The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-23

workmel, when it was struck by an ava.
lanche Of snow and boulders.
The colored people at Washington, OF
the 18th, celebrated Emancipation day il
grand style, by parades and commemora
tive exercises in the Lincoln Memoria
Church.
A BLUNT, OAK, special says: J. Il. Bell
who murdered F. G. Small at Harold las
December, has been lynched.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently sp'
proved the findings in the case Of Haxes
Chief Signal Officer, charged with conduct
preiudicial to military discipline. The
Court finds Hazen guilty, and sentences
him to be reprimanded. The President in
! issuing the order to reprimand comments
upon the demoralizing tendency of unau-
( thorized and captious criticism of superb
/ ors.
| MADDUX Bros, wholesale grocers and
/ dealers in tobacco and cigars, Cincinnati
| have made an assignment. Assets esti-
mated at S1S0, 900; liabilities, Si3O,000
THE New York Assembly has passed the
| bill making a public park at Niagara.
! THE fifth annual meeting Of the Women.
/ Silk Culture Association was held in Phila-
/ delphia on the 10th.
! GENERAL K0sARoFF recently reported
/ that the Afghans had reoccupied all the
( frontier Dosts and the Russian outposts oc-
cupied their former position. The Ameer
was willing to cede Penjdeh in flIrtherance
| of peace, The place had no vital import
ance.
Two masked hiChwaymen stopped the
stage from Vulture to Phoenix, a. T., the
other night and obtained an express box
containing $500.
A LARGE tenement house was burned at
Quebec recently, and three children per-
| ished in the flames.
BUSINESS failures for the week ended
April Is, throughout the country were as
follows: United States, 204; Canada, 1S;
total 222, as against 212 last week and PSI
the week previous.
Two railway trains collided at the cross
ing at Plymouth, Mich, the other day,
killing a large number Of cattle and block
ing the road until noon.
Two persons named Reed and johnson
were arrested recently, by order of the
Government, charged with fraudulently
claiming $3.50 and interest, as sufferers
cruiser Alabama.
THE President has issued proclamation
declaring that the Winnebago Reservation
in Dakota was still Indian land, and that
the settlers who recently doomed" there
must clear out.
TIE report of Sir Peter Lumsden regard
ing the affair on the koosk River says that
Komaroff was aware of the order not to
make any offensive movements. but that
the officer in command of the Russian de-
tachment disclaimed any knowledge OF its
having been issued.
Two Italians named Capron and Santore
were hanged at Thomastown, Me-, recently
for the murder and robbery of fellow
workman on the railroad about eighteen
months ago.
AT a large meeting of Americans in
Paris committee of twelve was appointed
to make arrangements for q complimentary
banquet TO Mr.. Morton, the retiring United
States Minister.
JOSEPH PULITZER, Editor of the New
York ITIorld, has transmitted to Senator
". n. Evarts, Chairman of the Bartholdi
Statue Pedestal Committee, $4,000, re-
CSIN c'l DN Tue ~ OTtC lTOIl --',JIO People 1OT
that fund within the past month.
At recent cabinet council it was def
nitely decided that the President could do
nothing in opening the Oklahoma lands.
The matter was entirely in the hands Of
Congress.
EX-MAYOR De BEvoISE, of Long Island
City, was acquitted of the charge of en-
bezzling $25, ,0O0 worth of city bonds.
IL the United States Court at Cincinnati,
Hon. John F. McKinsey, OF Piqua, o., was
convicted Of having received excessive fees
for collecting pensions. 1t was proven that
he received $l20 for obtaining pension OF
$l,7O0.
INDIAN AGENT tiCGHLICUDDY, of the
Pine Ridge Agency, at his own request, has
been granted permission to go to Washing
ton to reply TO the charges made against
him by Red Cloud.
a NUHBER O. coiored Methodist minis
ters visited President Cleveland the other
day.
IT was feared that fresh trouble would
arise between the French and Chinese
Governments, in consequence OF ex-Pre-
mier Ferry's having tsrdiiy instructed Adj
miral Courbet not TO evacuat3 the Island OF
Formosa-