The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-07

been cut by Crews, he drew knife and
cut his stepfather's throat from ear to ear,
A DEMOCRATIC barbecue, for which
twenty-five beeves and fifty sheep had been
provided, was given at Lexington, KY, Oh
the 10Th.
TIE Democratic committee of the Third
Congressional District of Virginia nomi-
mated George D. Wise for Congress.
EDWARD STEERS was killed at Coopers-
town, KY, recently by accidental shooting.
j. T. RAY, guard, shot dead an escaping
convict at Yazoo City, Miss, recently.
| A FIRE the other night in the business
portion of Little Rock, Ark, caused a loss
of $4,000.
TELEGRAPH reports from all portions Of
the cotton States report the crops in fine
condition.
NEAR Montezuma, Ga, lives a man who
had his little child's teeth filed of by dem
| in Nursing.
DEMOCRATS in the Ninth Congressional
District of Virginia have nominated Con-
nelly F. Trigg for Congress.
The West Virginia. Republicans nomi-
mated +. NJ. Reynolds for the Second Con-
gressional District.
F. G. BERRY was nominated for Congress
in the Fourth District of Mississippi.
Bug CEPHAs, colored, was hanged at
Cambridge, Nd, for the murder of Mrs.
Celia Bush Murphy, April7.
GEORGE SMITH, Asberry Hughes and
George Hughes, all white and under twen-
ty-fve years of age, were hanged at Scots
boro, Ala, recently. They were convicted
of burning the house of Henry Porter, on
Sand Mountain. 1t was the first instance of
the death penalty being enforced for arson
in the first degree in Alabama
BRUEN's restaurant at Hot Springs,
Ark, was destroyed by fire secently, as
well as the Commercial Hotel and other
buildings. Loss, $4,000.
GENERAL.
DIR. KOCH, the noted German cholera ex
pert who has been visiting the French
cholera districts, has addressed a report to
Bismarck. DR.. Koch criticises severely the
want of precaution shown by the English
Government in taking measures toprevent
the spread of epidemics.
UNDER the divorce law which took effect
in France on the Doth no less than three
thousand suits were brought the first day,
many prominent families being involved.
THE condition of the cotton and wooden
trade causes great anxiety at Montreal.
THERE were only twelve deaths at Mar.
settles on the 31st.
THE Bank du Peuple, of Montreal, passed
its semi-annual dividend, and its stock was
offered at 40. Several of the French Cana
dian banks are reported in financial straits.
The son of the British Vice Consul at
Predoste, Turkey, was captured by bri
gands, who demanded two hundred pounds
ransom.
THE American artists in Paris are sub
scribing to the fund for presenting that
city with bronze model of the Bartholdi
statue.
THE Arab rebels attacked Suakim re.
Gently and were repulsed. Mercury was at
120 in the shade and the English troops
suffered severely.
CONSUL MASON, of Marseilles, has sent
long report regarding the cholera to Wash
ington. He says that Marseilles is well
looked after in matters of sanitation, but
that, like all other Mediterranean cities, it
the sewerage flowing from the harbor.
THE failures for the week ended July 81
in the United States were 233 and in Cana
ia is, total 251, against 234 the previous
week. The whole increase appears to arise
in the Pacific States and Territories, where
casualties have been more numerous than
in any week for years.
A DISPATCH from Foo Chow, July 81,
says: China has refused to pay the indem-'
nifty demanded by France. A secret edict
mas been issued ordering the Chinese not
TO modest foreigners. French civilians and
however, assert that the lives
IF foreigners are not safe. AnEnglish flag
ship is landing sailors to act in defense of
foreigners in Foo Chow. The Chinese mer-
liant fleet has been sold to an American
irm for :, 250,0 900 taels nearly 1900, 900.
A CoRoNER'S jury at Toronto has found ,
lmple evidence to sustain the charge that ,
Mrs. Christian Leslie starved number of
Legitimate infants left in her keeping.
The Vatican will recall its delegates &
rom Buenos Ayres in case the Argentine
government insists upon the dismissal of
Father Clara for his letter against employ s
ng American school -mistresses.
THE date of the execution of Stella. l
nacher, the Austrian Anarchist, was kept t
ecret in consequence of threses of repris.
Is by the Anarchists.
THE LATEST. z
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