The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-29


Richmond, Va. failed recently.
GENERAL.
The Premier of the Cape of Good Hope
has declared the Colonial Government
opposed to the settlement by Germany of
Angra Peguena, and especially the crea-
tion of penal colony.
ZEBEHR PAsHA sent messengers by three
distinct routes to Khartoum to discover
General Gordon's fate. 1t was expected
the messengers would return in August.
HENRY F. GILLIG, President of the Amer
lean Exchange in Paris, gave a dinner re-
Gently to Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor
of Liberty Enlightening the World"
THE duty on cattle and sheep has been
doubled by the French Government, and
LIE Paris says the French artists will avengs
the refusal of the United States Congress to
reduce the duty on works of art. They will,
the paper says, demand that the French
salon exclude the works Of American ar
| fists.
In the second game of the American La
crosse team in England, the Lancashires
were their opponents. The Americans won
by to 0. During the play for second goal
one of the Lancashire men was compelled
to retire from the field on account of inj1r-
les sustained.
THE five hundredth anniversary of the
death of Wycliffe, the early English re-
former and translator of the Bible, was
held in London on the 21st
A DISPATCH from Berlin says: While a
regiment of infantry were marching across
bridge just completed for the purpose of
testing its strength, portion of the struc-
ture gave away, precipitating many of the
soldiers and bystanders to the ground and
into the river. Twenty persons were in
jured, some of them mortally.
The body of a wealthy Englishman
named Falkenbridge, was found in bed at
hotel in Winnipeg, under circumstances
indicating murder.
MINISTER MORTON has written to Premier
Ferry, of France, denying that the House
of Representatives rejected the bill reduc-
ing the duty on work of arts, or that the
House applauded the vote.
IT was reported the Bank of Montreal
exported eight million dollars in gold to
New York during the recent financial
troubles.
MURCIA was the principal city damaged
by the floods in the southeastern part of
Spain. The roads were rendered impassa.
BILE, bridges destroyed, and travel sus-
pended. Twenty persons were reported
missing.
FAILURES for the past seven days in the
United States were 2l2; in Canada, twenty.
Total, 232-an increase of twenty-three.
LORD ST. LEONARDs, who was indicted
for indecent assault upon a servant girl in
England, was convicted. Court reserved
judgment.
THE French brig Senorine, with fifty
three passengers and nine of her crew,
sunk to the eastward of the Great Banks.
All perished. She left st. Malo, France,
on the 9Th of March, laden with a general
cargo, bound for st. Pierre, and succumbed
to gale on the 5th of May.
THE LATEsT.
| a CoUSHATTA, La, special of the 25th
said: Tie heaviest rains OH record have
fallen here during the past ten days, and
the river is higher than for number of years
| Crops are suffering, and hands are unable
to work. All the creeks and bayous of
any consequence are swelling into inn
mense propoi tions, and planters and busi-
ness men are very much discouraged.
The Senate was not in session on the
24th. In the House bill was reported to
permit L. K. Reynolds, of the navy, to re.
ceive the Order of Francis Joseph from
the Emperor of Austria for the saving of
the lives of eleven Austrian sailors at sea.
Robinson, of New York, protested, and
spoke of Reynolds as "dude," which
created considerable excitement. The bill
passed, Robinson not succeeding in mus
tering enough members to call for the yeas
and nays. The Bureau of Animal Indus
try bill was finally disposed of.
A RAILROAD collision at Savannah, NY.
! On the 10Th, caused the death of four per.
sons and the injury of seven others.
THE fire at the oil works of the Atlantic
Refining Company at Philadelphia con.
tinued to burn on the 18th but it was
thought the danger was past. The estimate
placed the loss at about 100000
THE Committee ON Ways and Means re-
Gently continued the consideration of that
portion of the Hewitt Tariff bill relative
TO the administration of the present law.
| While having taken no vote on the ques'
tion of considering that part of the bill
proposing reduction of tariff, members
of the committee say positively it will not
be discussed in committee.
FATHER BoNIFACE has brought suit
against the Boston Herald for $780, 900 dam
ages for associating his name with Ger.
tain crooked money transaction.
AN insane woman named Edmont, living
in st. Louis, murdered her two infants,
Sunday, and attempted the murder of an
other child and of herself. She was the
wife of a railroad engineer and formerly
lived at Poplar Bluff, Mo-, and had rela-
tives living in Cowley County, Kas.
Enc, the defaulting New York bank
president, is missing. Warrants were out
for his arrest.
HANLEY, one of the principals in the late
prize fight organized in Omaha and
fought in Saunders County, Neb., after
trial of a week was sentenced to three
years at hard labor in the penitentiary.
The case was to be taken to the Supreme
Court.
JAMES D. FISH, The President of the de
funct Marine Bank, of New York, was
jailed on the p. on the charge of misap-
propriating the funds of the bank in col
lusion with the firm of Grant & Ward
| S. j. DRAKE declined the nomination OF
President of the New York Stock Ex.
change.