The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-06


taken, Secretary Teller decided that 18th,
accused, although a squatter, is rightfully
on the land if he intends to make his hom,
on it and take it under the settlement law
when the land is surveyed, and he is allowed
to do so. Whether he is or is not a tres
passer does not depend on how many tree:
he cuts, but on the bona fide character o.
the settlement. If he has taken land il
good faith, he is owner thereof to all prac
tical purposes, although the title may re
main in the Government"
THE EAST.
HENRY P. BUTLER, aged twenty-four
supposed to be from Pittsburgh, Pa, re
Gently suicided in st. Louis by taking
laudanum.
A BLOODY riot was reported as having re
Gently taken place at the natural gas vel
at Murraysville, forty miles east of Pitts
burgh, Pa, between the laborers of riva
gas fuel companies, resulting in the death
of one man and the serious injury of foul
others.
WARRANTS were issued for the arrest ot
the Weston party engaged in the late Muir
raysville, Pa, riots, including a number oi
prominent citizens.
SOME time ago, at Pittsburgh, Pa, Frank
Reed and Andrew Wilbert, neither over
eleven years of age, quarreled as to which
should furnish the fuel for fire which they
had built. Reed refused, and Wilbert
using a knife supplied by his older brother
plunged it into Reeds side, from the effects
of which death subsequently ensued.
into the show business.
In making improvements on Coles Hill,
at Plymouth, Mass, recently, the graves of
the Pilgrims who came over in the May
Flower, and who were buried during the
first winter, were discovered. One con-
tanned the skeleton of a middle-aged man,
five feet nine inches in height. In another
grave the skeleton of an elderly man was
discovered. These were the only graves of
the first settlers positively identified.
Tablets will be placed to mark the exact
location.
DR.. JAMES G. BUCK, a prominent resident
of Craddock, Pa, was sentenced to five
years and six months in the penitentiary
for completely in the Gordon gang of high
waymen.
THE Windsor Theater, in the Bowery,
New York, burned the other evening, soon
after the audience had left. A number of
theater cost 100000.
AT the late annual meeting of the Penn
sylvaEia Peace Society, in Philadelphia, the
report of the Executive Committee re-
viewed the work of the year, and cited a
number of cases where national difficulties
had been settled by arbitration. resolu-
tion was adopted proposing arbitration as
a means of settling all social disputes, and
that an international Arbitration tribunal
is the best substitute forw A letter was
read from President Arthur in reference to
the suggestion that he ask the attention
of Congress to the subject of international
arbitration in his message. The President
promised to give it consideration. The
society resolved to telegraph the President
its wish that he urge the matter in his mes
sage. Mrs. Sarah T. Rogers, NJ. D., was
reelected President.
Rev. WARREN H. CUDwoRTH, pastor of
the Church of our Savior, Unitarian, dropped
dead while taking part at the union SER
H.
Thanksgiving Day.
1t was feared at Worcester, Mass, that
six fishing schooners with seventy-five men
had been lost by the late gales.
THE Hotel Clifton, a five-story brick
building, corner of Berwick Park and
columbus avenue, Boston, burned the
other morning. The inmates fed in their
Nil crht a1n xuit
originated in the furnace-room in the base
rnent, followed the elevator well to the roof
and spread through each floor into the
various rooms. The fire was stubborn
one, but was confined to one building.
George B. Taylor, the owner of the build
ing, loses 900. The occupants losses
were slight. The building was insured for
f125, 900.
THE rear passenger coach of train on
the Boston, Barre & Gardner Railway, was
recently precipitated down an embank
tnent near North Worcester, Mass. Be-
tween thirty and forty passengers were
injured, fifteen quite seriously.
As Harry CASTILLO and his aged mother,
Of Butler, Pa, were driving home to spend
Thanksgiving the vehicle upset over an
smbankment and both were killed.
w. ]. KAUNz, proprietor of the Allegheny
(Pa.) Mcil, was recently convicted of
twiminal libel and sentenced to thirty days
la Jail and 500 fine.
THE wooden mills at Saxonville, Mass,
burned recently. Loss, $500, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
LAWRENCE FEENEY, aged seventy years,
~eoently starved himself to death at Sing
Sing, n. Y.
REV. I. J. CoSALY, of Massachusetts,,
Treasurer OF the Parnell Testimonial
fGnd, recently transmitted to the Treas
srer Of the fund in Ireland Sl7.5l9. 1t in
caRdes contributions from thirty-five States
and Territories. The amount is not included
n the report cabled from London.
THE coinage at the Philadelphia Mint
tseing November was 81 ,s72, ,4l0.
YHE machinery moulders employed by
z'kver Bros & Phillips, at Pittsburgh, Pa,
threatened to strike unless the notice of
TIN pA cent. reduction in wages was with
drSwn. 1t was thought likely similar re-
fnciiohs would be made in other establish
fssuts, and that there would be numerous
striker