The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

EVIDENCE at the inquest showed that
young Schock, of the United States Navy,
who shot himself at Blackheath, London,
recently, did SO from mental alteration,
due, probably, to unrequited love.
In an attack on the hostiles on the Blue
River, Arizona, on the 18th, the troops were
forced to retreat, after having three men
wounded.
WILLIE PRENTICE shot his father dead
the other night at Orange, Mass. The
father while in drunken fit ordered his
son to shoot at cup which he held on his
head.
THE President has appointed Edward
Campbell, Jr., to be United States Marshal
for the Southern District of Iowa.
JAMES NELSON DAY, late confidential
clerk for Martin & Runyan, bankers, No.
100 Broadway, New York, has been found
short in his accounts to the amount of $50,-
600. Day confessed and stated he lost the
money in Wall street.
PERUVIAN insurgents under Colonel Ro-
nero, were reported to have captured Tru-
jillo.
THREE separate cyclones, which proved
very destructive, occurred at Nortonville,
COTS and Frankfort, in Northeastern
Kansas, on the 9th. Four persons were
injured, three probably fatally.
A TENEMENT house fire at 9S East Fourth
street, New York, created great excitement
recently. The building was occupied by
twenty families, but all were rescued,
though some were rendered insensible by
the Smoke.
THE assets of James S. Fish, late Presi-
dent of the defunct Marine Bank, were sold
the other day at New York. His seat in
the Produce Exchange brought $3.50, and
two Tammany Society bonds, valued at
500 each, due in August, 1887, sold at
S9I2, $50.
A DISPATCH from Fort Bayard, N. NJ, of
the 9th says: Indians are leaving their
reservations daily. The number of In
dams doing the killing during the last ten
days is said by military authorities to have
been only 1874, thirtyfour bucks, eight
half grown boys and ninety-two squaws.
Outside reports indicate many more.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered the
United States vessels at Aspinwall, with
the exception of the Tennessee, to proceed
to Key West and await further orders.
Admiral Jouett was instructed to remain
with the Tennessee for the present to watch
American interests on the isthmus.
A DISPATCH from Battleford SAYS: Chief
Poundmaker surrendered Internationally
to General Middleton. Poundmaker and
thirty braves are prisoners and will be held
to await the action of the Government.
MARGARET BROOKS and her daughter
were sentenced in Philadelphia recently to |
four months imprisonment, the mother for |
being common scold aud the daughter |
for contempt of court.
THREE women and six children were |
drowned in the Canyon, nine miles east of |
Indianola, Neb., on the night of the 10Th.
THE British steamer Alert sailed from |
Halifax, n. s., on the 9th, on a scientific
expedition to the Hudson Bay.
A FRAME tenement house in Jersey CITY
collapsed on the morning of the 9th. Three
jured. Five families lived in the house and
the accident was thought to be due to the
rotting of the piles supporting the building.
AT Charleston, W. Va, recently the
brake band of the Kanawha Mining Com
pany's incline, 800 feet long, broke and two
car loads of miners were carried down the
mountain at great speed. Three men were
killed, one was fatally hurt, and number
slightly injured.
MILLIONS of young grasshoppers are re-
ported coming out of the sandy soil on the
south side of the Arkansas River above
Pueblo, Col, destroying early vegetables.
FIVE or six murders had occurred in
Knott County, KY, up to the 2sth. conse-
bat uou |
Jones factions. Accounts to the above date
showed the Hall party surrounded by their
enemies in house, from which it appeared
improbable they could escape alive. =.
AT Fleming, n. NJ, on the 2Sth, a courier
brought news of battle betwe cen the troops
and ,Apaches in Coates Canon, through
which the Indians attempted to retreat into
Mexico. Four soldiers and eight Indians
were killed.
A TWO story frame building on jackson
avenue, in Long Island City, n. Y, fell
with a loud crash early the other morning.
1t had been condemned by the Board of
Health, and several families living on the
second floor had been driven out the day
previous.
IT was reported on the 18th from British
dissatisfied with the land and timber regu-
ations of the Dominion Government, and s
would resist encroachments by armed {
force.
DURING thunderstorm recently at Hen
ierson, KY, Richard L. Moore, of Chicago,
while standing on the bridge was struck by {
lightning and was supposed fatally in '
ured. Several others were also shocked. t
The City of Rome run down the French &
ishing bark George Jeanne, off the coast of {
newfoundland, during heavy fog recent {
y. Twenty-Five fishermen were drowned, @
'nly two escaping, although strenuous
Efforts We're made to rescue the unfor- I
innate fishermen when the accident hap L
,ened. {
CONSIDERABLE damage was caused by c
loud burst recently in Evansville, Ind, d
n the northern part of the city. Il
MYRIADs of locusts were reported in
northeastern Arkansas. The wheat crop I
vas suffering most from their depreda- u
ions. =
THE French Government on the 18th or =
Tered the priests to quit the Pantheon,
where Victor Hugo was to be buried, with Y
n forty eight hours Many of the news =
'apers denounced the order.
A cAs of benzine exploded recently in a g,
ive-story building, Second and Market :
treets, Philadelphia. Two other explo- n
ions followed, the walls being blown out
l woman on the sidewalk was killed bv q
he falling walls. Ayoung man was badly =
urned and many had narrow escapes. ),
.Oss, $4,000. T