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

ABILENE REFLECTOR
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TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere
The trustees of the Garfield Monu
ment Association invite international con
petition for a monument to cost $150,000.
IT is rumored that Chief Justice Hun
ter, of Utah, is to be removed and Sumne
House, of Michigan, appointed in his place
AN Alexandria dispatch of the 1Stl
says: "Four deaths from cholera have bee
reported in an Arab village near this city.
HAMILTON COUNTY, o., cast vote O
60,S36 at the late election, of which onl,
s,402 were in favor of the Prohibitor,
amendment.
THE Army of the Tennessee will here
after admit the wives of members to ban
quets. The next reunion is to be held a
Lake Minnetonka.
THE Massachusetts, Supreme Cour
has given a decision under which it il
thought nearly every hotel saloon in tn,
State can be closed.
A NUMBER of prominent men, Includ
Ing Hon. George H. Pendleton, were speak
ers at the Cincinnati German centennia
celebration on the 18th.
IT is proposed to sell at auction al
the cotton exhibited for premiums at the
Louisville Exposition. The lot includes
several hundred bales of fancy cotton.
A BALTIMORE Grand Jury, after inves-
tigating the Tivoli disaster in which sixty
Eve excursionists lost their lives, indicted
the proprietor and lessee of the picnic
grounds.
The demand for the two-cent postage
stamp is still very large. There has been
no day during the present month when the
issue had fallen below three millions. One
day it reached as high as thirty eight mil
lions.
THE total estimates for the river and
harbor work for the next fiscal year sub
mitted to Secretary Lincoln by Gen. Wright
is $19, 49,, 800. The estimates in several
preceding years have been between thirty
and forty millions.
THE business failures of the United
States and Canada for the week ending the
18th numbered 243, an increase of 56 over
the previous week, mainly in the New Eng
land States, South and West. Failures are
on the increase in Canada.
SIX villages we're recently destroyed
by an earthquake on the peninsula between
Chesms, Asia Minor, opposite Chios, and
Vourla on the southern coast of the Gulf
of Smyrna. Upward of 1000 persons are
reported killed and 10000 rendered home
less.
The Coroner's jury in the case of
John Irving and John Walsh, burglars,
rendered a verdict in New York that the
men came to their deaths at each others
hands. "Billy" Porter, another burglar
arrested on suspicion of having killed
Walsh, was released.
ARTHUR L. BLUE, of Indianapolis, eX-
Treasurer of the Grand Council of the
United Order of Honor, is supposed to have
gone to California. A partner and bonds
man of Blue will be called upon-to make
good the ex-Treasurer's accounts, which
are alleged to be in bad way.
The committee of London Justices to
consider the letter of Guy, O'Donnelrs So
licitor, in regard to his client being de-
prived of the use of tobacco, after seeing
the prisoner and hearing the opinion of the
prison physician that O'Donnell was in ex-
cellent health, refused O'Donnell the use of
tobacco.
ADTICEs from Altata, Mexico, report
that the population of the town is deci-
mated by yellow fever, deaths averaging
twenty day for the last two weeks. On
the Sd of October Altata was struck by
hurricane, killing several people, destroy
ing the greater part of the town, and inhab-
ttants sought refuge in the noun
tains. Several miles of the Smolloa
Durango Railroad track were torn up, and
bridge at Guraritus blown down.
THE values of exports of domestic
provisions, tallow and dairy products for
September, 1888, was $1,000, ,431; the same
month, 1882, $7,453, 7S4; nine months ended
September so, 1888, $50, ,64S, against $751;
S75,9G9 for the same period in 1882. Pro-
visions and tallow for eleven months ended
September 80, 1888, S91, 1,447,J16; same time
in 1882, $S1 ,943, ,76S. Dairy products for the
five months ended September so, 1888, $10,-
232 ,697, against IS, ,475,511 for the same pc
riod in 1882.
Gov. TUTTLE of Arizona Territory,
in report to the Secretary of the Interior,
states the population is now $1,000, and the
taxable property $20,OOO.OOO. Affairs of the
Territory are generally in an exceedingly
prosperous condition. The value of gold
and silver products of the year ended De-
cember 81, 1882, was s., 29S, ,267, against
IS, ,19S, ,766 in 1881. The yield of copper in
1882 was 100000 pounds. The combined