The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-22

A PANIC was caused by false alarm
of fire in the Mobile, Ala, Opera-house
the night of the 10th, while Minnie Hauh
was singing. The lady herself quieted the
alarmed audience.
AN unknown man was found on the
10th lying by the roadside near Richmond
Ind, with his skull fractured, and died
! without speaking. 1t was evidently a mur.
| der.
j. c. BARNES, a Pittsburgh Alder
man, committed suicide at Newcastle, Pa.
on the 10th.
An effort was made on the 10th in
Paris to assassinate Prime Minister Ferry.
A HEAVY northwest snow-storm pre-
vailed on the 10th on the coast of Nova
Scotia.
THE fall of a mass of rock caused Q
wreck in railroad tunnel near Allentown.
Pa, on the 10th.
THE missing vessels on the lakes
continue to arrive in port in various stages
of dilapidation.
THE report that France has removed
the prohibition against American hog
products is not confirmed.
PAsCHIL1CH, the leader of the Servian
rebels, has taken refuge at the Russian
Consulate of Widdin.
A MEETING of the National Union
League to have been held at Atlanta, Ca.
November 81, has been postponed to take
place at the Ebbitt House, Washington, ID.
c., December -, at which time and place
the National Republican Committee also
meets.
DIR, BENJAMIN LARABEE, formerly
President of jackson College of Tennessee.
died in Boston, Mass, on the 10Th, aged
eighty.two years.
THREE men were killed and three
wounded by the explosion of a saw-mill
boiler at Williamsport, Pa, on the 10th.
The Canadian Postmaster General
intends to stop the circulation of lottery
circulars through the mails.
Ii is reported in Paris that Admiral
war against China.
AN agreement regulating the position
of Russian officers in Bulgaria has been
signed by Prince Alexander.
Four HUNDRED men are thrown out
of employment by the burning of the Bos.
ton & Providence repair shops at Boston.
The Pennsylvania Legislative Com
mittee to investigate the Standard Oil Com.
pany began taking testimony in New York
on the 10Th.
WORK will probably be suspended
soon in several Pittsburgh iron mills.
There is much disappointment at the way
orders are falling off.
a RUSSIAN Nihilist organ states that
the sentence of death passed by the CEN
tral committee against an informer has
been carried out.
THE terms of the agreement for con-
struction of the second Suez Canal are
1t is reported to be forty
four per cent. English and fifty-six per
cent. French.
4 GENERAL strike of railroad and
steamship laborers on the Isthmus of Pana-
ma is reported. They want an advance
from $1.50 to $500 per day. The railroad
to the Canal Company.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MCCARTNEY of
Illinois has written letter giving the opin-
ion that the law against circulating indie.
cent literature in that State applies to the
Police Gazette and similar papers.
The President has modified the SEN
tence against Lieutenant Colonel Morrow
to suspension from command, loss of half a
years pay and reduction of lineal rank to
the foot of the list of Lieutenant Colonels.
THE Livestock Mems Convention in
Chicago on the 10th adopted resolutions
calling for rigid inspection of all stock and
meats shipped to foreign countries and in.
dorslng the Government quarantine against
imported stock.