The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

1HE OJner 0ay DOX containing SOO,UDU
in unsigned bank notes of the Banco Mexi-
cano, stored at Paso del Norte, Mex, was
broken open and robbed of all but a 500
package.
In the House of Commons on the 29th
Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, read telegram
from Lumsden, at Tirpul, April %, which
mentions that the Governor of Herat had
received report that the Russian troops
had advanced upon Maruchek.
THE man-of-war Howe was launched at
Pembroke, Wales, recently. This new ad-
dition to the British navy carries ten guns
and has crew of 445 men. The Howe is a
twin screw, steel armor-p plated barbette
ship of 500 tons burden and has 800
horse power.
! GOVERNOR MARMADUKE, of Missouri,
was reported as displeased with the action
of Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, in indis-
criminately quarantining against Missouri
cattle. 1t was thought that Oglesby had
exceeded his prerogatives and that the
Federal courts would be applied to for re-
lief.
THE Ohio Legislature has passed law
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offering or receiving money at primary or
! general elections.
| JUDGE ENDICoTT, Secretary Of War, en-
phatically denied that any conflict existed
between himself and Lieutenant General
Sheridan.
IT was reported in London that the CO.
ercion act existing over certain counties in
Ireland would not be renewed the present
year.
| SIXTY-EIGHT indictments were found by
the United States Grand Jury at Topeka
on the 2Sth against the prominent Okla
homa colonists. The leaders were indicted
on separate charges, the others on the COM
mon charge of plotting insurrection.
GOVERNOR SHERMAN, of Iowa, has issued
proclamation establishing quarantine
boundaries against cattle not accompanied
by certificates of health from the States of
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, Delaware, Ohio, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and the
District of Columbia.
THE Belgian Chamber of Deputies has
increased the custom duties on foreign
sugar five per cent.
The new two million dollar Board of
Trade building at Chicago was dedicated
on the 18th.
A DISPATCH from General Briere de LiSle
states that the Chinese generals refuse to
evacuate Tonquin or to retire from the po-
sitions which they have captured.
THE working force of the Navy Yard at
Washington was reduced by the discharge
of more than one hundred men because of
want of money to pay them.
THE Colombian revolutionist, Aizpura,
and his followers, agreed to surrender on
condition of receiving full pardons from
the Government. The pardons, however,
were not to extend to those who were con-
cerned in the burning of Colon.
The Cars ultimatum to Great Britain
was that the latter power accept the de-
limitation of the Afghan frontier as laid
down by Russia. If refused, an order
would be issued to march on Herat.
THE Bey of Tunis recently caused the ar
rest of his brother just as he was about to
go to France without leave.
The old Board of Directors of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railway was re-
elected in Chicago.
A READING (Pa.) dispatch of the 29th
says: A fire which started to-day on the
Blue Mountains between Burks and Schuyl-
kill Counties is tonight raging furiously.
Several thousand acres of timber have
been devastated. The farmers find it USE
less to fight the fire, as the wind scatters
the sparks in all directions.
THE Louisville express on the Louisville.
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stopped near Harrodsburg, Ind, the other
night by a band of masked robbers. The
American Express messenger, refusing to
unlock the safe, was fatally shot. The bag
gage-master was also shot and seriously
wounded. The robbers only got about
800.
THE President has appointed Anthony
Kelley, of Richmond, Va, to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to Austria-Hungary. Kelley had
declined the Italian mission.
The royal mail steamship "Humbert,"
which left New York April 15, has not been
heard from and is believed to be lost.
IN the House of Commons the bill relat-
ing to industrial schools in Ireland passed
its third reading.
AN Irwin, Pa, special says the Pennsyl-
vania Gas Coal Company's miners resumed
work in No. mine at the red uction, after
a strike of nine weeks. Fifteen hundred
miners also resumed work at the Scott
Haven mines.
FREDERICK RoTH, formerly a burgo-
master in Ebarbeld, Prussia, shot and
killed himself in Cincinnati the other day
because of inability to procure work.
DURING the month of April, Postmaster
General Villas appointed 800 Postmasters
at fourth-class offices. The majority of the
appointments were made to fill vacancies.
SECRETARY MANNING has directed the
suspension of Merritt Wickham, William
H. Gregg and Ward H. Fowler, Assistant
Customs Appraisers at New York.
THE commission of c. n. Jordan, as
United States Treasurer, was signed on the
SOth and his bond of S15o,OOO approved.
The Figaro says the French Government
will expel the Orleans and Bonapartist
Princes from France.
CHARLES F. FIsHBACK, a Leadville at
torney, was arrested recently at Denver on
FIVE charges of forgery.
SIXTY convicts in the Chicago Bridewen
struck work recently for more and better
food. They were sent to their cells.
The Commissioner of Pensions has rem
dered a decision, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of the Interior, on the PEN
sion application of Mrs. Emma De Long,
widow of the late Commander De Long of