The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-31

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partment, speaks very fatteringly of Bis
marck and the success of his colonial and
| other policies.
The Mayor of Venice, Italy, has sent out
| circular in which he declares that the
stories of cholera are much exaggerated.
A FIERCE battle took place in Poplar
Island Nsrrows, Maryland, the other night
between feet of dredge boats and one OF
the oyster police steamers. The steamer
found the dredges at work and attempted
to arrest them. They resisted and opened
fire on the steamer, which was returned at
first with small arms. The dredgers made
it hot for the steamer until her Captain
opened fire upon them with a cannon.
This silenced their fire and put them to
flight.
THE Houston CTex) Insurance Company,
whose capital was badly impaired by the
failure of the City Bank of Houston, has
reinsureds all its outstanding risks in the
City of London Company, limited. The
stockholders expect to lose 100000.
THE Grant monument fund has reached
a total of Sill, ,72S.
A PoRT TOWNSEND, W. T., special says:
A number of citizens of Quellente, a town
125 miles distant, telegraphed here that an
Indian outbreak was feared, and asked for
protection. The trouble doubtless grows
out of the i'll treatment of the Indians by
the white settlers. 1t is not believed that
it will be serious.
ONE of the Schlitz Brewing Company's
storehouses at Milwaukee, containing 120,-
600 bushels of choice barley, was damaged
by fire the other day. The loss was $4,000,
the insurance S6S,OO0.
THE Christmas tree at the county hospi-
tai, Chicago, caught fire during the enter
tainment on Christmas day. An indescirb-
able panic occurred among the children
and others in consequence. Fifty persons
were badly injured and many others slight
ly, but no one was killed. The fire was sub
dued without serious damage.
Two men were killed and two danger
ously wounded by the bursting of a boiler
at the Spring Valley waterworks, San
Francisco, recently. The damage amounted
to S15O000.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
adopted the Tonquin credit by a vote of
274 to 210. 1t is rumored that owing to
the closeness of the vote the Cabinet has
resigned.
FIRE in Cincinnati the other night caused
a loss of 100000 on the building and stock
owned by the Western Paint and Roofing
Company and N. E. De Hart & Co., patent
roofers.
THE Manchester-Congo Railway Com
pany has been granted franchise to con-
struct a railway from the upper to the
lower Congo region in Africa.
THE Montreal Board of Health has per-
emptorily ordered the lady superior of the
Tongue Pointe Asylum to have all the in
mates vaccinated at once. There were
eighteen cases in the asylum.
SEVENTEEN convicts out of force of $50
working on a railroad in Stokes County,
n. c., escaped the other night. The con-
victs waited until only two men were on
guard, one at each entrance to the stock
ade, when all rushed to one entrance,
where they overpowered the guard and
with axes cut out the planks of the gate
and seventeen escaped through the open
ing.
A FATAL accident occurred the other
morning at the Walnut Hills Incline Rail
way, near Cincinnati. Jack Faflon. q sub
driver, while on the descending car lost his
hat and jumped off to get it, and was
caught by the car going up and dragged to
the top of the hill One foot was cut off and
he was terribly bruised from his waist
down. He was taken to the hospital where
he died.
j. c. FRANCE, while examining a pistol,
was accidentally shot and killed at Rock
field, KY, recently, Three days 54fore he
was kicked by a horse and had his leg
broken.
A YOUNG man named Benjamin Beebe
was killed while jumping from passenger
train at Berea, o., the other night. His
body was completely cut to pieces.
II was reported that King John, Of
Abyssinia, is engaged in the occupation of
Massowah and is preparing to make war
upon the Italians.
THE residence of Dr. Emil Bessells, the
Arctic explorer, at Glendale, Maryland, was
burned the other morning, and all of his
books, charts and other valuable docu-
ments relating to Arctic matters were to-
tally destroyed.
BETWEEN eleven and twelve o'clock the
other night fire broke out at 424 Water
street, New York. in the three story building
owned and occupied by II. Fink as factrf
of whale and fish oils. The fire caused AZ
estimated damage of $4,000; partly iu-
sured