The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-12

Bailey, for $4,000 damages for injurie.
alleged to have been caused by one of Gen
eral Grants Arabian stations which were
presented by the Khedive of Egypt. The
case was continued.
THE WEST.
OFIo Insurance Commissioners have
filed complaint against the Citizens Mu.
tual Relief Insurance Company, of Wei.
lington, o.
The Convention of Exposition Fair Man
ayers of the United States met in st. Louis
on the Sd for the purpose of organizing a
general association for the United States
and Canada. A temporary organization
was effected by the election of II. j. Hill
of Toronto, as Chairman, and S. w. Yea.
man and F. ]. Wade, of st. Louis, as Sec.
retaries. About forty delegates were in
attendance.
GEORGE F. ORgIN, the circus man and the
Barnum of Mexico, died the other day in
the City of Mexico.
MORMON immigrants numbering about
three hundred arrived recently in Utah.
A large number stopped off at Ogden, or
went north not over half going to Salt
| Lake.
| FIVE Mexican States have declared war
against President Gonzales on account OF
the revenue stamp act. Troops were being
concentrated in the interior.
| A sNEAK-THIEF recently secured about
one thousand dollars at the Wayne unity
Bank in Corydon, Iowa, during the dinner
hour.
MRS. GEORGE HARVEY, of Leoni, Mich,
committed suicide the other evening by
hanging herself She went upstairs, fast
ened a rope to the door knob, threw it over
the door, and, tying it around her neck,
kicked away the chair upon which she was
| standing. The deceased left a husband
and seven children.
THE Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe Rail-
road Company have given the required
| three months notice of withdrawal from
the Transcontinental Railroad Association
which pools all business west of the Mis-
souri,.
THE other afternoon at Detroit, fire at
Stearn & Co.'s extensive laboratory, COM
pletely burned out the milling building,
two stories high and one hundred feet long
THE injunction suit to restrain the
Knights of Honor from removing their
headquarters from Louisville to st. Louis
was withdrawn.
JOHN STANTON, a steamboat engineer of
st. Louis, threw a gobletful of sulphuric
acid over his wife as she lay in bed early
the other morning, inflicting injuries which
will kill her. Her eyes were eaten out,
and she was terribly burned on the face,
neck, breast and shoulders. On a previous
occasion Stanton shot her twice and then
attempted to kill himself. Jealousy was
the cause.
GOVERNOR HoADLEY has issued procla-
nation calling the attention of the Ohio
people to the Worlds Industrial and Cot
ton Exposition at New Orleans.
A PORTLAND, ORE, special of the 4tb
says: Complete returns Of the State cleo
ton are still wanting. The majority of
Herman, Republican, for Congress, will be
fully 100. 1t is believed Thauer, Demo
crat, has been elected Supreme Judge. The
returns received are that the Legislature
will have Republican majority of four on
| joint ballot.
| In the United States Court at Winona,
Mimi, in the case of the United States VS.
the Duluth Iron Company for cutting timber
ON Government land, the jury found YER
dict against the defendants for $1,000.
G. T. FOSTER G. Co., wholesale medicines
at Detroit, have failed.
JOHN T. EMERY, ticket broker, suicided
at Columbus, O., recently.
MACALIsTER & Co.'s planning mills at
Cleveland, were damaged to the extent of
$50, 900 the other morning, by fire of I'M
known origin.
THREE HUNDRED leading merchants at
tended the annual banquet of the Mer-
chants Association at Plankinton House,
Milwaukee, the other night.
A CosHocToN, o., special says: The
Democrats of the Sixteenth District renom-
| mated Beriah Wilkins for Congress,
Charles c. S. Brady and George NJ. Jewett
delegates to Chicago, and instructed them
for Tilden and Hendricks.
FIVE members of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, who form the sub-com-
mittee of arrangements for the coming
National Convention, met in Chicago en
the 4th and appointed local committees.
THE Elevated Railroad bill, which had
been dragging along in the st. Louis NUM-
| cipal Assembly for many months, and
which everybody thought was killed, was
taken up by the Council, recently, and
passed.
W. J. SPIcER accepted the general man
agement of the Chicago & Grand Trunk
road.
MISS CORA PETERS, a young lady Of
twenty-five, has been missing from her
home at Vevay, Ind, for a week. She was
sent by her mother for some groceries and
never returned.
A GANG of drunken roughs went to the
agency of Gipps' Brewing Company at
Streator, ILL.,, and demanded drink On
being refused they assaulted the son-in-law
of the agent, who was in charge, and he
drew his revolver and shot one Mike Ryan.
The wounded man was not expected to live.
MRS. JONES, an old lady living a few
miles north of Stanwood, Mich, was walk
ing to town on the railroad track recently
and was caught upon a long bridge by a
freight train. To escape she leaped from
the bridge to the water, distance of thirty
feet. When picked up she was unconscious
and could not recover.
ADoLPHUS BLooMENAU, of Bay City, the
jockey crushed under his horse at the races
at Lansing, Mich, died next day. Ed.
Nichols, injured at the same time, was re-
covering.
SEVERAL horses died and and numb.r
were sick in the vicinity of Shabbona, Ill.
The disease was said to be pink eye. Some
farmers also lost a number of pigs, the
latter from undete mi q 1 causes.
l. a DECLINE of three cents in whisky at
Cincinnati on the 9th was regarded as
disruption of the pool. A leading distiller.
a member of the pool directly declared to
customers that be would not base inHnice.