The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

An attempt was made to assassinate
Jules Verne, the French author, at Amiens
the other day. The assassin turned out to
be his own nephew.
THE Santa Fe reduced the second class
rate from Kansas City to the Pacific to s14
on the 10th. The Southern Pacific made
the rate from San Francisco to Kansas
City IS; Chicago, SO, for limited emigrant
tickets. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe met the cut.
The Eantl-prohibitionists proposed to hold
meeting at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 10th,
but the military was ordered out and the
meeting was declared off.
FIVE HUNDRED cotton mill hands at Vic
tory, n. Y, struck recently for an advance
in wages of 25 per cent. They refused 10
per cent raise.
THE Consolidated Street Railroad Com
pany, of Toledo, o., has announced that it
Will advance the wages of the employees
and reduce the hours of work. The men
were working sixteen hours.
AN attempt is being made in the Ohio
Legislature to pass bill to punish employ
ers who insist that their hands sign agree
ments not to belong to trade or other or
CARNATIONS
ABOUT eighty inmates of the Lebanon
(Pa.) poor house were seriously poisoned
recently. Some miscreant put paris green
into the coffee pot. The overdose caused
vomiting, otherwise many of the paupers
would have died.
THE New York Post, after examination,
declares the financial standing of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company to be un-
satisfactory.
FIRE at Hot Springs, Ark, recently de-
stroyed three saloons and drug, a shoe
and clothing store.
THE Middle and Western States Freight
Association met in Louisville, KY, ON the
11th and made ninety-seven changes in
classification. What they were was not
known.
THE dime savings bank of New Bruins
wick, N. j., was closed recently by order
of the Secretary of State. Arthur e.
Oglesby, secretary and treasurer, it was
rumored, was short in his accounts to the
amount of $4,000.
THE March report of the Department of
Agriculture on the consumption aud dis
tribution of the grain crops make the pro-
portion of corn still in the hands of farm
ers 40 per cent. of the last crop. One year
ago the proportion of the corn on hand was
37.6per cent,
THE conference of the representatives of
the Powers which met recently at Constan-
tinople to consider the Turco-Bulgarian
treaty which, among other things, creates
Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, ruler of
Eastern Roumelia, has accepted that treaty
in its entirety.
THE Missouri Pacific succeeded in getting
a freight train out of st. Louis on the 18th.
Ten miles south of Little Rock, Ark, a
lively shooting took place after an excit-
ing race between strikers on a stolen en-
gine and officers on another. A striker
named Sullivan was shot in the leg.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says:
The Catalinas custom house with all its
contents has been destroyed by fire. The
loss is s., 100000.
AN attempt was made recently to demol-
ish Chinese wash house with dynamite at
Portland, Ore. The front porch only was
wrecked.
PATRICK FORD and John Murphy were
hanged at New Orleans on the 18th for the
murder of Captain A. H. Murphy, the SEN
sational incidents of which have been pub
lished. Desperate efforts were made to
save the doomed men without effect. Pre-
v1ous to their execution the men attempted
suicide by taking belladonna and were es-
corted to the scaffold in an almost insensi-
BILE condition.
THE business failures during the seven
DAYS ended March II numbered: For the
United States, PA; for Canada, 25-a total
of 239 against 246 the week previous. The
failures were on the decline in every sec
tion of the country, especially in the East
ern and Middle sections.
THE small stern-wheel steamer Ike Bon
ham exploded her boiler near Vicksburg,
Miss, the other day. The mate and five
deck hands were blown overheard and
drowned.
A FIRE recently started at the Brunswick
saloon and gambling house at Hot Springs,
Ark. Before it was subdued the adjoining
buildings were destroyed, the total loss
amounting to s250,0O0.
A COMPANY filling a weeks engagement
at Jackson, Mich, produced the Mikado in
full costume at the Michigan State prison
the other afternoon. Prisoners employed
on two large contracts formed the audi
ence. The stage was erected in the chapel,
and the scenery was taken from the opera
house. The convicts were highly pleased.