The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-08
GENERAL.

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Church by vote of 137 to % has condemned
the home rule policy.
THE French Senate has adopted the bill
authorizing the city of Paris to issue a loan
of s50,00O,0OO to inaugurate and carry on
public improvements for the purpose of
furnishing work to the unemployed.
A FORCE of British troops with two bat
teries has had a severe fight with 800 Bur-
mese rebels strongly entrenched near Sum-
moo. The fight lasted five hours. Tho
British, failing to dislodge the rebels, re-
tired Several officers were killed and
wounded.
! AT Mines, France, recently an audience
of thirty thousand people became enraged
in their disappointment at not witnessing
ali advertised bull fight and tore the fit
tings of the circus to pieces, making bon
fire of the debris. Troops had desperate
conflict in restoring order.
| EIGHT persons were killed in a railway
accident near Belfast, Ireland, recently.
BEECHER was warmly received in Lon
don.
AN explosion of sewer gas under the Brit
ish House of Commons caused alarm in
London recently, the explosion at first be-
ing credited to dynamite.
j. II. DIXON, of Bradford, Eng, for whom
ArthurC Preller travelled, was in st. Louis
recently. His purpose was to collect suffi-
cient proof of the dead mans identity as to
secure the payment of $1,000 insurance to
his parents.
HERR SUIGNA, Social Democrat and mem
Der of the German Reichstag, has been ex-
PEELED from Berlin.
A PARTY of Mexican revolutionists were
routed at Iona Paieta recently and their
leader captured
THE German imperial revenue for the ifs
cal year 1855 will, it is calculated, fall
17,0O0,000 marks below the estimate. The
deficiency is attributed to a decrease
amounting to 20,0O0,000 marks in revenue
derived from the sugar tax law.
THE failures for the first six months of
1856 amount in number to 3: l16 against g.
O04 for the first six months o. 1855. The Ii
abilities amount to $50, $4,000 for the first
half of 1886, against S54, 722, 900 for the first
half of 1855, showing a decline in the num-
Der of failures of S4S, and in the amount of
the liabilities 24.2SS, 900. ---
THE reduction of the public debt during
the fiscal year ended June 30 amounted to
$4,000 900, against S63, 40 40 ,7O9 the preceding
year.
THE fishing schooner City Point has been
seized at Shelburne harbor, y. s., for vio-
lation of the customs laws.
AN express train on the Stuttgart & Ber-
lin railway ran into local tran the other
day, denOlishing the latter and killing and
wounding a large number of persons
None of the passengers on the express
train were fatally hurt.
IT is expected that the British Indian
Government will reimpoSe the import Gu-
ties owing to the continued decline fin the
rate of exchange.
THE British holders of Mexican bonds of
1913 have resolved to accept nothing less
than 80 per cent. face or 20 per cent. with
interest of the value of the bonds.
The election returns in England up to !
the night of the Cd showed Tories, 1G2; /
Unionists, IA; Gladstonians 81. The cleo |
tions were going against the Prem.e r, |
especially in London.
WATsoN's spinning mills at Kiddermin- |
ster, Eng, were destroyed by fire recently. |
The loss was s5O0OOO. One hundred per-
sons were thrown out of employment
The peasantry of Servia have refused |
to pay taxes, and have maitreated the tax |
collectors in all sections. An outbreak |
against King Milan was feared.