The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-03

A GREAT sensation has been caused in
Lima by the receipt of telegram an
nouncing that General Caceres, with his
| entire army, had surprised and occupied
the town of Chicla on the 23d inst. After
bis return across the river at Huaripama,
followed bv the Government troops, Cace-
res circumvented the latter by completely
cutting off the Government expeditionary
force.
a MEETING of the French Chamber of
Commerce has been called to discuss the
subject of the prohibition of American
salted viands, it being alleged that Amer
lea has decided to impose d fresh tax on
French silks, wine and other produce.
r. II. PARKS, the sculptor, of Chicago,
went to Indianapolis on the 26th to take
plaster cast of the face of the late Vice
President Hendricks. Mrs. Hendricks WAS
in receipt of telegraphic condolences from
all parts of the country.
A PETARD exploded the day after Alton
SOS death under a cafe in a street adjoin-
ing the Puerto del Sol, Madrid. Windows
in the vicinity were shattered and three
persons injured The explosion caused
great alarm. Fourteen arrests have been
made.
AT a meeting of the directors of the
Keely Motor Association in Philadelphia,
recently, it was said that the discoveries
would be submitted to g committee for ex-
animation.
GEORGE EVERETT, a retired Boston mer-
chant, committed suicide in Concord,
Mass, recently, by inhaling chloroform.
No cause was known.
EVACUATION day was celebrated in New
York City on the 18th by the hosting of
flags on the public buildings, the battery
and the old fort in Central Park.
The French Chamber of Deputies re-
fused a motion to adjourn in respect to the
memory of Alfonso, on the ground that it
would probably have to pay such a tribute
to Emperor William.
THE British steamer Aurora was wrecked
near Hartlepool, Eng, recently. The crew
were saved.
THE three-masted schooner Highland
Maid, of Port Stanley, Ont, was found bot
tom up on Lake Erie recently. Nothing
was known of Captain Oliver and his two
sons, who sailed the vessel.
AT the London wool sales on the Goth,
1900 bales, chiefly Sydney, Port Philip,
were disposed of. Prices were firm.
BY the caving in of quantity of earth
in a twenty y-fve-foot cut on the Wisconsin
Central Railways new Chicago line, at
Milwaukee, 0 workman named George
Schaefer was smothered to death and an
other so badly injured that there was little
hope of saving his life.
QUITE a number of men were badly hurt
in riot at Neil's coal mines, near Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the morning of the 9th,
growing out Of the strike in the fourth
pool.
RECENT telegrams from Calcutta an
nounce the breaking out of e rebellion at
Nepaul. The Premier has been murdered
and the Maharajah of the province has
been taken prisoner. The British Resident
was absent on tour of inspection.
WHILE Charles Struck and two others,
employed 80. the Risdon Iron Works, at
San Fran,.5co, were hosting heavy cast
iugs the derrick chain came in contact
with an electric light wire aud Struck in
stantIy dropped dead. The man next to
him was knocked insensible, while the
third one received quite a severe shock.
TIE Albany IN. W Supreme Court has
refused to set aside the injunction granted
in Syracuse preventing the sale of the West
Shore Road to the New York Central.
NEAR San Bernardino, Cal, the other
night, Thomas Stanton, while cooking his
supper, was approached by four Indians,
who demanded whisky. Having none to
give them, he was numerically beaten,
then held over his fire and roasted alive
His legs were burned to o crisp and he was
fatally injured.
The execution of the eight Indians found
guilty of rebellion and murder in the Cam
adian Northwest Territory took place at
Bettieford on the morning of the 9th.
FULLER details from the wreck of the
steamer Emma Graham, near Ripley's
Landing, O., show that Fireman Mylo
Cooper was drowned. Several deck hands
were also missing, but il was not known
positively that they were lost.
A WEST bound freight train collded with
a tea train from the Pacific coast, on the
Northern Pacific Railway, thirteen miles
east of Missoula recently. The tea cars
were wrecked, AID it is reported that three |
persons were killed and others badly in-
jured. No names were given.
DAN MCALIsTER, otherwise known as
Peoria Dam" life convict at the pen-
tentiary at Joliet, H., escaped the other |
day.