Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISSIONARY letters say that the Mahdists
have made Western Abyssinia a desert.
Thousands of Christians have been thrown
into slavery and thousands of others have
been butchered.
WINNERS at the St Louis races on the
5th were st. Leger. Hindoocraft, Terra
Gotta, Roman, Stoney and Montgomery.
sixty buildings, mostly the houses of
colored people, burned at jacksonville,
Fla, the other morning Loss, 500, 900;
insurance light.
BURRILL, the operator at Silver City,
eighteen miles from Helena, Mont, was
killed. and F. c. Frost, the Montana Gen.
trail agent probably fatally wounded by
robbers the other night. A posse overlook
the robbers next day. They refused to
surrender and fred upon the posse. The
fire was returned and both robbers were
killed.
THERE was a severe storm in the Gulf
of st. Lawrence on the night of the 4th
Several schooners and one steamer ut
least were ashore
CONSIDERABLE money has been raised
in England for the relief of the Johnstown
! sufferers.
The Idaho gold mine at Grass Valley,
| Cal, has been shut down TO smother fire
which broke out recently. Three men
! lost their lives.
| DONOVAN won the English Derby. Miguel
ran second, and Eldorado third.
SECTION FOREMAN SMITH was killed and
two of his hands fatally injured near
Albuquerque, N. NJ, recently by being
struck by a work train.
THE Municipal Council of Dublin has
adopted resolutions of sympathy for the
Johnstown flood sufferers.
THE Solicitor Of the Treasury has de-
cided that under the Alien Contract Labor
law foreign professors can not be permit
ted to take positions in American institu-
tions. The case came up on the question
whether the Roman Catholic University
at Washington could secure professors
abroai.
THE Municipal Council of Paris, France,
has donated 5000 francs to the Johnstown
sufferers.
AT the meeting of the National Brewers
Association at Niagara Falls a resolution
to contribute SO, 900 to the Johnstown suf.
ferers was passed unanimously.
NAVIGATION in Chesapeake bay was re-
ported badly obstructed by the immense
quantity of logs and lumber and othel
? drift material through which vessels car
pass only after great delay and with ex'
treme care. AT night navigation is mo-
: practicable. Several steamers belonging
} to bay and river lines were compelled x
{ abandon their trips.
Q AN earthquake was felt in Tennessee OF
the evenin of the 5th.
EIGHTEEN miners at Essen, Germany,
who were recently on strike have beer
: sentenced to Imprisonment for terms
: ranging from one to six months for riot
, ing.
HERR SIEGEL. the editor of the Water
land, clerical paper of Munich, has beel
= sentenced to six weeks imprisonment 10
libelling the late Dewager Queen Of Ba
yaria.
Sixty spinners, 200 assistants and other
7 have resumed work in the Clark 20. n. I.
: mills at Kearney, N. J., and the tw'
5 months strike is at an end
AT the Iowa State convention of thu
Iowa Irish National League, Hon. j.
FFarren, in a speech, said that when tn
: Cronin murder had been sifted to the bot
= tom it would be found that it was done by
D an Irishman paid by English gold.
THE National white lead trust has sue
ceeded in purchasing the plant of tk
Collier and the Southern White Lead com
: panies for S4, 500 900. This is a great vic
a tory for the Standard Oil people, as thel
{ now control absolutely the output o
! white lead in America
QUTTE q number of relics Of the Johns
town disaster have been found near Ports
mouth. O.