The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS.


merry, covering three acres of ground, in
Bermondsey, London suburb in Surrey
| County, were destroyed by fire recently.
| Loss 100000
A Mrs. HARDEsTY was poisoned fatally
in Scott County, Iowa, recently, by drink
ing wine from bottle which had formerly
contained jimson liniment. Many other
persons were also seriously poisoned at the
same time.
THE rail feeders of the Ohio Valley in
convention at Bellaire made a formal APP
plication for e-admission to the Amalga-
mated Association. The feeders number
about 1000.
A LONG standing feud between two fac
tons known as the "Owls" and 'Vig
ilantes" in Estrella Plains, Cal, eliminated
the other day in conflict in which rifles
were freely used. A report states that E.
D. Brooks and E. Stewell were killed and
Steve Moody, H. Hustler, John McAdams
and William Pepper mortally wounded.
GEORGE WATTS, standing near an empty
whisky barrel at Ionia, Mich, recently,
attempted to light a match on the barrel
when it exploded with sound that was
heard blocks away. Watts was severely
injured, and two men standing in the open
door were blown out in the street. The
barrel was scattered through the saloon in
blazing fragments, setting the building on
fire.
DR.. HAMILTON, Surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital Service, has been advised
of VIII at is regarded as a sporadic case of
yellow fever at New Orleans. He does not
think that this should cause alarm. The
case was effectually quarantined at the
earliest stage, and it was not expected that
the fever would spread from it.
JUDGE r. H. THOMPSON caused sensa-
ton recently in Louisville, KY, by COM
uniting Richard Bache, prominent local
politician, to jail for six hours for having
intimated to the Judge that he would use
his influence against him if he did not deal
easy with a certain offender then on trial.
THE police were ordered to suppress
street sales of those issues of the Pail Man
Gazette which contained articles on the
secret vices of London. News vendors
found selling issues on the streets were
arrested.
The stone cutters of st. Paul and Mime
apolis struck recently for an advance from
40 to 80 cents per hour, and eight hours
work instead of ten.
REPORTS come in of great devastation by
grasshoppers in Gonzales and the eastern
edge of Guadalupe Counties, Tex. They
have appeared in countless numbers and
moved down the growing crops in all
directions.
NIHILIsTS were arrested in Brussels re-
Gently, charged with plotting against the
life of the Car of Russia and Leopold of
Belgium.
CAPTAIN Couch, the Oklahoma leader,
stabbed man named Bush at Douglass,
Kan, recently, supposed fatally, in dis
pute over the collection of an attorneys
fee.
FIVE sailors of the bark Gettysburg mu-
TIMED in the Lower st. Lawrence recently.
On their arrival at Montreal they were ar
rested and remanded.
GEORGE H. CHASE, a heavy New York
broker, was arrested recently for alleged
fraud in regard to stock and other trans
actions, on the affidavit of NJ. Shaunessy.
The amount involved was sos, 900.
THE rumors respecting an invasion of
Southwestern Kansas by Cheyenne In
Hundreds of families flocked into the
towns, but investigation failed to find any
Indians who had crossed the borders.
The Democrat of Davenport, Iowa, re-
Gently published letters from the Mayors
of twenty mine of the leading cities and
towns of Iowa on the working of the Pro-
hibition law. The showing made was that
there are open saloons in nineteen of the
cities. The total numbar of places where |
liquor was sold was GIG, an increase of LAG
during the year.
HARRIET MOORE, a middle aged widow,
has commenced a breach of promise suit |
for $225, 900 at San Francisco against Moses |
Hopkins, aged seventy. The defendant is |
brother of the late Mark Hopkins, the |
railroad magnate, from whom he inherited |
an estate estimated at Sc, 100000.
A RECENT telegram stated that James G. |
Wintersmith, Doorkeeper of the House of |
Representatives at Washington, was dy- |
ing. He had been i'll since the adjourn |
ment of Congress.
THE red flag was waved by the riotous |
iron strikers at Cleveland, o., on the Sth. |
The military and police were under arms |
and were prepared to attack the rioters |
should any further demonstration be made. |
AN outbreak was reported imminent in |
the City of Mexico, and the city was under
martial law.
BEhLrN bankers condemn the issue of /
PruSsisn bonds bearing three and a half |
per cent interest. They say that no loan |
at less than four per cent can succeed in
the present state of the money market.
THE Indiana Farmer recently estimated |
the wheat crop in Indiana at sixty
four per cent of an average; in Illinois at |
forty per cent. and III Ohio at fifty-eight |
per cent. The prospects for corn, oats and |
hay in the three States reported were ex-
cellent.
THE Welsh University College at
Aberystwith, a market town and seaport
of Wales, was partly burned the other
morning. The building cost 100000.
AMYsTsERIoUs looking package was left
at the house of George Kremetz, prom
inent jeweler of Newark, n. j., recently.
On opening it pistol concealed in it was
discharged, and a MIR. Multhrop was struck
by bullet, but was not seriously injured.
FOURTEEN cars at the st. Paul depot
were blown from the track and derailed by
a recent storm at Sparta, Wis. Reports
of great destruction by the storm also
came from points in Iowa and Illinois.
The Cherokee Strip embargo on Texas
cattle was reported getting still more
serious. Texas cattlemen. in recent COM
munication to Commissioner Colman,
asked his aid in getting through the Strip.
A DISPATCH from Paris states that the
Il
eral De Courcey to depose the present
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