The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08

IT was stated recently that the Grocian
Government would submit measure pro-
viding for compulsory loan, and for the
confiscation of monastery lands. Reports
were current that the Government intended
to mobilize the National guards
GERONIMO and the other Apache bucks
skipped away from Lieutenant Maus and
again took to the mountains. 1t was
| thought they became scared on approach
| ing the settlements. Lieutenant Maus fol-
lowed after them with the hope of inducing
| them to come in.
By an explosion CT petroleum in a vessel
at Baku, Russia, the other day the entire
crew of thirteen persons perished.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Japan Nal
writes that the King of Corea issued an
edict, February ). abolishing slavery in his
kingdom. 1t was estimated that over half
the population of Corea were slaves.
An illness of a suspicious nature has re-
Gently appeared in the mining regions
about Bilboa, Spain. 1t was supposed to
be cholera.
ADvIcEs from st. Johns, n s., state that
the sealing steamer Resolute was wrecked
on Ireland rock, eastward of Fago island
The vessel drove over the rocks and foun-
dered twenty minutes after. The crew OF
thirty-tive men escaped in the boats, ex-
cepting three harpOoners, McGlaskin.
George and Phillips, who were supposed
to be lost.
II the Culebra section of the Panama
canal recently 1900 kilogrammes Of pow
der exploded, killing ten men and seriously
wounding forty.
II. II. WEST and Jesse Ceilings, Liberal
members of the British Parliament for
Ipswich, Eng, have been unseated on
charges of Illegal electioneering practices
THE masts of the Chas. S. Morse schooner
have been found and it is believed she is
the missing schooner that caused the Ore
gon disaster.
President GEEvY has signed a decree
raising the fund for the relief of the French
poor to s7,50O,000 making it larger than
ever before.
DISPATCHES from AMMAN report fresh
massacres at the Catholic missions in the
province of GuangBing. The number of
victims was said to be 442.
A LARGE meeting of Belgian worl1ingman
was held at Client recently. Resolutions
were adopted advising moderation on the
part of the workingnen and calling for
social reforms The total number of arrest
made in Belgium in connection with the
labor riots was go
EXPOSURES were made before tie Rail
way Committee of the Canadian Parlia-
ment recently, involving James Beatty
and D. p. Wcolvorth, members. The Gov
1aft
that both the honorable gentlemen had
promised to divide the funds secured by
passing a certain railroad bill.
TIE Reichstag by vote of 100 to 49, has
decided in favor OF prolonging the anti
Socialist law in Germany.
PARTICULARS regarding the fire in the
Nail building at Toronto, Ont. point to in
cendiarism. The affair was being inyesti-
gated. 1t was stated that the loss to the
Telephone Company alone will be $4,000
and the total loss $4,000 to $l00,000.
The Archbishop of Paris has written a
letter to President Grevy, in which he ex-
presses grief at the Governments attacks
on religion, denies that the clergy are hos
tile to the State, and appeals to President
Grevy i'll behalf of Christianity to Judge
between the Government and the Church.
THE Lieutenant Governor of New Bruins
wick signed the act passed by the LegisIa-
ture of the province comforting municipal
suffrage on women who pay a certain
amount of taxes.
THE March public debt statement shows
q reduction for the month of over S14,000,-
600, and for the nine months of the current
fiscal year OF s6S,0OO,OO0, against about
81, 600 for the same nine months OF the
preceding year.
A RUSSIAN newspaper advocates Russian
military occupation of Bulgaria on a basis
similar 10 that on which Austria occupied
Bosnia.
LEADING French papers take a gloomy
view Of the situation in the East Two
French iron ciaGs have been ordered to be
placed in readiness for immediate dispatch
to the Mediterranean.
The mercantile agency of Il. G.. Dun &
Co. reports business failures in the United
States for the first quarter of 1856, number
3 3,203, with liabilities little over $29,OO0.-
OC0: failures for the first three months OF
1855 numbered 1865, with liabilities of
G4G, ,CJ0,O00.
A STRONG Governm ant force, under Cen
erals Teii and Arbio, was attacked recently
near the river Daibar by the Uruguay rev
olutionists, Arredondo and Castro. The
Government troops were defeated with q
loss of 400 men,