The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-11

THE Delaware peach growers were re-
ported uneasy at the great fall of young
fruit, resulting from wet weather. They
fear the crop will be greatly curtailed.
THE weekly statement of the Bank of
France shows an increase in gold of L.
$4,000 francs, and in silver of 4,169, zoo
francs.
EARLY on the morning of the 4th, burg
lars were discovered breaking open the
safe of Barley & Co., at Sedalia, Mo. In
attempting the arrest of one of them a po-
liceman named Fifer was shot through the
mouth and neck. Fifer succeeded in shoot
ing the burglar through the heart The re-
naming three burglars escaped. The dead
man was discovered to be Edward Kerfoot,
formerly of Otterville, Mo.
Poor people were being evicted from the
! Slade mill tenements at Fall River, Mass.
| They had been out of work long time,
and were unable to pay rent.
THE assignees of R. H. Hiner & Co., the
Highland, ILL.,, bankers, who failed few
weeks ago, filed recently with the County
| Clerk at Edwardsville, their inventory,
which is summarized as follows: Assets,
! good, S227 ,269; doubtful, SOS, 10; desperate,
THE graduating exercises of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Nd, occurred on
the 9th. Addresses were delivered to the
graduating class by Prof. Sumner of Yale,
| and by Secretary of the Navy Whitney,
who also delivered the diplomas to all the
honor men of the class.
A LETTER from the Bishop of Tonquin
announces that the black flags are ravag-
ing the provinces of Sontay, Houghoa and
Tuyanquan, although these provinces are
occupied by French troops. Thirty Chris
tan villages have been destroyed.
AN increasing bad feeling between the
French and Italians was reported at Tunis
and several fracases had occurred. French
officers openly melted their men to use
swords in repelling the insults of the Ital-
ians.
CHOLERA was reported increasing at
Valencia, Spain. Forty five per cent of
those attacked died.
AN official dispatch from Serinagur,
Cashmere, gives the number of killed and
wounded by the recent earthquake in that
city as 81 killed and 100 wounded.
DIR. CRAFTS, a physician of Kansas City,
committed suicide recently by taking NOR
phine. He was in domestic difficulties,
having divorce suit pending.
BUSINESS failures for week ended June
4: United States, 1917; Canada, %; total,
223; compared with 206 the week previous.
The failures in every section of the country
were comparatively light except in the
South, where the number noted, g., was
far in excess of the average.
FIN and Mans Rainsbarger were lynched
recently at Eldora, Iowa The affair grew
out of a feud in Hardin County, in which
man named Johnson was murdered. The
murder spirit was reported very rife in the
county.
1T was reported at Bradford, VT, that
Ex-Governor Hale, of New Hampshire, had
failed for large amount and that all his
property in Vermont had been attached for
four times its value.
ALFRED c. MoHR, clerk in the Canajo-
harie On. " Post-office, was arrested at
Washington recently for stealing and pill
fering letters. His depredations were ex-
tensive. He made full confession.
GENERAL CROOK recently telegraphed
that the Indians had killed seven men neal
Alma, five near Silver City, two near old
Camp Vincent and three near Grafton, n.
NJ. 1t was also probable that the Apaches
had killed others.
RAYMOND SCHWARTZ, the alleged dishon-.
est post office clerk, who fled from Hams
pooh, Bohemia, with moneys belonging to
the Government, was held recently at New
York for extradition.
THE young Earl Cairns, Lord Gar
moyle) of the celebrated breach of prom
Use suit of Fortescue VS.. Garmoyle, as
sumed his place in the House of Lords on
the 9Th, as son and successor to the title of
the late Earl Cairns.
JOHN H. AUFDMARLE, for seventeen
years a confidential redemption clerk in
the United States Subtreasury at New Or
leans, has absconded with several thousand
dollars of the Governments money.
THE strike on the Kentucky Central
Railway ended on the 9Th, the engineers
having agreed to accept ten per cent. re-
duction, being satisfied that the state of
business justified it.
The injunction suit of r. c. Lewis ct al.
VS.. the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the District Commissioners at
w Washington, to restrain the telegraph |
company from erecting a pole line on
Seventh street, was decided in the Equity |
Court in favor of the plaintiff.