The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-20

tin, aged thirty two, jumped from the sec
ond story and was fatally injured. Susie
Martin was caught on a mattress, but Sc
verely hurt. Ella Martin, artist and owner
of the building, and her sister Mary, aged
sixty, were rescued by means of ladder.
BIG BILL KINNEY, who was acquitted of
murder at West Union, W. Va, recently,
was taken from jail by mob and hung
the following night.
COLONEL J. r. POWELL, aged sixty-nine,
wealthy planter of Washington County,
Miss, was shot at Modoc Landing, recently,
by Charles F. Robinson. The dispute was
about a trife.
JOHN w. GARRETT was recently unani-
mously elected President of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad for the twenty-sixth time.
THE Red River coast line steamer Alex
andria sunk recently, above New Orleans,
with cargo of 1,1OO bales of cotton and
$50 barrels of oil. The boat and cargo will
probably be saved. The boat was valued
at 81, 900 and insured for $1,000.
a PASSENGER train on the Texas & st.
Louis Railway was wrecked the other night
near Gilmer, Tex, and number of people
badly hurt. Three freight trains were
wrecked on the same road the night before.
A PASSENGER train recently collided
with freight train on the Georgia Central
Railroad, south of Savannah. Both trains
were wrecked. j. F. Wilson, of Davisboro,
Ga, was killed; o. H. and S. B. Stevens,
of Barlow, Ga, badly wounded; Fanny
Freeman, of Milledgeville, leg broken and
Mike Falvey, a fireman, badly injured.
GENERAL.
ANOTHER fearful massacre has befallen
detachment of the Egyptian army.
While on the march from Suakim to Ber-
her, on December 3, at the halting place,
thirty miles from Suakim, a force of eight
hundred negroes and Bashi Bazouks were
utterly annihilated by adherents of the
False Prophet. The fight only lasted twenty
minutes.
GREAT BRITAIN was torn by a terrible
tornado on the 18th. Towns were flooded,
Churches and other buildings demolished,
trees uprooted, vessels damaged and num-
Der of persons killed.
AT Moscow (Russia) recently, an i'm
mense throng of poor people gathered be-
fore the house of a merchant, lately de-
tributed at the demise of wealthy person.
The pressure was so great tia several per-
sons were crushed to death, and four Sc
verely injured.
MASON, United States Consul at Basle,
Switzerland, asserts, and supports the as
sertion by proof, that not only does the
Government of Germany prohibit the i'm
portation of American pork for sale and
consumption within its own territory, but
forbids the transit of American hog prod
ucts through its territory to other coun-
tries, even in sealed cars. The real object
of the prohibitory regulations are not to
guard the people of Germany from danger
arising from the consumption of diseased
meat, but to protect German dealers in hog
products from American competition.
A SPECIAL from Monterey, Mex, says: {:
"Quintanine, Mayor of New Laredo, was
ordered arrested as one of the principals in
the recent train robbery on the Mexican
National Railroad. The authorities at
Tamaulipas refused to surrender him and
other prominent officials are involved. The
affair is assuming a serious national aspect.
Several robbers have escaped by the delay
and inaction of officials"
CHOLERA still exists in some parts of
Egypt.
THE police of Dublin recently seized q
quantity of arms, ammunition and accou-
trements in a private house in that city
and arrested the occupants.
THE schooners Mayo, Sea Gull and
Rather were lost during the recent storm,
off the coast of Newfoundland.
A RADICAL editor and his deputy have
been condemned to death for participating
in the recent revolt in Servia. The King
has committed the sentence of two other
Radicals sentenced to eighty-five years.
Imprisonment each.
THE United States Consul General in
Egypt has been instructed to see that all
the rags shipped into this country are
thoroughly disinfected before shipment. 1t
is said six thousand bales of rags are
stored at Alexandria belonging to one New
York firm.
THE business failures in the United
States and Canada, for the seven days
ended December Il, were 325, against 500
last week.
ADvICEs were recently received at OF.
tawa (Canada) of the discovery of new
gold mines in the Rocky Mountains, a mile
north of Padmore, British America. The
find was reported to be all immense bo-
nanZa.