundred and five out of $40 Yer
mont towns have made returns and the re-
suit shows that EdmundS is assured of re-
election by an overwhelming majority.
The Republican State ticket was elected
by 1900 to 1900 majority. The Repub-
licsns have elected all their county ticket.
The State Prohibition vote will be smaller
than expected.
THE schooner Ella, which sailed from
Galveston a few days ago, loaded with
provisions and supplies for the life saving
station at Indianola, in attempting to cross
the bar leading into the Brazos canal
struck q snag and sunk. No lives were
lost.
TEE trSns-continentsl railroad lines out
of San Francisco have reduced freight
rates east. Competition with the Canadian
Pacific is the cause of the reduction
A CONDEMNED building known as the
Bates House, fell at Indianapolis recently
while worknaen were pulling it down.
Eight men were seriously injured
THE yellow Fever case (Francis Golden)
ended fatally in New York on the 9TH.
OK the Missouri Pacific railroad between
Bartholdi and Laclede junction, No., the
other night thirteen cars laden with mer-
chandiSe were destroyed, as were also their
contents, by a collision between freight
trains. The loss was S5G. 600.
TIE Westinghouse Air Brake Company
finds that itshas profitable business and
will Increase the stock from s6eo,0o0 to So
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