The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-22
HISCELLANEOUs

THE boiler in large cotton ginning es-
tablishment at Tuscumbia, Ala, exploded
the other night. The building was blown
to atoms, and John Starr, the fireman, was
| killed, and Thomas Nichols, a bystander,
fatally injured.
| HOPT, sentenced at Salt Lake on the 18th
for the fourth time for murder in the first
| degree, will be shot November "a
REPORTS received at the Marine Hospital
| Bureau, Washington, show that yellow
fever is epidemic in Caracas; that cholera
is decreasing in Spain and is extnguished
in Valencia; that smallpox is raging in
Buenos Ayres with alarming fatality; and
that yellow fever has appeared in AGA
pulco.
TIE Spanish expedition from Fernando
Pc, an island on the West Coast of Africa,
has entered the Naha River and declared
Spanish sovereignty on both banks of the
river.
JOHN DEvEREAUx, charged with at
tempting to blow up the saloon of James B.
Rodgers, No. 1917 Callowhill street, Phil
adelphia, on the morning of August 20
last, has been sentenced to pay a fine of
$500 and to undergo Imprisonment of two
and a half years.
OPERATIONS have been resumed in all the
departments of the sheet mill of the Read
ing (Pa.) iron works, a compromise having
been effected with the puddlers who struck
recently for an advance. The manage
ment agreed to grant the advance.
ADIsASTRoUS fire occurred at Frederick
ton, N. B., recently, resulting in the de-
struction of Morrison's sawmill twelve
adjoining tenement houses and 100000
feet of lumber. Thirteen families were left
homeless. The total loss was $4,000
WILLIAM Common was arrested at
Weatherford, Tex, recently, charged with
fence cutting.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
the village of Sand Bank, near Oswego, n.
Y, was burned the other night. Two
churches were DESTROYED.
FULLY 1000 Select Knights were in line
in the procession held by the Conclave of
the Ancient Order of United Workmen at
Topeka on the 14th.
WILLIAM A. VINCENT, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of New Mexico, re-
Gently appointed Stephen w. Dorsey a
member of commission to draw grand
which act he was suspended from office by
the President.
DIPHTHERIA was reported raging at Eau
Claire, Wis, i'll a malignant form. The
Mayor and the Board of Health closed the
west side schools, four in number.
The Postmaster-Generalh has decided that
the department was under no obligation to
deliver mail matter thrown into its collec-
ton boxes by Wells, Fargo g. Co. 1t APP
pears that it has been the practice of the
express company to transport letters as far
as their lines extend and then place them
in the United States mails for delivery.
In Barnes County, OAK, a woman and
child named Stanton were burned to death
while trying to escape from prairie fire.
The hopes entertained of the peaceful
settlement of the Roumelian question have
been shattered by the receipt of a dis
patch from Constantinople, stating the
conference has formally declared that the
Porte has disavowed the Bulgaro- Rou-
melian union. Further news was awaited
with considerable anxiety.
AN ultimatum has been sent to King
Theebaw, of Burmah, ordering him to re-
duce the claim against the Bombay Trad /
ing Company, to remove the restrictions /
against English traders and accept a Brit |!
ish resident at Mandelay. Gunboats have |
been ordered to Rangoon to await orders |
to enforce the Governments demand by a |
at Mandelay.
1T was understood in London that the |
sentence of death passed on Louis Riel, |
the leader of the half-breed rebellion in |
Canada, would be commuted to lifelong /
servitude.
The Secretary of the Interior heard an
by attorneys for the Kansas Pa
eifie Railroad Company on a motion to re-
yoke an order made by the department
staying the issue of patents for lands in
Kansas claimed by that company.
Ii was thought in st. Louis on the 11th
hat the street car strike would prove a
failure.
The cholera in Spain continues to drag
IN, averaging go cases and 100 deaths
laliy- In Palermo, Sicily, on the 18th
here were so new cases and 40 deaths.
AT Bombay recently house fell kiIl-
ng sixteen persons and iniu-:.g many
theirs.
A RUMoR was current in Athens on the
9th that Prince Alexander, at the head of !
n army, was marching from Philippopslis
oward AdrianopIe.