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

the tide carried of the steamboat decE
bodily to the sound. The damage is 5000
Numerous vessels which had been fast in
the ice were badly damaged. During the
night large schooner, the Lottie Meiston
was sunk. The crew were saved.
THE formal setting of the corner store
of the new capitol building at Austin, Tex.
took place on the I'd.
CAPTAIN Couch and nine other Okla
homa "boomers" were arrested in Arkan.
sas City, Kan, on the 4th, charged with
melting insurrection. Each one waived
examination and was placed under bond
of $1,000.
The New York Daily Commercial Bul.
letiR estimates the aggregate fire loss fol-
February at $40, ,OOO, 900, fifty per cent. more
than the average loss of February foI
years past. Including January some $751;
100000 worth of property have been burned
up thus far in 1885.
ONE of the last acts of Secretary Teller
was to issue patents for Louisiana land
granted to aid the construction OF the
New Orleans g. Pacific Railroad. These
lands, embracing about 900 acres, COM
prise what is commonly known as the
Backbone grant"
AT New Orleans, the other day, seven
prisoners escaped from the parish prison.
The crimes of the convicts ranged from
murder to petty larceny.
a CHICAGO special from Winnipeg, dated
the 9Th, says: Farmers of the province
met here to-day, many accessions being
received to the ranks of the secessionists
and annexationists. Resolutions were
passed denouncing Premier Norquay for
failing to secure concessions from the Do
minion Government, and calling for the
redistricting for seats and an appeal to the
country.
THE Ohio College of Dental Surgery of
Cincinnati, at its thirty ninth annual COM
mencement, gave diplomas to twenty-six
graduates. The gold medal honor was
taken by Carrie Lloyd, of Indiana, the only
woman in the class.
GEORGE HAZEN, of Minneapolis, Minn.,
has been disbarred from practice as Attor-
ney before the Interior Department.
AT the City os Mexico on the 1st of March
there remained a cash balance in the Ma
tional Treasury of S142, ,495.
ported exceedingly nervous. Threats were
constantly being made to massacre them.
PAUL BAUER, the proprietor of the
Brighton Hotel at Coney Island, n. Y,
who had pool rooms in his club house op-
posite the hotel, and said to be worth $780,
600, was recently convicted of pool selling,
and was sentenced to the penitentiary for
three months and to pay fine of 500.
INSPECTOR W. C. BAIRD, of the Post
office Service, arrested at Memphis re-
Gently James A. White, colored, mailing
clerk, for robbing the mails.
AN explosion occurred in a colliery at
Karwin, Austrian Silesia, recently. At the
time 147 men were in the mine. 1t was un-
known whether any of them were saved.
AN Illinois Central train collided with an
express eight miles south of Grenada, Miss,
recently. Both fremen were killed and
eight other persons seriously injured. The
accident was caused by negligence on the
part of the express.
BROWN, the suspended State Auditor, was
arrested again at Des Moines, Iowa, for re-
fusing the Governor accees to his Office
books and papers, but the case was dis
missed as not statutory offense.
OHIO miners were reported willing to
work at reduction of ten cents per ton.
THE Ohio crop report for March, for
warded to Washington on the 9th, shows
forty-four per cent. over the corn crop of
1884 still on hand; and wheat forty per
cent.
THE German Reichstag rejected motion
in favor of the establishment of a bi-me-
tallic standard of currency.
THE total enrolled volunteers in Great
Britain at the present time is 2l5,000 men,
the greatest number yet attained.
FAILURES for the week ended March D:
United States, 23S; Canada, SO; total, 2S7,
as compared with 2S4 last week. Three
fourths of the casualties were furnished by
the Western, Southern and Pacific States
and Canada.
THE French transport Tonquin, formerly
the City of Paris, came in collision with
another transport off Malaga, recently, and
sunk, carrying down twenty -four OF her
crew. The remainder were rescued.
THE Denver Chamber of Commerce
adopted a resolution recently
the new Secretary of the Treas
ury to pay out the silver coin now boarded
in the vaults of the Treasury, in order to
stop the contraction of the currency, and
thus relieve the business depression of the
country.