The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-23

United ireland, Matthew Harris, member of
Parliament for East Galway, and David
Sheeby, member of Parliament for South
Galway. were arrested on the 18th in the
town of Loughrea, County Galway, charged
with conspiracy to defraud. The charge
grew out of their acting as trustees for ten
ants.
The Ohio Supreme Court has rendered a
decision sustaining the constitutionality
of the Dow liquor tax law in all its feat
ures, and including the tax and lien pro-
visions.
DISPATCHES of the 10Th from Mandalay
state that Colonel Heyland with a body of
British troops recently pursued 700 Dacoits
and killed 200 OF them. Many others were
made prisoners and stores of ammunitio q
were seized in several places.
IT is rumored in Brussels that the London
police have captured three of the Ostend
mail robbers.
A DUEL with swords took place in the
early morning in Humboldt Park, Chicago,
recently. Both principals were severely
wounded and were afterward driven away.
They were said to belong to the medical
profession, but their names were unknown.
There was a woman in the case.
JUDGE GRESHAM, in the United States
Circuit Court, at Chicago on the 10th, ap-
pointed Judge Cooley, of Michigan, to be
receiver of the Wabash railway in accord
ance with his decision removing Solon
Humphreys and Thomas E. Tutt.
AN order will shortly be issued by the
President adding Southern California to
ba Of Ari1
mand of General Nelson A. Miles, and re.
moving the headquarters from Prescott,
A. T., to Los Angeles, Cal. This will give
General Miles command of the whole Mex
lean frontier, from Texas to the Pacific.
HEAVY storms were recently reported in
the north of Spain; the wreckage OF
steamers and smacks being washed ashore.
During severe storm at Marine a church
was unroofed and five persons perished.
IT was made known in Wall street on the
18th that Wormser, the banker, had settled
all losses sustained by his son in recent
speculations, amounting to between $500,
600 and 100000. Young Wormser was a
leader in the attempt to bull Reading in
the face of the late general fall in stocks.
Four acres of ground caved i'll and fifty
buildings were destroyed at Shenandoah,
Pa, on the 18th, caused by robbing the
pillars of the KohInoor mine.
OF the nine youths sentenced at Sydney,
n. S. W., for criminally assaulting a six
teen-year-old servant girl, the executive
decided to commute the sentences of three
to Imprisonment for life. The six others
will be hanged.
OK the morning of the 18th at San Fra n
cisco the whaling bark Atlantic was driven
ashore u mile and half below the Cliff
House, and went to pieces in few minutes.
About twenty-five men were believed to be
lost. The captain and mate with eight or
ten men were saved.
THE United States grand jury at St.
Louis returned seventy-two indictments
against various persons for frauds during
the recent election. Twelve arrests were
made.
IT is not expected in Washington that
any more calls will bc made in the near fu-
ture for three per cent. bonds.
ROLL THAYER, WILLIAMS & Co., dry
goods, Kansas City, Mo-, failed on the 18th
for 100000; assets fair.
TIE business failures during the seven
days ended December 16 numbered in the
United States 260 and in Canada 2S, total
of 2SS, against 274 the week previous.
FRED HANGERS gin house at Little Rock,
Ark, burned recently. 1t was full of cot
ton and the loss was about $4,000.
FRANK HESS, fifteen years old, delivery
clerk in the Meriden Comm post-office,
has been arrested for stealing registered
letters.
The National Wagon Manufacturers As
sociation met in Chicago recently and a
resolution was unanimously adopted ad-
vancing the price of wagons ten per cent,
owing to an advance in iron and other ma
terals used in their construction.
THE assignee of Cohn, Sampliner & Co.,
of Cleveland, O., the wholesale notion
dealers who failed some time ago, has
made his report. The liabilities are S213,-
600, and the assets 100000. There were
over 200 creditors.
THE tramp insurrection at the Lancaster
(Pa.) workhouse ended recently, the men
resumilg work at stone breaking, after
having been deprived of food for ffty-four
hours.
Two hundred American district messen-
ger boys struck at San Francisco the other
morning. They wanted fixed wages, sew
enty-five cents day, instead of five cents
a trip, which they were getting.