The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The Catholic clergy in Hungary have
of Jew-baiting.
OCCASIONAL cholera cases occurred
in Alexandria, but the disease was rapidly
disappearing throughout Egypt.
The Lancashire Eng.) Cotton Spin.
ners' Society demanded a reduction o.
wages for both weavers and spinners OF
the l1th.
The British Government had decided
to form the nucleus of the new Egyptian
police from the Irish constabulary.
A SAIL boat capsized on Lake Cham.
plain on the 9th with three men. Two were
drowned and the third drifted ten hours
before reaching land.
j. M. HAVEN was arrested on the 10th
at Rutland, VT, charged with embezzling
10000 while Treasurer of the Rutland Rail
road Company. Bail was fixed 1t $4,000
which he furnished.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, had a $4,000 fire
on the 11th.
CORD DUEL, who killed Henry Bass
at Paris, Ohio, was captured at Bucyrus
and taken to Canton on the 11th. The muir
der was the result of quarrel between the
men.
AT Philadelphia, on the 18th, Will
liam H. Parnell was arrested on a charge
of embezzling IS, 700 from Sinclair & Laugh
lin, wholesale grOcers. He was the firms
! book-keeper.
SIX new fever cases and two deaths
were reported at the Pensacola Navy Yard
on the 18th.
TIE protracted drought which has
done great dagnags to crops in Virginia,
was ended bya yer! heavy rain on the 11th,
but too late, it WAS cared, to do corn much
good.
The trunk line freight agents were
in session at ClevelaIfl on the 18th.
FIVE of the victims of the rag ware
house fire at Cincinnati were buried on the
18th.
IT was rumored on the 11th that E.
Manson & Son, owners of the Bay View
House, Ferry Beach, and managers of the
Ocean House, Old Orchard, and the Augusta
House, Augusta, Me-, had failed for large
amounts.
The ninth annual cOnvocation of the
of st. John and Malta opened in Philadel-
phia on the 11th.
THE Toronto Industrial Exposition
was opened on the 18th by the Governor
General.
Two British gunboats had arrived at
Canton. The foreign colony was thought
to be safe.
FIRE caused S15O,0OO damage in
West Madison street block in Chicago on
the morning of the 18th.
A SHOOTING match for $1,000 a side
between DR.. Carver and Captain Stubs
was being talked of.
NEAR Grapeville, Pa, on the 18th
Jos. Pune was riddled with shot while in
the act of robbing farmers potato patch.
AUSTRIA and Germany had made re-
monstances regarding the action of Russian
agents in Bulgaria.
The Chinese army was concentrated
at Pekin waiting the arrival of the French
reinforcements at Port Said, when they
would invade Tonquin.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has proclaimed
that the Worlds Industrial and Cotton
Centennial Exposition will open at New
Orleans on the first Monday in December,
1884
A SECRET society organized to To-
ment agitation against the Jews has been
broken up by the police at Agram. Sew
eral of its officers were arrested.
NEAR Omaha, on the 18th, an eXcur-
sion train on the Missouri Pacific Road col
lided with freight, injuring large num-
Der of passengers.
JAMES KNIGHT and j. H. Wenzel
were fatally assaulted near Cheyenne on
the 18th, by H. Moore, who wanted to rob
them of $53.
The gross earnings of the Western
Union Telegraph Company for the fiscal
year ended June 30, were $19,454, ,902; net
profits, 81 7,66O.34O.
c. c. BALDWIN, President of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company,
has been elected to the Western Union
directory.
THE strike at the Manchester Iron
and Steel Works at Pittsburg, was set
tied by the Company reinstating Superin-
tendent Kloman. The men resumed work
on the 18th.
THE Steamer City of Washington.
from New York for Havana, was struck by
a hurricane on the Sth, which continued
thirty-six hours. Two persons were in
jured.
A TUG-BOATMAN at Warrington, near
Pensacola, was reported down with the
yellow fever on the 18th.
YELLOW fever was reported at Quay
mas and Hermosillo, Mexico, on the 18th.
In consequence of collision a Nor
wegian vessel sunk and twelve persons
were drowned in the English channel on
the 18th.
The Italian steamship independents
went ashore on Long Island in fog on the
18th and was in dangerous situation. She
had 100 passengers.
FIVE men were arrested in Philadel- T
phia on the 18th for incendiarism. Over
100000 worth of property had been recent
ly destroyed by incendiary fires.
KENTUCKY gaugers had asked the In
ternal Revenue Commissioner to modify
the regulations so that they could earn s. |
day, but he refused to do it.
A FRESHMAN at Lehigh University,
Pa, jumped out of window to avoid haz-