The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A TERRIFIC explosion of gas occurred in
the Phoenix Colliery at Pittston, Pa, the
other morning. About one hundred men
were in the mine at the time, and many OF
them were severely burned, though none
were fatally hurt.
THE grand jury at London returned true
bills againft Cunningham and Burton, the
dynamiters, for treason-felony, and also
ment of the affair.
THE Oklahoma boomers under Captain
Couch, it was believed, would temporarily
disperse to their homes.
IT was reported at Dongola that the rival
Mahdis had met in battle and that the
original Mahdi was defeated, losing two
Governors. Ell Obeid, it was also reported,
had been plundered and burned.
A CYCLONE struck Denison, Tex, the
other evening. Many houses were wrecked,
but no lives were reported lost.
The credit demanded by Mr.. Gladstone
in the British Parliament on the 21st
amounted to $55, 1000, ,OOO Some of it was
for the purpose of railroad building in
Egypt, but the Premier was very signifi-
cant in stating that it was necessary for
the Government to hold the resources of the
Empire for instant use in other directions
if required.
WINANs, the American millionaire and
Scotch landowner, has been sued for di-
vOrce by a woman named Soalfield, with
whom he had been living since 1871. The
features of the case were similar to those
of the Hill-Sharon divorce suit.
FURTHER volcanic eruptions have oc-
Cured on the east end Of the island of Java
One hundred persons were reported killed.
A FIRE at Vicksburg, Miss, recently de-
stroyed $3.50, 900 of property.
Two trains came into collision on the
Reading Railroad recently and a third ran
into the wreck.
IT was reported recently that Big Bear
would join Riel with twelve hundred
braves.
PARIS journals were ready to declare
war on Great Britain for instigating the
Suppression of the BoSphOre Egyptien news
paper in Alexandria. Threats of lombard
ing Alexandria were made.
PERRYvILLE, on the Tennessee River,
was destroyed by fire recently, the work of
an incendiary who sought revenge on a
man by burning his residence.
THE analysis of the contents of the stom-
ach of Preller, murdered at the Southern
Hotel, st. Louis, some days ago by Maxwell,
indicated that he had died by inhaling
chlroform.
AT Chicago, the other evening, Charles
B. Shultz, an electrician, lost his balance
and grasped the rod which supplied an
electric lamp. He was unable to let go,
and hung writhing to the swinging lamp
until some one stopped the engine which
supplied the current, when he fell to the
sidewalk dead.
RUSSIA has asked Sweden and Norway
to close the Baltic against British war
ships. But little hope of peace existed on
the 2Sd.
OFFICERS succeeded in capturing twelve
persons on the Forest branch of the Welsh
Mountains of Pennsylvania, charged with
numerous burglaries and Gre
ating incendiary fires.
The Pullman car works at PHILADELPHIA
were destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
S150,0OO.
On the morning of the 21st a terrible
rainfall visited Barber County, Kan. At
Medicine Lodge the waters swept over the
first and second bottoms, carrying away
men, women and children, live stock, build
ings and wagons. Sixteen persons were
known to have been drowned. A great
many saved themselves by climbing trees,
from which they were rescued by boats.
Thousands of cattle perished in the angry
waters.
THE Lewis Cook Manufacturing Com
pany, of Cincinnati, dealers in carriages
and buggies, assigned recently. Their lia-
bilities are 500, 200; their assets about the
same.
AN Austin, Tex, correspondent tele-
graphed on the odd that the heaviest rain
that ever fell there was then falling, and
the city was completely flooded, many
buildings and stores on Congress avenue
being inundated, and the water three feet
deep in the streets. The damage was
great.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered the
discharge of all the foremen of the Mare
Island Navy Yard who at any time were
known to have influenced or directed the
votes of Government employees during eIec-
tions
w. E. HARTMAN, of Homecoming, Nd, has
beer arrested for setting fire to his store,
causing loss of $4,000.
THE funeral of Dan Mace, the horse
trainer, was held recently in New York,
the remains being sent to Boston. Robert
Bonner and Frank Work attended the SER
vices.
ROBERT GILLIAN, Engineer of the Kansas
City Cable Line, was seriously if not fatally
injured by the grip" iron of car falling
on his head while he was in one of the holes.
AIzPURA, the Central America revolu-
zionist, threatens the United States marines
in that country. The marine pickets have
been fired on.
AN explosion of dynamite occurred at
the Admiralty Office, London, on the morn
ing of the 2Sd. & The damage was confined
to the breaking of windows. One of the
clerks was seriously hurt. 1t was believed
to be the work of the old gang of dyna-
miters.
IT was reported at Vienna on the sSd
that Russia would declare war against
Great Britain as soon as the ice cleared out
of the Volga-
FOURTEEN dead bodies were recovered of
the persons killed by the recent foods at
Medicine Lodge, Kan.
THE Fort Pitt garrison, reported massa-