The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-28

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lives in fire in Sullivan's printing Office,
Cincinnati, on the Dist. The building was
j five-story structure, and when the fire
started five young women appeared at the
windows and cast themselves out. They
were all killed. After the fire, which was
insignificant in extent, was extinguished
ten dead bodies were found on the fifth
| floor and one on the fourth. Quite num-
Der of persons were also injured.
! IT was stated thatsRiel, the half-breed,
was an American citizen, having acquired
his naturalization papers in Montana.
THE steamship Isere with Bartholdi's
statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World" on board left Rouen, France, on
the 21st for New York.
a STRANGE disease battling the skill of
the physicians, broke out in Paris, eighteen
miles from Pittsburgh, Pa, few days
ago. Eight persons had died. The disease
was spreading and all cases proved fatal.
THE railroad contractors and laborers
now in Memphis, but recently employed on
the railway works in Guatemala, being
asked about what was alleged by recent
dispatches to the New York Herald, that
laborers were kidnapped from the United
States, robbed, beaten and otherwise mis-
| treated by American contractors in Guate-
mala, emphatically denied all such aIlega-
tions.
THE jury in the case of Justus Schwab,
the Anarchist, under indictment for in
citing a riot in New York City, was unable
to agree.
A DISPATCH of the 21st, from Guaymas,
Mexico SAYS: General Carlo had a bloody
engagement with the Yaquis yesterday.
Fifty Mexicans were killed, and
many wounded. The stronghold of the
been acertained.
& The British officers recently arrived at
Herat. They were warmly welcomed by
the inhabitants. The officers reported the
Notifications of Herat as stronger than
they supposed they were.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has issued
an order requiring fourth class postmasters
to file new bonds at the end of each five
years of service.
THE Peabody and Ocean Cotton Corpor-
ations of Newburyport, Mass, have sus-
pended not to start again until business
prospects are brighter. About 300 per-
sons were thrown out of employment.
PoUNDMAKER sent in flag of truce to
Battleford on the 21st, Offering to surren-
der. The Indians had stacked their arms
and had hoisted an old union jack they
had found somewhere.
SECRETARY MANNING has called for the
resignation OF Major S. Willard Saxton, of
Massachusetts,, chief of division of the
First Conptroller's office.
INFORMATION from New Mexico and Ar1-
zona states that Apaches had killed four
miners at Alma, on the Frisco River, and |
two men on Eagle Creek.
1t was reported in Paris that vast Mo- |
hammedan army was advancing on the |
Congo State in Africa, pillaging and mas |
sacreing as it went.
The President has appointed the follow !
ing Collectors of Internal Revenue: VIII |
liam L. Bishop, for the First District of |
Ohio; Ira Ellis, for the First District of |
California.
THE business failures throughout the |
country for week ended May u, were: For |
the United States, 214; Canada, %; total |
of $50 as against 229 the previous week. |
More than two-thirds of the failures in the |
United States occurred in the Southwestern
and Pacific States.
THE family of the late ex-Secretary Fre-
make no secret of the fact that |
the first serious illness of the late Judge |
was due to aconite that, in some unaccount-
able manner, was bottled with mineral wa
ter he used. DIR. Lincoln, of Washington,
says there was enough left in the bottle to
kill four men.
THE fires on the Blue Mountains in the
vicinity of Danielsville, Pa, which were
partly subdued two weeks ago by rain
storm, broke out afresh and were spreading
rapidly. The forests were very dry and a
great deal of valuable timber was likely to
be destroyed.
In regard to a number of land entries in
Montana, Secretary Lamar has ruled that
afidavits taken before a deputy clerk ap-
pointed solely for that purpose are valid.
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania,
has approved the bill prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale of imitation butter.
A LARGE barn on the farm of E. K. Ny
lin at Lancaster, Pa, was destroyed by
fire the other night with it's contents. 1t is
believed that an insane woman had gone tc
the barn and set the structure on fire, as
her charred remains were found in the
ruins next morning.