The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

belonged TO a gang OF thieves who recently
committed many depredations on citizen:
of that place.
4 DISPATCH from Victoria, B. c., says
Reports from the interior state that 5,OOt
employees of the Canadian Pacific construc-
tion have gone on a strike, on account OF
not receiving their wages.
SIXTEEN New York roller skating rink
proprietors held a meeting recently and
rganized an association for the elevation
of the tone of Kinks generally.
FURTHER particulars make it probable
that the murdered body found in a box at
the Southern Hotel, st. Louis, was that OF
man named Preller, wealthy English
man, and that he had been murdered by
his companion, a DR.. Maxwell, also an
Englishman. The ''traitor' paper found in
the box was thought to be merely a blind.
Preller had been murdered probably nine
or ten days before the discovery of the re-
mains. A clue existed as TO the where
abouts of Maxwell. 1t was thought that
| Maxwell had robbed Preller, the latter be-
ing in the habit of carrying considerable
money.
BUD MATHEWS, suspected of trying to
blow up the Payton family with dynamite
in Taney County, Mo-, was waylaid and
murdered recently together with his little
child.
| EIGHT firemen were injured during a fire
at Heyser's piano factory in New York re-
Gently. They were precipitated by the
floor giving way into the cellar. 1t was
thought one of the firemen would die.
AT cabinet council, held in London on
the 18th, it was agreed to accept a frontier
delimitation in Afghanistan which ceded
portion of the disputed territory to Russia.
Peace was thought assured, as the only
matter to be adjusted was the attack on
Penjdeh, OF which conflicting accounts had
been received.
THE Attorney General has given an
opinion to the President sustaining the
eligibility of Mr.. Lawton, Of Georgia, for
appointment as Minister to Russia.
THE Nationalist mob obtained possession
of the streets after the reception Of the
Prince and Princess of Wales on the 10Th.
The police were attacked and beaten, and
it was not until past midnight that order
was restored. The hospitals were full of
wounded rioters and police.
SECRETARY WHITNEY received the fol-
lowing telegram from Admiral Jouctt on
the 18th: Il crossed the istkmus yester-
day. Good order continues. Our men are
all sound and comfortable"
BUDDENsICK, the builder of the eight
tenement houses that fell in New York re-
Gently, surrendered himself to the police
the next day.
THE Cigar Makers International Union
has withdrawn its contribution for the
maintenance of the cigar makers at Gin
cinnati who have for long time been out
employment and this practically ends the
strike or lockout.
LORD DUFFERIN, Viceroy of India. was
received IN grand style by the Maharaiah
of Cashmere on the 18th. His reception by
the people was extremely cordial.
THE Lincoln Qll.) Coal Company's shaft
caught fire on the 10th, imprisoning several
men. An immense amount of property
was destroyed. The fire was caused by
the explosion Of a torch III the oil room.
The men escaped.
THE Gar, on the 18th, sent a dispatch to
London expressing his earnest hopes for Il
peaceful settlement of the Afghanistan
differences.
a EARNA telegram states that Russia
has formally notified Turkey that she will
consider Turkish neutrality to imply the
use of force to block the passage of the
BosphOrous and Dardanelles.
THE Suakim Berber Railroad reached
Handoub on the 10th.
THIS Rev. Thomas Spencer, a colored
Baptist minister of Norfolk, Va, was con-
yicted in the Hastings Court in Petersburg,
Va, recently, for housebreaking. He
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in the House Of Com
mons on the 18th, denied a number of SEN
sational reports which had been published
regarding Afghan affairs. Nothing def
mite as to the boundary line had been ac-
complished, the matter being only in its
verbal phase.
THE public debt statement will be issued
in two forms at the first Of each month up
to the 1st Of July next, which is the begin
ming Of the next fiscal year. The two forms
will include the one issued for the first
time, April /, and the form which had been
previously used by the department since
1869.
RECENT telegram from Egypt says:
One hundred and fifty tents were destroyed
by fire at Melig recently and fifty persons
burned to death.
LOGS cut in the Duluth district this sea-
son amounted to S5,GC0,00G feet against
20C, ,000,0 900 feet last season.
ABATTLEFoRD dispatch OF the 18th stated
that rumors existed of the capture OF Fort
Pitt and massacre of the inhabitants. The
Indians were continuing their work Of de-
stroying the property of settlers
THE Postmaster General has ordered the
clerks in the office of the First Postmaster
General not to publish papers or give in
formation to applicants for postmaster
ships. Much trouble and ill-feeling had
been caused by rival applicants learning
the contents of papers fled at the depart
ment by one another.
FoURTEE hundred employees of the Bar
bour Flax Spinning Company ut Paterson.
n. j., strack work recently for an advance
of ten per cent
AT the quarterly meeting of the Illinois
State Board OF Health held at ChicoSo on
the 10th, DR.. Rauch, the Secretary, spoke
of information he received from private
sources that the Asiatic cholera had ex-
listed in Paris up to January 10th, and that
it had appeared in valencia, Spain, in
March.
THE Express Office and several other
buildings at Buffalo, N. v, were DESTROYED
by fire the other evening. The loss
amounted TO about S9j0,000, and a large
number of men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
OSE man was instantly killed and five