The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-20

duce the production of steel rails, so as not
to exceed the demand and enable manu-
facturers to make rails at remunerative
prices next year.
UNITEF STATES SENATOR COKE Inaugural
ted the anti-prohibition campaign in Nc
Lennon County, Tex, on the night of the
18th.
NEWS from Guayaquil, Ecuador, of July
%, is to the effect that the volcano of Coto-
paxie was again in state of eruption.
One hundred houses had been destroyed.
The loss of life was not known.
Hop, KEE & Co., of San Francisco, the
largest wholesale Chinese manufacturers
of boots and shoes on the Pacific coast,
have failed. Their liabilities are $4,000;
their assets unknown.
GOVERNMENT agents made another
seizure of crooked whisky at Philadelphia
The plan adopted TO defraud the revenue
was the use of thick slaves opposite the
bunghole, which prevented the gauger GER
tifying to as much whisky as the barrel
really contained. Peoria, ILL.,, distillers
were some of the parties involved.
AT Ithaca, n. Y, recently, a gang of
four laborers on the Cayuga & Lake Shore
branch during heavy rain sought shelter
under an overhanging bluff, when a land
slide fell upon them and buried Mike Nc
Manus, Pat Mahon and Mike Fahey, all of
whom were killed. The fourth man es-
capped.
TEN thousand boys were thrown out of
employment in the Pennsylvania mines by
recent legislation. Their places were filed
by Russians and Poles.
ADvICEs from st. Paul de Loanda, West
Africa, under date of July Is, report that
a petty King, Coanhama HULA, died re-
Gently and the natives attributing his
death to witchcraft of the whites,
massacred twenty Europeans, including
three French missionaries.
A CAvING-IN of one of the lower levels
in shaft No. of the Republic, Mich, mine
recently caused the instant death of Sam
uel Darlington and the serious injury of
Francis Bartele. Darlington was about
twenty five years old and single. Bartele
had leg and collarbone broken.
BOOKER PICKERELL, an insane patient
thirty five years old, from Seward, Neb.,
escaped from the asylum at Lincoln the
other night and fell under a freight train
while trying to get on. He left wife and
three children.
C. P. MCVEY, farmer living near Oak
Grove, No., was shot from ambush the
other morning, but was not dangerously
hurt, the shot being only a flesh wound.
Much bad feeling exists in the neighbor-
hood, and more bloodshed is expected.
HENRY JOHNSTON and James Rodger,
employees of the new Reading & Pottsville
Railroad, were killed recently at Reading,
Pa, while attempting to board a moving
train. Charles P. Dustin, another employee,
had his head blown off by a flying stone
from a blast.
THE schedules of the assets and liabili-
ties of John Roach show that his liabilities
aggregate 81, 222,S 77; his nominal assets,
s., los, 900; his actual assets, $4,4S1, 14O.
A MAN who has inspected the district in
Chenille, N. Y, damaged ty the recent
storm, says the farmers have lost 100000.
On some farms heavy deposits of rocks
and gravel have forever ruined the fertile
fields.
THOMAS HARTIGAN, a bill poster, of Au-
rora, ILL.,, had for some time lived unhap-
PLY with his wife. The other evening he
stood in his back yard and was seen to
raise a revolver, take deliberate aim and
send bullet into his wife's breast. She
fell dead and he placed the pistol against
his temple and fired, killing himself in
stantly. Whisky and jealousy caused the
CHATTO, an Apache scout, and two of
his companions were killed, recently, in
the State of Sonora, by Lieutenant Davis
and his command. On discovering In
dian signs, Chatto and his companions
made rush for the mountains, but their
treachery resulted as above noted. Chatto
was concerned in the McComas massacre
and surprise was expressed at his being
engaged as scout.
THE British Parliament was prorogued
on the 18th.
The Importation of rags from France has
been prohibited by the British Govern
ment.
AN excursion boat was upset in the har-
Dor at Rouen, France, the other day, and
eight persons were drowned.
SERIOUS gales recently on the Scottish
coast wrecked fishing vessels and barks.
A bark's crew was CALAMITY rescued by
the life boat at Marin.