The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-10
NV YORK business men are agitating in
favor of rnunicinal homo r,,Ia and a practi

a hardware and a grocery store, bank, &
church and the post-office, causing a loss o.
$4,000.
IT vas reported probable that Commits
sioner Sparks action in suspending the
timber culture laws would be made the
subject of Congressional inquiry.
The Iltrdnsigednt, of Paris states that il
has special advices from Madagascar thai
the Malagasies have refused to abide BY
the terms of the treaty made with France
and have revolted at Tananartvo and over
thrown Premier Rasormino, who wa;
friendly to France.
A REPORT from Graham County, A. T.
says that about 1OOWhite Mountain Apaches
have left their reservation and are starting
on raiding tour in Graham and Chase
Counties.
| THE Knights of Labor closed its conven
ton at Cleveland, o., on the Sd.
PRIVATE advices from Panama, state
that yellow fever is the epidemic on the
isthmus. The average daily number OF
deaths from this disease alone is about
| forty.
THE New York Daily Commercial BuHe.
tins estimate Of the fire waste in MAY in
or 81, 600 600 less than the May average for
many years.
ONE of the last official acts of the Presi-
dent previous to his marriage was pardon
| ing B. F. Bigeiow, the defaulting teller OF
the National Bank of the Republic, OF
Washington. Three years ago Bigelow
was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment.
IN the New Jersey House bill providing
for local option throughout the State on the
liquor question was defeated by a vote OF
% to 81.
THE boiler of local freight engine No.
Alp, of the Baltimore & Ohio, exploded at
Bellaire, O., recently. Two engineers and
fireman were instantly killed. Consider
able damage was done by fragments of the
exploding boiler.
A PARTY of eight hostiles killed DR.. c.
Davis, near Fort Lowell, A. T.. recently.
THE Austro-Hungarian Government crisis
has been averted by compromise, an agree
ment having been reached to reconsider the
subject of petroleum duties.
THE demands of the 1000 brickmakers of
Allegheny County, Pa, for an advance of
20 per cent. have been granted and the
threatened strike averted.
TIE Highland Reform League, at a meet
ing held in Glasgow, adopted resolutions
favoring home rule for Scotland and the
establishment of separate Scotch Legisla-
ture.
A LARGE number of Orangemen attacked
body of Catholic laborers near Belfast,
Ireland, recently, injuring thirty of them.
The riot was caused by an attack on some
Loyalists previously. Considerable ex-
citement was reported.
A TERRIBLE conflagration was reported
raging at Scottdale Pa. on the morning
of the 9Th that threatened destruction to
the whole town. The buildings were mostly
frame.
THE North Atlantic squadron has been
ordered to visit the fisheries to help allay
the existing troubles with Canada.
THE eruption of Mount Etna has ceased,
and the town of Nicolos is safe.
AT Venice on the 4th there were thirty
two new cases of cholera and thirty-one
deaths, while at Florence two cases were
reported.
BUSINESS failures for seven days ended
June numbered: For the United States,
100: canada, -; total, loS. talluSeS the
previous week numbered $50.
AT Cummins, near Chicago, on the Rock
Island road, on the 4th, some two thousand
of the nail strikers wives aud children
blockaded the track so that traffic was
completely stopped. When the track was
cleared n new difficulty arose in the refusal
of train hands to move ''scab" nails.
ONE person was killed and fourteen in
jured by an accident on the railway be-
tween Valparaiso and Santiago, Chill, re-
Gently.
NJ. DEFIssUEAUX, leader of the socialists
in Brussels, has been sentenced to q years
and fined Sl.2jO for exciting
to riot and insulting the King in pam
phlet entitled ''The Peoples Catechism."
SALEM, Iowa, was badly s:orched by fire
The Union block was destroyed
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
THE family of Winfield Scott at Athens,
O., were poisoned recently after eating
One child died
DIPHTHERIA has assumed epidemic pro-
portions at Chenoa, Mclean County, Ill.
Four business houses were DESTROYED by |
an incendiary fire at Allendale, Ill, re.
Gently.