The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-23
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bezzlement of S147 800, and the others wit
forging the stock of the company and ut
tering the same.
ANOTHER dynamite outrage occurred o.
; the railroad track at Denver on the 10th
No one was killed or injured, but the ca
which exploded the dynamite was wrecked
together with two others.
ADMIRAL CALDER and NJ. De Lessep
have submitted to the French Minister o
Public Works a scheme for a canal from
Havre to Marseilles, utilizing the river
Seine, Saone and Rhone. The canal,
is proposed, shall be navigable by til
largest ironclads.
BUSINESS failures for week ended July
Is number: United States, 209, Canada
10; total, Do, as compared with 2S5 TIA
week previous.
THE Alert, which left Halifax for the re
lief of the Hudson Bay Station, has beer
compelled to put into st. Johns for re
pairs, having been seriously damaged by
heavy ice north of Cape Best.
IT was estimated in st. Louis that %
wine and beer saloons had been closed sine,
July l, under the operation of the hfgi
license law, and that some 400 more, o.
about one-quarter of all the saloons in tn,
! city, would shut up in few days.
The British House of Commons mega
tived without division Mr.. Parnell's mo.
ton to inquire into the conduct of Ear
| Spencer in ireland.
JOSEPH J. CoTTRINGER, recently on tria
in Philadelphia for forging Sl47 800 of stock
certificates, received a sentence of fouI
years solitary confinement.
EXECUTIONS were issued at Sharon, Pa.
| against the Wheeler Iron Company
amounting to over $4,000. Dizziness OF
trade was supposed to have caused the
failure.
THE decree divorcing the Marquis De
Caux from Nine. Patti, the great prima
donna, has been pronounced in Paris.
IT was stated recently in Madrid that
every one of the fortyseven nuns who
were inoculated by DR.. Ferran had died of
cholera.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
adopted bill imposing retaliatory duties
on Roumanian imports.
A PARTY of Cacerists were defeated at
Pisco, Peru, July ID, but they got away
with the custom house cash.
THE grocery house of Thurber, Whyland
& Co., Thomas street, New York, was
burned out the other night. Loss, $100, 900.
SIX children were burned to death in a
two-story log house occupied by Joseph
Evans, near Grahamton, Clearfield County,
Pa The father made desperate efforts to
rescue his children, but without avail.
Mrr fa1a
Gently from GAINESVILLE, Mimi, that he
had brought from Manitoba, under ARE st,
Lars GunderSon,, late postmaster at Cum
berland, Wis. About three months ago
Gunderson absconded, leaving deficit of
5000 in his money order account.
The British steamer Willingale, Captain
Davis, which sailed from Madras May 80
for Boston, was badly wrecked June u off
Cape Gardifui. The Captain and part of
the crew were drowned.
THE ham sewing employees at Armour's
packing houses at Chicago, struck for an
increase in wages recently. Men were put to
work in the strikers places at the old prices.
When the new men were returning from
work they were attacked and three of them
badly beaten.
THE Bay View Fish-plate Mills at Mil
waukee, Wis, employing one hundred
men, started up the other morning.
THE people of Winnipeg celebrated the
return of the Canadian troops by a grand
torchlight procession and display of fire.
works on the 18th. Many thousands, in
Guiding the military, took part in the pro-
cession. The streets were thronged with
people.
MARY KLEEMAN, on trial recently in Chi
cago for attempting to poison her sisters
family with arsenic, was found guilty and
sentenced to one years Imprisonment.
THE French Governor of Cochin China
telegraphed recently that the military sit
uation in Cambodia was really never dam
gerous and that the French losses since
January amounted to but seventeen killed
and three wounded.
THE naval officers who have been on the
rejected boat Dolphin have been detached
from that vessel and placed on waiting or
ders.
H. F. GAINES, a United States Custom
House official, stated recently in Montreal
that large quantity of whisky was being
struggled into Canada from the United
States between Rouse's Point and Detroit.