The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-11-25

tanned or more trOuDle.
THE suit brought by the Government
against General Adam Badeau to recover
s1O,5OO alleged to have been received by
him for notarial fees while acting''as United
States Consul General at London was dis
missed by Judge Brown in the United
States Circuit Court
WHILE the snow pillow on the Fonda Mar
row Gauge road Of the Wabash system wal
pushing through q drift near Panora re-
Gently three trackmen, Mr.. Farrow and bis
SON and Joseph Davis, were struck and SC
badly injured that Farrow and his sor
died Davis had both legs broken and wa,
otherwise severely hurt.
The grand jury has returned its report
in the Haddock murder case, bringing in
| indictments against John Arensdorf fol
murder and conspiracy, and Albert "Bis
marck," Henry Sherman, Paul Leader, T.
Munchrafth, jr., Sylvester Granda, George
Trieber, Henry Peters, L. Plath and q. L
Leavitt for conspiracy.
J THREE masked men effected an entrance
| into the residence of Matthew McKeever
of Oakland township, Butler, Pa, and
after fight lasting an hour, in which Nc
Keever's sisters, Margaret and Jane, were
terribly injured, succeeded in stealing g
bucket containing nearly $4,000.
The vitriol works of the John L. Thomp.
son Chemical Company, near West Troy,
n. Y, were demolished by cyclone re-
vitriol, but none fatally. The loss is S40,-
900.
IT was reported lately that the Union Pa
cific had leased the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company.
ABOUT 125 quarantined distillery cattle
that had been declared free from pleuro-
pneumonia were appraised recently at
Chicago under the direction of the State
Board of Live Stock Commissioners. The
owner was allowed an average price OF
SO 80 per head. This was the first appraise-
ment of quarantined cattle, and the result
was disappointment to the owners, as
they have been expected to net at least S35
or $40 per head.
JOHN SPRY, colored. the murderer of A.
D. Coleman, was hanged in the Jail yard
at Natchez, Miss, recently.
ADvICEs have been received at London
to the effect that a ship crowded with
laborers returning from Queens land foun-
dered in the Pacific ocean and that 40 lives
were lost
CAPTAIN NABoKoFF, who led the revolt at
Bourgas and three sergeants who were
implicated in the rioting, have been con-
demned to death. Several former officials
in Roumelia, who took part in the revolt,
were sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
IT was stated by member of the Switch
mems Union recently that it had been de-
cided to make no further demand on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad
Company for an increase in wages. The
failure of the recent labor demonstrations
in Chicago has, to large extent, infu-
enced the Milwaukee switchmen against a
strike
CHARLES A. BRowN, of Syracuse, N. Y,
and P. L. Burgett, of Newark, n. j., were
killed lately by the explosion of filter in
a pan in the Experimental salt works at
Syracuse. George Denton was badly
scalded and otherwise injured. The build
ing was badly wrecked.
Mrs. REEKIE and her three children were
poisoned at the South Toll Cupar-Fife, a
town of Scotland, capital of the County of
Fife, by the escape of gas. The family
were preparing to join the husband in
America.
THE steamer Beaconsfeld, with cargo
Of 9,C00 bushels Of wheat outward bound
from New York to Aberdeen, came into
collision off the Battery recently with the
steamer Britannia, bound in from Mediter-
ranean ports. The Beacons1ield was struck
near the coal breakers and water poured
in, extinguishing the fires. She was as
sisted by tugs to Hoboken. The Britannia
came to anchor with her bow badly dam
aged above the water line.
ONE result of the stock yards strike has
been the securing of a license by the
Knights of Labor of Chicago for q corpor-
alton to be known as the Chicago Cooper
ative Packing and Provision Company. 1t
was claimed that ZOO had been sub
scribed without any canvass, and that a
plant of $50, 900 would be ready to begin
slaughtering March Is next
BASE BALL circles were recently startled
by the information that the Detroit Club
had announced it's determination to wit b.
draw from the National League. The rea-
son given was that majority of the league
managers had destroyed the clubs pros
poets by passing rule which would prove
financially disastrous to the Detroits.
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