The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

G3O in March and the exports increased
e32S, ,345.
1T is reported that preparations are max
ing to build bridge over the Mississippi at
NatcheZ.
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD boy was fined five
dollars recently in Washington for hitting
DR.. Mary Walker on the leg with stone.
THE Papal consistory set for April 20 has
been postponed until May.
La CROSSE, Wis, was terribly devastated
by fire on the morning of the 9th. The
confagration broke out in the lumber yards
| of John Paul and Charles Coomb. The loss
was estimated at between SS00,GOO and ST.
100000, only partially insured.
! THE railroad strikers at East St. Louis,
on the 9TH, visited the shops and yards In
considerable force and compelled a stop
page of work. The engineers were reported
preparing to strike.
A DoRY with two men living and two
men dead Oh board drifted ashore at
! Gabrius, near Halifax, n. S., recently
! They had been eight days out from their
vessel which was left on the western part
/ of the Grand Bank One of the dead bodies
was considerably mangled about the throat
other dead man upon going mad.
j. F. RUTI, a Detroit mich baker. who
refused to grant his journeymen shorter
hours of work, gave in finally as a result of
a boycott He was forced to pay a fine
and all expenses.
THREE Piegan Indians have been sent +,
the Deer Lodge, NJ. T, penitentiary 70.
horsestealing. They were professional
horse thieves.
DURING the recent gale an unknown
schooner went ashore near Southwest Har-
Dor, Me-, and was destroyed. Six seamen
were lost.
THE Brunswick Bake Collender billiard
table mandatory of Chicago complied
with the demands presented by the COM
mittee of workmen recently for 20 per
cent. increase of wages in all departments.
The company employed $50 men.
HOLDERS of title deeds OF the Panama
canal have petitioned the French Chamber
of Deputies to empower NJ. de Lesseps to is
sue bonds to the amount of e225, 100000.
THE glass makers of Belgium have in
creased the price of windowglaSs 1 crown
($1.20) per 800 feet. The advance is gen
eral. and is necessitated by the enormous
extra outlays needed to repair the glass
works destroyed or injured in all parts of
the country during the recent strike.
4 THIRD member of the party of wolf
bitten Russians who came to Paris to be
treated by NJ. Pasteur, has died Like the
other two, he showed symptoms of hydro
phobia.
TIE labor troubles in the Southwest have
had depressing effect on the lumber trade,
and mill owners in Wisconsin are reported
to be undecided in regard to setting the
mill machinery in motion.
DIR. BRINToN II. WARNER, of Baltimore,
Nd. who was bitten by a dog Christmas
day, died recently of hydrophobia.
CHIEFS chihuahua, Mana, Kutle and
AlSeanua, with seventv-two other Apache
prisoners-bucks, women and children
have left Bowie, A. T., for Fort Marion,
Fla, as prisoners Of war.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended April 5, numbered for the
United States, 173; for Canada, -; a total
of 2l5, as against total of 2l4 the week
previous The failures were light in every
section of the country except in the West
ern and Pacific States and in Canada.
1HE COUleIcllCo dJ w ueellDS, w. ' u. De-
tween the nail manufacturers and COM
mittee of united nailers and heaters broke
up without result. The manufacturers re-
fused to pay any more than they had been
paying.
A DISPATCH from Laredo, Tex, of the Gth,
referring to the recent riot there, SAYS:
Two o; the men wounded i'll Tuesdays po-
litical conflict died yesterday. The returns
now show five Bota partisanS dead and
ten wounded. There were five funerals
yesterday. Business is practically sus-
pended.
A FATAL riot occurred at Giraud's silk
mills, Lyons, France, recently. y subpre-
feet and a number of gens-d'armeS at
tempted to close up the chapel connected
with the mills and an open fight ensued
The populace, the greater portion of whom
were women, used stones and sticks, and
the soldiers used their firearms. One
woman was shot dead and another |
wounded The sub-prefect and three of
the gens-d armes were wounded.
A MOB of thirty or forty strikers recently |
raided the Iron Mountain shops at Little |
Rock Ark, and shot and mortally wounded |
Deputy Sheriff Williams
LOUISA HART, the notorious London pro !
curess, has been sentenced to five years |
penal servitude.