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

1hE duHlhcISdLJ VI IuC UuGu VI
Luther was celebrated in the Academy OF
Music in New York the night of the 18th by
the United States Evangelical Alliance.
IT is stated that the French reinforce
ments have landed at Hal Phong, and that
Admiral Courbet's first attack will be made
on Sontag and Hunghoa.
The nail mills will shut down for five
weeks from December %.
DIR. w. S. BAKER, of Peru, Ind, was
on the 18th taken from the Paris, H., Gala
boose, where he was confined for drunken
ness, to Peru, Ind, to answer the graver
charge of forgery preferred against him.
A THREE-DAYs' convention of the Ma
tional Academy of Science began on the
18th at New Haven, Conn. Prof. Marsh
made the address of welcome.
In what is known as the Fillmore
will case, on trial in Buffalo, n. Y, on the
18th Rev. John Gordon, D. D., renounced a
legacy of 500 in order to testify. He de-
clared Mrs. Fillmore, who made the dis
puted will, in his opinion, perfectly sane.
PREPARATIONS for the O'Donnell trial
in London, Eng, are nearly completed.
KIRKER, the embezzling cashier of
Ironton, O., has been held for trial.
THE net earnings of the Manhattan
Elevated Railway last year were $685.
AS.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT Row
LAND of the Louisville & Nashville Road
has resigned.
THE auditors of number of Western
railroads have agreed upon a new system
of accounting.
Loss to the amount of S50l,000 was
caused by fire among the freight ware
houses at Norfolk, Va, on the 18th.
The Railway Conductors Benefit As
sociation disbursed forty-fve thousand
dollars last year.
By the burning of the Norton Iron
W Works at Ashland, KY, on the 14th, 200
hands are thrown out of employment.
Loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000.
A RUMOR was current in Cairo on the
18th that another detachment of Egyptian
In order to overcome the ticket scalp
ers the Eastern trunk lines will hereafter
sell tickets no further West than Chicago
md st. Louis.
A BUSINESS block burned on the 18th
1T Shelbyville, Ind.
AN explosion occurred on the 18th at
5he Eagle Hill colliery, Pottsville, Pa, and
Michael Kelly and Robert Kennedy were
killed. A boy named Heating
was badly hurt. The accident was caused
1y an accumulation of sulphur in the
workings.
j. W. ROBBINS, Surveyor-General of
Arizona, died on the 14th, at Tucson, \. T.
Deceased was formerly connected with the
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
The Cleveland rolling mill will shut
lown December l.
THERE was considerable excitement
IN the 10Th in the oil market. Sales reached
1000, 900 barrels.
THE French squadron in Chinese Wa
ers is to be reinforced.
In the investigation into the Greely
elief expedition failure, on the 18th, Gen.
raj Hazen testified that the supplemental
formed no part of CARING
on's instructions. "Garlington showed
ne," said witness, sail his orders, and l
old him he must be controlled by the regu-
ar orders l had given him and by direc-
ions of Greely, on which they were found
ID. Greely's letter was law to me, and l
lidn't feel authorized to give any orders
hat would conflict with it,"
THE military were called out to quell
riot in Kief, Russia, on the 18th.
THE German Government proposes
o build fifty torpedo boats.
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON favors
National quarantine system.
The American Bishops suggest Pa
'al Nuncio for the United States.
ADMIRAL CoURBET, the French COM
nander in Tonquin, has malaria.
The cotton mills at Lawrence, Mass,
re beginning to curtail production.
RECEIPTS of Lake Superior iron ore at
Cleveland fell off sixty per cent. during the
eason just closing.
The General Missionary Conference
f the Reformed Church of America closed
N the 18th at Philadelphia.
NORRIS BROWN, Postmaster at |
Pa, was arrested on the 10Th |
N charge of opening letters.
COMMENTS of the French press on the !
Crown Prince's.visit to Madrid are |
lot pleasing to the Prussians.
A PRUssIAN who lately arrived in
Cleveland, O., killed himself by drinking
fifteen glasses of whisky in fifteen min
ties.
Two large lumber-yards burned at
Wis, during a high gale on the
9Th. For time large part of the city
vas threatened.
EXPORTS of breadstuffs for ten
lonths past were $145, 5,OS2, ,034, being about
!, 100000 less than for the corresponding
ime last year.
OXFORD and Franklin Counties, Me-,
ave been visited by a cyclone which de-
troyed barns, cattle and farm property to
he amount of $150,OO0.
LEE HIRsCH, a clothier of Terre
Iaute, Ind, who failed recently, was ar /
ested on the 10Th on requisition from the
Governor of Ohio for obtaining goods un-
er false pretenses from Herzog g. Co., of |,
incinnati.
THE body of Robert Fellows, a broker
Kissing from New York since October 20. l.
7as found on the 10th in the North River. |,
SARvEN, the parricide confined at In {
lana, Pa, has confessed to the murder of
iS fothar Z