The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-09

forced to do penance in Rome for his con-
duct in his diocese.
About eleven O'Clock on the night of Sep
tember another shock of earthquake was
felt all along the Southern Atlantic coast.
1t was not attended with any damage, but
it was strong enough to cause a stampede
from the instruments Of the telegraph op-
orators in Charleston, Augusta, Columbia
and other places.
The business failures throughout the
country during the seven DAYS ended Sep
tember 3, as reported to r G. Dun & Co.,
we're for the United States 1O6, and for
Canada "a, or a total of 100, as compared
with total of POI last week and 1S6 for the
week previous to the last. The Western
and Pacific States furnish nearly half the
failures reported in this country.
The journeymen plumbers were lately
locked out by the master plumbers OF New
York City.
MEssRs. O'BRIEN and Redmon have ar
rived in Dublin safely. They were met by
a large crowd with bands of music torches
etc.
RIoTING has been made almost impossible
at Belfast, Ireland, by the perfected meas
ures taken by the police to master any out
break in its very incipiency.
THE British man-of-war Agamemnon,
conveying surgeons, food and tents has
gone to the relief of the sufferers 10y the re-
cent earthquake in the Morea
A sICKENING calamity is reported from
Williamsport, Pa, of seven men being burnt
alive through fire at their lodging house.
MRS. MALLoY, well known all over the
country as a revivalist, and under bonds
for completely in the murder of Mrs. Ora
ham at Springfield, No, attempted to COM
NIT suicide by drowning lately.
THE new letter-sheet envelopes put on
sale by the Post-ofice Department are be-
coming very popular with the business
public.
IT is said in New York that the Union
Pacific Railroad Company lately paid the
last note standing against it and is now
entirely out of floating debt.
THE Board of Health of New Orleans
lately resolved to declare an absolute quar-
antine against Biloxi on account of yellow
fever. Mobile and other places have
already done so.
A REPORT prevailed in London that sew
cago Irish-American convention would
likely be called to account for utterances
while at Chicago.
SMITH, who recently stabbed the jailer at
Greenville, Texas, while attempting to
break Jail, was subsequently hanged by a
mob.
MEMBERS of the Home Club, K. of L., at
New York, assert positively that they have
bought Pythagoras Hall, on Canal street,
and have assessed Knights one dollar each.
THE Mobile & Girard railroad recently
leased their road to the Central road at
Ga, for ninety-nine years.
A LATE rumor states that the Adams Ex-
press Company has received news of the
finding of the package of money, amount
ing to nearly $50, 200, which was shipped by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
Pa, some time ago, and which
in some manner from the ex-
press company's office in Philadelphia.
INDIAN INSPECTOR BANNIsTER has gone
to Queenmo, Kan, to effect the removal
of the Mokohoko band of Sac and Fox
Indians to the Indian Territory.
Mr.. c. V. LEWIS has lately been ap-
pointed Assistant General Freight Agent
of the Missouri Pacific Railway, with
Office at Kansas City. He will have charge
of the freight originating on lines in
Kansas, Missouri and the Indian Territory.
COLONEL WILSON, postmaster at Savan-
nah, GA, who refused to surrender his Of
flee to George W. Lamar, recently appoint
ed, was formally and forcibly put out of
his office by Special Inspector Simpson.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was occasioned
in Aberdeen, Miss, recently by fatal af-
fray between Ben Popham and ". F. Nc
Donald on one part and Mr.. H. c. Roberts
on the other. Roberts received four bull
let's, causing instant death, and Popham re-
ceived an ugly wound in the knee.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HELM. at Au-
gusta, Ga. is having a hard time with the
Four deputies guard his
house day and night, but for all that an oc-
casional bullet comes crashing through his
windows. The moonshiners VOW they will
drive him from the country.
A DISPATCH from Sioux City, a., says
there is something rotten with the prose-
cution in the Haddock murder case, and
that Harry Leavitt knew more about the
leading up to the murder
than any innocent man could know.