Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS.


THE Secretary of State is informed that
Siam will be represented at the interna-
tional marine conference by F.W Verney,
of the Siamese legation at Washington.
! CANADIAN customs officers have seized a
herd of 325 cattle near Fort Mcleod, hav-
ing been struggled in from Montana.
This is the third seizure of cattle belong
| ing to the firm of Conrad & Co
THE Lower hydraulic and Tyler presses
at Savannah, Ga, have burned with $500
| bales of cotton. There was little salvage
on the cotton.
THE oyster packers have formed a trust.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has a surplus Of SS,6l1, 401, after
paying dividends and all charges.
THE Minneapolis -four market is report
ed firm.
THE school and library of the Michigan
penitentiary at Jackson were destroyed
by fire the other day, causing $50, 900 loss
TYPHOID fever is reported to be raging
in nearly every family in and about
Aurora, w. Va. In some localities there
are said to be scarcely enough well per-
sons to nurse the sick.
THE hosting shaft and engine house of
the Bellevue breaker, at Scranton, Pa,
burned the other night Seven men work
ing at the bottom of the shaft were res
cued from what appeared to be certain
death.
THE United Typothete (master printers)
in convention recently received an ad-
verse report from the committee consider
ing the eight hour question.
OFFICIAL returns from Indianapolis
gives Sullivan (Democrat) l. 579 majority
over Coburn (Repnblican) for mayor.
Swift (Democrat) for city clerk has a
majority over Taft (Republican) of ], 253
The Board of Aldermen comprises five
Republicans and five Democrats and the
Council ten Republicans and fifteen Dem
ocrats.
NEWS from Bay st. Paul. Quebec, states
that six inches of snow had fallen there.
There was also a slight fall at the River
Apierre, and fishing party just returned
from Great Lake Jacques Cartier, near
the summit crest of the Laurentides, re-
ports winter almost set in there.
- WHILE priest was saying mass at the
altar of the Cathedral at the City of Mex
leo recently he fell upon his face in dy-
ing condition. The Archbishop and others
went to his assistance and physicians
were summoned, but life was already ex-
tinct
The Supreme Court of the Chickasaw
Nation has sustained the constitutionality
of an act of the Legislature disqualifying
"squaw" men, or white men with Indian
wives. The latter were much incensed
and threatened to work for the opening of
the Territory and the abolition of the tribal
system.
The magnificent residence of Mr.. Glenn
Studebaker, recently erected at South
Bend, Ind, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $500, 900.
In the case of Kemmler, the Buffalo, N.
Y, wife murderer, the courts have held
that death BY electricity is constitutional.
A DECISION of ex-Commissioner Tanner
by which that official doubled all pensions
OF = per month has been revised by Sec
rotary Noble. The act of Tanner in this
matter was one of the causes of his re-
movaL
The steamer Herman Winter ran into
and sank the lighter. Manhattan in New
York harbor recently. The fifteen men
on the lighter escaped.
AT Davis & Lamar's kaoIine mine. near
Atkin, S. C, mass of clay caved in, fall
ing on Thomas Woolly, the superintend-
emit killing him instantly.
The fertilizer factory of G. ODER. Sons
& Co., at Locust Point, near Baltimore.
Nd, burned recently. The loss was esti-
mated at 5000 900.
ADVlCES received at the Marine Hos
pital state that there are severa! cases of |
yellow fever at Key West, Tut that there
Is no danger OF the disease spreading.
1HE largest double track drawbridge in |
the world, which spans the Thames river
the 10th.
GOVERNOR LEE has respited Simon |
walker, colored. of Chesterfield County. |
for thirty days. He was to have been
hanged for crimInally assaulting a white |
glri about twelve years of age
HE only saloon in Lafayette, O., was
wrecked BY mob the other morning.
Every thing was ruined.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR have elected J. P. s /
Gooin, OF pennsylvania, grand master and /
hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, deputy grand
master.
TIE Inman steamer City Of New York
got stuck in q mud bank in the lower bay
near Sandy Hook on her last trip. The |
passengers were taken of by tugs.
A FREIGHT train on the Baltimore &
Ohio road, at McKeesport, ran down two
women and a small boy at the Martins
street crossing. The boy, Willie Jones
vas fatally injured