The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-01
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| phia against the photographs of alleged
cigarette makers displayed in the windows
| and show cases Of tobacconists.
HERBERT III. EATON, the jockey who was
injured at Sheepshead Bay, while riding
Astoria, died recently.
JOHN NEWMAN, one of the first white chill
dren born in the region, died recently in
Sewer County, Tenn, aged one hundred
and seventeen years.
A SPECIAL notice has been issued by the
superintendent of the railway mail SER
vice dismissing large number of railway
mail clerks who had organized form of
trades union under the preUext of forming
a benevolent association.
THE commander of H NJ S. Undine,
which recently arrived at Brisbane, Austria
liza, from the New Hebrides, states that M
protectorate has been established over
those islands by France. - reported
IN the inter-co"s gate boat race at New
London, Conn. Columbia beat the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania.
THE Delaware STA g temperance conven-
ton met at Dover On tic I'D and nomi-
mated James p HeffeEer, of Middletown,
for Governor
CHARGES OF fraud in connection with an
Indictment against lottery dealer were
preferred in a New York court recently
against Anthony Comstock.
The National French Canadian conven-
ton in session at Rutland, Vt, has APP
pointed a committee to consolidate all
French societies into a national union.
A GROUP of Partisan financiers have ad-
vanced y, 600, 900 francs to the Panama Ca
nal Company as security for the hypothe-
cation of the recent call.
ANARCHISTS John Prottzman and Henry
Dumpf, of Milwaukee,. have been convicted
of participating in the recent riots, while
Henry Lampel has been acquitted.
BLACK diphtheria is reported invading
the towns of Ecorse, Springwells and
Royal Oak, near Detroit, Mich, and is car
rying off large number Of victims
ALL the above-ground work of the Loyal
Hanna Coal Company, at LatrOEe, Pa,
was destroyed by fire the other night.
Loss, $4,000
DISPATCHES from Berlin to the Reuter-
Telegraph Company says: Negotiations
are proceeding with the Handcloges- Els
chaft and some leading New York firms to
take over S5,OOO,OO0 Of ST. Louis & San
Francisco railroad mortgage bonds, the
proceeds to be applied to the completion of
the railroad to Texas.
WILLIAM GARRETT, of Henderson County,
KY, was killed recently, being thrown
from a fractions horse.
THE tenth anniversary of the Custer mas
sacre was celebrated at Fort Custer Mont,
on the 9th.
THE internal revenue collections of the
first eleven months of the present fiscal
year aggregate S107, l04,4 Ass, an increase of
80, 402, S3S over the same period last year
TWELVE HUNDRED carpet weavers of Phil
adell,hia recently resolved to go on a strike
against reduction OF one-half cent yard
in the price Of weaving.
DISPATCHES of the 18th from Decatur,
Rockford and other points in Central Him
oiS, report severe hail and wind storms,
which did great damage to crops.
TwENTY-FoUR persons were killed and six
teen entombed alive at Rochamp, France,
recently by an explosion in colliery.
EIGHT Italian socialist leaders have been
arrested at Milan on the charge Of melting
a revolt Many arrests have been made in
other cities.
BUSINESS failures for seven days ended
June "a numbered: United States, 13S;
Canada, "a; total, 1872. The previous week
the failures numbered 155.
THE proprietor and two other persons
were instantly killed by an exploding
boiler in the saw mills of T. r. Adams, at
Adkins. Ark, recently. The mill was
wrecked.
SEVERAL freight trains were interfered
with by strikers on the Lake Shore, at
Lake, near Chicago, on the 18th. A mum.
Der of cars were derailed. The police made
arrests and one freight train succeeded in
getting out.
Four labOrers were killed end two in
iured by a break occurring in freight
train six miles east of Creston, Iowa, on
the 18th. The men were asleep in the ca
boose, the broken portion running back
into an extra train coming up.
JOHN PATTERSON, one of the II 'rd avenue
New York; street railway stri'-er con-
victed of having been concerned in the riot
there on June 5, and W. Weingardt. a
striking butcher, who stabbed Gustave
Brehstein because he took the place of
striker, were sentenced to six months in
the penitentiary.
THE warehouse of the Consolidated tank
line at Peoria, ILL.,, was burned recently. !
Loss, 100000; insured.