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

| 4th that the deputatlon or cattIemen WOulO
not succeed in convincing the President
that modification of the forty-day order
to vacate the Cheyenne and Arapahoe res
ervatiOns was necessary. The President
was described as being fixed in his deter
minatiOn to have the lands vacated in the
time named.
AN Austin (Tex.) special says: The
complaint to President Cleveland by
Kansas cattlemen leasing lands in the In
dian Territory that Texas is already
stocked to its utmost capacity, sounds
strange in the face of the fact that there
are 100000 acres of school and univer-
sity lands subject to sale and lease in
Texas.
A BAND of eighty three negroes from
Virginia few weeks since camped in the
mountains near Huntington, Pa. Recently
they took a man and wife, and stripping
them, tied them to trees, subjecting them
to brutal indignities. The negroes were
reported to have committed other out
RACES and the people were in considerable
| alarm.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany, fearing that the strikers would forci-
bly, prevent the sending out of trains, re-
Gently requested the Mayor of Pittsburgh,
Pa, to send a squad Of police to the juno
ton at Glenwood. The police arrested
eight men and remained in the company s
yard to prevent an outbreak.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently wrote a
letter to a Cincinnati man, who confessed
to recommending an unworthy person for a
| judgeship, a bitter letter of denunciatiou of
such treachery and deceit in misleading the
Administration.
! A DISPATCH from Vienna to the London
| Telegraph says Austria has formally no.
titled the United States Government that
Mr.. Kelley is not acceptable as American
Minister to Austria, and has expressed the
! hope that he will be recalled and another
| appointment be made.
DURING a heavy thunder storm at
Corona, Spain, recently, a church was
struck by lightning during the celebration
of the mass. Two of the worshipers were
killed and fifteen others were badly
wounded.
A BANQUET was given by Cyrus W.
Field at London on the 9TH in celebration
of the twenty-seventh anniversary of the
! completion of the first Atlantic cable.
Chief Justice Waite, Senator Hawley and
other prominent Americans were present
THE village of Milford, Wis, was almost
destroyed by fire the other night. 1t was
the fourth fire in short time and was
! thought to have been incendiary.
THROUGHOUT Spain on the 4th 1882 new
! cases of cholera were reported and 1910
deaths from that disease. The populace
in Granada brutally assaulted several
doctors who had declined to give more at
tention to patients.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN was informed re-
Gently of an undOubted outbreak of pleuro-
pneumonia in n herd of sixty thoroughbred
cattle at Port Richmond, Staten Island.
Four or five valuable animals died. The
Commissioner wrote to the Governor of
New York asking whether he will cooper
ate with the department in quarantining
the herd.
A MOB of negroes fred large number of
bullets into the house of a colored preacher
named Countee, at Memphis, Tenn, re-
Gently. Countee had been a member of
one of the secret societies, but resigned and
began denouucing them. Members of this
society take an oath not to divulge the
removed and their brains exposed to the
rays of the scorching sun.
THE Directors of the Mountain Company
(Mt. McGregor) are talking of leading a
movement, after the popular subscription
to the Grant monument shall have been
made, for cutting in the granite face of the
hill colossal profile of the General fin
ishing his book. The estimated cost is
about 100000.
CoFFEY COUNTY, KAN, has been much
exercised over the mysterious disappear
ance of the County Treasurer, D. V. Mott
He was reported to have had $4,000 on his
person when last seen in Kansas City, July
%, when he was supposed to be on his way
to Topeka to settle the June accounts with
the State Treasurer. A curscry examina-
ton of his books was reported to have
shown deficiency of $4,000.
CHRISTIAN SCHEUCK, Adolph HevIer and
Martin Hughler were struck and killed by
freight train at Engleside station, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad recently.
THERE were ,e94 new cases of cholera
lSPOA bcO Throughput SPAIN on the oh, ana
1,63S deaths.
MYRTLE Ross, a handsome and respecta-
bic young lady of Cleveland, made arrange
ments to wed Samuel Smith recently. The
guests assembled, bat Samuel did not APP
pear. 1t has since been learned that he
fed the city and that he had wife in Me-
dina, n. Y.
The Phoenix Distillery, Chicago. was de-
stroyed by fire recently. Loss, 100000.
YELLOW fever has appeared at Mazatlan
and Tehuantepec, Mexico At the former
place the disease is not violent and the
physicians have good success in treating
it. At Tehuantepec efforts are being made
by the municipal authorities to stamp out
the fever.
DETECTIVES have now ascertained that
Robert Farquharson, the defaulting Dublin
Manager of the Munster Bank, sailed for
Spain on the night of his fight from Dub
lin.
A SEVERE hail storm occurred the other |
morning between Elba and North Loup. |
Neb., destroying corn and other crops in a |
strip of territory ten miles wide. 1t broke !
all the windows in a passenger train on |
the Black Hills Branch of the Union Pa
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