Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-09-06
GENERAL.

SIR JOIN Rose, formerly Finance Min
lister of Canada, fell dead in the north OF
Scotland recently while hunting. Cause,
heart disease.
FATHER KENNEDY, an Irish priest, has
been arrested for holding meeting cf a
suppressed branch of the Irish National
League.
SEVEN warehouses at Steinwarde, Ser
many, filed with cotton, rice, sugar and
saltpeter valued at 100000 marks, were
destroyed by fire recently. Six persons
were burned.
JOHN FITZGERALD, president of the Irish
National League of America, has issued
an appeal for funds to aid ParneIl in his
suit against the London Times.
THE reports recently received descrip-
tive of the terrible condition Of affairs in
Morocco, owing to a desire on the part of
the Sultan to punish rebels for the murder
of Prince Muley, are believed to be COL
ored. The coloring is believed to emanate
from Spanish official quarters.
THE inundatiOn in the Manic provinces
of Japan was of a serious character and
40 houses were carried away and 500 were
destroyed, fifty people perishing.
THE admirers of Robert Browning will
hear with delight that the poet has recov-
cred his health and strength in the remote
Tyrolese village where he buried himself
from the world. After this he will reside
in Venice. where he has purchased the ia
nous ReZzonico Palace, situated on the
Grand canal.
THE Russian Court Minister Worenzof is
likely to retire soon, in consequence of the
scandals which are reported about his
wife, which the Czarina can not long ig-
more.
TIE London Times further commenting
on the fisheries question, says: Americans
have a traditional respect for legality.
and if the rights of the case be made clear
to them they are not likely to be tempted
into policy of aggression for the sake of
either Cleveland or Blaine"
The GduleiS has advicss from st. Pc
tersburg which state that another Nihilist
plot has been unearthed there. The con-
spirators, who had quarters near the I'M
peral palace, were raided by tbe police,
who captured twelve men and three women
and secured a number of bombs.
The British court of inquiry into the COLI
lision near San Francisco between the.
steamers Oceanic and the City of Chester,
by which fifteen persons lost their lives,
has exonerated the officers of the Oceanic
and attributed the disaster to the fact that
the Chester was caught in a strong tide.
CHARLES CRoCKER's will, recently filed,
appoints the widow as executrix and dis
poses Of an estate worth something over
$25. 900.
A MAN named GARNER, who claimed that
the Franco German war had caused his
ruin, called at the German embassy at
Paris the other morning and fred shot
H.,
as he did so: "At last l have killed one of
them" The porter was not hurt. GARNER
was insane.
Two hundred Dervishes attacked an
Egyptian fort near Wady Halfa and cap
tured portion of it. The Egyptians re-
ceived reinforcements from Wady Halfa
and finally succeeded in driving out the
Dervshes, killing more than one hundred
of them. The Egyptian loss was sixteen
killed and twenty-seven wounded.
THE English and French Ambassadors
to Turkey have made united demand on
the Sultan to sign the Suez canal conven-
ton.
IT is reported that the King of Abyssinia
has massed his troops on the Crem table,
land to resist possible Italian invasion.
ADvICEs from Lorenzo Marquize, q Por-
u6Sc OONH III a1iICdy lIdI IL
had broken out among the soldiers of the
garrison and that marines had been landed
from the war ships to quell it. Fighting
was expected.
A DISPATCH from Puebla Mexico, says
that the German Consul IN that city had
committed suicide, owing to financial
troubles.
ADv1cEs from Matamoras state that the
rIth har tl,a
antine against Mexico, Mexico will raise
its quarantine against Texas.
HERR LIEBKRECHT, Socialist, has been
elected to the German Reichstag from the
Sixth district of Berlin.
A NATIONAL assembly of Knights Of
Labor brass workers will be formed in the
next two weeks. 1t will have 5000 nsm-
bers.