Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11

AN cdst'O pdSScnScT G6lu Ou tuc
New York Central left the track at Byron
station recently while going at high rate
of speed, and ran into and nearly de-
stroyed the depot. All the cars left the
track and were greatly damaged. No one
was killed.
A TERRIBLE wreck was reported on the
Chicago & Atlantic near Kouts, Ind, on
the night of the 4th. A fast freight COL
lided with a work train and forty laborers
were said to be killed, but the officials
would give no information.
NATE SALISBURY, the noted actor and
manager, is correspondent in a divorce
suit in New York City, brought by Frank
B. Ely against his wife May.
THE schooner Albatross. for whose safe
ty considerable fear had been felt, was re-
ported safe at Ludington, Mich.
THE overdue State line steamship City
of Georgia from New York September %,
reached Glasgow in safety.
AN appeal has been received by Mayor
Smith, of st. Paul, Mimi, from the settlers
of Ramsey County, Oak, who are in great
distress because of the ruin caused by
premature frosts.
SCHUMACHER & ETTINGER, cigar manu-
facturers of New York, are to be prose-
cuted for. using limitations of customs
stamps on inferior boxes of cigars in order
to deceive the public.
POLICE INSPECTOR BoNFIELD, of Chicago,
has been awarded s., 900 damages for libel
against DR.. George B. Cunningham in con-
nection with the shooting of DR.. Thomas
Waugh in September, 1885.
JAMES B. CURTIS, aged fifty-five years,
of Salamanca, n. Y, shot himself through
the head recently in New York hotel.
He left note stating that he was crazy.
EDDY & STREET, dealers in cotton yarns,
Providence, r. l., have failed with liabili-
ties estimated at 5000
THE steamboat pilots who Recently
joined the Knights of Labor at Pittsburgh,
Pa, have presented a scale of wages to
the river coal men. The scale provides for
a yearly salary Of S1,60O, with 5000 for
captain and pilot combined.
FIRE broke out the other night in the J.
P. Quinn dry goods store at Little Rock,
Ark, and the entire stock and building
were burned. The stock was valued ut
$3.50, 900 and insured for $4,000. The Ere
was the work of an incendiary.
SINCE oyster-planting and the leasing
of oyster beds has been regulated by the
Government the industry has grown
rapidly in Importance, until now, in New
York State, about 1000 men and SC, 000, 900
capital are employed in it.
MISS ELLA BAKER, an English woman,
the author of several successful stories for
young people, was recently stung under
the eye by a bee and applied some simple
remedy. The swelling did not go down,
and in short time she awoke from sleep
in a convulsive fit and died within a
minute.
AT the Roman chariot races at the fair
grounds, Kutztown, Pa, on the 9Th, the
horses became unmanageable and dashed
among the spectators. Quite a number of
persons were seriously injured, two ia
tally.
THERE were 50 new cases of yellow fever
and six deaths at Jacksonville on the 9Th.
The weather was warm but the cases were
generally mild.
THOMAS PHILLIPS, a wealthy landowner
of Mississippi County, Ark, was killed
recently by one of his tenants in bust
ness difficulty.
j. NJ. RAGsDALE, hardware and imple-
ment dealer of Greenville, Tex, has been
closed up by his creditors. His liabilities
are So, 200. and his assets $4,000.
THE Washington monument is ready for
the public.
SMALLPOX was reported spreading at
Toronto, Ont.
THE twelfth annual congress of the
American Secular Association opened at
Pa, on the 9Th.
A GOOD authority of the crops in the
Northwest says that the Minnesota and
Dakota yield will be between 40 900, 900 and
A., 100000 bushels, and that nine-tenths of
it will be delivered out of the farmers
hands by November 80.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October 4 numbered 211,
as compared with 22O the previous week
and 212 the corresponding week of last
year.
MUCH damage to fishing vessels and con-
sequent loss of life have occurred in the
North sea as result of violent storms.
BY collision between a wild train and
a passenger train in a deep cut near Han
nibal, N. Y, the other morning, an engin-
eer was killed and five train men hurt.
Both engines were completely wrecked and
much other damage was done.
AT wake at Racine, Wis, the other
night three persons drank embalming fluid
by mistake for beer. One will die.
w. S. KING, bookkeeper for the Bruins
wick Bake Billiard Company, Chicago,
has been arrested for embezzling s., 900.
James Hilger, the firms collector, is also
but has fed.