The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-17

Ceae into consumption in the United States
during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1885,
was 90, 1J6;Sa2 gallons, and the amount of
malt liquors on which tax was paid during
the same period Was 10, lS5 ,953 gallons.
THE schedules in the assignment OF Mar
tin & Co., leather dealers, of Buffalo, n. Y,
show liabilities of 6,99l; nominal assets
of Sa6, 529; actual assets of $3.50.
Mrs. DR.. MARSHALL. Mrs Paul and a
lady friend were drowned the other even
ing by a boat capsizing in Lake Traverse
during a storm. One body was recovered.
TERRIFIC gale prevailed at Paris,
France. on the 11th. Great damage was
done to property and there were many cas-
ualties.
TIE business failures for week ended
September 10 numbered for the United
States, 1S4: for Canada, 10; total, 203; as
compared with 80 the previous week.
THE Tamm1ny Hall General Committee
has passed resolutions condeanning the
Civil Service Commission.
NJ. c. ROCKWELL, the exbanker of
Union, n. ", and his clerk, d. J. Palmer,
were arrested the other day, charged with
larceny in the first degree in misappro-
priating $4,000. The complaint was made
by Mrs. Livingston, a depositor.
THERE was another failure to sail the in
ternational yacht race at New York on the
18th. The yachts started, and the Genesta
had the best of it while the wind lasted.
When the breeze got light the Puritan
forged ahead and was leading when the
seven-hour time limit expired and the race
was off for the day.
THE Sacramento pCal.) River is now 80
filled up by debris and slickens washed
down from the mines worked in the past
year that passenger and freight boats can
no longer reach Sacramento. ~
A RECENT telegram from Fredericks-
burg, Tex, says that Wesley Collier and
Jack Beam, murderers, had broken jail ST
Mason and escaped.
The Sultan of Muscat, who has great in
fuence in the Mohammedan world, re-
Gently offered his army i'll the service of
Great Britain.
A RECENT dispatch from Genoa reported
the laundering OF the steamer Villa de
Malaga. The crew basely deserted the
vessel, leaving the passengers to their fate.
Out of sixty passengers, sixteen were
drowned.
MoLLIE MAGUIREIsM is again reported
rampant in the upper and lower Luzerne
districts of Pennsylvania. Nine murders
have recently occurred in the northern
coal fields, and mines are frequently fired.
LIE MATIN, of Paris, stated on the 18th
that military uprising had occurred at
Madrid, which had been quickly sup
pressed.
THREE sailors of the brig Furness Abbey
were recently arrested in Boston on
a charge of mutiny. The Captain and
Mate were also arrested on counter charges
of cruelty. The vessel was from Hong
Kong.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau at Wash
ingtOn has been Informed that yellow fever
is epidemic in the State of Sonora, Mexico,
and a request has been made for the APP
pointment of a medical inspector at No.
gales. Tex.
A STATE banquet was given at the Royal
Palace at Copenhagen Oh the 18th, attended
by the Car and Czarina, the Prince and
Princess of Wales, King Christian of Den
mark and King George of Greece. King
Christian proposed the health of the Car
and all stood up and sung the Russian Ma
tional Anthem.
IT was reported in Madrid recently that
the boiler of the Spanish cruiser Castillo,
lying at Cadiz. had exploded. The Cas-
tilla was the largest cruiser in the Spanish
Navy.
JACOB KELLY, leading merchant of
Rockbridge, Iii. was found dead in his
store the other morning with two bullet
holes in his body. All the circumstances
pointed to murder, but no clue had been
obtained to the perpetrator OF thu deed.
J. C. WEIsENBURN, dealer in dry goods,
Appleton, Wis, has confessed judgment to
the amount of $4,000 and his establish
ment has been closed. Assets estimated
at $4,000.
TIE Michigan September crop report
gives the total number of acres of wheat
threshed as 1878, with a total yield of
3,S15, 029, or an average of % 40 bushelssto
the acre.
THE barge Cyclone. laden from Mar
quette, was reported ashore near Alabas-
ter, Lake Huron, and will probably prove
total loss. She was launched al Cleveland
in 1856, being then the propeller Pittsburgh,
one of the finest steamers in the world in
her day.