The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-29

eran horseman, fell dead the other after
noon, in Buffalo, n. Y, of heart disease.
MEXICAN MINISTER ROMERO considers the
so-called revolution in Northern Mexico q
very small and inconsequential matter.
JUDGE GRESHAM at Chicago recently con-
frmed the sale of the Louisville, Evansville
& st. Louis Company, known as the "Air
Line" which was made June 9 to a COM
mittee of bondholders who are to pay
$500, 900 for the property.
News has been received at Sonora that
Captain Lawton surprised a camp of hos
tile Indians on the Yaqui river and cap
tured their horses, provisions, etc. The In
dams fed.
You've white regulators of Newton
County, Miss, are ere dited with the muir
der of three negroes.
THE young English Princes, sons of the
Prince of Wales, who recently published
book of their ocean travels, have been
found to have plagiarized the most elo-
quent chapter from Charles Kingsley's
AT Last"
THE Randall & Dugan Machinery Com
pany, of Cincinnati, have assigned. Liza
bilities estimated at $4,000.
AT Leading Greek, Lewis County, W;
Va, recently, a saw mill hand named
Bootcher was ripped in two by buzz saw
THE Lowell (Mass.) Bleachery Corpora
ton, it is reported, has been depleted by
its treasurer, Samuel ]. Smelling. The de-
falcations ranged between 100000 and
S5OO,OOO.
TENNESSEE crops are reported good.
BUSINESS failures for week ended July %
numbered 1S4, as compared with 1873 the
week previous.
II spite of the repeated assurances given
by Mexican officials that no more troops
should be sent to Paso del Norte, it was
learned late on the 23d that train loaded
with troops was on its way north from
Chihuahua. They were thought to be Chi
huahua State and not Mexican Federal
troops. Cutting, the editor, was still in
prison.
STEPHEN BRoDER, a bootblack, jumped
from the Brooklyn bridge, distance of
12O feet, recently. He was fished out Of the
water by the police apparently uninjured.
THE free delivery system has been estab-
lished at Battle Creek, Mich.
FIVE trainmen were injured seriously by
a collision near Fernwood, O., recently.
No passengers were hurt.
THE Anchor line steamer City of Natchez,
for New Orleans, grounded fifteen miles
above New Orleans the other night A tug
with barges was sent to tighten her off.
JOSEPH JUMP was hanged at Gallatin,
Mo-. on the 23d before an immense crowd
for the murder of William c. Gladson, De-
cembsr 10, 1885. Jump and another man
named Smith enticed Gladson along a rail-
road track, where he was murdered and
robbed, his body being thrown into well.
Smith was respited recently.
THE jury in the Crawford-Dilke divorce
case in London brought in a verdict of
guilty against Sir Charles Dixie and Mrs.
Crawford. The Queens Proctor, who had
interviewed" and brought on the trial, was
condemned to pay costs.
THE Knights of Labor have instituted
boycott against prison made goods in Mas
sachusetts.
J. J. MASON, alias Hall, who appropriated
S35, 00O, money collected in Guatemala for
Chaffe Bros, New Orleans, and was arrest
ed in Philadelphia, has been released, as
the courts decide they have no jurisdiction.
IN attempting to arrest a couple of des-
peradoes near Morgan City, La, recently
one of the sheriff's posse was killed and
two others wounded. Next day the des-
peradoes killed another officer and then
took to the swamps.
THE terrible drouth in Northwest Texas
has brought on an alarming state of af
fairs. The farmers are armed and threaten
the stockmen who are endeavoring to pass
hi, 10 60, L,
ing for water.
The firm of Snyder & Hoole, bookbinders
and dealers in printing material at lis
Monroe street, Chicago, has failed. Liza
bilities placed at 100000.
TIE Dublin Frcemars'S Journal proposes
that the people of Ireland collect fund by
shilling subscriptions to erect a statue on
College Green, in the City of Dublin, to
Mr. Gladstone.
THE Pittsburgh iron manufacturers al
most without exception look forward to an
excellent fall trade. The indications are at
hand, and the effect, it is claimed, is being
felt upon business.
TIE Ferdinand Remys mill. for the man
ufacture of rolled iron, in Dertmund, West
pbalia, has suspended operations, being
100000 in arrears. The suspension is at
tributed to stagnation in the iron trade,
and the success OF English competition.