The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-01

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ended satisfactorily. General Manager
and advanced the wages of laborcrs to
| S1.25 per day.
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand have each
sent protests TO England againstthe inter
ference of France in the Hebrides islands.
ALARMING dispatches were received from
Brussels on the 25th. The spread of social
ism and incendiarism, consequent upon the
miners riot, was causing serious apprehen-
sions of the future. Troops were under
arms in the principal cities.
Miss SHELBY, an American woman, and
Mime. Valsayre, French woman, fought a
duel with swords recently on the field of
Waterloo, Belgium. Miss Shelby was
slightly wounded in the arm. The quarrel
JESSE II. SHEETS, Fred Chiffon, Frank
Valley and Ed. King were killed and Fen
ton Woodruff and Charley Emery were SO
badly wounded that they were not expected
to live, during a shooting affray at Tascosa,
Tex, recently. The affray was all the re-
suit of an old difficulty over stealing steers
and changing their brands.
THERE was quite riot at Dayton, o., on
the 23d over the street car strike. The at
tempt to run car failed.
arose over the merits of female doctors.
THE Western Paper Bag Factory, at Ba-
tavia, Ill, owned by Van Notthwicks, was
entirely destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
So, 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE boiler in a saw-mill belonging to the
Calera (Ala.) Land Company exploded re-
Gently, William Fletcher and James Robin
son being instantly killed and Berry Rob
inson and J. NJ. Thomas fatally injured.
Several other men were seriously wounded
A BIG rolling mill at Naomi, Pa, has
shut down and other concerns were pre-
pairing to stop work because of the scarcity
of coal, owing to the strike of the miners.
THE mammoth barn at the Hopkins stock
farm, East Providence, r. l., was destroyed
by fire the other day. SiXty-fve cattle and
four horses were burned, Loss, $50, 900.
THE Ohio State Senate has passed a bill
establishing a non-partisan police force in
Cincinnati by a vote of 21 to {.
THE employees of the Brooklyn and Broad
way New York; street car lines struck on
the 36th
THE business failures during the seven
days ended March % numbered: United
States, 1877; Canada, "a; total of 22l
against 225 the week previous.
THE chief feature of the Missouri Pacific
strike on the 25th was the publishing of a
circular by Grand Master Powderly, of the
Knights of Labor, dated March 13 and is
sued secretly, in which he said there was
too much striking and bOycotting in the
order. Another freight train, under an inn
mense escort of police, got through the
strikers at st. Louis.
THE North Buffalo (N. " -four mills
were burned on the Goth The fire spread
also destroyed. The fire then spread to
buildings on Thomas street and several
others on Barber street. The total loss was
roughly estimated at S500,0OO.
a MOB of strikers marched recently to
the palace of King Leopold, at Brussels,
and sang the ''Marseillaise." Beyond this
they created no disturbance. a few arrests
were made for disorderlv conduct
Mrs. HENRY FRAME, aged forty-two
years, living near Reading, Pa, tried to
start a fire with coal oil the other day,
when the can exploded and she and her
two children were set on fire. She jumped
into a cistern in her agony and was
drowned.
TwENTY-sEvEN buildings were destroyed
by fire at Salida, Col, recently. The fire
started in the Windsor Hotel.
THREE negroes recently shot and killed
colored boy i'll Suwanee County, Fla.
Friends of the boy captured the murderers
and killed them all.
THE brigantine GeOrgiana, of Liverpool,
y. s., has been three months on voyage
from st. Thomas to Liverpool. and all
hopes of hearing from her are abandoned
She was commanded by Captain Nat Zwick
er and a crew of seven men.
\ GREAT prairie fire was reported raging
on the Crow reservation near Fort Keogh,
Mont. 1t had covered many miles of terri
tory and burned up thousands of tons of
uncut hay. y report from Billings says it
was charged that Crow Indians fired the
prairie and that it was move to drive the
cattle off the reservation.
News was received at Fort Worth, Tex.
that a party of Comanche Indians, num-
bering about 100, camped at the mouth of
the Peace river recently, and while there
killed forty or fifty head of cattle. After
killing the cattle they moved down the
river a short distance and then returned tC
their camp, burning all the country as they
went