The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

has attracted the attention of the State
Board of Health, and orders have been
issued establishing quarantine regulations
and making the farm of Frisby & Lake,
near Cynthiana, quarantine grounds.
LETTERS received in Washington from
Monrovia announced the election of Hon.
Hilary W. johnson as President of Liberia,
at the biennial election on the 9th of May.
Mr.. johnson is the first native Liberian
elevated to the Presidency of the Republic
IT is reproted that 2,2s1 persons persisted
from the recent earthquakes in the district
of Muzufferabad, Cashmere.
ALL the public gaming houses AID poker
rooms in Memphis, Tenn, have been closed
by the city authorities, at the request of
the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court.
The suit of David Sinton, Of Cincinnati,
against Carter County, KY, was decided
by Judge Barr at Louisville, KY, in favor
of Sinton. The amount involved is about
$50, 900 held in bonds issued by the county
in building the Big Sandy Railroad.
MAHoNEY, Chicago policeman, fatally
shot Louis Johnson, a boy of sixteen, the
other morning. The officer thought the
boy acted suspiciously.
JOHN RoACH's new dispatch boat, the
dolphin" was rejected by the examining
officers as not being up to the contract.
THE storm which recently swept through
Plymouth and Cherokee Counties, Iowa,
proved very destructive to life and prop
erty. In Cherokee County sixteen persons
were reported killed and many seriously
injured. The damage in Cherokee amounted
to $4,000; in Woodbury., 100000: Ply
mouth County, 100000; Moraca County,
So 900, and Ida County, $4,000.
The French steamer "Isere," with the
Bartholdi statue on board, arrived at New
York on the 18th.
A FOOLISH fellow named Weaver re-
Gently shot with a Winchester rifle at a
mark on the door of powder magazine
near Pueblo, Col. The magazine blew up
and Weaver was instantly killed. His
companion, Charles Nelson, was fatally
wounded.
CALIFORNIA reports a failure in the
wheat crop. The fruit crop generally is in
good condition.
THE President has amended rule nine
teen of the Civil Service Commission to in
clude Deputy Naval Officers and Deputy
Surveyors of Customs in the class of Off
GERS exempt from examination.
THE London Pail lnaU Gazette states that
the French Cabinet has decided to replace
NJ. Patenotre, who negotiated the present
treaty ofpeace between France and China,
by NJ. Roustan, the present ambassador at
Washington.
THE New York Central Railroad Direc-
tors recently elected Chauncey NJ. Depew
President, and Horace G. Hayden Second
Vice President, the position formerly &C.
cupied by Mr.. Depew.
IT was understood in Washington that
ex-Congressman George H. jerks, of Penn
sylvania, who was rendered the Assistant
Secretaryship of the Interior Department,
had decided to accept.
THE composition of the new British
Cabinet was partially settled on the 18th
as follows: The Marquis of Salisbury,
Prime Minister and Secretary of State for
the Foreign Department; Sir Michael E.
Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Excheuuer:
Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of
State for India; Sir Richard Assheton
Cross, Secretary of State for the Home
Department; Right Hon. Edward Gibson,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland; Right Hon.
William Henry Smith will probably be
Secretary of War; Colonel Frederick
Stanley, Secretary Of the Colonies; Wis
count Cranbrook, probably, Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland; Sir Stafford Northcote,
Lord President of the Council.
REPORTS from the Indian Territory state
that Bill Williamson, Pete Moon and
George Morgan. members of a gang of
desperadoes and horse and cattle thieves.
were overtaken by vigilance committee
near Healton and hanged to a tree.
BEN MACE, the well known driver of
t-otting horses and brother of the late Dan
Mace, died at Stamford, Conn.,, recently.
A LARGE party of Mexican journalists
left the City of Mexico on the 18th on a
tour through the United States.
The steamer Guyandotte, of the Old
Domizion Steamship Line, which was
lying at her pier in the North River, New
York, was sunk the other morning by the
of two firemen, who pulled o
twelve-inch plug from the bottom of the
vessel. The damage amounted $50 zoe.
GERMANS residing in Paris we're very
much irrisated at the expressions of Joy
used bysssne of the Journals in speaking
of the death of the distinguished German
Generals, Prince Frederick Charles and
Baron Won Nanteuffel.
IMMENSE r,mbers of icebergs were met
by the German bark Marguerite on a re-
cent voyage from Scotland to Quebec.
THE boiler in she saw mill of J. 7. Doal,
near Wakefield Station, Va, on the Nor
folk & WesterR Railroad, exploded re-
Gently, killing Saka Tucker and injuring
men, ORE of them fatally.
c. - Buddensick. whose row of tene-
Inent houses on SixS-second street, New
York. fell some timessgo, killing one of his
employee was fopuS guilty of man
slaughter IN the second degree, by a jury. |
The penalty is from one 10 fifteen years in |
the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial 4
was entered
Two of the Brunn (AIssra) rioters have .
were leaving the town.
AN explosion in the Pensslebery colliery, |
near Manchester, Eng, on the 18th, caused /
A number of miners to be Imprisoned. 1
Twenty two dead bodies were recovered,
and many of the miners were unaoeouuted /
or. Efforts were being made foy their
'escue.
The French Minister of Marine has Off
ia dispatches confirming the news of the
oss pf the French gunboat Renard. The 4
&enarG foundered in terrible cyclone
which recently swept the Gulf of Alden.
on board, 1T persons. persisted.