The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-19

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pathized with the strikers, and this made
the position of the railroads doubly diff
cult. The situation on the 18th in Texas,
Missouri and Kansas was not materially
changed from the previous few days.
Hon. GEORGE W. PIERCE, William A.
Weller and n. Prentice were arrested at
Bismarck, OAK, an held in $4,000 bail to
answer charge of bribery in connection
with the removal of the capital from Bis
marck to Pierre.
THERE were some fears at Washington
on the 18th that the proclamation of Bar
rios, relating to Central America, would
involve the United States and Mexico in
unpleasant complications with him and his
ideas of Central American unity.
The firm of E. II. Samuels & Sons, OF
st. Louis, which failed some days ago, have
made proposition to settle with creditors
at thirty-one cents on the dollar, and over
three-fourths of the creditors have ac.
cepted. The liabilities of the firm were
$751; Total available assets, $4,000.
CoNsoLs in London on the 18th touched
96%, the lowest price in six years, but re-
covered at the close of the market.
NELLIE HoRAN, OF Whitewater, Wis,
who was charged with poisoning her sister,
mother and father, has been acquitted.
MACKIN and Gallagher, convicted of cleo
tion frauds in Chicago, were sentenced, on
the 18th, to two years Imprisonment and a
fine OF 5000 each. Their commitment to
jail, however, was delayed for a few days,
to give the defense an opportunity for fur
ther proceedings.
4 DECIDEDLY cold wave passed over the
Ottawa Valley, Canada, on the 18th. Mat
tawa reported the temperature 23 degrees
below zero.
THE new anti Chinese restriction law
lumbia, sentences every Chinaman entering
the Province to tax of fifty dollars or six
months at hard labor, and upon every one
assisting to import Cinnamon tax of two
hundred dollars is levied, with the alterna-
tive of six months in the chain gang.
OF the murderers OF lime. Ballerick in
Paris, four were sentenced to the galleys
and one, Gamahut, to the guillotine.
THE commercial agreement with En-
gland was ratified by the Spanish Cortes.
REPORTS from Central Vermont show
that the thermometer averaged thirty de-
grees below zero on the night of the 18th.
THE Louisville (Ky.) gambling houses
have been ordered closed.
A SAN ANTONIO CTex.) special says that
owing to the Kansas quarantine, stock for
shipment north via the Pacific will be
shipped over tina Sunset route via New Or
leans to Northern markets.
ALL the engineers on the Brunswick di-
vision of the East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia Railroad struck on the 18th. The
strikers were members of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, and they said
the cause of the strike was the unjust dis
charge of three members.
SECRETARY MANNING cut down the force
of the Treasury Department by six special
agents, twenty special inspectors and
ten other employees, effecting a saving of
$1,000 per annum.
Two Detroit crooks were sentenced at
Kingston, Ont, recently to fourteen years
Imprisonment for robbing a Jew peddler.
After the robbery they left the peddler
bound to a tree, in which condition he
froze to death.
THE Presidents message, asking the re-
turn of the Nicaraguan, Spanish and Do
minican treaties, was received by the Sen
ate on the 18th in executive session. The
treaties will be returned to the executive,
at once, no action by the Senate being re-
quired.
THE President issued proclamation on
the 18th forbidding any invasion of the
Oklahoma lands. The proclamation was
very decided in tone.
FURTHER arrests of Fenians were made
in Paris on the 18th.
THE Russian newspapers were very belli-
cose regarding the action of Great Britain
in Afghanistan.
GENERAL GRAHAM decreed that the in
habitants OF Suakim be disarmed, as he had
reason to apprehend treachery. Hereafter
any unenlisted native found with arms viii
be treated as a rebel.
THE restoration of wages made previ-
ously to the men working in the Missouri
Pacific shops in st. Louis was extended to
all men employed in the large machine and
car shops of the Iron Mountain Road at
De Soto, Mo-, and the men were highly
commended for their loyalty to the COM
pany. A special from Palestine, Tex, of
the 18th, said the strike had ended at that
place, the men going back to work at the
wages paid before the last cut.