The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-11

to the Chinese Minister at Washington
stated he feared violence would be Offered
to Americans if the reports of the affair.
in America were confirmed
THERE were reports in London that Egypt
would shortly be evacuated by the British
troops.
A BRAZILIAN loan of $1,000, 600 has beer
fioated by the Rothschilds
DEBATE on the Educational bill closed in
the Senate on the 18th. The Indian Sever
atty bill was passed. The Pension Appro
priation bill was considered in the House
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, making an attack
on the actions of Commissioner Black.
THE strike on the Dry Dock street rail
road at New York, broke into violence on
the 4th. Street cars were wrecked and the
police were attacked. Many persons were
injured in the riot.
THE wall of house at Front and Norris
streets, Philadelphia, that was being torn
down, suddenly fell the other day, burying
several laborers. Daniel Quinn was killed,
and James Keegan was seriously injured,
probably fatally.
GOoDBoDY's tobacco factory in Tulla-
more, Kings County, Ireland, burned re-
Gently, causing a loss of 100000.
THE schooner Virginia Dare, of Glouces-
ter, Mass, has been given up for lost. She
had a crew of fourteen men.
IN the Kentucky House of Representa-
tives at Frankfort, recently, dispute took
place between two members, Robert G.
Thomas and Jackson, of Louisville.
Thomas drew a pistol and became very
demonstrative, but was subdued by friends.
FIFTEEN Socialists have been sentenced
in Padua, Italy, to ten months imprison-
ment for sedition.
A BILL has been introduced in the Mary
land Legislature to secure compensation
for the loss of slaves by the emancipation
act.
A SPECIAL from Winnipeg, Manitoba, of
the 18th says that Poundmaker and eleven
other braves have been liberated from the
penitentiary at Stony Mountain. They
will go west to their homes.
THE street car strikes in New York and
Brooklyn ended on the 5th in the triumph
of the strikers. There was a general ''tie
up' of the cars, and no prospect but sub
mission appeared open to the companies.
The strikers were reported jubilant over
their success.
THE Amoskeag mill strike at Manchester,
n. H, ended in failure. The strikers ac-
cepted the terms of the proprietors and
went to work, excepting a number who
were shut out.
THE English House of Commons refused
to abolish the House of Lords, on the 5th,
by a vote of 202 to 166.
CHOLERA has been discovered on board a
Greek brigantine at Venice, which has been
ordered to quarantine.
THE trial of James T. Holland for killing
Tom Davis, the confidence man, at New
York, ended in his acquittal on the 18th.
EIGHT of the men convicted of having
taken prominent parts in the recent Lon
don riots, have been sentenced to from one
to five years of penal servitude.
THE grand jury recently ignored the bills
against the strikers recently locked up,
charged with riot at Bradford, Pa. The
costs in the cases were assessed on 3. F.
May, the representative of the syndicate of
coke manufacturers.
THE Knights of Labor have ordered
boycott against the wagons and sleighs
made by Gage, Hitchcock & Co., W. n.
Brockway and the Homer Wagon Com
pany, all of Homer, Y. Y. The firms are
accused of discharging men because they
were Knights of Labor.
THE Knights of Labor employed in the
Missouri Pacific railroad yards at DenisOn,
Tex, recently refused to handle any freight
destined for points on the Texas q Pacific
road. They claimed they had received Or
derS to that effect.
A SENSATION was caused in the Paris
Bourse on the 9TH by a crazy man throwing
a bottle of explosive liquid among the
brokers and brandishing a revolver He
was arrested, when he proved to be an An
archist named Petrovitch.
THE business failures for the seven DAYS
ended March 4 numbered for the United
States, 201; for Canada, 80; total 246,
against 24S the week previous.
THE Cuyahoga Paper Company at Cuya-
hoga Falls, o., made an assignment re-
Gently. Eighty men were thrown out of
employment.
THE fire losses for February as estimated
by the Commercial Bulletin of New York
were S6,5O0,000 In the United States and
Canada. This was about the average for
February losses for the last eleven or twelve
years.