The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-18

4 Ok miucIs WeIo crusneu In q railway
wreck near Munhall, Pa, the other day,
| and one of them was killed.
| THE exports of breadstuffs during the
seven months ended January 81 were s62,.
| 4O6 047, as against s97, 572, go in the same
| time last year.
| FIRE burned the house Of z. T. Kainor,
| in Jamestown, near Buffalo, N. Y, the
| other morning. Kainor and wife were
burned to death. They were each about
sixty years of age.
An attempt was made to drive out the
Chinese at Olympia, W. T., on the 9th, but
the ringleaders were arrested by the au-
thorities. No violence was attempted by
| the mob, they contenting themselves with
| notifying the Chinese to leave.
THREE Hungarians recently imported to
take the places of strikers, were frozen to
death in barn in Hancock County, W. Va.
CAPTAIN SARAUED was found guilty in
Leipzig, Germany, recently, of having fur
nished plans of German Notifications to
the French military authorities and was
sentenced to twelve years. penal servitude.
DALTON, the county clerk of Hamilton
County, O., has been arrested for contempt
of the lower house of the Legislature for
refusing to take his books to Columbus.
STRIKING hosiery operatives at Leicester,
Eng, recently paraded and wound up by
smashing the windows of the mill.
HENRY CooNs, a freight engineer was
killed and three ladies badly injured bye
collision between a dummy and train ae
Mount Lookout, a suburb of Cincinnati,
the other night.
THE Kentucky State Senate has passed a
bill establishing a whipping post for wife
heaters. A pleuro-pneumonia bill con-
demning all diseased cattle in the State,
appointing cattle inspector and appro-
priating 5000 for the purchase of con-
demned cattle has also been passed.
MARTIN o. VAN FLETT, treasurer of HUI
ron County, o., has been arrested in Brant-
ford Ont, charged with having embezzled
$4,000 of Huron County bonds.
A MAN named John Cokeley, formerly an
employee at Roach's ship yard, recently
confessed that he murdered John Sharp
less, the Quaker farmer, near Chester, Pa,
November % last. He said he made the
confession because he did not wish to see
the negro Johnson, under arrest, punished
for crime he did not commit.
SEVEN young girls were taken out of
skating rink at Boston, recently, charged
with immortality. 1t was claimed they had
been ruined by freque nting the place.
JAMES STEERS, an agent of the California
Mutual Accident Association, was caught
in snowslide among the mountains near
Butte City, Mont, recently. Steers was
an Englishman wing had but lately arrived
at Butte.
COMMISSIONER BLACK told the House
Committee on invalid Pensions recently
that 800, 100000 was probably liberal es-
innate of the cost of extending the Arrears
of Pensions act to 1888.
THE Military Committee Of the National
House of Representatives has decided to
recommend the construction of a 100000
soldiers home west of the Rocky noun
tains.
THE scarlet fever epidemic which began
at Shenandoah, Pa, in Dece mber, contin-
ues to rage and is aggravated by unsea-
sonable weather Upwards Of 200 children
have been carried off by the disease within
two weeks and there are over 100 cases in
town.
THE Crawford divorce suit in London,
involving the scandal affecting Sir c. W.
Dixie, ended by the divorce being granted
without evidence being offered of the al
legged completely of Dixie in Mrs. Craw-
ford's adultery.
HEAVY rains were reported causing heavy
floods in the East. The Delaware river was
higher than for years. Bridges were re-
ported swept away and traffic was inter
rupted.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended February II reported to r. G. Dun
& Co., numbered for the United States,
238; Canada, 81. Business casualties con-
tinued very numerous in the Western and
Southern States and in Canada.
DURING the deep fog of the 18th, the
Austrian bark Kraljevka, from Marseilles,
France, struck on Barnegat shoals, neer
Philadelphia. The life-saving crew of
Barnegat station went to her assistance,
when their boat was swamped and three OF
the men were drowned. The crew of the
bark, fearing that the life-guards would be
unable to save them, had left the vessel in
their own boat. 1t capsized and sunk and
eight of the crew were lost.
THE number of silver dollars in circula-
ton July 81, 1885, was 81, 1884, 433; December
81, 50 ,541 ,271, and February 10, 81, Isl ,361.
GENERAL CROOK left Fort Bowie, A T.,
on the 18th to meet Chief Geronimo az the
Mexican line, as had been arranged by
Lieutenant Maus month ago.
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