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

! Pennsylvania. The disease was due to
! famine and filth, most of the laboring pop
ulation being out of employment.
COLONEL ANGEL RODRIGUEZ of the party
of Limbano Sanchez and six bandits be-
| longing to the party of Tore Jiminez have
been shot at Mantanzas. They were cap
tured while negotiating for outward pas
sage.
GoRsUCH, the Anarchist, addressed the
strikers in the public square at Cleveland,
o., again on the 18th. The red flag was
waved and the use of dynamite recon-
mended.
THE Social Purity Society, of London,
was agitating recently for a new trial of
Mrs. Jefreys, for the purpose of securing
a public disclosure of the names of poll
ticians and noblemen who frequented her
house.
THE Smith court martial at Washington
completed its work on the 18th and the
court was temporarily adjourned. The
findings would be sent to the President for
his approval or disapproval.
ACTING SECRETARY FAIRCHILD recently
directed that supplemental competitive
examination be held at the Treasury for
the purpose of filling seven vacancies of
the grade of cadets in the Revenue Marine
Service.
A TERRIBLE explosion of gas took place
in the West End Coal Company mines at
Mockaeua, fifteen miles from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, the other morning. Twelve miners
were reported killed and several others
dangerously injured.
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demic at Bridgeport, a mining village of
Pennsylvania. The disease was due to
famine and filth, most of the laboring pop
ulation being out of employment.
THE French revenue returns for the past
seven months recently made public, showed
that the protective legislation had failed to
exclude foreign sugars.
THE reports of cholera from all of the in
fected districts of Spain for the 18th showed
6,646 new cases and 3, 100 deaths.
RECENT advices from Deadwood say that
water-spout struck Lone Tree Creek near
Chadron, OAK, flooding the valley and
drowning four men, two children and a
number of horses, besides washing away
several hundred yards Of newly finished
railroad grade.
THE Union Pacific Railroad issued an
order on the 18th reducing the number of
working hours from ten to eight hours a
day and cutting down work on Saturdays
to four hours a day. A strike was thought
to be imminent.
FRANK and John Donahue were buried
beneath a fall of earth in stone quarry at
Youngstown, O., recently. The former was
disemboweled and lived only short time.
The injuries of the latter were believed to
be fatal.
STRIKERS and officers had fight at Bay
iured. The riot occurred in resisting ar
rest.
The stock of the Nashville (Tenn.) Sad
dlery Company was injured by fire the
other night to the amount of So, 900; fully
covered by insurance.
a DESTRUCTIVE cyclone occurred in
Northern New York on the afternoon of
the 18th. NorTood, st. Lawrence County,
was greatly damaged and eight lives were
reported lost,
THE Greenwood Iron Works, operated
by the PARROT Iron Company, at Green
wood, n. Y, shut down the other night.
The liabilities are said to be from 100000
to 500, 900 with assets of 100000. Five or
six thousand dollars are due the employees.
The firm of J. S. Martin & Son, whole
sale grocers, $50 Chestnut street, Philadel-
phia, have suspended payment.
LETTERS from Suakim say that the
troops are dying like flies. The officials,
however, will not report such o condition
of affairs.
NINETY young ladies took the veil at the
Mattenckrodt convent, Wilkesbarre, Pa,
one morning recently, under the direction
af Bishop O'Hara. The ladies were from
various towns and cities in this country
and Europe.
THE family of Daniel Ashbaugh, Jr.,
near New Philadelphia, O., were poisoned
recently by eating toadstools. One boy
died and the mother and a young child
were not expected to live. Two girls
named Richardson from the Dayton Or
phsns' Home, who were visiting the fam
lily, were also in a critical condition.
The United States Treasury Department
has authorized the American Express Com
psHy to receive the baggage of passengers
from Europe upon arrival in New York to
be forwarded Immediately in bond without
examination to the principal ports of en-
try in the United States and Canada, where
the duties, if any. will be assessed.
A CASE of leprosy was reported at Hong
Lees laundry, Chicago, recently. On in
quiring for the leper, the Cinnamon in the
house said he had gone away, they did not
know where.
THE Montreal Local Board of Health has
L., A.
city.
Ak obnoxious tenant on a farm near
Clonkerry, Ireland, was terribly beaten
the other night by raiders who fired pistols
on their departure.
GEORGE and Henry Martels. aged TWEEN
ty-one and twelve years, driving in a |
wagon, were run down by an express |
train at HobOken- n. j., and both killed.
COTTON crop reports from nearly every |
section of Texas indicated considerable |
damage from drouth within the past few
days.
PROF. RILEY has received information |
from Montana Territory that grasshoppers /
Of both the migratory and nor-migratory
species are swarming in that section, and !
that they are about moving East in large
Swarns- +
The record vault of the Columbus( Kan) !,
Court House was destroyed by dynamite
On the morning of the 18th. The records
had been saturated with coal oil before the +
explosion, and the loss was irreparable.
No clue existed as to the perpetrator. {