The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.


of his Office for falsifying his daily reports.
A CYCLONE struck the little town of Tay-
lor, Texas, the other evening and played
havoc for few seconds. The Missouri
Pacific Railroad freight house was demol-
ished, the round house unroofed, the city
hall wrecked and more than a dozen other
buildings more or less damaged.
COMMITTEES reported recently that a
thorough canvass had been made in Ply
mouth, Pa, and that there were $50 cases
of typhoid fever in the borough, including
portion of Plymouth township.
ROBERT E. ODLUM, in imitation of Sam
Patch, the diver, made foolhardy leap on
the 18th from the Brooklyn bridge, a dis
tance of 135 feet. He struck the water on
his side, and on rising to the surface blood
issued from his mouth. He opened his
eyes few moments when being taken into
the boat, made few remarks and died.
Captain Paul Boyton was master of the
ceremonies.
|. A DISPATCH from Winnipeg states Colo
ne1 Otter on the 18th made an attack on
Poundmaker and after a severe battle cap
tured him and took 129 prisoners. The
battle was fought at Eagle Hills and Otter
made an assault against orders The dis
patch was unconfirmed.
A CIRCULAR letter has been prepared at
the Treasury Department, at Washington
which says: That while it is not considered
the business of the department to assist in
the collection of bills, the continuedrefusal
of employees to meet their just debts will
be considered a good cause for their dis
charge.
SALvATIoNISTs were badly beaten at
Sacramento, Cal, on the Goth. A great
crowd of roughs raided the church in
which they were worshiping, wrecked it
and seriously maltreated the men and
women of the congregation.
THE proposals for the Post-office Depart
ment envelopes show that on the official
envelopes the lowest bid was almost one
third the price paid last year for the same
envelopes, while the lowest / id on regis
tered envelopes was about thirty per cent.
less than last years price.
The steamer Dacona was in collision
with an iceberg recently in the Atlantic.
The ice had been mistaken for a fog bank
The vessel was strongly built of steel, and
although many plates were doubled, none
of them gave way, and the vessel reached
Halifax in safety.
In recent attack on Carthagena, Cen
tral America, the rebels lost eight hundred
men. The city was soon afterward re-
lieved by Government troops.
On the 10Th, after five hours sanguinary
fighting in the town of Armenia, in Saliva
dor, the Salvadorian army routed the revo-
lutionists and captured large quantity of
arms and cannons.
LOUIS FRANCIS, Frenchman, was re-
ceutly arrested in New York with the mu-
tilated body of a woman in a bag on his
shoulder. He confessed that he had mur-
dered the woman with whom he had been
living, because she had lost valuable dog
which he had picked up on the streets.
JAMES HAGGART, who accompanied
Odlum on his mission to take the fatal
jump from Brooklyn bridge, was arrested
on the charge of aiding Odlum to commit
an act endangering his life and outraging
public decency il aiding the act. The ac-
cused was held.
AT the second meeting of the creditors of
James r. Osgood s. Co., publishers, of
firm at $40, 900, and assets in round num-
bers at 100000. The firm intimated a de-
sire to discontinue business.
THE London Daily Telegraph recently
stated that Russia and England were nego-
tiating a secret treaty of alliance.
L. j. MILES, Indian Agent at Usage
Agency, Kansas, has resigned. The follow
ing named receivers of public moneys have
also resigned; Hiram L. Childs, at Bodie,
Cal; Jerome Knox, at Lake View, Ore;
John Ulrich, at Lacrosse, Wis.
VALUABLE pictures of Sir Frederick
Leighton, Alma Tadema, Millais, the
Faedes John and Thomas) and other cele-
brated artists on exhibition at the Royal
Academy, London, have been cut, scratched
and otherwise mutilated. The outrages
were supposed to have been prompted by
malice.
The formal opening of the Confederate
Soldiers Home near Richmond, Va, took
place on the Goth.
ALL the troops from Suakim have been
ordered to remain in Egypt, in accordance
with telegram from the British Govern
ment. The Guards will go into garrison at
Ramel and the other troops at Abassieh,
near Cairo.
THE Secretary of the Navy was consider
ing the advisability of appointing a board
to investigate the expenditures on the re-
pair of the United States steamer Mohican
at the Mare Island Navy Yard. The re-
ported cost of these repairs amounted to
about 500, ,000.
THE report of the experton the affairs OF
the Westamoe Mill at Fall River, Mass,
shows John Blaisdell, the absconding book
keeper, to be defaulter in $4,000.
UNFoUNDED rumors existed that cholera
had broken out in the north of England.
MILTON, twenty miles east of Pensacola, !
Fla, was devastated by an incendiary fire
the other night. The loss aggregated
about $4,000.
THE court at Chicago announced that it |
was tie on vital point in the Mackin-
Gallag CHER election fraud case. The matter
would have to go to the United States Su- /
preme Court, the defendants giving bail in /
SO, 600 each. Harlan announced that de-.
cision would be rendered in October.