The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-12
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Dr.. BRoCKMAN, a delegate from the
Transvaal, has arrived at Berne to con-
cluGe commercial treaty between Switz-
erland and the South African Republic.
THE Pope is negotiating with the Chinese
Government with a view to inducing the
latter to allow the Vatican sole authority
over Roman Catholics in China.
AT the meeting of railroad managers at
Chicago, on the 5th, it was decided to ad-
here to the carload rate system.
SICK and wounded Abyssinians were re-
ported dying daily by scores, and all are
suffering for want of provisions, and an
attack on Assouau was feared.
A COLLISION occurred on the East Ten
nessee, virginia & Georgia Railroad, near
Talledega, Ala, the other night. Thirteen
cars we're wrecked. Four men were badly
injured, one dying soon after the accident.
THE New York Daily Commercial Bul-
Ietin, in its monthly summary of fire CLOSES,
estimates the fire wastes in the United
States and Canada in October at 8, $50, 900,
which is less by 81, go 900 than the average
of October fire losses for ten years past.
THE Norwegian bark Aquilla foundered
off Gottenburg recently. Twenty per-
sons were drowned.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred the other
evening in the laboratory of William Akin
& Co., Evansville, Ind, which wrecked the
building badly and scalded several per-
sons, three of them fatally.
A DISPATCH from Tacoma, W. T., states
that Chinatown, situated near the lower
depot and wharf of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, has been burned by the mob.
Two colored men, William Kinnebread
and Philo Johnson, well diggers, were
blown to atoms recently by an explosion
of blasting powder at Atlanta, Ga. They
were down a well, when premature blast
occurred.
IT was alleged in Washington that the
results in the recent elections were due to
the secret organization known as the
Knights of Labor.
THE st. Louis police have arrested David
keenan,, W. P. Sears, P. S. Burns, NJ.
Weathers and Master Workman Pinker-
ton, of the Knights of Labor, all street
railroad men, for being engaged in the re-
cent explosions on the street car tracks.
Another man, named John Shaughnessy,
was also arrested, and the police think
they now have the entire gang.
GREAT improvements are being effected
in Venezuela. The work of building a
breakwater at La Guayra, on the coast, is
to be commenced at once by an English
company. The entire breakwater will
cost $40, 100000 Blocks of concrete, weigh
ing 800 tons each, will be laid in the sea.
THE erasure of the name of Prince Alex
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ated a sensation even in st. Petersburg,
and is believed to indicate an absolute
rupture between Russia and Bulgaria.
THE Barwell building, 229 to 243 Monroe
street, Chicago, was on fire the other day.
The losses footed up 100000.
A SPECIAL from Aurora, Ind, of the 9th
says: "The fine Ohio River steamer J. w.
Gaff and Mountain Girl colided two miles
below here at an early hour this morning.
Seven people on the Mountain Girl from
Holland & McMahn's circus are reported
drowned. The boats were badly wrecked"
THE appointment of Colonel Hyde as
postmaster of st. Louis, was reported at
Washington on the 9th as having been de-
termined upon.
A TORNADO ravaged Carmi, Pittsield,
Bloomington and Springfield, ILL.,, on the
9th. The greatest damage was done near
Carmi, where an old man was killed by a
flying rafter.
THE Journal des DebdtS, of Paris, says
that the triple alliance has been rupturcd
and that Austria and Germany have joined
England, France and Italy against Russia
for the purpose of forcing Russia to accept
the decisions of the Balkan conference.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended November ) numbered for the United
States, 154; for Canada, %; total, 49,; as
compared with POI for the week previous.
ABOUT 1000 men quit work in the Hook
ing Valley, Ohio Central and Shawnee
Valleys, O., on the 9th. The operators say
they will shut down the mines rather than
pay the advance demanded.
REPORTS from Burnt Prairie Township,
in the northern part of White County. H.,
state that the cattle were dying rapidly
from some disease thought to be a milk
sickness.
An express train was boarded recently
hy party of brigands near Naples, Italy,
who shot guard dead and secured 1000
francs in money. The robbers, after
quickly completing their work, jumped
from the train.