The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-08

Der of Commerce resolutions were adopted
requesting the President and the Secretary
of State to make public at the earliest APP
propriate time the provisions of the new
treaty with Spain.
THE Stockholm (Sweden) iSereriges lid
ming has been corfiscated for calumpiating
the Prince of Wales.
AT the sugar plantation Aurora" near
Jovellanos, Cuba. recently, four workmen,
who had taken refuge from the rain under
cart, were struck by lightning and
killed.
JUDGE BREWER in the United States
Court at st. Louis granted a decree of
foreclosure and sale in the case of the st.
Louis, Hannibal & Keokuk Railroad.
TIE public debt decreased during the
month of September So, 757.S65.2j.
THE Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
has leased the Central Branch of the
Union Pacific Road. The lease is 20 run
twenty five years.
THE rebels Salcedo and Estrada, belong
ing to the party of Limbano Sanchez were
shot on the 10Th ult., at Babecoa, Cuba.
A DISPATCH from Berlin of the 1st SAYS:
The result of the recent interview between
NJ. de Giers and Prince Bismarck will be
to restrain Servia, Greece and Montenegro
from attacking Turkey. Otherwise Aus
tria would certainly make bold strike for
Salonict and possibly for Constantinople.
DISPATCHES received in London on the
1st from various European capitals indi-
Gated that the crisis resulting from the
Buigarian-Eastern ROumelian Union was
daily becoming more grave.
The English War Office has issued the
report of Colonel ketchner on the fall OF
Khartoum. The Arabs, the Colonel says,
entered the city by the Boori gate, which
was not defended. He acquits Faraz of
treachery. Faraz was charged with hav-
ing allowed the Mahdi's troops to enter the
city.
THE Naval Commission appointed by
Secretary Whitney made its report on the
Ist. The report was devoted TO the descrip-
ton of vessels the country was thought to
be most i'll need of.
ONE thousand dervishes have advanced
to HAIR, which is within eighty miles OF
the furthest British station on the Nile.
NORRIS & Co., of New Laredo. Mex,
undertook to transfer q large quantity of
goods shipped to them in bond from Pied
ras Negras to New Laredo, recently. They
afterward found the teamsters belonging
to the transport train securely tied to
trees thirty miles north of New Laredo,
while the most valuable portion of their
goods had been carried away by robbers.
THE Sherman House, Fargo, D. T., was
recently destroyed by fire.
Tn foil for oil
October were: United States, III: Can
ada, %; total, 1916; as compared with 1S5
the week previous. The Western and Pa
cific States furnished over half the casual
ties.
THE Protestant Episcopal Convention of
the diocese of New York declined to adopt
the amendment of the prayer book pro-
posed by DR.. Richey by a vote of 103 to
105. A committee was appointed to lay
the matter before the General Convention.
In q trotting race at Cleveland o.,
Henry Wilkes defeated Phallas in three
heats, winning the 5000 purse and 90 per
cent. of the gate receipts. Time, 2:174.
THE schooner Wheeler foundered off
Grand Marais, Mich, recently, in forty
fathoms of water. Her crew was saved,
but there was 10 time to save the clothing.
WILLIAM HEATH & Co., stock brokers of
New York, suspended on the I'd. Liabli-
ties amounted to nearly $2,090,000 Henry
n. Smith also failed for 100000. The two
firms were partly connected in stock oper-
ations, and the failure of the one dragged
down the other.
The Government cruiser Chicago, tho
heaviest vessel ever built at Roach's ship
yard, has settled on the ways to such an
extent that workmen have had to shove
her up to prevent accident.
EDWARD MCSwEENEY, the Irish suspect,
who has been an applicant for a position
in the customs service at San Francisco,
has withdrawn his papers from the War
Department.
In recent prize fight at Pittsburgh, Pa,
pepper was thrown into the eyes of one of
the pugilists, who was getting the best of
the contest, binding him. His seconds
raised the question of "foui," which was
e!lowed, and the affair broke up in a gem
eral row.
SEVENTEEN men and boys were fearfuliy |.
scalded by an explosion recently at Clark /
& Co.'s iron works. Pittsburgh, Pa, caus. d I
by the rupture of a drum. Several of the
injured, it was thought, could not possibly /.
recover.