The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-07

ervoir, Richmond, Va, with the fndorse
ment that the petition for rehearing i
denied.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has denied
the application for the release of Joseph c
Mackin from Joliet penitentiary on a wri
of habeas corpus.
| MRS MARY WAGNER and her foIr year
old daughter were killed recently by
train dashing on to them at Bingen, Pa.
PENNSYLVANIA river coal mine owner
propose to shut down their mines rattle
than give their men an increase in wages
ADoLPH GORDON, who was discharged
from the Michigan State prison at the emf
of term for counterfeiting, was at ono
rearrested for counterfeiting while il
prison.
THERE were slight shocks of earthquake
in Charleston and Summerville, S. c., oil
the 1st, but nc damage was done.
FLOODS are reported deva stating the God
wary Qndia) district. Some viIlager
tried to cut a dam to relieve their own vii
| lagos. A fierce fight ensued in which 10
natives were killed.
The Austrian military attache at Sofis
has been instructed to encourage the Bull
garian regents to resist the Russian de
mands, with hint of eventual support
W. P. PARTINGToN has been arrested il
Omaha, Neb., charged with having EN-
bezzled $4,000 Of county funds at Ever
green, Ala.
THE remains of the late Chief Justice
Chase will be removed from Washington
| to Cincinnati.
ANOTHER Internal machine was found re
Gently at Chicago, this time on the steps Of
boarding house.
English grand lodges of Good Templars
has been healed.
THE Treasury Department has granted
an application for permission to transport
certain crates in bond from New Orleans
to slaughtering houses in the interior OF
Texas and for their return to New Orleans
filled with fresh beef for expectation, pro-
vided bond is given for said return within
period of thirty days.
REINHARD & NEWTON, candy manufac.
turers in Cincinnati, were damaged S75,-
900 by fire recently.
THE public debt estimate shows the re-
month of September to be S1O627, O13. II,
and total cash in the Treasury $40, 375,
1883
President GREvY has sanctioned the
credit of S240, 600 for the encouragement of
the French sea fisheries.
The Secretary of State was officially in
formed on the 1st that the Canadian au-
thorities, having learned that further rep
reservations in behalf OF Sproule, the Amer
lean convicted of murder in British Column
bia, were on the way to the Department of
State to London, have again respited him
until October 90. He was to have been ex-
ecuted on the 1st.
THE Hudson County On. J.) grand jury
has found an indictment for bigamy against
Edward Solomon. husband of Lillian Rus
SELL They were married in May, 1885, by
the Rev. DR.. Enrich, pastor of the Hoboken
Lutheran church.
THE tenants of the Toafe estate at Bel
lyanniS, Ireland, recently went in body
to the agent of the estate and asked him to
reduce their rents. The agent refused to
do so, whereupon the tenants left, saying
that they would rather suffer evictions
than pay impossible rents.
The Champaign Cll.) Irvine and Bagging
Company, engaged in the manufacture of
binder Irvine and cotton batting goods,
has passed into the hands of a receiver
The assets of the company are about $780,
600, and its Indebtedness about half as
much.
AT Lynn, Mass, the other day, five boys
were out in the harbor in a small boat
when the wind capsized the boat and three
of them, Henry Sears, Michael O'Neil and
Darby Greene, were drowned.
THE court has ordered that creditors of
the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company,
of Hartford, Conn, present their Claims to
the receivers before January l in writing
or otherwise they will be barred.
THE Congo Free State, Africa, has re-
fused to grant a railway concession to
an English firm because it was too exact
ing.
THE Moscow Gazette declares that thirty
have been whipped to death
for upholding Russia's course regarding
Bulgaria.
THE Senate of Hamburg, Germany, has
promised a concession for the erection of
if the necessary funds be forth
coming.