Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

CONDUCTOR HECK and Swltchman Boon,
of the shifting engine, at Washington, Pa,
whose negligence caused a bad wreck
there last week, have been charged with
| manslaughter.
MONTGOMERY GIBSON, Yale 'S3, is re-
ported missing from New Haven, Conn.
He is son of Senator Gibson, of Louisi-
ana. He had received check for several
| hundred dollars and was known tc have
cashed it, but was not seen afterwards,
either by his classmates or college author
tiles.
SEVERAL of the trainmen have been ar
rested for criminal negligence in causing
the recent disaster on the Lehigh Valley
road at Mud Run, Pa.
THE Inman line steamer City of Paris, a
sister ship to the City of New York, built
by the Messrs. Thompson, of Clydebank,
was launched on the 23d.
A WHOLESALE system of freight rob-
berries has been discovered on the Mexican
Central road, and it is believed that the
total loss to the company is in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
GEORGE GORDON, who was arrested in
New York the other day for false registra-
tion, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to States prison for two years and six
months
THOMAS AxwoRTHY, city treasurer of
| Cleveland, O., is reported missing with
defalcations amounting to $500,00O. His
sureties are United States Senator 81. B.
Payne and j. H. Wade, Jr.
The loss to the Pennsylvania railroad
by the freight collision near Tyrone, Pa,
will probably reach 500, 900.
ALL the right, title and interest in the
New York Graphic, an afternoon illustra-
ted paper, was purchased for $1,000 by the
Southern Trust Company at the sheriff IS
sale Of that paper on the oath.
JUDGE SAWYER has allowed ten Chinese
sailors of an American vessel to land at
San Francisco. They had shipped from
that port on a round trip.
THE four small children of Joseph Whit
aker, colored, were burned to death re-
Gently at Blackshear, Ga, while their par
ents were away from home.
By collision between two freight trains
at Otisville, N. Y, the other day, one man
was killed and three badly hurt. One of
the injured was later run over by another
train.
FOREST fires are reported raging in Santa
Cruz, Alameda and San Juan Counties,
Cal. Much wheat and fruit has been de-
stroyed
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road bridge at Sterling, Ill, was destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, $4,000.
ALREADY inquiries are being made from
various sections of the country in
behalf of organizations for quarters at
Washington during the Presidential in
auguration next March.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON has writ
ten to the Governor of Florida suggesting
the enactment of law for the establish
ment of State Board of Health and aux
iliary boards in each of the counties. He
submitted the draft of a bill.
THE Secretary of the Interior has pre-
pared his estimates of appropriations for
the Interior Department for the fiscal year
ended June l, 1883. They aggregate $94,-
800, ,3S9. Those for the current year aggre-
gate S94, T33, ,13S.
TEN cases of smallpox have been re-
ported at Keswick, a small village in the
northern part of York County, Ont. The
place has been quarantined.
DR. NEIL MITCHELL reported thirty-one
cases of yellow fever at Jacksonville on
the oath. There were four deaths. OF the
new cases twelve were white and nineteen
colored. Total cases, 1908; total deaths,
337.
GEORGE JOHNSON and William Aiken
were crushed to death by the fall of q
huge rock in a quarry at Elliottsville, Ind,
recently.
MISUNDERSTANDING Of signals on the
ferryboat Central is now said to have been
the cause of the collision in New York
harbor, in which the British steamship At
las was sunk.
Txrr-
the Santa Fe railway at Temple, Tex, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, 5000; in
sured.
Chicago, devides the estate, which is
worth 81, SOC, 600, equally between his daugh-
ter Roxana and his nephew Moses.
A CLUB house in Moscow, Russia, col
lapsed the other day, and large number
of inmates perished beneath the ruins.
Sixteen dead bodies were recovered.
THREE negro murderers who were to
have been hanged at Arkadelphia, Ark,
on the 18th, have been granted a respite to
allow the State Supreme Court to review
GERMAN courts have declared illegal the
embargo on DR.. Mackenzie's book 1t was
said the Emperor himself was in favor of
the book circulating in Germany.
PRAIRIE wolves in Northern Montana
have recently killed hundreds of sheep
and colts and have even attacked trav-
elers. .f-
ARGUMENT on the appeal of the Iowa
Railroad Commissioners from the injunc-
ton issued by Judge Fairall to prevent
the putting into force Of the new schedule
of freight rates has commenced in the Iowa
Supreme Court
TIE trustees of Cornell University have
appropriated $4,000 for new chemical
laboratory.