The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-04

! On the farm of Owen Means, at Saybrook
ILL.,, a number of apparently healthy cattle
have fallen dead in their tracks as il
from heart disease. The disease appeared
to be contagious. but its nature was not
clearly defined. 1t created no little anxiety
among stockmen.
ARTHUR E. MARSH, absconding Superin-
| tendeut of the firm of Kocnson & Co..
New York, was arrested at Queenstown on
board the steamship Nevada, which ar
rived there on the 18th.
MARION NJ. OGDEN, a reporter Of the
Pittsburgh pa Dispatch, was arrested re-
Gently on a charge of conspiracy, pre-
ferred by City Assessor Hays. Ogden, il
was charged, entered the Assessors Office
surreptitiously and copied from the record
the list of returns made by business men
showing the amount of business transacted
by them during the year.
| A FIRE at John Elliott & Sons foundry,
London, Ont, caused almost total loss of
the machinery. The loss amounted to
100000; insured for about S75, 900.
DURING a running race at the fair
grounds at Terre Haute, Ind, recently,
Charley Cash, an Ohio boy who rode the
| horse Herfer, had his back broken. His
horse stumbled over another horse.
SEVERAL of the Berlin papers had ALARM
lst acticles recently over the trouble be-
tween the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Ger.
man East African Company. They hint
that Germany may be compelled to declare
war against both England and Italy for
melting the Sultan against peaceful Ger
man subjects.
ACCORDING to the records of the Hydro
graphic Office at Washington the amount
of ice and the number of bergs which have
appeared in the direct path of European
steamers within month is unprecedented.
The region infested by ice was closely pre-
dicted in the publication of the Hydro
graphic Office month ago, and the safe
route marked inst south and east of the
limits mentioned.
A BAND of Indians killed five men near
Silver City, N. NJ, recently. 1t was
reported on the 18th that the number of
murders by the Apaches, so far as known,
amounted to eighty.
FORT PITT, in the Saskatchewan country
was reported burned by Big Bear and his
rebels. The body of a policeman named
Cowan was found with the heart cut out
and stuck on pole.
THE Shackamoxon Bank at Philadelphia
failed recently, causing great excitement.
ELEVEN persons were reported killed in
the recent storms and floods near Waco,
Tex. Scores of bridges were washed away
and other damage was immense.
AN immense quantity of lumber was
burned recently in Studebaker'B wagon
works at South Bend, Ind. Loss, about
100000.
THE petition of the pugilist Sullivan's
wife for a divorce was refused by the
court.
IT was announced in London on the 10Th
that Russia's reply to England's counter
proposals had been received. The reply
involves the acceptance of the proposals
and practically settles in a satisfactory
the whole question of tho Afghan
boundary. Both Maruchek and Zulfikar
remain in possession of the Ameer.
SINCE Secretary Manning assumed charge
of the Treasury Department sixty clerk
ships, averaging from $500 to 2,lOO, have
become vacant.
THE business failures for week ended
May % numbered: For the United States,
1877; for Canada, 10, a total of 206 against
239 the week previous. The assignments
were light in all parts of the country.
TIE Grand Jury recently returned an in
dictment against the town Council of Ply |
mouth, Pa, for maintaining 8. nuisance |
and with criminal neglect OF their official |
duties in not keeping the town il good san
tary condition.
REL'S Lieutenant, Dumont, was cap |
bured by United States troops in Montana. |
The Secretary of War, in replying to a re-
quest for instructions, said the military
lad no authority to arrest or detain Du-
mont, and he was, therefore, discharged.
CHARLES w. ANGEL, who embezzled |
100000 from the Pullman Company at Chi
ago in 1873, has been released from the
Joliet Qll.) penitentiary, having served
lis time.
BROWN & Co., of the Wayne Iron and
Steel Works, Pittsburgh, Pa, have signed
he Amalgamated Associations scale and
work will be continued without interrupt
ion. This was the first break In the man
lfacturers' lines.
THE entire personal property at Border
own, n. j., of Mrs. Della T. 8. Parnell,
mother of the famous land Lacquer, has
'een attached at the suit of Joshua Turner
nd others and advertised for sale.