The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-30
THE Russian agent has withdrawn from

| IHE Russian agent has wTthdrawn from
deposit in Sofia the entire funds of the
agency, amounting to upwards of !, 200, 0Oo
francs.
THE leader of company of German
swindlers has been captured in Hamburg
by London detectives. The sums realized
by the swindling operations of the gang
are said to amount to 1,5OO, 900 francs.
Two men named Blifford and Bowman
abducted Maggie Brashear in Hope Coun-
ty, Ark, recently. They were followed
fifty miles and arrested.
One hundred and fifty men employed in
digging water pipe trenches at Massillon,
O., struck the other day for an increase of
pay from s1.25 to s1.5O per day. They
were all paid off.
PLEURo-PEEUMoSIA was repor ted so seri-
Gus at Chicago on the oath that two thou
sand animals would have to be slaughtered
to stamp out the plague.
| CHARLES DOLL, member of the late Gin
cinnati Board of Public Works, and
Charles T. Blackburn, its clerk, was ar
rested on the Oath upon the charge of EN-
bezzling $50 of the city's funds. Mayor
James Morgan was also arrested on the
! same charge.
THE Government has arranged for the
removal of certain Chippewa Indians to
the White Earth reservation. The change
opens to settlement about two thousand
square miles of land in the Northwest.
THE business failures for week ended
September % numbered Isl, as against 1S5
the week previous.
THE British Government has decided to
greatly increase the garrison of Belfast,
Ireland.
II collision at the Berlin depot recently
three soldiers were killed and twenty five
wounded.
THERE was slight earthquake shock at
Summerville, S. c.. during the night of the
23d.
SENIOR GORILLA leader of the Spanish
revolutionists, in an interview says the
late uprising was premature, and declares
that in a revolt, which will take place at
the proper time, many Generals of the
Spanish army will support the revolution
lists.
IT was stated at Sofia that the Russian
ultimatum, of which General Kaulbars is
the bearer, demands the immediate raising
of the state of siege in Bulgaria, the libe-
ration of all political prisoners and the in
definite postponement of the elections for
members of the National Assembly.
ARCHIE CHATFIELD was arrested at New
Hudson, Mich, recently charged with
wrecking a special freight train on the
Grand Trunk railroad September IL, caus-
ing the death of one man and the serious
injury OF two others.
THE Kaw Valley Life Insurance Associa-
fion of L ouSac Citv- baS cOIlopca1
CHICAGO is troubled by combination of
coal dealers who have forced prices up
one dollar ton.
AT secret meeting of the Western Nail
Association, held at Pittsburgh recently,
the price of nails was advanced to So
Two tramp printers named Owens and
O'Beaugh were recently killed by train
on the Nashville & Tennessee, near Men,
phis.
IT is said the Louisiana orange crop is a
failure this year.
THE Knights Templar conclave ended at
st. Louis on the 24th. Washington was
chosen as the next place of meeting; time,
second week in October, 1889.
TIE subscriptions to the new Portuguese |
loan are much in excess of the amount de- |
sired.
NEAR Schalke, Austria, on the 24th, an |
explosion of fire damp caused the death of |
forty-fve persons Sixteen Others were !
injured.
AT Fiume, Austria, on the oath, lightning |
struck q bark loaded with benzine. Eight |
men persisted in the flames.
Four lives were lost in the bay at st. |
Johns, n. F., or the oath, by the collision
of two schoone~S.
THE other evening A. D. Owen, a mer-
chant of Cresswell, n. c., while sleeping
up stairs in his store, heard some one
breaking in. He went below and saw two
men. He was fired upon and forty buck
shot took effect in his stomach. He died
in about an hour.
IT has been discovered that twenty
pounds of dynamite cartridges have been
stolen from IL shanty at Green Lawn Gem
etery, Salem, Mass.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, of Ohio, recently
stated that dead convicts in the peniten-
tiary under Governor Hoadley's admins
tration were skinned and their hides sold
as a commercial speculation.
FRANK S. HUMPHREYS was hanged at Mil
ledgeville, Ga, on the 9th foi. the murder
and rape of two ladies, Carrie Rains and
Ella HUMPHREYS (his kinswoman), on March
1. He confessed his guilt