Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-25


new Chicago, St Paul & Kansas City rail-
road. Two other stockmen were injured.
THE losses by the recent cyclone in the
Puemado de Guirres district Cuba, are
estimated at S671, COO.
THE failure of Nathan Corwith g. Co.,
Chicago. has been announced. The fail
ure indicates a collapse of the pig lead
corner.
THE price of coal in London has ad-
vanced two shillings per ton owing to the
strike of the miners. Efforts to COM
promise the trouble are being made.
WALTER S. PAYNE, ex-Commander-in-
Chief of the Ohio Sons of Veterans, has
been found guilty by court martial of
embezzlement and violation of pledges
and sentenced to dishonorable dismissal.
THE shoe lasters of the Hamilton Brown
Shoe Company of st. Louis have been
locked out. Four hundred and fifty en-
ployes are idle.
THE Locomotive Engineers met in an
nual session at Richmond, Va, on the
18th.
The directors of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad announce that there will be no
dividend on the common stock for the past
six months.
THE Inman line steamer City of New
York arrived from Liverpool at New York
on the 18th, after passage of six days
and twelve hours, the best third trial rec
ord in shipping annals.
H. S. BRIGGS, a safe manufacturer and
prominent citizen of Rochester, N. Y, has
fed to Canada, leaving bshind fully $2O,-
900 of forged paper.
THE foundation stone Of the mausoleum
of the Emperor Frederick at Potsdam.
Germany, was laid on the 18th in the
presence of the Empress, the Dowager
Empress Victoria and her daughters.
Meetings in memory of the late Emperor
were held in fifteen towns.
GENERAL BADEAU'S suit against Mrs. U.
S. Grant for alleged services in preparing
General Grants memoirs for publication
was again adjourned before Justice Pat
terson, of the Supreme Court at New York,
until the first Monday in November.
THE Deep Water committee, created by
the recent Deep Water convention at Dem
yer, Col, met at Dallas, Tex, on the 18th,
in adjourned session.
GEORGE A. DENHAM & Co., wholesale
shoe dealers of Boston, have gone into in.
solvency with So, 900 assets and $172, ,00l
liabilities.
tion will meet at Purcell, 1. T., October 3t
to form an organization 70, the protection
of their interests.
IT is announced that no nore subsidies
will be given to railways in Mexico ana
that the colonization laws will be reformed
in favor of the smaller colonies.
THE Eleventh Indiana Regimental As
sociation, General Lew Wallace's old regi-
ment, held a reunion at Indianapolis and
were received by General Harrison, but no
speeches were made.
THE bears made a raid on the oil market
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, and prices
were forced down from 92as to IS, causing
wild excitement.
s. c. REDFIELD, ex-treasurer of Nc
Vicker's Theater, Chicago, on the train
going east from Bozeman, NJ. T., took an
overdose of morphine with fatal effect
the other night. He was somewhat de-
THE assets of E. A. Allen & Co., st. Paul,
Mimi, dry goods merchants who failed
amount to So, 3,554.24 and the lia
bilities to $4,000.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
eers indorsed the action of Chief Arthur in
all matters pertaining to the Brotherhood
since the last session. This virtually sus-
tanned his action in the 20" strike.
THE wire that connects the bookmakers'
rooms at Washington with the Gutenberg
race track was tapped during the races
and the result delayed until some
sharpers invested enough in Joe Mitchell
tickets to realize about 81, 900.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October IS numbered
224 as compared with 2O1 the correspond
ing week of last year.
In Fort Bend County, Tex, the other
night, Isaac Vandorn was assassinated by
Nat Nathaniel, negro. Citizens from the
country assembled and cap
tured the murderer in the town of Whar-
ton. He was retaken from them by a mob
and lynched while enroute to the Brazoria
Jail.
THE failure of Nathan Corwith & Co., of
Chicago, has sent the price of lead down
The liabilities of the firm
are guessed at from 81, 100000 to $5,O0O,0O0.
WHILE engaged in conversation with a
number of friends the other night Captain
Of Police Hayes was shot and fatally
at Cookston, Mimi. The man
gave as the reason for committing the deed
that Hayes arrested him for being drunk.