The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE stage from Abilene, Tex, was
robbed by masked highwaymen the other
night, and the mails carried away. The
driver was made to hand over his express
packages at the point of the rifle.
IT was rumored in Raagoon that a rev.
olution had broken out at Mandalay and
that King Thebaw had been murdered.
RELEASED polygamists in Utah declare
their intentions to keep their covenants"
hereafter secretly. President Taylor,
Cannon and other heads of the Church
were reported to be still in hiding.
The steamer Plowboy, a small packet
engaged in the transportation business be-
tween Keokuk, Iowa, and Warsaw, ILL.,,
and Alexandria, No., burned at the wharf
at Keokuk the other night. Loss, $1,000.
In the Ferd. Ward trial at New York, on
the 9th, ex-Banker Fish continued his
damaging testimony against Ward. Fish
laid all his troubles to Ward and said if he
were not such contemplate, hypocritical
sneak he would have killed him.
THE case of the State against Samuel c.
Schaeffer, charged at Kansas City with
obtaining money from John l. Blair, of
Blairstown, n. J., by cheat and fraud,
was concluded on the 9th by the jury
finding the defendant guilty and fixing his
punishment at eight years in the State
penitentiary. The trial of the cause oc-
cupied over three weeks. The affair origi-
mated over the sale of land.
THE ship building trade on the Clyde is
generally depressed. Over 20 per cent.
of the workmen are out of employment.
Soup kitchens have been opened to relieve
the sufferings of the poor.
A DISPATCH from Rio Janeiro says that
the Empress of Brazil had fallen down a
staircase and broken her arm. Her Ma
jesty's condition causes much alarm.
THE rumor telegraphed recently that a
revolution had broken out at Mandalay
and King Thebaw had been murdered was
not true.
TIE steamship Great Eastern was re-
Gently sold at public auction at London for
f26,2O
ABOUT $50 feet of the bridge of the Pleas
ant Vale s. Atlantic City IN. j. Turnpike
Company fell recently while about fifty
people were on it. Many were thrown
into the water, but none were drowned.
the piling by worms until it was honey
combed.
THE schedules in the assignment of Sout-
ter & Co., of New York, show liabilities of
1,712, ,253, of which 1855, ,726 are secured
and $756,477 unsecured. The assets are
nominally worth $1S2,072, and actually
worth S173,912.
EDWARD STOKES, of New York, and
William King, of Minnesota, ,ex-Postmaste
of the National House of Representatives,
are about to build a telegraph line from
st. Louis to Duluth. The estimated cost
of the plant is placed at $500, 900 and por-
tion of the construction is expected to be
done this year.
TEMPORARY coercive laws have been
published in the official Gazette at Copen-
hagen and force of military and police
have been formed to assist the civil au-
thorities in carrying the laws into effect.
THE Servisn Government has replied to
the collective note of the powers and re-
fuses to disarm Servian troops until the
equilibrium in the Balkans has been re-
stored. The Government was angry be-
cause the Balkan conference is to be held
at Constantinople instead of Vienna or
Pesth.
A DISPATCH from Madrid confirms the
recent statement that the American Gov
ernment has intimated to Spain if the lat
ter's sovereignty of the Caroline Islands
is recognized the American Protestant
mission must be respected and freedom of
religion permitted.
NJ. DE FREYcINET, the French Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, was shot at in Paris re-
Gently. by man supposed to be Corsican.
He was aniniured. The would.be assas-
sin, on being arrested, claimed his motives
were not political. 1t was thought he was
O lunatic.
a j. BURNS, a young man, shot and seri-
ously wounded two young women, sisters,
in the hallway Of R. g. Dunn's Office. Chi.
cago, recently. He had been discharged
for insulting the sisters and took this mode
Of revenge.
THE conspiracy to murder Mrs. Meilen,
for which Mrs. Coolidge was placed under
arrest in Boston recently, was alleged to
be huge scheme Of blackmaiI.