The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-29


The general passenger agents of tn
Eastern trunk lines, after protracted dis
cussion at Chicago on the 21st, failed to ar
rive at any agreement for the existing pas
senger rates, and adjourned indefinitely.
THE crofters were shooting deer on the
property of MIR. Winans, the American
millionaire in the Isle of Skye. They were
prompted in the action by motives of ven
/ geance.
! MosT destructive avGlanches occurred
recently in Northern Italy. In two dis
/ tricts alone two hundred lives were lost
The cries of the ent5mbed could be dis.
! tinctly heard in some of the villages thai
were engulfed. Thousands of soldiers were
! at wClk endeavoring to reach the unhappy
/ people.
! GENERAL HATCH surrounded the Okla.
/ homa boomers at Saltwater on the
! odd, with the intention of starving then
out. He allowed no one to approach them
but let every one leave who desired. Nc
| firing was to be done.
! IT was admitted az Philadelphia that the
! Pennsylvania Railroad was cutting west
| bound freight rates, bat the officials say the
company was merely meeting prices quoted
by other lines.
FERDINAND DETTMAN, & wealthy farmer
was sent to the penitentiary from Chicago
the other day for making ten dollar coun-
terfeit notes.
FAMINE was prevailing in the Govern
ments ofArchangel and Valogda, Russia
A COUNCIL BLUFFS special says: Elk.
County Clerk S. D. Scott was arrested here
charged with embezzling $4,000 of the
county's money during his term of office.
4 LITTLE child of Colonel Mindson, OF
Hindsboro, ILL.,, fell out of the upper barn
door, a distance of thirty feet, and was
fatally injured.
CoLER Bros. & Co.'s colliery at Drifton,
Pa, has suspended operations on account
of water. All pumps are in active service.
1t viii take nearly two weeks to remove
the water.
SILAS MCGAUGHNEY, q prominent farmer
living a few miles west of Vincennes, Ind,
was kicked to death recently by a frac-
tious horse.
OK the Narrow Gauge Railroad, between
Cascade and Bellevue, Iowa, a. A. Hamil-
ton, brakeman, while in the act of placing
a switch, got his foot caught in a frog, and
his lower limbs were horribly mangled.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has received a
communication from an American resident
of Nice, France, saying the officers of the
United States steamship Lancaster were
holding high carnival at that place, and had
roundly abused the Secretary of the Navy
for having ordered the vessel to the Congo
The Secretary has written Rear Admiral
English, commanding the Lancaster, for
information on the subject.
AT Washington, Pa, recently, gas was
struck at the Hough well at a depth of
1880 feet, equal to the great Cannonsburg
well. Drilling was being continued end
the flow was increasing.
OLD Liberty Bell was taken down at Phil
adelphia on the 23d and escorted by five
hundred policemen and citizens to the rail-
road depot, from which it was sent to rew
Orleans.
AN Indian named Crooked Foot was
killed during a quarrel at Chamberlain,
OAK, recently by man named John Bader.
FAILURES for the week ended January
~ in the United States, 81; Canada, 40
total, All, compared with a total of 430 last
NNChs 1llti NV UuC NSth prev lOuS.
The Piute Indians were said to be starv-
ing to death on their barren reservation in
Nevada. Not a cent of the Congressional
appropriation $1,000, secured by Senator
Dawes, of Massachusetts, was reported to
have reached them.
EARTHQUAKE shocks We're felt again on
the list, at Malaga, Lola, Velez and at
Munecar. Some damage was done at the
latter place.
HUETINGToS'S silk mill at South Coven-
try, Conn, burned the other morning.
Loss, $l20,009; insurance, $4,000.
A VIENNA correspondent says it is re-
ported the Italian Government is organiz-
ing force of twenty thousand men to
occupy Tripoli.
MATILDA CHASE, aged sixty three, lineal
descendant of Samuel Chase, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence,
was fatally burned at Annapolis, Nd, re-
Gently, from her night dress accidentally
taking fire.
NEGOTIATIONS were under consideration
for the adoption OF a treaty of commerce
between Germany and the Transvaal. Her.
bert Bismarck, OH The part Of Germany, AK
Bociaret and 81 Hand, for Jhe Transy;s-...
were conductin the negotiations.