The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-02

| One stated that a conflict had already oc-
Cured In Afghanistan. There did not ap-
pear, however, any reasons for the extra
excitement, SO far as known the situation
remaining about what it had been for the
! two weeks previous.
THE French under General Degrier suf-
fered a reverse at Dong Dang. In attempt
| ing to capture a redoubt they were re-
pulsed, losing two hundred men.
THE annual reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac will take place IN
Baltimore, May 6 and !. General Calvin
E. Pratt viii deliver the grafton.
TEN firemen were injured by the fall of a
building during fire at Memphis, Tenn.
recently. One was thought to be fatally
! burned and crushed.
DR.. j. j. S. DoHERTY, Registrar of Vital
Statistics, New Haven, Conn.,, has been ar
rested on the charge of making false en-
tries and presenting fraudulent claims.
FIRE in the Ohio Penitentiary at Column
bus recently destroyed Monypenny's
cooper shop and 10000 cigars made by the
convicts. Total loss So, 600; insurance
$4,000.
ORTIZ H. STEIN, on trial in Kansas City
the second time for the murder of George
Fredericks, was acquitted. At his first
trial he was sentenced to twenty five
years. imprisonment, but appealed.
The loss by the Buffalo Music Hall fire
Joseph Green, who lost his life by jump
ing from the cupola OF st. Louis Church,
John Roth, a fireman, was killed.
SAN SALVADOR and Honduras have had
several conflicts growing out of the Bar
rios programme of Central American
unity. Honduras sides with Guatemala
against San Salvador, Nicaragua and
Costa Rica.
The explosion of gas in the coal mines
AT Lebu, Chill, caused the death of thirty
five miners. Thirteen were dangerously
injured.
In the Fish trial at New York, on the
9th, the testimony of General Grant,
taken at his bedside, was presented to
the court. His testimony was to the effect
that he had been hoodwinked and deceived
by Fish.
THE failures in the United States and
Canada for the week ended March 26 num-
bered 2117, as against 25S the previous week.
A STEAM boiler in a lumber mill at Gray
ton, VT, exploded the other evening, kill
ing two men and injuring several others.
THERE was panic on the Paris Bourse
on the 9th.
EARL GRANVILLE, on the 9th, stated
that the British Government was awaiting
an answer from Russia relative to the de-
limitation of the frontier in AfghaniStan.
He stated that the Government, as agreed
upon with the leaders of the Conserva-
tives, would not finch from the alternative
of war if the answer was not favorable.
Rumors existed of a favorable reply from
Russia and also, on the contrary, that
Russia was secretly maSsing troops within
striking distance of Afghanistan. But E
few days would finally settle the question
of peace or war.
FIFTY-sIx men were killed in the mines
belonging to Baron Rothschild at Ostrou,
Moravia, recently, caused by an explosion
of gas.
THE Michigan Carbon Works, situated in
the suburbs of Detroit, were destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 9th. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, S259'OOO.
THE propeller "Wisconsin," about which
many fears were entertained, has been
sighted off Grand Haven, Mich, fast in the
ice, but apparently all safe.
THE general term of the Supreme Court
of New York City has ordered the dis
charge Of Becky Jones, the witness in the
will case sent to Jail nearly
year ago for refusing to answer questions.
FIRE at &C Duane street, New York City,
the other night, DESTROYED the stocks of
four paper and printing houses, doing
Sl17,0 damage.
AN explosion of dynamite the other
seriously damaged the Windsor
hotel, Randolph, Mass. The explosive was
applied by striking shoemakers.
MISS VAN ZANDT has written letter to
the director of the Opera Comique, saying
she will not sing in Paris any more.
A DISPATCH was read in Parliament, at
Ottawa, Canada, on the 9th, stating that
war had commenced in the Northwest
Crozier's party had been fired on and
Twelve killed and many wounded. Troops
we're Immediately ordered to the front by
way of the Canadian Pacific.
NEAL, the last of the Ashland murderers,
over whom SO many lives were lost during
III attempt at lynchins some months ago,
vas hanged at Grayson, KY, on the 9th
He protested his innocence. -. II