The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-25

Oedlers IN rags anu niucSf ZancSNlAc, W.,
was damaged by fire recently. Loss,
$1,000; insurance, $4,000.
SIX hundred and thirty two new cases
of cholera and one hundred and fifty -ons
deaths were reported in the cities of Muir
cha, Valencia and Casteilen 1e Plora in one
day recently.
THREE of the Spanish commissioners, ap-
pointed to investigate the subject, report
that incubation with cholera virus is
so harmless that they advise it be per-
mitted, on the ground that it will tend to
prevent panic.
IT was reported that 40 persons were
killed by the explosion in the Pendlehury
coIliery near Manchester, Eng, recently.
THE French Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote of 296 to 100, refused to exempt priests
from serving in the army reserves.
A SERIOUS strike of stonemasons &C.
Cured in Berlin recently. The efforts of
the strikers to prevent other masons FROM
working on buildings in process of erection
led to riots and many arrests were made.
The directors of the Exeter IN. H.
Manufacturing Company have decided to
shut down their mills until September.
This action wa. due to the mills being
overstocked with goods Several hundred
hands were thrown out of employment.
LIEUTENANT STEVENS, of the Ninth
cavalry, has returned to Fort Reno from
Oklahoma after having thoroughly secured
the country. No colonists were found in
that Section.
THE will of Robert Treat Paine, of Bos-
ton, Mass, bequeaths $4,000 to Harvard
College for the maintenance of a professor
ship of astronomy in the university.
AN aeronaut named Patterson fell from
a hot-air balloon which collapsed recently
at Charleston, w. Va. Patterson was
crushed to a shapeless mass. He left
wife and family.
THE wives of three naval officers having
Joined their husbands IN Japan, the latter
have been detached from duty for violat-
ing an order forbidding naval officers hav-
ing their wives with them on foreign sta
tions.
THE Pope has rebuked Archbishop
Guibert, of Paris, for criticizing one of the
Cardinels.
MAX WEIsER, mailing clerk Of the
post-office at San Antonio, Tex, has been
arrested charged with purloining regis
tered pc ckages.
THE Austrian Government has objected
to Carl Jonas as American Consul at
Prague on account of his offensive liber-
alsm" in Austria in former years.
THE formal reception of Bartholdi's
statue took place at New York on the 18th.
At the City Hall the guests were given a
banquet and afterwards speeches were
made by Mayor Grace, President Sanger
and Frederick r. Condort.
BUSINESS failures for week ended June
IS number for the United States 1874; for
Canada 81; a total of 226 against 207 the
week previous.
NEARLY the entire force employed at the
Para Rubber Shoe Company's works at
South birmingham, Mass, went out on a
strike the other morning i'll support of the
striking bootmakers.
GEORGE A. ROGERS, convicted at Balti-
more of wife beating, received fifteen
lashes at the hands of Sheriff Airy re-
Gently. He was the first white man
whipped in Maryland for that offense.
The broken roof stone of the Washing
ton monument was placed in position with
out difficulty.
JAMES Z. AUSTIN, an insurance agent OF
Boston, Mass, has failed for $4,000. His
assets aggregate $4,000.
TURKISH troops have captured eighty
Bulgarian brigands, including the leader,
a former Russian major, and several Rus
slams. Fifteen were killed.
FIRE at Portland, Me-, destroyed the
building owned by S. NJ. Layman and
damaged the two adjoining buildings.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
PERRY and William Miller, father and
son, were hanged in the jail incIosure at
Farmersville, La, recently for the murder
of John W. Cherry, an old farmer, at his
home in the northern part of Union Parish,
April 10, 1884.
JAMES 7. TANNING, Familiarity known all
over the country as an impersonator of
"Uncle Tom," but now a broken down
man, was, at his own request, sent to the
House of Industry, at Boston, recently, on
a charge OF vagrancy.
THE Wheeling Chamber of Commerce
recently sent a representative to investi-
gate and report on the alleged destitute
condition of the people in certain counties
of West Virginia. He returned and stated
there was no truth in the reports, and that
the people were in first rate circumstances