Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE New York police have proof that a
duel with pistols was fought in Central
Park the other night; that one of the COM
batants was wounded; that the affair was
about lady, and that the lady tried to
warn the police that the duel was to be
fought, but her letters were received too
late to prevent the meeting. The names
of the parties were unknown.
BEACH and Hanlon rowed a race on the
Paramatta river, Sidney, N. S. W., re-
Gently for f500 side. Beach won.
BUSINESS was practically resumed by
the railroads in Indianapolis, Ind, on the
9th, two-thirds of the places of the strik-
ers having been filled.
IT is feared that nine fishermen have
starved to death off the Donegal coaSt,
Ireland, the recent heavy weather having
prevented their return to the mainland.
BARON HIRsCH, of Vienna, has made a
donation of $5,O0O,OOO for schools for Jews
in Galicia and Bukovina.
THE Anarchist Turner's of Lakeview, ILL.,,
deny that at their recent entertainment
they trampled on the American flag and
Haunted the red banner.
The Freeport (Ill.) Machine Company
has assigned with $4,000 liabilities and
$40, 900 nominal assets.
AN epidemic of diphtheria was reported
raging at Aitken, Mimi, and the schools
and churches have been closed.
A CASE of yellow fever in the person of
recent arrival from Jacksonville, Fla,
was found on the 2sth in a crowded tene-
ment house in New York City.
THE proposed lockout of the ale and por-
ter brewers of New Jersey has been avoid
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tribute in any way to boycott.
The steamship Allentown foundered in
the recent gales off Cohassett, Mass. The
crew of eighteen men were drowned. The
vessel belonged to the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company.
IT is reported that the Russian Govern
ment has decided upon another great loan.
SAMUEL II. CATHCART, alias H. P. Har-
ris, alias Smith, alias Carpenter and alias
BIissert, noted forger wanted all over
the country, has been arrested in Chicago.
The round-house of the Omaha road at
Spooner, Wis, was destroyed by fire the
other day, seven engines being destroyed.
Loss, 100000.
AT a meeting Of the directors of the
Keely Motor Company in Philadelphia all
differences were said to have been settled.
By the explosion Of shotgun near JEFF
fersonville, Ind, the other day an un-
known man was killed and William Arms
dale and his son and young man named
Middleton were badly hurt.
The dead body of Anna Ellen Neal, aged
nineteen, who disappeared from Cum
minsyille, O., November 6, has been found
in creek near Cincinnati. She had
probably committed suicide.
The report that lifeboat had been up
set OF Whitby, Eng, and twelve persons
drowned proves to be untrue, the boat
having reached shore in safety.
GARDNER the chief of the opium snug
glers Of ogdensburg, N. Y, has been
found guilty on six counts.
A sToRT was current in New York that
the trunk line rate cutting troubles, which
have occupied so much attention of late,
were merely a bluff to scare the railroad
men from projected movement for an in
crease of wages.
DURING Thanksgiving celebration by the
Hudson Guards at Manhattan Park, New
York, the explosion OF a can of powder
caused severe injuries to three men and
resulted in a fire which destroyed the
shooting pavilion Louis Mudhauk was
badly wounded by the accidental dis
charge of a musket
The elevator at Green's siding, on the
Northern Pacific railroad, Casselfon, OAK,
bsrned the other night Loss, $4,000.
TIE officers and crew Of the Hsytien
RepSblic have arrived in New York, hav-
ing been sent home by the American Con-
sui