The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-08-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The operatives in the clothing houses of
Boston are preparing to fight a new bast-
ing machine which, it is claimed, will throw
hundreds of girls out of work.
THE iron masters of England have de-
cided to reduce the output of pig iron 20
per cent
AT Huron, Ind, recently Mr.. Davis,
agent of the Ohio & Mississippi railway,
discovered tramp carrying off his clothes,
containing a large amount of money, a
gold watch, etc. Davis pursued the tramp
when the latter turned upon and stabbed
him to death The murderer was pursued
by posse of men, captured and lynched.
A TELEGRAM has been received from Lon
don by Mr.. Dodge, statistician of the De-
partment of Agriculture, stating that the
shortage of wheat in Great Britain for the
present year was estimated at 60000,0 900
bushels.
JUDGE SLOWER, of Kansas City, issued a
restraining order in the case of the court
martial ordered by the Adjutant General
of Missouri on Lieutenant Bingham, OF
Company G, Third regiment.
THREE British schooners have been seized
by the revenue cutter Corwin for seal fish
ing in Alaska waters.
CHOLERA has made its appearance at Car
niola, Austria.
FIVE Chinese have been killed and a
hundred wounded in riots in Nagasaki,
Japan, recently.
THE Irish National League met in con-
vention at Chicago on the 18th. There was
some little dissension over a motion to adj
iourn for the purpose of selecting commit
teemen, otherwise the convention was
harmonious
PATRICK H. MCCARRoN, Providence (R.
L. barber, while insane cut the throat OF
James Crosby while shaving him. Crosby
ran into the street, but died on the side
walk.
The notorious Orth H. Stein was arrested
in San Jose, Cal, recently for attempting
TO obtain money under false pretenses.
ELI WHITNEY BLAKE, inventor of the
Blake stone crusher, and nephew of Eli
Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin,
died on the 18th in New Haven, Conn,
aged ninety one years.
A HOUSE in course of construction col
lapsed at Carlsruhe recently, killing eight
workmen and injuring several others. The
architect has been arrested.
AN oil train of twenty-four cars became
detached on the Jersey Central near White
House, n. j., causing one of the cars to
take fire by conclusion. The blaze caused
the other cars to explode one after the
other. Loss $4,000.
A CIRCULAR from the authorities of Cole
man County, Tex. states that the sufferers
there by the drouth need 1000 bushels of
| wheat and provisions for the immediate
relief of 800 families.
THIRTY saloons in Sioux City, Ia, have
been closed. There were no new develop
ments in the Haddock murder case.
The Indians, one of whose number was
killed by man named Montgomery near
Clifton, Ariz., recently, declared that they
were on a hunting expedition when their
comrade was murdered.
LIEUTENANT SToREr's Arctic exploring
expedition has been heard from. letter
written last Christmas having reached San
Francisco on the 18th.
JAMES F. WILSON and Henry V. Leslie,
the absconding officers of the Chesapeake
& Delaware Canal Company, are in Wind
sor, Ont.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury,
Fairchild, has issued another call for Sl5-
600, 900 per cent. bonds to mature on Oc-
tober next
THE National Association of ex Prisoners
of War recently in session at Buffalo, N
Y, has selected Chicago as the next place
of meeting.
a LARGE quantity of dynamite has been
stolen from a mine in Hanover, and it was
feared that it was taken to England by an
archists. A miner was arrested ON sus-
picion.
JUDGE BARRETT, who sentenced the New
York boycotters, has been warned out Of
Litchfield, Conn.
A SPECIAL from Sandusky, O., says: A dis
astrous incendiary fire occurred in the Mas
sillon Steel Works, built in 1872 at cost of
SaO0,O00 No insurance.
TIE Lewiston Me Steam Mil Company
has made an assignment, with Sl,67S, 600
Liabilities and assets unknown
JAMES SCoTT, fisherman, of Lewiston,
attempted to swim the whirlpool rapids at
Niaga "a Falls on the 10Th in a cork suit.
His desd body was picked up at Lewiston
an hour later.
DURISe the two weeks fires in juneau
County, Wis, ten thousand acres of cram
berry marsh and timber land were burned
Many farm hC 1ses were burned and stock
destroyed