The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-18

| THE Hessian ny was reported doine
much damage to wheat in the upper coun-
| ties of Virginia.
| The epidemic at Plymouth, Pa, was re-
ported decreasing. The plague, however,
had broken out at Sugar Notch and Warren
| Run, near Nanticoke.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts in countless
numbers have made their appearance in
Fayette County, Ill. The pests have began
| to work on fruit orchards, and farmers are
| beginning to view them with serious APP
prehension.
The concession granted by the Mexican
Government to the Mexican Southern Rail-
way has been declared forfeited.
CAPTAIN LAwToS's supply camp near
Cloverdale, Ari., was surprised by the
Apaches recently. OF the eight soldiers
in charge only three escaped. The ammu-
milton was exploded during the fight, but
the Indians got everything else.
A TORNADO struck Massena, Cass Coun-
ty, Iowa, recently. Damage, $50, 200.
THE International Inventions Exhibition
building caught fire in London recently.
A great amount of damage was done, bat
the fire was kept out of the main building.
SERIOUS anti-prohibition riots recently
broke out at Spring Vale, Ne. The win
! dows of five or six dwellings were smashed,
but the principal damage was done to the
office of the AdrOcdte
THE change of Government IN Great
Britain was unfavorably regarded in Rus
STA.
MANY fishermen lost their lives by re-
or IF ba Of nd
II. c. De alma, who some weeks ago at
! Washington caused the arrest of the Com
missioner of the Land Office for assault,
was recently dismissed from his position as
Timber Agent of the Land Office.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered
another trial of the dispatch boat Dolphin,
considering that the previous trial was
valueless as to the vessels ability to stand a
heavy sea.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS, of Baltimore, has
received a cablegram from Rome announc-
ing the appointment of Rev. J. Sullivan, of
Washington, to the vacant bishopric of the
Mobile diocese.
THE Queen accepted the resignation of
Gladstone on the 18th, and called upon
Earl Salisbury to form new Cabinet.
AN earthquake occurred in the Eastern
Caucasus recently. The town of Sikuch
was completely swallowed up and the
township suffered damage to the extent of
several million roubles.
a CONSTRUCTION train going south from
Somerset, KY, was thrown from the track
two miles north of the new river bridge
by striking a COW recently. The caboose
i cd fix-a1 ob
ers were killed.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, became
drunk at Philadelphia the other day and
put the inmates of several saloons to flight.
A dozen of his friends overpOwered him
and by main force put him to bed.
AT Washington, on the 10Th, Daniel Car
rigan, ex-Chief Clerk of the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Depart
ment, who had pleaded guilty of fraud,
was sentenced to six years in the Albany
penitentiary.
THE business failures for week ended
June II were: For the United States, 1S5;
for Canada, %, total of 2O7, against 223
the week previous.
ALBERT NJ. CHANDLER and Henry Bos-
ener have been appointed receivers of the
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company for
the State of Ohio.
A NORTH bound fast freight on the Penn
syivania & Schuylkill Valley Railroad re-
Gently crashed into the rear end of local
freight which had stopped at Spring Mill
station, near Norristown, Pa. The con-
ductor and fireman We're fatally injured.
A TORNADO threw a passenger train from
the track nine miles north of Sioux City,
Iowa, on the 18th, injuring large number
OF persons. The same evening the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum at Council Bluffs was
destroyed by the wind, and in Omaha a
man lost his life by building being blown
down.
AT Paris, recently, Madame Nilsson
gained her action against her late hus-
bands relatives, who have been ordered to
pay her the sum of $500.
ONE man was killed, two fatally wounded
and several others injured in row be-
tween town and country negroes at a camp
meeting held at Mount Zion Church, nine
miles from Yorkville, S. c.
CHARLES FITZPATRICK and J. H. Le-
mieur, of Quebec, have been definitely re-
tanned to defend Riel. He will plead in
sanity, and it is presumed a number of wit
nesses will be summoned to prove that
Riel was insane while he was at Beaufort