The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-16

were stopped by mob, and after severa
shots had been fired the detectives were
driven off, the guns captured and the 'bui
burned.
QUEEN VICTORIA sent telegram to Mrs
Grant recently, expressing her sympathy
on account of the Generals sickness.
The striking quarrymen at Joliet, Ill.
recently went to Lamont and compelled
the men there to strike. Nine hundred
men were driven to stop work.
RUMoRs of fighting in Bechuanalanc
were recently current in Durham, Soutt
Africa.
4 TELEGRAM from Berlin of the 10th said
that Prince Bismarck had assured banker
that in spite of the incident of Penjdeh ht
| hoped to preserve peace.
A DISPATCH was received at Battleford
recently, that the Frog Lake Indians had
murdered eight persons, two of whom
were Catholic priests
BUSINESS failures for week ended April
9 numbered in the United States 1S9; Can
ada. %; total, PIP, compared with total
of 256 last week, and pa week previous
showing a steady decrease.
NEWS confirmatory of the reported death
of President Barrios reached La Lib
ertad, also intelligence of the installation
J of successor to Barrios and giving the
names of some of the Cabinet officers.
The new President is General Manuel
LiZandro Barrillos.
REPORTS to the Illinois Department of
Agriculture left no room for doubling that
the growing wheat crop had been seriously
damaged by the protracted cold dry
weather in March. 1t was thought the
crop would average about fifty two per
cent.
AT meeting of King Solomon Lodge of
Free Masons at Toronto, Ont, j. Harrison,
member of the Lodge, was accused of
being a secularist, agnostic and free
thinker, and should therefore be expelled.
After very warm discussion, he was on a
vote expelled. Hewill appeal to the Grand
Lodge.
A SECRET vigilance committee was or
ganized in Chicago for the purpose of
watching for election frauds.
THE Nez Perces, near Fort Lapwai, W.
T., were threatening an outbreak, and had
killed a settlers wife.
THE Presidency of Bengal has offered
S3, 500 900 to aid in preserving the integrity
of the British Empire.
THE report is confirmed that the British
Government has invited Italy to occupy
Cairo and the Soudan.
THE Suakim-Berber Railway has been
completed as far as Station No. l.
A DISPATCH from Paris, of the 10th, stated
that France and China had finally agreed
upon peace.
THE Espuela Land-C Cattle Company's
property, near Fort Worth, Tex, embrace
ing 10000 head of cattle and $4,000 acres of
land, was sold to an English syndicate in
corporated in London. The consideration
was not known, but the property was val
ued at 81, 100000.
EMIGRANT traffic was unusually heavy at
Kansas City. Carloads bound for points
in Kansas, Nebraska and the far West
were arriving at the Union Depot daily.
ADvICEs from KasSala state that the
garrison there has a sufficient supply of
provisions for a month and plenty of am
munition. The rebels attacked an Abys-
sinian caravan which was en- route to Gala
and killed thirteen persons.
A BODY, supposed to be that of S. s.
Conant, the missing editor of Ndrper's
Ueekly, was discovered i'll Coney Island
Creek recently. The body was very much
decomposed.
A SYNDICATE of Shenango and Mahon-
ing Valley blast furnace owners has been
formed for the purpose of buying large
block of coking coal lands in the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) field. The furnace men
are actuated by desire TO escape from
the domination of the coke pool.
THE State Department at Washington
has received information to the effect that
the family of the late General Barrios had
left Guatemala for San Francisco.
A. j. SNIDER, of Kansas City, the we'll
known stockman, offered his credit to the
amount of $4,000, for the purpose of
stamping out the pleuro-pneumonia in
Galloway County, Mo. The offer was ac-
cepted by Governor Marmaduke and steps
were at once taken to buy up and kill
every animal that might possibly be af-
fected.
A PRIVATE cable dispatch received in
Boston on the 10th from London says: at
is reported that the English ultimatum to
Russia is twenty -four hours in which to
recall General Komaroff or go to war"