The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-13

disturbance caused by drunkenness, Proc
tor Arnett was killed, Lee Patrick fatally
wounded and two others injured. Thirty
or forty shots were fired. The men were
all colored.
W. A. ANDERSON, prominent planter,
residing six miles west of Mexia, Tex,
was shot and killed recently by S. c. Lewis,
a tenant. Lewis claims he did the shoot
ing in self-defense.
OFFICER THOMAS BENDER attempted to
arrest an unknown man who was drunk
and disorderly in Pittsburgh, the other
night. The man resisted, and the officer
struck him twice with a hand billy. The
man fell on the pavement and shortly
after died. The officer surrendered him
self and was locked up
Two tourists quarreIed ct the Saratoga
race track the other day and one shot the
other three times. One bali took effect in
the right breast L. is thought the wound
will not be fatal.
A VIGILANCE committee for the purpose
of Furnishing incorrigible boys of Milan,
Ind, iogged the son OF a hotel keeper
severely recently. Masked men admins
tered the medicine. 1t has terrified the
other guilty ones.
A CONFERENCE has been arranged be-
tween Bismarck and N. De Giers, Prime
Minister of Russia, TO take place at Franz
enbad, in Bohemia. in the latter part of
August.
AN excavation alongside the American
Lead-pencil Factory, HobOken, y. j., weak
ened the wall and portion fell the other
evening. Four laborers out of the twenty
two at work were buried beneath the de-
bris. Two were taken out dead.
BRIAN MCGENESS, a puddler, was run
over and killed by train at Youngstown,
o., recently. John Tompkins, a Fort Wayne
brakeman, met a similar fate at Leetonia, o.
J. H. BOONE, proprietor of the Honey
Greek Rolling Mills, Norristown, Pa, has
made an assignment. The collapse is at
tributed to the general depression in trade.
COMMANDER WHDES, of the Yantic, tele-
graphed on the eth to the Navy Depart
ment that he had sailed from Colon for
New Orleans. He also reported that he
seized one of the Panama Railroad Com
pany's vessels, which the revolutionists
had captured and were using, and returned
it to its owners.
The understanding at Washington is
that every cattleman and every other in
dividual who is occupying lands in the In
dian Territory, who is not bona fide resi-
dent there under the law, must get out.
The order against the lessees of Arapahoe
and Cheyenne lands will be enforced first.
Ina row between Oraugemen and evicted
tenants in County Monaghan, Ireland, re-
Gently, the former fired on the latter,
wounding one man.
A SAILOR, recently arrived from Mar
settles, died of cholera at Bristol, Eng, on
the 9Th.
THE Dublin Court of Appeals have
unanimously refused to grant a new trial
in the action for libel brought against
William O'Brien by Crown Solicitor Boil
ton, and in which the former was mulcted
for damages.
IT was thought at Vienna that the Car
and Emperor Francis Joseph would meet in
Kremsier in Moravia about August Il.
THE RepuJlique Franchise states that an
alliance has been concluded between Great
Britain and China for mutual action in
case of war between England and Russia.
THE Etruria's time from New York to
Fastnett, Ireland, where she arrived on the
eth, was days, hours and So minu,es
from New York, the best time ever made.
News was received at Nogales, y. T., re-
Gently that John Desmaque, a we'll known
miner, n former resident of Tombstone,
was killed by the Apaches near Providencia
mine, Cananea Mountains. The body was
completely ridded with bullets.
THE United States authorities at Ell PasO,
Tex, recently made an important capture
in the person of Millinus Luna, the famous
Mexican smuggler. a deputy marshal cap
tured him just as he was about to cross into
Mexico. Luna had struggled over $780,
600 worth of goods into this country and
nearly like amount into Mexico. He was
released on $4,000 bonds.
THREE murderers were hanged at
Raleigh, n. c., on the 9Th.
A MAN named Dempsey, of Hamilton,
accompanied by his sister and her six
year-old child, was crossing the London &
Port Stanley Railway tracks at st. Thomas,
Ont, recently, when a train struck the
buggy in which they iwere riding, killing
them all.
JOSEPH H. ENSIGN, of Dayton, o., Secre-
tary of the Board of Police Commissioners.
has disappeared. Investigation so far
shows that his accounts are short $500.