The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

THERE were Al new cases and 95:
deaths from cholera reported in Spain on
the Goth. In Madrid nineteen new cases
and thirteen deaths were reported. The
scourge had invaded Guadalajars, Burgos
and Almeira.
RUSSIA has assented to the issue of the
| Egyptian loan, and the British Govern
ment has instructed the RothSchilds to is
sue the loan in August. The consent OF
Russia was held to indicate a growth OF
| friendly relations with England, and
caused rise in all international stock.
! THE Marine Hospital Bureau has been
informed that yellow fever exists as an
| epidemic at Bahia, Brazil, and that cholera
has made its appearance at Cadiz, Spain,
at the port of entry, Puerto Real.
| Two OF the Bay City, Mich, mills have
arranged matters with their striking en-
| ployes.
| THE enrolment of the Indians at Fort
Reno was begun on the 21st. The Arap-
ahOes were 1000 in number instead of ZOO
as had been estimated, while the Chey-
| ennes will not show more than 1000 peo-
pie.
| A NEW whisky pool was formed by a
convention which met in Chicago recently.
| Two FEROCIOUs bull dogs attacked nurse
and a three-months- child of John
Hoening, of Allentown City, a suburb of
| Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day. One of the
dogs seized the baby by the foot, biting it
off at the ankle. The child died.
TWELVE shocks of earthquake, one of
which was very severe, were felt in Cash
mere July 16.
| THE British Admiralty has decided to
| construct several torpedo rams similar to
the Polyphemus, owing to the latter's eff
| fective service during the recent evolution
in Bantry Bay.
THE lower portion of Cedar County, Pa,
was again devastated by forest fires. The
inhabitants of the little settlement of
Pestletown had great difficulty in saw
| ing it.
DISPATCHES from Assouan say: Major
Grenfell has telegraphed that messengers
from Cobra have arrived with the re-
port that Ell Mahdi died of smallpox on
June 20.
THE final meeting of the commission ap-
| pointed to inquire into the mental condi-
ton of John Mccullough, the actor, was
held at Philadelphia on the 22d. McCul-
! Tough was formally pronounced insane.
THE President and Cabinet have decided
that the cattle leases of lands in the In
dian Territory are illegal and vcid. A very
gloomy feeling prevailed among the cattle
men in consequence.
A MEXICAN recently arrived from the
Canona Mines of Arizona reported that
fifty Indians were in the mountains near
there. They had killed one American and
two Mexicans and had stolen some stock.
TIE Mexican editors arrived at Wash
ington on the I'D.
Two negroes accused of murder were
quietly lynched in Jail at Minden, La, re
Gently. The mob riddled them with buck
shot as they were lying in their cells.
THE other morning two explosions of
giant powder demolished the press house
and mixing house at Glatfelter, johnson s.
Bowman's powder mill at Spring Grove,
near York, Pa, resulting in serious dam
age to the property and the death of two
employees.
THE mercury reached 95 at Louisville,
KY, on the 22d. Six fatal cases of sum
stroke were reported.
In Spain on the 22d there was a total of
2,270 new cases of cholera and 94S deaths.
Cases were reported at Salamanca and
Barcelona.
EARLY the other morning a mob of
about fifty men surrounded the jail at
Greensburg, KY, where George Edwards
and four of the gang who shot Mike Rogers
were confined. The jailer parleyed with
them until he sent q boy who rang the
alarm bell, at which the mob hastily dis
persed.
THE immense cereal depot of Kalaschni
kow, near st. Petersburg, Russia, burned
recently. The loss reached an enormous
sum.
Gus BESTER and Gus Lovergren, Swedes,
aged twelve and eighteen years, while
swimming in the Des Moines River at Chill
hcothe, Iowa, recently, were drowned.
The bodies were not recovered.
LORD LoNsDALE and Sir George Chef
wynd met in Rotten row, London, recent
ly, when the latter at once struck Lord
Lonsdale on the head with his riding whip,
knocking his hat into the street. Both men
were on horseback at the time. The trouble
was about a woman.
THE Touring mills and grain elevator
owned by Stewart & Eames at Carlyle,
H., burned recently. The loss was $780,
600; the insurance $500.