The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-21

THE appraisers appointed under the vii
of Wendell Phillips have made at BostoI
return of his property to the Probate Court
The total valae they find to be SS,362, con
sisting of a S3S real and 81 ,0A personal.
large number of securities are returned a
probably worthless.
CHIEF PoUNDMAKER captured train o
provisions bound for Battieford- Thirty
one teams and twenty-one teamsters wer'
captured. Ten teamsters escaped. Th'
train was within thirteen miles of Battle
ford.
| A STRANGE report came from the hom,
of Frelinghuysen regarding his sickness
It was that during last February he dranl
corrosive sublfmate out of a mineral water
bottle. The bottle contained the poisor
when it was filed with tho mineral water
| CHARLES H. RUGG, the negro who muir
dered Mrs. Maybe and daughter, Annie
at Brookville, L. l., and who, within few
weeks after, nearly killed the aged Mr.. and
Mrs. Townsend, at Oyster Bay, and the
sexagenarian, Seeley Sprague, at East
Meadow, was hanged at Long Island City
on the 18th.
The municipal authorities of Paris were
urging the Government to grant amnesty
! to political prisoners.
Sac; SALVADOR has demanded of Guate
mala an indemnity of S10,00O,000 for the
recent war, and will also insist on the dis
membarment of that country.
THE business portion of the village of st,
Charles, Mimi, burned recently. Losses,
$4,000.
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Brazos County, Tex. 4 mob opposed to
convict labor attacked the guards and re-
leased the prisoners. Governor Ireland
offered 500 reward for the arrest of any
one Of the leaders OF the mob.
WILHELM HUFF, an anarchist, recently
wrote to the Swiss Government, threaten
ing to blow up the federal palace at Geneva.
He was arrested, and refusing to answer
questions, was conveyed to prison, where
he hanged himself.
AT Shagrin Falls, near Cleveland, O., a
team of horses RAP away with Spencer
Chamberlin, his wife and child. The man
was killed and his wife and child fatally
hurt.
HENRY LEwIsToN's house at Owatonna,
Mimi, was burned the other night. Five of
his children perished in the flames, although
he made frantic efforts to rescue them.
FATHER MOULIN, Parish Priest, was
asked as to the loss of the rebels in the
fighting at Batouche. He gave them as
fifty-o killed and 113 wounded.
JOHN MIDDLETON, chief of the notorious
Middleton gang, who has been missing for
ten days, was found drowned in the Potean
ortS ArI-
1t was thought he lost his life while at
tempting to swim the river on horse back.
TIE German Reichstag closed its session
on the 18th.
THE revised edition of the Old Testa-
ment was Issued on the 18th. The Arch
bishop of Canterbury was the first person
to receive copy.
THE Louisville Agricultural works made
an assignment recently. The assets and
liabilities were unknown.
THE appropriation for the payment of
bounty to volunteers, their widows and
legal heirs and for the pay OF two and
three year volunteers has been exhausted.
THE committee appointed to count the
cash in the Treasury completed their work
Oh the 10Th. The finished and unfinished
notes in the Bureau OF Printing and En-
craving corresponded with the Treasury
books.
AT Cleveland, O., recently, a fire in
building belonging to the Cleveland Pro-
vision Company caused the death of a Mrs.
Sawyer and little boy three years of
age.
The business failures for week ended
May IA were: United States, 2O3; Canada,
26; total OF 229, as against 24S the week
previous. The casualties We're pretty
evenly divided among the different Sec
tionS.
NEAR Macon, Mich, nine persons were
poisoned by eating trichina in pork. One
died and it was thought impossible the
others could live.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai says: Ma
tive officials here received news from
Pekin that negotiations between France
and China FOR treaty of peace have come
to deadlock. France having made de-
mands which China is unable to concede.
THE British steamer Numidia was in col
lision off Durleston Head, Eng, recently,
with the steamer Messina. Ten Of the lat
ter's crew were drowned. The NuInidia's
bows were stove in.