The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-01


caused by an explosion of fire-damp. They
were all ultimately rescued. The damage
done was considerable.
THE United States steamer Juniata, which
was sent to inquire into the detention OF
certain American vessels by the Portuguese
custom officials on the east coast of Africa,
has cabled her arrival at Mozambique.
OFF the coast of Maine, near Eastport
during fearful gale on the 22d, a party OF
men, numbering ten or twelve, were
drowned on the wreck of the Spanish
steamer Humacoa, lost six weeks pre-
viously.
CRETE, the large island in the Mediter-
ranean, belonging to Turkey, was reported
in a state of revolt
The schedules in the assignment of Kos
suth, Adolphus and Jacob Marx, compris-
ing the firm of Kossuth, Marx & Co., jew
elers, of New York, show liabilities, 1923,
94G: nominal assets, 1913, 80; actual assets,
S35S, $40.
THE noted trotter Goldsmith Maid died
at New York recently at the age of
twenty eight years.
The Bulgarians were reported as IN
censed against Russia, who was reported
as having demanded the deposition of
Prince Alexander.
THE glassworkers' strike at Bellaire, O.,
ended on the oath by mutual concessions.
FURTHER rioting took place at the Cleve-
land (O.) rolling mills on the 24th-
ADvICEs from Peru state that the In
dians are committing fearful atrocities in
the city of Huarez.
SOME time since Dorman B. Eaton, Chair
man of the Civil Service Commission, ten
dered his resignation to the President
The latter, in reply, thanked Mr.. Eaton for
his services in the cause of civil service re-
| form, and hoped the resignation would be
deferred until November.
THE town of Sanborn, Oak, was nearly
totally destroyed the other day by fire,
which was supposed to have been started
by tramps. The hotel, five business houses
and several of the best residences were
burned. Loss $4,000, most of it covered
| by insurance.
THE price of wire was advanced recently
by the manufacturers, who met in New
York recently, from 10 to 10 per cent.
PEACE has been officially announced in
Ecuador, the rebels having been suppressed.
THE trial of the cavalrymen who partici-
pated in the anti-German riots at Madrid
has been concluded. One sergeant was
sentenced to death, and the other offenders
were sentenced to various terms of i'm
prisonment. The court advised the Gov
eminent to pardon the sergeant.
JAMES c. PUsEY, the defaulting clerk of
the Kansas Penitentiary at LeaveDworth,
1aI - % IL
sentenced to eight years. Imprisonment.
In the Supreme Court at Boston, on the
18th, Franklin J. Moses, Ex-Governor of
South Carolina, pleaded guilty TO an in
dictment charging him with obtaining
money by false pretenses from ex-Mayor
Cobb and others, in February, 1884. He
had but recently served out a term in the
Middlesex County Jail for a similar offense.
AT Battleford, n. w. T., on the 25th sew
eral Indians were sentenced to be hanged
and to various terms of imprisonment for
murder and other crimes committed during
the recent troubles with Riel and his fol-
lowers.
BUSINESS failures throughout the coun-
try for week ended September q num-
bered 1S5 against 17S the week previous.
THE lumber yard of Gardner & Co., Chi
cago, was recently in flames. For a time
the fire was SO threatening, spreading to
adjoining yards, that many persons feared
a repetition of the disaster of 1871. Loss,
100000.
THREE coaches of a passenger train con-
tanning over 100 persons were thrown
down a high bank near Warm Springs, n.
C., recently. Twenty people were injured.
William Connolly, j. H. Winning and Miss
Brayles, of Ashville, received fatal in
jurieS.
REPORTS were received recently of a cy-
clone at Calcutta, in which several ships I
foundered and great many persons were
drowned.
JOHN MORRIsSEY, of Washington, D. c., |
was killed and three other workmen in /
jured by dynamite explosion recently at /
York Haven, near Harrisburg, Pa.
\ STATEMENT prepared by Superinten-
dent Bell, of the Foreign Letter Mails /
Bureau, shows that the weight OF the for
eign letter mail decreased 1870 pounds |
during the last fiscal year, while the weight |
of the printed matter increased 33,319 /
pounds. The cost of ocean mail transit
was $327, 179, or just $3.50 less than the
cost during the preceding year.