Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-28

THE Canadian Government has under
consideration the advisability of exclud-
| ing American lard by increased duty or
otherwise, in view of the extensive adul-
| teration practiced.
| MUCH suffering was reported on the 21st
| among the emigrants awaiting the OPEN
| ing OF the ceded lands. General Weaver
| telegraphed the facts to Secretary Noble.
RUSSIAN officials have tested and re-
ported favorably upon a Russian inven-
tion for applying the revolver principle to
| the barrels of Borden rifles. By this ar
| rangement machine gun is obtained
| which will fire 4S0 shots minute.
A DYNAMITE factory, eight miles from
Lakewood. n. j., blew up on the 21st
Two men were blown to atoms.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was re.
ported at Smyrna on the 21st-
GOVERNOR COOPER, of Colorado, has
signed the Cattle Inspection bill.
A BOTTLE of sulphuric acid was thrown
at w. p. Rand the other evening at Chi
cago as he stepped out of his house. Rand
recently declined the nomination for city
treasurer on the Labor ticket, and severely
criticised the mode of conducting the pri.
maries.
THE President has commuted to impris-
onment for life Albert Green, sentenced
to be hanged April 5 in Washington for
murder.
A HIGHLY complimentary report on the
new guo coat Yorktown has been made by
the naval board, of which Commodore
Fitzhugh is president.
FIRE broke out the other night in Cross
lumber yard in the eastern section of
Washington and totally destroyed the
sash and blind factory. The loss was
heavy.
THE Pope has decided in favor of the
Canadian Jesuits against Cardinal Tas-
chereau. The branch of the Lavalle
University at Montreal, in consequence,
will be closed
ROBERT SIGEL, son of General Franz
Sigel, who pleaded guilty to forging PEN
sion checks, has been sentenced by the
United States district judge in New York
City to six years. Imprisonment at hard
labor.
THE striking feather workers of New
York City have given up their strike for
better wages and about all resumed work
at the old wages.
The riots at Pesth, Hungary, were re-
newed on the 2lst.
MRS. HENRY Mort and a team of horses
went through the ice on Lake Champlain,
N. Y, the other day and were drowned
Four desperadoes robbed a passenger
train at Canyon Diablo, near Winslow,
Ariz., the other day. Only a small
amount was secured by the robbers.
H II. CHEEK, an emigrant agent, has
been put in Jail at Greensboro, N. c., for
inducing negroes to go West.
THE Mexican Government has taken
steps to prohibit the Importation of Amer
lean lard.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended March 81 numbered 249,
compared with 261 the previous week and
243 the corresponding week of last year.
THE President has issued a proclamation
relative to the illegal hunting and killing
of seals and other fur animals in Behring
sea within the limits of the United States.
GENERAL WADE HAMPTON has returned
to survivors of the Sxty-fifth Pennsylva-
mia volunteers and Fifth cavalry a couple
of flags captured by the Confederates in
the war of the rebellion.
IT is believed that few days will see
general reduction in the wages of coke
workers throughout the Pennsylvania re-
gion, instead of a strike ON their part for
higher wages.
A GENERAL suspension of work at the
Pennsylvania Coal Company's mines has
been ordered. The company has fifteen
large collieries.
JOHN GILT, one of the seamen of the
steamship America, was killed recently,
at the mouth of the Chesapeake bay, Nd,
by an immense wave striking him full in
the breast.
IT is believed that the stolen mail pouch.
which was found ripped open and secreted
in culvert near Piedmont, W. Va. con-
tanned a large amount of money and val.
liable letters.
A SINGULAR case developed at Cincin-
natl the other day in the efforts of George
Duffy and George Draess to convict each
other of having drowned a man in the
canal
s. V. CONWAY, wholesale hardware. OF
Shreveport, La. has applied for an extern
sion of one. two and three years. As
sets, $15O.G00; liabilities, $50. 600.
THE Barrett boys, Tim and Pete, were
hanged at Minneapolis, Mimi, en- the 22d
for the murder of Thomas Tollefson,
street car driver, whom they had robbed.
HUNDREDS of sympathizers took part in
a demonstration at Hamburg the other
day on the occasion of the expulsion OF
the Socialist Schlumke.