The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-15

/ made q murderous attack upon Chinese
hop pickers in the Squack Valley near
Seattle, W. T, two weeks ago and killed
two of the number, have been indicted bS
the grand jury for murder in the first de-
gree.
! ABOUT six hundred coopers employed at
the Armour and Fowler packing houses,
Chicago, went out on strike recently for
an advance in wages from $40 10 8 a day.
TWENTY TWO of the accomplices in the
lynching of Culbreath, in Edgetield County.
S. c., have been lodged in jail The other
three were detained temporarily by sick
ness.
THE findings of the ecclesiastical court
of inquiry in the case of the Rev. H. D.
Jardine of Kansas CITY, were made public
on the Sth. He was found guilty of indo-
cent conduct and Bishop Robertson was
recommended to inhibit him from offici-
/ ating any further in st. Mary's Church.
| PHILIP SMITH, mSchinist and foundry
mae at Sidney, o, has made an assign
ment. His liabilities are S2OO,000; assets
! unknown.
AN extensive confagration took place in
! AldersgGte street, London, on the morning
.
a million dollars.
SERIOUS riots broke out in St Louis on
the 9th, occasioned by the street car strike.
Large mobs Of men surrounded various
cars, overturning them into the cutters
and beating the drivers and conductors
and policemen guarding them. During
one of these riots, Policeman Hannah shot
a striker named Havey through the head,
killing him. 4 very bitter feeling was en-
genGered in consequence and worse troubles
were expected.
AT the Luke Fidler breaker, Shamokin,
Pa, recently, Polish boy employed as
slate picker, missed his footing and fell
headlong into a box in which were swiftly
revolving pair of monkey" rollers. Be-
fore the machinery could be stopped his
body was ground to pieces.
NEARLY fall and official returns from the
recent town meetings in Connecticut show
that in 1G2 of the 49, towns, 20 are Repub
lican, 30 Democratic and 2S equally divided.
Last year the standing was almost exactly
the same.
THE suit to test the validity of the Bell
telephone patents at Washington was dis
missed by Solicitor-GeneralG oode on tech
nicalities. Further attempts would be
made. it was said, to break the telephone
monopoly.
HORSE breeders of Bushnell, ILL.,, were
considerably alarmed over the discovery
that CHAMBERS exists in J. $. Truman's herd
of range horses. DR.. Paaren, the State
Veterinarian, examined the diseased ami
mails and at once pronounced the malady
CHAMBERS.
INSTRUCTIONS have been received by DR..
Mckinney, Health Officer of Texas, from
Governor Ireland, to discontinue the quar-
antine against Mexico.
CAPTAIN CLAIB, of Abilene, Tex, Man
ager of the Sansome Cattle Company, re-
ceived information that Indians had stolel
eighty head of horses from the company's
ranch In New Mexico near the Arizona
line.
The ninth annual congress of the Ma
tional Liberal League convened at the
Peoples Theater, Cleveland, O., ON the
9th. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the Pres
ident, not being present, Charles Watts, of
London. England, Vice President, occupied
the chair.
THE pOstmasters at Graniteville and
Sherley, small towns adjacent to Boston,
Mass, have been recommended for removal
for mailing matter at their office that
should have been mailed at Boston. In the
case of the Sherley postmaster it was al
legged by the Inspector who investigated
the matter that the postmaster paid thirty
per cent. of the value of the stamps to per-
sons who brought quantities of circulars
to his Office for mailing.
IGNACIA CoRTEz, notorious woman,
of San Antonio, Tex, was recently
tried for the murder of Sid II. Stan
niforth and acquitted. The dead body
of Stanniforth was found in her
house last July with two bullet holes in
the brain, which the prosecution claimed
could not have been self-inficted, but the
jury thought otherwise.
THE National Zeitung, of Berlin, saws
that Germany will join the bi-metallic con-
ference when England consents to do like
wise.
THE Knights of Labor, in session at
Hamilton, Ont, decided to establish State
and Provincial assemblies.
FAILURES for the seven days ended the
SCh numbered: United States, 49,; Can
ada, -. Total, 207, against 1876 the weel.
before.