The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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reported.
THE New York Republican Conven-
ton, held at Richfeld Springs on the 18th,
nominated General Jos. B. Carr for Secre-
tary of State by unanimous vote.
Mrs. EDWIN ADAMS, widow of the ia
nous actor, is at Long Branch dying of
| paralysis.
| THERE were two new cases of yellow
fever at the Pensacola Navy Yard on the
18th.
THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY sailors
left Brest on the 18th for Toulon, whence
they were TO embark for service in the
French feet in Tonquin.
VIENNA dispatches of the 10Th say
that while the troubles in Crotia were de-
creasing, the agitation was spreading to
Dalmatia.
The National Association of eX-Pris-
oners of War began its tenth annual ses-
sion at Cleveland, O., on the 10Th. The at
tendance was large.
THE Republicans of Massachusetts
nominated George D. Robinson for Cover
nor and Oliver Ames for Lieutenant-Gover-
nor on the 10Th.
THE Maine Greenbackers lndorse the
Chicago platform and declare their opposi-
ton to fusion with either Republicans or
Democrats.
THE will of the late Nathaniel Thayer,
of Boston, Mass, disposes of property val
ued at $16,OOO,0OO, most of which goes to
relatives and friends.
The Fairlawn mine breaker at
Scranton, Pa, was burned by an incendi-
ary fire on the 18th. Loss, $4,000. Five
hundred men and boys were thrown out of
employment.
CADET JAMES r. TUGGLE. of Ken
lucky, has been dismissed from the Naval
Academy for hazing.
THE Austrian army maneuvers closed
on the 18th. The Emperor, King Alfonso,
Prince Milan and the Duke of Edinburgh
were present
THE reunion of the United States Mil
itary Telegraph Corps INDUCED in a BAN
quet at Chicago on the 10Th.
TwENTY-THREE States and the Dis
trict of Columbia wereTepresented at the
Louisville Educational Convention.
TANCREs Division, Columbus, KS,
Knights of Pythias, won the first prize i'll
the competitive drill at the Louisville Ex-
position on the 18th, Springfield (O.) Divis
ion the second prize. Commander j. II.
Abbott won the prize of a gold jewel for
best Commander. In the band contest the
prize for best band was won by Big Six
Band, Springfield, o.
THE Milwaukee Board of Supervisors
forgot that some bonds were falling due
and now they have to take the money saved
up for Courthouse to pay them.
The wife of Adam Fischer, who died
suddenly September s, near Cincinnati,
has been arrested charged with poisoning
him.
EDWARD MCMAHON has been Sc
lected by Parnell to contest the election for
member of Parliament from Sligo.
T. L. FORTUNE and Fred Douglass
are the prominent candidates for chairman
of the Louisville colored convention.
THE Kentucky conference of the NJ.
E. Church, South, adopted resolutions op
posing Sunday trains to camp-meeting.
AT the close of the military maneu-
vers at Merzburg Emperor William ad-
dressed the troops, stating it was probably
the last time he would review the Fourth
Army Corps.
TAX COLLECTOR IT. j. BRITToN, of
Hall County, Alabama, is reported a de-
faulter for $1,000.
In Mazatlan, Mexico, four thousand
people had been stricken down with yellow
fever. Refugees from Guaymas were re-
ported dying in the interior.
THE tannerv of g. n. Bur & Co, near
Elmira, n. Y, burned on the Goth. Loss
$4,000.
THE witnesses in the O'Donnell case
arrived at Funchal, Madeira, on the Goth.
SIXTEEN cases of fever were under
treatment at Pensacola Navy Yard, on the
GOTH
The St. Petersburg police are to be
reinforced by a regiment of infanGry.
THE relations of Germany and Tur-
key have recently become very cordial.
The furniture factory of Nelson
Lyons, Albany, N. V, burned on the 10Th.
Loss, $4,000.
The Italian bark Fratelli Gaggino,
bound for Darien, and an unknown vessel
collided on the 20th. Both foundered and
sank.
ADDITIONAL reports of wrecks in the
storm on the banks of Newfoundland con-
tinue to come in.
A BOILER explosion at the Sligo Iron
Works, Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth caused
the probable fatal injury of fifteen men.
THE French proposals on the Ton
quin question We're not received with
favor at Pekin.
The .. S. steamer Yantic left St.
Johns, n. F., on the Goth for New York.
By an explosion of fire-damp in a
mine near Unna, Westphalia, on the Goth,
fifteen miners were killed.
OWING to contiguous forest fires the
village of Bar Harbor, Me-, was threatened
with destruction, and on the Doth three hun
dred men were vigorously fighting the
flames.
A CONFERENCE of railway managers
west of the Missouri assembled in San
Francisco, Cal, on the Goth.
j. L. CARGILL's elevator at Portland,
D. T., containing $1,000 bushels of wheat,
was destroyed by fire the morning of the
00th 4 baayI- cbo1ro,, of tGa t;,,o couad