The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-09
THREE tons of giant powder were ex-
ploded by lightning at Cheyenne, W. T.,


IT was thought recently that on account
of defects existing in the bookkeeping Of
the Navy Department, the Government
would adopt the system in vogue in the
British Navy Department.
IT was understood in Washington thai
the Austrian Government would have Il
accept Kelley as Ambassador from thi:
country, or the place would be left vacant
WILLIAM MEINEICKE was hanged al
Binghampton. n. Y, on the ID, for the
murder of Kate Bredhoff.
JAMES MCDANIELs, the notorious high
wayman who was sentenced at San An
tonic, Tex, to Imprisonment for ninety
nine years for robbing the mails, and who
escaped from jail soon after, was killed by
officers in the neighborhood of San Gero-
nimo on the 1st.
A TORNADO four hundred yards wide in
flicted much damage at Santa Rosa,
Mexico, recently. Its violence was very
great.
| SIX Canadian raftsmen were drowned
near a desert settlement on the Gatineau
River, one hundred miles above Ottawa.
They were working on drive when from
some unexplained cause their boat upset.
THE wholesale liquor house of Schwa-
bacher & Selig, at indianapolis, was closed
! by the Sheriff recently. Liabilities, So
900: assets large.
PATRICK CONLEY, who took part in the
riot at Chicago, consequent upon the street
car drivers strike, was so severely dubbed
| by the police that he died.
BOMBAY reports a scanty rain fall so far
this season. The prospects are'bad. Crops
will be bad in Madras and Bengal, but in
the central provinces satisfactory results
are looked for.
AT New York, recently, Edward Hall
and Isaac Lawrence were convicted of con-
| spring to counterfeit the currency of
| Guatemala.
As the miners of shaft No. / at What
Cheer, Iowa, were descending to work re-
Gently the engineer lost control of his en-
CINE and the cage containing eight men
was precipitated to the bottom. Charles
German was killed and Thomas Ashman
and Lee and John Morton seriously in
jured.
A TRAIN leaving Boston the other even
ing struck a carriage at Winthrop juno
ton containing p. J. Olander, his son
Frederick, his daughter Clara and hired
man named Leo MILAN. Mr.. Olander and
his son were instantly killed. MILAN was
terribly injured and died within half an
hour. Clara Olander was fatally injured.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
called for a report of the condition of the
National Banks at the close of business
July l.
THE business failures for the week ended
July numbered for the United States, 1873;
Canada, 81; total, 2O4, against 205 the week
previous.
A. j. MCKENZIE, formerly Sheriff of
Rowan County, KY, was reappointed Sher-
if on the Sd. He at once qualified and en-
tered on the discharge of his duties, and
arrested jeff Bowling, John Trumbo, Boone
Day, Robert Nesser, James Oxley, Lick
Day, Craig Tolliver and H. NJ. Kitton, on
warrants charging them with the murder
of Ben Rayborne.
A TERRIFIC wind and rain from the west
struck Mitchell, OAK, recently, and dam
aged houses, the railroad wind mill, the
FACE track and fences. The lightning struck
a house six miles north of Mitchell, and
killed Louis Lovenger, aged sixteen.
THE Canadian Pacific Railway will prob
ably be completed to the Pacific coast in
about seven weeks. Vancouver will be the
western terminus.
THE Shackamoxon philadelphia Bank
officials have been arrested, charged with
conspiracy and fraud.
A BAND of thirty Greek brigands, be-
lieved to have been formed by Slav COM
mittee, were arrested while crossing the
frontier from Thessaly.
A TRAIN on the Kansas City, Springfield
& Memphis Railroad went through a bridge
between Arcadia and Liberal, Mo-, re-
Gently. The conductor, engineer and fire.
man were drowned. Heavy rains were
the cause of the accident.
COMPLAINTS have been received at the
Interior Department that the cattlemen
who hold leases of lands in the Cherokee
Strip, Indian Territory, had forcibly OBJ
structed and prevented the passage of cat
tie from Texas to the northwest through
the Strip. The Secretary has announced
that the established cattle trails through
the country were free to drivers and that
the right of passage would be maintained
by all the power of the United States Gov
eminent.