Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
MIsCELLANEOUs.

been forced TO suspend because of an exc
cution for $40, 900 issued against it.
THE Virginia State Farmers Assembly
adopted a resolution in favor of the un-
limited coinage of silver.
EX-SHERIFF PINo, of Valencia County,
n. NJ, who left Las Lunas January 6 with
$500, has not been seen since January 8
when he was in Albuquerque. and there
are fears that he has been murdered.
The New York Herald of the 10Th pub
lished a sensational dynamite story, from
which it would appear that the British
Government and the London Times had
entered into a conspiracy with certain
desperate Irishmen supposed to be in Kan
sas City to destroy one of the Atlantic
steamships, the alleged idea being that
the diabolism would force Congress to
pass the Extradition bill aud bring Par
nell into disrepute.
HENRY WOLFF, the Dutch aeronaut, who
assembled in balloon from Antwerp re-
Gently and was driven out to sea, was
rescued alive by a vessel two days after
ward. His companion, Lieutenant Daniel,
was drowned before the vessel was able to
reach him.
THE British steamer Amor went aground
the other day in the Chesapeake bay near
the entrance to the Craighill channel. She
was bound out.
ALL the miners of Mercer County, w.
Va, 1000 in number. went on a strike
recently because of changes in the size of
cars to be loaded.
THE ice palace at Montreal collapsed
partially on the 18th. The thermometer
was S. degrees in the shade and there was
no ice on the river.
FATHER HYNEs, of Pierce City, Mo-, was
suspended for five years by the eccle-
siastical court held at Kansas City on the
18th for disobedience. Hynes said he
would take no notice of the ruling of the
court, as he had appealed to the Pope. He
would not give up his church at Pierce
City.
ENGINEER ED DIETz, an old employee of
the Minneapolis & St Louis railroad, was
discharged recently for alleged color
blindness, when his fellow employees
threatened to strike.
THE other night heavy wind blew q
freight car from side track to the main
track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul at Sylvania, Wis. Two men were
fatally and another seriously injured.
The German Emperor has ordered the
dismissal of all the French cooks employed
in the palace. They will be replaced with
Germans.
THE annual boat race between Cam
bridge and Oxford Universities, England,
will take place March 30.
THE Bankruptcy bill has passed the
French Senate. The measure has especial
interest at the present time because it en-
ables the Panama Canal Company to con-
vert the old organization into a new con-
Germ.
A GRAND scheme for conveying the sew
age of Paris to tract of land in the De-
partment of Seine et-Oise, for subsequent
use as fertilizer, has been approved by
the French Senate.
1t is stated in st. Petersburg that Rus
STA will build three large men, of-war dur.
ing the present year.
BARNETT & LICHTENsTEIN, the largest
retail mercantile firm in Des Moines. Iowa,
have failed with liabilities of $4,000.
A BRUSH trust has been formed which
controls with but few exceptions the out
put of all the prisons of the country en-
gagged in that line of goods.
A YOUNG woman and man from Lyons,
France, were found dead in a room at a
hotel at Monte Carlo the other day. In a
letter to a friend they say they had suf-
fered losses at the gaming tables and in
tended to commit suicide together.
TWENTY-FIVE miners were killed by an
explosion of fire-damp in the Hyde colliery
near Manchester, Eng, recently.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January IL, numbered
$50, compared with 3S1 the previous week
and 314 the corresponding week of last
year.
A MADRID correspondent Mt says that the
Spanish Government is trying to set of
Spanish claims for damages sustained in
the war of secession in the United States
against the Mora compensation claim.
THE work of laying the new cable be-
tween Coatzacoalcoas, Mex, and Calves
ton, Tex, was begun on the 18th by the
Faraday.
THE Board of Trade of Jacksonville,
Fla, have passed resolutions strongly
urging protection against foreign-grown
oranges and calling for a law fixing the
import duty at 81 box on oranges and
lemons.
OVER thousand cigarmakers of New
York City, mostly Cubans, have struck
against reduction of 81 per thousand in
wages. This is the busiest season and the
men expect to win.