The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-29
nIISCFIIANFOUS

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Land Development Association Din
ited) of London, he's failed with $500, GO
liabilities.
THE City National Bank, OF William.
port, Pa, closed its doors on the Goth. Tn
cause of the collapse was due to defalcs
tion of over year ago, which the director
had endeavored to keep secret, but which
leaking out, affected the banks stability
The assets were sufficient to pay the depoS
itors in full.
a DISPATCH from Mnndalay of the 21s
states there has been more fighting and
serious defeat of the British troops near tn
Burmese capital
| THE French cable was reported broker
! 200 miles out from Duxbury, Mass.
! THE bill repeating the Broadway surfac
railroad franchise passed the New Yorl
Assembly by vote of 100 to 16.
A NUMBER of workmen were buried last
! fall by land slide at the quarries nea
Boulogne, France. 1t was thought all per
ished at the time, but recent Investigation
show that the unfortunate men were en-
tombed alive and that they lived upon The
bodies of one another until all finally diet
of starvation.
THE Atchison, Topeka 6 Santa Fe ha
purchased tho Gulf, Colorado & Santa F,
railroad running from Galveston to For
Worth, Tex.
Two Hungarian miners were killed anC
two others seriously injured recently by
the premature explosion of blast in 6
mine near Shenandoah, Pa.
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on the 2lst intimating that the Power.
were in perfect accord in fixing limit tC
the time within which Greece must dis
arm, and that otherwise serious steps would
be taken to enforce their demands.
ONE of the three tenements composing
the building known as Libby prison, al
Richmond, Va, used during the late wal
for keeping Federal prisoners, collapsed
the other evening from overburdened
floors. The building was occupied by the
Southern Fertilizing Company, and the
collapsed tenement was used for the stor-
age of fertilizers.
THE Liverpool court of inquiry into the
loss of the steamship Oregon has decided
III favor of the owners and officers of the
vessel in all questions submitted.
JOHN F. AUF DE MoRTE and Erasmus
Sheppard have been convicted of robbing
the United States sub-treasury at New Or
leans.
RESOLUTIONS protesting against the act
of Congress granting lands of the Cherokee
Nation for railroad purposes have passed
both houses of the Cherokee Legislature.
THE United States District Attorney of
n1H Ln, 4
suit against the Sierra Lumber Company
and recover S2,21S,OO0 arising from the
conversion Of timber into lumber on public
lands.
]. J. SALES, of Rome, n. Y, has been
elected department commander of the
Grand Army of New York State.
A FIRE at the corner of Broadway and
Crosbie street, New York, recently, burned
q six-stcry building, occupied by half a
dozen firms. Loss, S750,000.
THE American Consul-General at Breslau,
Germany, reports that hereafter rigid in
spection OF all emigrants 20 the United
States will be made in Silesia, 20 prevent
the emigration of paupers to America.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended April 22 numbered for United States,
lG9; Canada, 10; total, 1874, compared with
a total Of 1S2 the week previous.
OK the night Of the 22d the levee at Old
Town, sixteen miles south Of Helena, Ark,
broke on the Arkansas side and in a short
time a channel forty feet wide had been
worn away by the escaping water. Thou
sands of acres of fertile cotton lands were
reported Overfiowed.
AN epidemic of scarlet fever was reported
raging at Franklin, Ind.
FREDERICK HILLERMAN, aged thirty, went
out in boat with his wife and two little
children to fish III Anglaise river, near
Defiance, o., recently. The boat capsized
about thirty feet from the shore and all the
occupants were drowned before help could
reach them. The bodies were recovered.
DYNAMITE was exploded on the altar of
the San Luis Church at Madrid, Spain, on
Good Friday, being concealed in one of the
enormous candles. The explosion occurred
before the congregation arrived and there
fore no lives were lost, but the edifice was
much damaged.