The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

Toulon had been sunk by Chinese cruise
between Singapore and Saigon. Their
was great excitement in the Ministry o
Marine.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was expert
enced in Corinthia, Austria, on the 18th
Considerable damage WIS done man,
buildings.
DURING the election for Burgomaster a
Nagarroszi, Hungary, six persons wer
killed.
FOUR citizens offered Bismarck S15,O0
toward the creation of an Assistant Chan
cellorShip. g.
ToNQUIN advices report daily encounter!
between the Chinese aud French at tn,
outposts. China continues to pour troop.
into Tonquin and Formosa.
RUTH GILL, daughter of Cleveland
grOceryman, was accidently killed by hel
brother recently while playing with a re-
volver.
A DISPATCH from Madrid dated January
1, say: Further shocks of earthquake con.
tinue TO be felt at Jaen, Malaga, Benamar.
gosa and Velez, Malaga. There were sew
eral severe shocks at Torrox on Wedues-
day and Thursday, destroying more build
ings.' The town is completely abandoned
The church at Terje is damaged to such
an extent that services are now held in
the open air. Two hundred and fifty
corpses have been discovered at Orenas
Del Rey. Two hundred and fifty persons
are now suffering from inju juries.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Electric
Railroad to run from Far Rockaway to
the Long Island Railroad, have been filed
in New York. Capital, 100000.
Two men lost their lives by the wreck OF
a train on the Baltimore & Ohio, ". Va.
on the night of the 31st. Some internal
scoundrel wedged bar of iron between the
rails, causing the locomotive to turn up
side down and killing the two men in
charge.
| NEWS has been received of the wreck OF
the German bark Lille near Petrolia, Hum
boldt County, Cal, December %. The yes
sci left Cork October > for. San Francisco
First Officer Van Leefren, Cook G. Bronze,
! three seamen, F. Pommer, c. Damkeef and
F. Berrydorf were drowned. The captain
and others were saved.
CUBAN cattlemen show much dissatisfac-
ton regarding the treaty stipulation refer
ring to American cattle, beef and meats of
| all classes.
A FIRE at Ipswich, OAK, on the 31st dam
aged a number of stores to the extent of
$24, 600.
| DAVID DUNN was fatally stabbed recently
| by tramp who had been caught stealing
coal from a shed in Dunn's yard, at Bridg-
port, Conn.
| CHESAPEAKE BAY was recently en-
veloped in dense fog, and vessels were
not to be distinguished three hundred feet
apart.
| THOMAS j. CHAPMAN, at Charleston, H.,
on the 31st, was sentenced to be hanged on
January %, for the murder of Nicholas
Hubbard.
A GOLD medal is to be presented George
William Curtis by citizens of Boston in ac-
acknowledgement of his eulogy of Wendell
Phillips delivered in April last.
DR.. MCDONALD, Roman Catholic Bish-
op, narrowly escaped being shot during
the recent Orange demonstration at St.
Johns, n. F.
INTENSE excitement was created at Chas-
ka, Carver County, Mimi, recently, by the
arrest of DR.. Shillock, prominent physi-
clan of that place, charged with body
snatching.
THE debt statement shows an increase
in the public debt curing December OF
S641, 1884; decrease since June 30, 1884, $751;
501, ,S64.
THE creditors of Ingall, Phillips &, Co.,
London, wharfngers, who failed a few
days ago, met and the statement showed a
surplus of fS4,sS Creditors will be paid
in full.
THE Paris Figaro reports that Chinese
gunboat trying to force the blockade of
Formosa was captured off Tai Wan Foo by
the French gunboat Lagatisshniere. 1t
had fourteen Englishmen among the crew.
Two thousand bales of cotton took fire at
the Havre wharf, France, on the I'd and
were destroyed.
ANDY CAMPBELL, postmaster of Glenn
ent, Union County, Ga, has been arrested
for robbing the mails.
Mrs. ROBERT JESNETT's clothes caught
fire at Franklin, KY, the other day and
she was burned to death.
THE Glen wooden mill OF North Adams
Mass, burned recently. Loss, 100000;
covered by insurance.
THE Academy of Science Committee will
report against quarantine measures as be-
ing detrimental to commerce.
ANOTHER dynamite explosion occurred
in the Underground Railway, London, on
the evening of the I'd. Passengers and
others were shaken and windows broken
in the trains, but no very great damage
was done or serious injuries sustained.
a MOB of strikers fired the Bristol tunnel
on the Shawnee division of the Baltimore
6 Ohio Railroad early on the morning of
the I'd, and nearly three hundred feet have
caved in, neceSsitating the transfer of the
passengers. The guards were run out by
the mob. The loss to the company will
reach thousands of dollars. James O'Don-
nell was arrested at Newark while arraag-
ing transportation of arms to those en-
gagged in firing and destroying property.
a BRAKEMAN named Mason was fatally
hurt near Hartford, Conn.,, recently, by
being struck on the head with a stone
thrown by a tramp. The tramp threw the
stone because Mason put him of the
train.
THE train which left over the Baltimore
& Central Railroad for Oxford, Pa., on .l,s