The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-16

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| lists for six years at an annual rental of
! $4,000.
THE Opera House at Pittsburgh, Pa,
was closed the other night by the Humane
Society because the Rhinehart Juvenile
| Opera Company, which had been playing
| there, was composed of children under
fourteen years of age, which was in viola
ton of the State laws.
THE Apaches were reported raiding
Northwestern Sonora Strong express
sions were made in military circles
against the United States troops for
crossing the border.
LLoYDs' agent at st. Thomas received
| information from Venezuela July 8 that a
revolution had broken out in that country.
The Government troops at Carupano had
pronounced in favor of the revolution.
THE Belgian Chamber of Deputies has
rejected the bill to tax imports of grain
and cattle.
AT Ransoul, ILL.,, recently, lightning
struck the house of Henry Kinnear, in
stantly killing his two children, aged two
and four years, prostrating himself and
leaving his wife insensible.
TWENTY-FIVE lodges of rebel Canadian
Indians were recently reported making for
the boundary line under command of son
of Big Bear.
FIRE the other night destroyed the lum-
Der yards of W hite Bros. and Allen Luggle
s. Co., San Francisco. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
The Belgian Minister of Finance re-
Gently said he was opposed to the pro-
posed import duties on cattle and corn.
A MYSTERIOUS epidemic has broken out
in various parts of Portugal. The victims
are attacked without warning and die a
few minutes after seizure. The disease is
a mystery to doctors.
FOREST fires were recently reported rag
ing with intense fierceness near Newbury,
Mich.
AT Washington, on the 10th, DR.. Hamil-
ton, of the Marine Hospital Service, said
there was report in circulation that there
were a number of yellow fever cases in New
Orleans. He had not received any official
information in regard to the matter but
was investigating. ess
The business failures for week ended
July were: For the United States, 25S;
for Canada, %; a total of 80 against 204
the week previous. The Western, South
ern and Pacific States furnished about two
thirds of the whole number.
THE President recently addressed in
structions to General Sheridan for the pur-
pose of dealing with the dissatisfied Chey-
ennes in the Indian Territory. The disarm-
ament of the Indians appeared to be fully
resolved upon, and if any resistance was
made it would go hard with them.
THE Board of Health at New Orleans de-
MED the recent reports of yellow fever in
that city.
REGARDING the recent fight on the
Opurto River, a dispatch from Tombstone,
Ari., says: Captain Chaffee, on Jnly .,
came upon band of Apaches near Guasa-
bus, on the Opurto River, in Sonora, and
spirited fight ensued in which forty In
dams were killed and three bucks and
eleven squaws captured The loss to Chat
fee was one soldier and one or two scouts
hurt.
THE east bound traffic committee met at
Chicago on the 10th and agreed to the rates
on live hogs from Chicago to New York, %
cents, and on dressed hogs in refrigerator
cars, 49, cents.
THE Western Union Telegraph Company
has secured the practical control of the
American Rapid Company, which had
been since September, 1888, a part of the
Bankers and Merchants system.
SUPERINTENDENT JAMESON, of the Rail-
way Mail Service, told Representative
Glover, at Washington, recently, that as
soon as the desired fast mail facilities be-
tween New York and st. Louis were OBJ
tanned he would call upon the roads run
ming West for fast mail train between
st. Louis and Kansas City.
A GREAT landslide occurred on Cherry
Mountain, near the Jefferson Depot, n. H.,
the other morning, the point known as
Owls Head being stripped of dense forest
two miles long and fifteen rods wide. The
slide was caused by heavy rains.
OIL has been struck at the Galway oil
field in Saratoga County, N. V, at depth
of 100 feet. In boring the drill passed
through a stratum of salt and afterward
struck a vein of gas. The oil spouted to a
considerable height.
THE captain and first mate of the British |
brig j. Williams, from Wilmington, n. c.,
were sentenced at Newcastle, Eng. re-
Gently, each to seven ye"-"' nen1 servitude
for killing Seaman Liml.