The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tween the political parties.
TROOPs had to be called out to quel
a bloody riot between Slavs and Magyar:
in Upper Hungary.
The remaining coal mines in West
ern Pennsylvania, where strikes have beer
for some time in force, were reopened OF
the 18th without trouble.
SIXTY delegates attended the meeting
of the National Telegraph Association il
Cincinnati on the 10th. Morris F. Tyler Of
New Haven was elected President.
CARL HENCKEL, a medical student,
inflicted at Syracuse, N. Y, for body.
snatching, has been arrested in Chicago.
The Band of Oregon pioneers visit
ing the East called upon President Arthur
on the 18th.
MOODY and Sankey opened a mission
in Cork, Ireland, on the 10th. A mob gath
cred outside the building and hooted per-
sons who entered. The mob was dispersed
by the police.
COLONEL SIDNEY D. MAXWELL was
reelected Superintendent of the Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce at its meeting on
the 18th.
E. COUsELBAUM, dry goods ped
dler, was found murdered by the roadside
near Albany, n. Y, on the afternoon of the
18th.
A PORTRAIT of Oliver Wendell Holmes
and bust of DR.. Bigelow were presented TO
the Harvard Medical School on the 18th.
A PASSENGER and freight train col
lided on the Rochester & Pittsburgh Road
near Scottsville. N. Y. on the 18th.
WIN. S. GRAY, farmer residing near
Dover, n. j., attempted to murder his wife
on the 18th, and, failing, robbed her of
$12. He is still at large.
A REMARKABLE bed of iron ore is re-
ported found in the northern part of
Minnesota. 1t is asserted to be the most
valuable on the continent.
The anniversary of the surrender of
Burgoyne was celebrated at Schuylerville,
n. Y, on the 18th.
The Wall Street National Bank went
out of existence on the 18th, and the Wall
Street Bank took its place in New York on
the day following with capital of 100000.
FIVE United States vessels under
command of Admiral Cooper, anchored off
Newburgh, N. Y, on the 18th to participate
in the peace centenniel celebration which
occurred there on the 18Th.
DIETRICH SUTHOFF, German en-
ployed at Havemeye,'s Sugar Refinery, at
Williamsburgh, N. Y, was caught in the
machinery on the 18th and reduced to pulp.
THE French-American Claims Com
mission met in Washington on the 18th, and
made an order requiring the submission of
briefs on both sides in all cases undiSposed
of.
THE bodies of North Carolina Con-
federate soldiers, recently exhumed at
Arlington, Va, were on the 18th buried
with impressive ceremonies at Raleigh
An address was made at the cemetery bv
Governor Jarvis.
AT the meeting of the National Asso-
citation of Wholesale Druggists in New
York on the 18th, w. A. Gelatly, of New
York, was elected President; Arthur Peter,
of Louisville, Secretary; A. B. Nernoni, of
Cincinnati, Treasurer; j. NJ. Strong, of
Cleveland, Vice-President, and A. A Mel
lier, of st. Louis, Louis T. Tazill and ]. w.
Rankin, of Atlanta, and E.Waldo Golfer, of
Cincinnati, Board of Control.
ALEXANDRA DUMAS, the celebrated
author, is reported seriously i'll in Paris.
Count Won Moltke is also on the sick list.
THE sixteenth annual reunion of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee be-
large attendance.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
18th says the trial of sixty three members
of the Nihilist Red Cross Society has con-
cluded. All were sentenced to be sent to
Siberia. The testimony of the informers
and others proved that the society had ram
ifications in every part of the empire.
TRICHINosIs is spreading in Saxony
Twenty deaths had been reported up to the
18th.
A LOCOMOTIVE exploded near Oska-
loosa, To-, on the 18th, killing the engineer,
fatally injuring a fireman and brakeman
and wrecking nineteen cars.
A DISPATCH from Rome SAYS the Geo
detic Conference has been invited to take
part in the discussion at Washington look
ing to the establishment of universal
meridian.
SIX members of the Corean Embassy
left Chicago on the 18th on their way home.
The 18th was Florida Day at the
Louisville Exposition. There was the usual
reception and banquet.
Miss FLORA DRAKE, aged fourteen,
of Cassia Creek, Idaho, was reproved by
her mother recently and shot herself dea /.
ERNEST AsTER, the Postmaster at
Minooka, Pa, was arrested on the 18th on
charge of tampering with the mails.
The Union League Club of Philadel-
phia gave a reception on the 18th to mem
bers of the Protestant Episcopal Conven-
ton.
THERE was three new cases and one
death from yellow fever at Brewton, Ala,
ON the 18th.
A PARTY of gentlemen interested in
are building works in Cleve-
land, and with what end in view is kept a
secret.
Christopher BLUMENDE was arrested
in Chicago on the 18th for the murder of
Rodney Dows, near New Orleans, two
years ago.
TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, q sailor on the
propeller Colorado, lying at Erie, Pa, fell
into the hold of the steamer on the 18th and
was fatally injured.
CHINA is DreOarinU tO close the mort