The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-17

| were sitting together Mary fired shotgun
| through a window at them. The discharge
struck both, killing Jane and mortally
wounding Trout. The murderess mounted
a horse she had saddled and rode away.
THE Mohammedan population of Bull
| garia, hitherto neutral, have cast in theil
| lot with Prince Alexander. The truce will
| Servia expired on the 10th and hostilities
| were renewed.
A REQUIEM mass for the rest of the SOU
! of Louis Riel was celebrated in New YorE
| City on the 10th.
THE British Government has decided tc
reinforce the army in Egypt.
THE Bundesrath has unanimously ap
proved the bill for the construction of the
| long spoken of ship canal between the
Baltic, the Elbe and the North Sea- The
canal will cost Germany about Isl, ,OOC
marks.
AT a great mass meeting at Cleveland
O., S15,O00 was subscribed to the Parnell
fund. Prominent Irishmen from all over
! the State were present.
A BUTCHER named Tozzi was arrested at
Rome, Italy, recently charged with the
murder of rival butcher named Poggi
Poggi was enticed into Tozzi's cellar, where
his throat was cut, his blood being caught
in a tub and used in black puddings. The
body was cut up in small pieces and scat
tered in the woods.
Two of the lake barges reported missing
have been discovered; one, the Maxwell, is
ashore near Goodrich, Ont, the other, the
Oneida, is safe in harbor
MAYNARD, the Second Comptroller of the
Treasury, has rendered an opinion to the
effect that in court-martial trials there is
no law to justify allowing expert witnesses
an increased rate of compensation over or
binary witnesses.
Four men were killed in a sewer excava-
tion at Akron, O., recently, by the caving
in of the earth. Two or three others were
injured.
THE annual meeting and exhibition of the
Northwestern Poultry Association opened
at Fargo, D. T, on the 10th. The exhibition
was very large and creditable one.
SECRETARY LAMAR has sent to the Depart
ment of Justice the list of those charged
with illegal fencing of the public domain
who have not complied with the Presidents
proclamation or had their fences removed
Action will commence against the parties
at once.
SENTENCE of death has been pronounced
by court martial upon four Spanish Off
GERS who were convicted of conspiracy for
a revolutionary uprising in Carthagena
immediately after the death of King Al
fonso.
THE other night five negroes, three MEN
and two women, returning home from a
froIic en- D. J. Smiths plantation in York
County, S. c., attempted to cross Broad
River in a canoe. The boat filed and sunk
and the two women and two of the men
were drowned.
IT was practically decided by the caucus
Of Republican Senators at Washington not
to interfere with Presidential nominations
except i'll extreme cases.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended December 10 numbered: For
the United States, 230; and for Canada, Il;
a total of 241, rs compared with total of
239 the weel; previous. The failures were
increasing in the South and West.
SEVERAL train men and passengers were
injured 10y derailed train on the Little
Rock. Mississippi River & Texas Railroad
near Arkansas City, Ark, on the 11th.
IT was reported that the German Govern
men would insist on the expulsion of all
Communications from the country. 1t
would not tolerate any American or other
colonies in Germany. Men of German
birth living in the country must take their
share of military and other burdens or
leave.
TIE London Times says the Powers have
agreed 10 the union of the Bulgarias
THE Chicago street car companies and
other owners of horses are somewhat
alarmed over the appearance of the cpl
zootic. Some fifty horses belonging to the
North Division Street Car Company have
the disease, and six have already died.
FIRE the other morning at Navasota
Tex, destroyed an entire block of business
houses. The total loss was S115,000; insur
ance. $4,000.
JAMES PARKS, his son and another man,
whose name could not be learned, were
struck by the fast train going west near
Elizabeth Furnace, near Altoona, Pa, re-
Gently. The two men were killed outright
and the boy received fatal injuries.
WILLIAM BASS, of Loanoke County, Ark,
while riding on horseback the other day,
was caught under falling tree. The horse
and rider were both killed.