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

A COUSIN of Bill Jones, the Indian VINO
murdered Mr.. Boulder White at Caddo, l.
T., a few days ago, killed an Indian in Blue
County, |. T. Wilson Jones, the father of
Bill, is said to be the wealthiest Choctaw in
the Nation, and is terribly downcast be-
cause of the Grim S of his son and nephew.
THE Cuban tobacco crop for this year
will be not only larger than that for many
former years but of far better quality.
IT was thought the Texas fever line
would be established south of the Texas
Pacific Railway in Texas.
FALSE POINT, INDIA, which was thought
to have had the best harbor between CAL
cutta and Bombay, was struck by storm
wave September %, and swept so COM
pletely that most of the inhabitants per-
ished
The mercantile failures in the United
States for the quarter ended September 80
numbered 3, 113, against 2,346 in the cor
responding quarter of 1884. The liabili-
ties showed a remarkable decline, amount
ing to S23, 100000 against $50, 100000 in the
third quarter of 1884.
IT was stated that the riot in Montreal
was due to the perverseness of the Board
of Aldermen. The better class of French
Canadians were disguised with the work of
the anti-vaccination mob.
a DISPATCH from Louisville, XIV, says:
The Jacksonville plate glass works has
assigned. The liabilities are not known,
but are said to be largely in excess of the
assets.
A BAND of Mussulman and Christian
brigands, near Smyrna, have captured
young Englishman named Fred Charnaud.
They demand $4,000 ransom.
HEAVY foods were reported recently IN
the eastern portion of Switzerland. Much
damage was done.
INFORMATION received at Prescott, Ari.,
from Clifton of the Indian depredations
was recently so alarming that the Gov
ernor issued a general order calling out
the militia for active service.
A SPECIAL from Warm Springs, Mont,
of the 31th, says: One of the buildings of
the insane asylum burned yesterday, and
three inmates persisted in the flames. It is
not known how the fire originated.
MEssRs. SoUTTER 6 Co., bankers and
brokers, doing business at No. IL Wall
street, New York, made an assignment re-
Gently for the benefit of their creditors.
FORTY 81 900 town bonds of Mattoon, ILL.,,
were found in the possession of Tom Davis
after his murder by Holland, of Texas, in
New York. The Supervisor of Mattoon
has sent to Coroner Levy for one of the
bonds for examination, stating a belief
that they are counterfeit.
A CONVENTION of colored men assembled
recently in Lynchburg, Va, and issued an
address declaring that the time had come
for them to break from old party affilia-
tions and think and act for themselves.
TURKISH troops fred on the Roumelan
outposts at Mustapha Pasha, a town in
Roumeiia, twenty miles northwest of
sued in which the Turks were defeated.
The late Turkish Minister of War, Ghozei
Osman Pasha, was reported guilty of such
extensive entertainments that the army was
half crippled.
The special delivery system of the postal
service was inaugurated in the various
cities on the 1st.
THE Kansas Grand Army reunion closed
at Topeka on the 1st with an immense pro-
cession, which took an hour and a half to
pass and was witnessed by 5000 persons.
FRENCH Canadian mobs were reported
on the 3Oth tearing down smallpox pla-
cards in Montreal aud beating isolated mi
litiamen, but no serious riots were ct
tempted. The epidemic was increasing in
virulence, about 80 deaths occurring in
the city and suburbs in four days.
SECRETARY WHITNEY recently said he
intended in his forthcoming report to
recommend to Congress largely increased
appropriations for the Equipment and
Ordnance Departments of the Washington
Navy Yard, with a view to making it a
central deport for supplies. The work of
construction would be conferred in other
yards.
A RECENT dispatch stated that the mail
stage running between San Angela and
Abilene, Tex, had been stopped and robbed
by highwaymen.
A LARGE fire occurred in Iquique, Ecua-
dor, the other night, and the most import
ant quarter of the town was destroyed.
Very few of the commercial establishments
escaped.
The window glass trade was-reported at
a recent convention held in New York to
be in a very unpromising condition.
TIE safe in the store of John Patterson,
at Amesville, Athens County, O., was
blown open by burglars the other night,
from which they distracted over -, GOO in
cash and $50 in bonds.