The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Detective Thomas and two officers named
Taylor and Settles.
The cricket match between the English
cricket team and the Peninsulars, of De-
troit, resulted in a victory for the visitors.
The score was lis to 2S3, with an inning to
spare.
THE second attempt of the yachts Puri-
tan and Genesta to contest for the interna-
ticnal cup was frustrated on the Sth by the
Puritan fouling the Genesta. The Captain
of the Puritan was clearly to blame, and
the race would have been given to the
Genesta, but Sir Richard Sutton refused to
accept it.
THE barque Lochfergus collided with the
steamship Idlewater the other night off
Deal, in the English Channel. Eight per-
sons were believed to be drowned.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, the English Radical,
took a very decided stand, in a recent
speech, against Parnell's idea of separate
Parliament for Ireland.
IT was rumored in London on the 9th
that several cases of cholera had occurred
at Mono, Belgium.
CAPE Town advices state that Congo
cannibals have attacked several stations of
the African Association and roasted and
devoured a number of whites.
AS gang of fourteen miners was COM
ing out of the Alta colliery, at Branchdale,
Pa, the other morning, tremendous ex-
plosion of gas occurred. John Linn, aged
seventeen, was instantly killed, and thir-
teen others were all more or less burned
and mangled, some fatally.
THE other night a mob of Indians,
headed by white men, attacked party of
Chinese hop pickers, thirteen miles east of
Seattle, W. T., with clubs and stones, kill
ing two and wounding four. In former
years the Indians had exclusively been
hired to pick hops. This year one firm
hired Cinnamon.
THE schooner Guardian Angel, while
beating to windward off Cape Ballard,
Newfoundland, capsized the other morn
ing, and all hands were lost except one
seaman, who was picked off the wreck by
passing boat
THE strike of 10000 operatives in the
jute mill at Dundee, Scotland ended in
favor of the employees.
THE official report of the Montreal Health
Office of the 9th stated that forty new cases
OF smallpox were reported. Twenty
three deaths occurred.
FIVE persons were killed by the storm at
Washington Court House, o., three fatally
injured and some 500 more or less hurt. 1t
was thought the damage in the city and
vicinity would amount to nearly 81 100000.
STRONG shocks of earthquake were felt
in the island of Jamaica on the 9th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently issued
proclamation removing the tonnage dues
from vessels arriving at United States
ports from Colombia, Central America.
This was done because Colombia had re-
moved the tonnage dues from American
vessels.
AT the Massachusetts Prohibition State
Convention, held at Worcester on the 10th,
Thomas Lathrop, of Taunton, was nomi-
mated for Governor by reclamation.
Charles B. Knight, of Worcester, was
unanimously nominated for Lieutenant
Governor. The balance of the State ticket
was made up as follows: Secretary of
State, George Kempton, Sharon; Treas
urer, Charles B. Travers, Natick; Attor-
ney- General, Samuel NJ. Fairfield. Maiden;
Auditor, William Sherman, Lowell.
! Cinnamon had returned to Rock Springs,
! Wyo., protected by the military. Intense
luminosity existed among the white min
ers, and it was feared that explosives
/ would be used to destroy the mines.
THE other night an attempt was made to
blow up with dynamite the hotel, saloon
and residence of Neal & Badwell, in the
village of Westminster, not far from Lima,
| o. The saloon had recently been opened,
and its presence was hotly opposed by
/ some of the inhabitants.
A RECENT dispatch from Pesth says:
| Count Paul Festetico has killed NJ. Pechy,
son of the President of the Hungarian del
! egation, in a duel. 1t was first reported
( NJ. Pechy died of illness.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the other morning,
John Mcintosh shot his mother through
/ the brain. The old lady had called her
son to shoot q cat in the garden. While he
went for the gun she went into the arbor,
and he, unaware of this, fired at the cat
/ and killed his mother.
/ THE accounts of the late Charles S. De-
mott, receiver of taxes of Hampstead, Long
Island, who died recently, are being inves
! tigated. 1t is reported that there is q
shortage of from 5000 to 5000.
The International Telegraphic Confer
ence at Berlin adopted the German pro-
posai for an international telephone sys-
! TEN.
THE British steamer Auckland collided
with the German gunboat Blitz near Copen-
hagen recently. The Auckland was sunk
at once and fifteen of the seventeen MEM
bers of the crew of that vessel went down
with her. The Blitz was not seriously in
jured.
! SEVENTY horses and much other prop
erty were burned in a recent fire at Lester
Bros livery stakes. Nashville, Tenn.
A GAS well was struck at Cameron, n.
Y, at depth of fifty feet while one of the
residents was boring for water. The gas
flowed with considerable force.
AN unknown vessel was wrecked at Two
| Rivers, Wis, on the 9th about five miles
north of Harbor piers. Nothing was found
to indicate the name of the vessel. 1t was
believed that many other vessels went
! down in the storm, resulting in the loss of
a great number of lives.
IT was reported from Spain on the 10th
that the Government had decided TO place
several cities under martial law.
FLOODS have ruined the crops in Bengal.
Several landslides have occurred, damag.
ing many railways.