The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE new French Cabinet insists on China
ceding TOnquin as the basis of peace.
THE White Star steamship Germania
passed through fearful storm after leav-
ing Queenstown, five hundred miles west
of FastHet. All the boats and the pilot
house were carried away. Great damage
was done to the saloons. One seaman was
swept overheard and several others of the
crew were injured.
UNOFFICIAL information was received in
Washington that San Salvador intended
invading Guatemala.
IT was reported that another prominent
London solicitor whose name was with
held, had absconded with $JO0,OO worth of
securities belonging to clients.
THERE were forty new cases of supposed
cholera at Jativa, Spain, and twenty
deaths in one week recently.
THOMAS MCCLINToCK, of Chicago, was
robbed on the train at Allegheny City, Pa,
recently of nearly $1,000 in cash and notes.
When the train stopped three passengers
jostled against him, and after they left the
cars he discovered his loss.
THE English ship owners at Hong Kong
decline to ship rice for the northern ports
of China. In consequence the entire trade
is being diverted to German bottoms.
THE Tammany Committee on Organiza-
tion adopted a resolution recently indors-
ing the prompt action taken by the Admin
istration to protect the interests and rights
of American citizens on the Isthmus of
Panama.
WITH the assistance of bloodhounds Off
GERS succeeded in capturing the Ellis
County TEX negro who recently butch
cred his wife. The capture was only ef-
fected after an exciting chase through the
jungle and the wounding of the murderer
in the chest.
THE Mormon bishop, Stewart, and Elder
J. C. Robinson, indicted for polygamy at
Phoenix, A. T., were sentenced to ninety
days in the Territory penitentiary for un-
lawful cohabitation.
SUIT has been brought against General
B. F. Butler for $4,000 alleged to be due
from him as Treasurer of the National
Soldiers Home.
ABOUT forty representatives of cattle in
terests had an interview recently with
Governor Marmaduke and Norman J. Col
man, Commissioner of Agriculture, at JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, in which the
most energetic measures were advocated
to prevent the spread of the pleuro-pneu-
monia in Csllaway County.
THE Baltimore police arrested many
mediums and clairvoyants recently, and
each was fined SO.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT at New York on the
the SOth, granted the motion made in be-
half of Lucille Yseult Dudley, who shot
O'Donovan Rosa, for a commissioner to
be sent to England to examine certain
witnesses there regarding Mrs. Dudiey's
sanity. Proceedings were ordered stayed
in the meantime.
AN anti-Chinese procession, headed by
the City Coroner, went through the streets
of San Francisco, on Sunday, the 9Th,
maltreating Cinnamon as it went along.
Nothing was thought of the matter until
few days later, when it was reported
twenty Cinnamon had been seriously hurt,
one fatally.
HERR VoN BERToUCH, German writer
has published a book advocating the parti-
tion of France on the ground of its chronic
instability. Burgundy would be possessed
by Germany and Nice and Savoy by Italy.
The rest of France would be formed into
an independent monarchy.
A COLLISION took place between the Rus
slams and Afghans on the 3oth of March.
The latter were defeated, losing five hun
dred. The Russian loss was heavy. The
news reached London on the 9th, causing
great excitement. A war fever immedi-
ately set in, consols fell three points and
Russian bonds ten. War was considered
imminent and it was believed the Russian
would be handed his pass
ports unless immediate and satisfactory
were made.
THE effect of the war news from London
was mercurial on the wheat and produce
markets on the 9th. As consols fell the
markets doomed, some very heavy trading
being done.
In the British House of Commons, on the
9th, Mr.. Gladstone, in reply to a question,
said the Russian attack on the Afghans
was unprovoked. Mr.. Thornton, the Brit
ish representative at st. Petersburg, tele
grBphed that the Car had expressed an
earnest hope that the unhappy incident
would not prevent the negotiations for
peace. This statement provoked derisive
cheers.
WHILE a storm was passing over WASH
ington the other afternoon, the Washington
was struck three times by
lightning without causing the least dam
age.
A NAN made an attack on the carriage
the Crown Prince of Austria in
Brussels recently, smashing the windows
with his fists. He was arrested, but was
found to be unarmed.
In a terrible hurricane at Tamative,
February %, twelve vessels
foundered in the harbo>>-fve Franrk and !
six native, and the American bark Sarah
Hobart.
AT Chicago, On the 9th, striker at
tempted to stop bus carrying men to
work at McCormick's reaper factory. a