The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-22
GENERAL.

body being burned.
GENERAL.
The Paris newspapers were jubilant ovel
the signing of the Franco-C Chinese treaty
Three regiments were recalled from Ton
quin.
IT was reported that the African ex
petition under Joseph Thompson haC
reached Uganda, in the region ruled by
King Mtesa. 1t was believed that Thomp
sons presence at Uganda will increas,
General Gordon's chances for safety il
case he should be compelled to try t.
escape from Khartoum by going to the
southwark.
| PRINCE BISMARCK has ordered the Ber
lin correspondent of the Paris newspaper
La France to be expelled from Germany
| because of statements in his dispatches tC
the effect that the German Chancellor was
intriguing to produce a rupture between
France and England on the Egyptian ques
ton.
SEVERAL Servians were wounded by the
military at Notwithstanding, in South.
eastern Hungary, in dispensing meeting
recently.
THE Gladstone ministry was sustained
| by 500 to 215 in a recent motion to censure
the foreign policy of the English Govern
| ment.
In an attack upon friendly tribes near
Tamanieb recently, Osman Digna and his
men killed twenty-one of the friendly
Arabs, took forty women prisoners and
captured many cattle. OF the rebels only
five were killed. The tribes attacked are
able to muster 5000 men. They are deter
mined to avenge the death of their COM
rades and recover their women.
| SECRETARY LINCOLN, General Sheridan,
General Stager, John Mccullough Gen
eral C. H. Thompkins, Bishop McLain and
| others to the number of fifty, went to Pelee
| Island, Canada, recently, to fish for black
| bass.
CABLEGRAMs report that Woolwich ar
senal narrowly escaped destruction by
dynamite recently, as detonators and ex-
plosives were found under the walls.
A RECENT railroad accident near Paris
caused the death of the engineer and the
| injury of thirty-one passengers.
ROMERO, the Mexican Minister, has in,
formed the Department of State that he had
received official notification from his Gov.
eminent of the ratification by the Mexican
Senate of the reciprocity treaty between
the United States and Mexico.
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times is authorized to announce the NOR
ganatic marriage of Grand Duke Louis of
Hesse, at Darmstadt, with Madame Kola-
mirick, legally dissolved.
EX-SECRETARY WINDOW, who was in
Paris recently, will sail for home early in
June, after brief visit to England.
THE Tdgbatt, of Berlin, positively asserts
that Richard Muckle, of the Philadelphia
Leader, will succeed Sargent as United
States Minister to Berlin. Muckle, the
paper says, is an Alsatian by birth, but a
personal friend of Bismarck.
The London Times says: 1t will be idle
for American railroad boards to expect to
get capital from Europe in the future as
easily as in the past, unless it is shown
that they intend to turn over a new leaf
and manage their properties on sound
principles.
FAILURES in the last week in the
United States, 1S2; Canada, %; total, 2O9,
an increase of Is.
THE late Judah P. Benjamin left behind
no materials for biography. He was ac-
custoned to say the treasuring up of old
paperx caused half the misery of his life.
THE LATEST.
The arpair shops of the New York &
HarlDrs Railroad Company at New York
~src ffIrred recently. Tie building COW
cred large area and contained the ma
chine shops and work rooms w here all the
rerat!ing Sf the rolling stock was done.
SpGss from the burning building set fire
to Sc veral small dwellings. Loss, 500, 900.
ThE Siamese Embassy left Washington
for New York recently, with the intention
of making tour of the country.
RECENT advhes from Vera Cruz state
that that city was remarkably healthy and
exceptionally clean- The inhabitants did
eot fear an epidenie this season, notwith-
standing the fact that yellow fever existed
at certain points beso3, on the coa9t.
THE King of Greece entertained the
American Legation at Mnch on the 18th.
Schuyler, the American Minister, gave
garden party to the Diptematic Corps
W. g HALIBU' TON, t,iegraph editcr of
the Baltimore EceHiag Netos, died sudden
ly the other evening. He was discovered
In an unconscious condition anal before
doctor reached him, expired. He was |
forty-two years of age.
TIE Senate was not in session on the |
18th. The House was occupied with minor |
matters. Business seemed to lag or syas |
neglected, for, in the debate upon the ques-
lion of dividing the judicial Districts of !
Missouri, a qaQrum was wanted and the
House adjourned.
ERNEST HoEFLEK, of st. Louis, missing
@-t for several days, had large