The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
THERE were l .2lo miles of land grant

/ THERE were ], ,210 miles of land grant
railroad constructed the past year.
The Zura Burns jury at Lincoln, ILL.,.
gave verdict on the 1st of death at the
hands of some unknown person.
The Postal service sent out twelve
per cent. more foreign mail last year than
the year before.
A DWELLING in Cincinnati caught fire
on the 1st, and Mrs. Mary Welsh and her
child were suffocated.
THE International Labor Conference
at Paris held that emigrants should no!
work for less wages than the workingmen
of cities they abide in.
THE French have seized and occupied
the west coast of Africa from Gaboon to the
mouth of the Congo.
"PETE" EMERSON, convicted of at
tempting to rob bank cashier in rail.
road car at Hoboken, n. j., was sentenced
on the 1st to ten years. Imprisonment.
MOST of the saw-millS of Dubuque,
Ia, will shut down in a few days for the
season. The total cut of lumber for the sea.
son is about 40,OO0,00 feet.
The New York Chamber of Com
merce has adopted resolutions condemn
ing the watering of stock by corporations.
THE City of New York began on the
1st the payment of 81 ,GOO,O00 for interest on
the city debt and 81 900 on the princi
pal.
CHISHOLM, the Newark, N. j., wife
murderer. has demanded new trial.
THE bullion receipts in Salt Lake, L.
T.. last week were $l6,20S,D63.
The International Labor Conference
at Paris closed on the I'd.
THE Bishop of Rochester commends
the Moody and Sankey mission.
GERMANY is exporting more and i'm
porting less grain than last year.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, of.New York
of the bribery act.
THE schools at West Boylston, Mass,
are closed on account of an epidemic OF
diphtheria.
Mrs. l.. WOLFsTEIN, of Cincinnati
was killed on the I'd by fall from fourth
story window.
AT Huntington, Ind, Charlotte Epps
has been found guilty of numbering her
husband with poison.
NONE but members of the English bar
will be allowed active participation in the
defense of O'Donnell.
THE Sophomore and Freshman classes
at the Troy Polytechnic Institute have
been suspended for indulging in class riots.
THE Coroner's jury on the Fort Ed
ward bridge disaster censure the engineer
ing department, the railroad company and
the chief engineer of the road.
DEWEY, alias Halper, the Montreal
forger who victimized Boston banks and
about whose arrest in California so much
fuss has been made, has reached Boston in
custody of an officer.
DANIEL NEwITH. of New Albany,
Ind, disinherited by his father, who lately
married a second wife, committed suicide
with laudunum the night of the 1st.
BURGLARS, on the night of the 1st,
blew open the safe of the Post-office at
Anoka, Mimi, carried off the stamps, then
a private house and finally
stole two horses and carriage and drove
TO Minneapolis.
THE Standard Consolidated Mining
Company, of San Francisco, has declared
a dividend of twenty-five per cent, and
the Bodie Tunnel Company made an assess.
ment of fifteen per cent.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE B. FURLONG, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was on the I'd sentenced
to six and half years. Imprisonment for
causing the death of Charity Lewis.
THE New York Grand Jury censures
the excise commissioners for granting sa-
loon licenses to thieves and notorious Grim.
inals.