The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

The people of Berber, in the Soudan,
have declared themselves Independent.
The Governor has offered his submission to
the Khedive.
JAMES STEPHENS recently issued a man.
ifesto in the shape of public letter to Mr..
Michael Davitt. The ex-Fenian leader de-
mands that the Irish National Democracy
of both Ireland and America be united in
one confederation, with view to enabling
Irishmen to unfurl the flag of revolution in
the event of Mr.. Parnell's effecting a re-
storation of the Irish Parliament.
CHAS. A. DANA presided the other night
at NewYork over a large meeting of the
Irish National League, held for the pur-
pose ofraising money to aid Parnell in Ire
land.
THE action of the Montana citizens in
petitioning Lieutenant Walker to have the
Flathead Indians ordered back to their
reservation for committing so many dep
relations outside their bounds was sue
cessful, and the Indians have been or
dered to the reservation.
The widow and other heirs of Robert
Treat Paine, who, by his will, gave $4,000
to Harvard College to found an astrono-
mical professorship, have filed an appeal
against the clause on the ground that Mr..
Paine was not of sound mind.
ADvICEs from Tonquin to the Temps de-
scribes the situation there as very gloomy.
Since the beginning of the summer 5000
Frenchmen have died from cholera, and
large numbers are daily succumbing to the
disease.
The increase in the visible supply and
other causes had very bearish effect on
the grain markets on the Goth.
Two New York customs inspectors have
been suspended; one for wearing a coat
with large open pocket in which a pas
senger from abroad was seen to drop two
guineas; the other for receiving money for
expediting goods through the customs
house.
THE United States Court at st. Louis
has issued an order for the sale of the st.
Louis, Hannibal & Keokuk Railway. The
sale will take place December s.
THE wife and daughter of John Conway,
milkman, were brutally murdered in
their home on East Eighteenth street,
Kansas City, recently. The heads of
mother and child were horribly beaten
in with a coupling pin. 1t was thought
the murder was due to an attempt at rape
and that the culprit was a negro.
FOUR miners were killed and twelve
others fatally injured recently by an ex-
plosion of gas in the mine of the Delaware
& Hudson Company at Plymouth, Pa.
BY the collapse of frame building in
Wabash avenue, Chicago, recently, three
men AMI a woman were buried. One of
the men was killed and the other persons
were seriously injured.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT in the New York Su-
preme Court dismissed the complaint in
the suit of Mrs. Mary Maud Watson, grand
daughter of the late John Anderson, the
millionaire tobacconist, to establish her
claim to more of her grandfather's money
than she was awarded by the wiz.
THE st. Louis police recently claimed to
have discovered an internal machine
placed upon the street car track, which
they alleged was done by strikers.
The English Privy Council on the 22d
rendered its decision in the appeal case of
Louis Riel, the Canadian rebel, dismissing
the petition of the condemned man, which
requested a communication OF the sentence.
MANY descendants of the Huguenots met
in the Church Du st. Esprit, New York, on
the 22d, to celebrate the bi-centenary of the |
of the edict of Nantes, John jaw |
presiding. Among those present was Sec
retary of State Bayard.
A GREAT fire broke out in Moscow, Rus |
sia, recently and caused enormous losses. !
seven persons were killed and four injured. |
AT Darlington, S. c., recently. fire |
caused a loss of $4,000, distributed among
the following business men: J. A. Pierce, |
]. c. White, A. Nochman, S. Marco and NJ. |
Hinley.
The English Farmers Alliance has /
adopted resolution stating that to avert
the ruin of the present race of farmers,
and owners must forthwith reduce the
-ents of farms and the Government must
formulate a measure which will prevent
he raising of rents on the improvements
If tenants.
A MOB attacked a section house near
Rock Springs, Wyo., on the night of the
list. The Chinamer were driven out half
naked, and they songht refuge in the
eighboring hills, nearly perishing from
o;d.