The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A MEETING of the Cabinet was held at
Washington on the 9th. Among the ques-
tons considered was the Spanish COM
mercial treaty and several appointments
Departments.
SEVEN HUNDRED glass blowers, of Phila-
delphia, Pa, went on a strike on the GA.
IT was reported at Washington US an
indication of reviving business, that a
large and increasing demand existed for
small coin.
Mrs. DRUSE, who murdered her husband
with the aid of her son, daughter and
nephew, in Warren, Herkimer County, n.
Y, last December, and cut up and burned
the remains, was sentenced by Judge Will
liams to be executed.
THE returns issued by the English Board
of Trade show that the imports during the
month of September decreased f2,2900 900
and the exports e., SSO,O0O as compared
with September, 1884.
AN unofficial report has reached the
United States Minister at Lisbon that fifty
American Methodist missionaries-men,
women and children-under the care of a
Bishop, recently landed on the west coast
of Africa, and were in an utterly destitute
condition. A tract of land was granted
them on which to make a permanent set
Element.
AT a meeting of the Northwestern, Pa
cific Coast & Western Freight Associa-
| ton, held at Chicago recently, it was de-
cided to abolish the rates on double decked
oh
nearly a prohibiting rate, but now the
double decked cars will be abolished alto
gether.
ONE of Houston'S bullion trains was re-
Gently attacked by robbers while en- route
from the Sierra Mojada mines to Parral, a
station on the Mexican Central Railway
1t was reported that four of the escort were
killed.
A DISPATCH from Berlin of the 18th says:
Germany has dispatched a note to the
Court of Spain rejecting SPANS claims to
the Carolines.
THE fund for the benefit of James
Stephens, the ex-Fenian head center,
amounts to only 1900 and his friends are
greatly disappointed at the meagerness of
the subscriptions.
AN attempt to wreck a passenger train
was made recently between Roxbank and
Huntingburg, Ind, on the Air Line Road,
by placing ties on the track. The engineer
saw the obstruction in time and saved the
train.
KING MILAN, of Servia, in speech de
livered in the Skuptschina on the eth, de-
clared that he had fully determined TO
fight unless Servia's demand for an extern
sion of the boundaries over an area equal
to that acquired by Bulgaria in its union
with Eastern Roumelia were granted.
THERE was great excitement at Rock
Springs, Wyo., over the release of the al
legged rioters. The accused were met on
their return from Green River by several
hundred men, women and children, and
treated to q regular ovation.
THE youth who robbed the stages near
Cisco and Abilene, Tex, was arrested al
Ell Paso and confessed the crimes. He
gave the name of Jesse Jones, and said his
parents were wealthy people of Eastern
Texas
II. SULLIER, a defeated candidate for
the Chamber of Deputies, has written a
letter to the American Consul at Paris re-
questiHg certificate of citizenship of the
United States. He says he is sick of serv-
ing his ungrateful country.
THE manufacturers of flint glass in
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, New Bed
ford, Meriden and New York met recently
and unanimously determined to refuse the
demands made by employees for increased
wages and decreased output.
Two cases of smallpox were discovered
at Newport, R l., yOn the Sth. Stringent
measures were being taken to prevent the
spreading Of the disease
The Chicago Salvationists. convicted re-
Gently of disturbing the peace, appealed
to higher court, where the cases were dis
missed after the appellants had been adj
moHiSked by the Judge.
8 The street car strikers at st. Louis, on
the 9Th, got somewhat unruly. Five of the
neT drivers were dragged fnom cars and
assaulted and several arrests followed.
SMALLPOX was reported il several Of
the towns of Ontario. The Salvation Army
was charged with spreading the contagion
by persistiRg in visiting those afflicted.
THE large printing establishment of
Croker & Co., San Francisco, together /,
with other buildings, were destroyed by /
fire recently. Loss, 500, 900; insurance, |.
S25O,O00. Four firemen were buried in a /
fall of the ruins; two we're killed ana two 4
seriously injured.
The United States Grand Jury at Tucson,
Ari-, presented indictments against ]. 4.
D eabrIskri, United States District Attor-
neyv; Royal A. johnson. United States
Surveyor General; F. II. WoIfey, Deputy
Units States Surveyor; all under the civil
servic. act for political contributions in
the last campaign.
THE raTages of cholera among the hogs
n the cou 1try near Yankton, D. T.. are
Affirming. With but few excep-
ions all the farmers have lost half of their
hogs.