The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24

Injunction restraining the ordinary from
announcing the result of the prohibition
| election, and decided the case against
the liquor men upon every point. The bill
adopted had a provision that Georgia
wines might be sold, but wines from other
States should be excluded. That portion
| of the bill the Judge decided was unconsti-
| tutional and ruled that no wines at all
| could be sold.
! THE steamer City of Mexico was boarded
by cuss>>ms officers recently at New York
and large quantity of arms taken out.
Information had been received that the
arms were for a filibustering expedition on
| Cuba. A customs official was also put in
charge of the vessel.
AT Cambridge, Nd, on the seventh bal
lot Rev. Chauncy VI. Williamson, Of Au-
gusta, Ga, was elected Bishop OF the
Diocese of Easton of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, to succeed Henry NJ. Lay,
who died September II last.
A SENSATION was caused in Paris tue
other day by the collapse of portion of
the Pont Neuf, which connects lie de la
Cite, on which is situated the cathedral
church of Notre Dame, with both sides of
the river Seine. 1t is the largest bridge in
Paris, and one of the Oldest
THE water from Black Greek continued
to pour into the Haleigh and Ebervale
mines at Hazleton, Pa, through the large
breach in the surface made by the recent
collapse. Both colleries will be idle all
winter, throwing 1000 men out of work
The loss sustained will reach 100000, and
may greatly exceed that figure.
DURING fight in Renfrew, Ont. recently,
between natives and Poles, one man was
killed and two others fatally wounded
AT Woodmore, a suburb of Detroit,
Mich, early the other morning, Frank
Knox, his wife and two children were
burned to death in their house. There were
suspicious that the house had been robbed
and the parties murdered.
PREPARATIONS were reported making at
Huron, Dakota, to call convention of set
tiers and others for the purpose of denounc-
ing Land Commissioner Sparks for his re-
cent rulings in public land cases.
THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
quested the Attorney General to institute
suits in about forty additional cases against
cattlemen for illegally fencing the public
lands in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and
Colorado. In many of these cases criminal
actions will be brought.
IN joint session on the 18th the so-called
State Legislature of Dakota declared A. c.
G. Moody and the Hon. A. G. EdgertOn
elected United States Senators for the State
of South Dakota.
THE Singer sewing machine factory at
Elizabethport, y. j., shut down recently
because of tax levy of $4,000 by the city.
Two thousand five hundred empbyes were
idle.
HIRES, the defaulting Lewiston Gdaho)
Postmaster, has been tried and acquitted
on four of the eight indictments found
against him.
BUSINESS failures for week ended Decem-
ber Is numbered: For the United States,
233; Canada, -; a total of 255, against 2l!
the week previous. The grand total of fail
ures in the United States from January to
December 10 is 1911, against II ,OSS in 4
like period in 1884, a decline of BIG. The to-
tails for fifty weeks of 1888, 1882 and 1881, re-
spectively, were 9,5l9, 7,762 and 5,939.
JOHN MAGEE and woman supposed to |
be his wife were arrested in London re- |
Gently for sending threatening letters to |
the Prince of Wales. The letters demanded |
ESQ for the purpose of emigrating to Amer
lea. The pretense was that they had re-
ceived orders from secret society to take |
the Princes life, and they would have to
obey or fly to America.
THE Susguehanna Coal Company's mine
at Nanticoke, Pa, was flooded by water on
the morning of the 18th. Some thirty men
were entombed out of about one thousand
who were working in the mine, the others
succeeded in escaping. Strenuous efforts
were being made to rescue the imprisoned
miners, but it would take some time for
the pumps to clear the mine of water.
w. II. CooMBs, in charge of Ed. Ham
mond q Co.'S store at Arlee, Mont. was
attacked by two Indians, supposed to be
Spt';anes, recently, who forcibly entered
the store and drove him out. Coombs fred
1T them. killing one and seriously wound
ing the other. Arlee was deserted soon
after by the whites, the Spokanes coming
n and occupying the place.
IT was reported in Madrid that the Sui
an of Morocco had offered to cede territory
20 both Spain and France. in order to gain
irsuppOrt against the colonizing schemes
IF Germany.
FRANZ TRAvIER KRACTBAUER, Bishop of
ireen Bay, Wis, died recently at his home
II Green Bay, of apoplexy, aged sixty-nine
'ears.