The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-13

CLIFFORD LLOYD, recently appointed
Inspector of Reforms in Egypt, sailed fol
| Cairo on the 9Th.
By the explosion of gas at the Fair
lawn Mine at Scranton, Pa, on the 9Th, Dar
Saurwine, Secretary and Treasurer of the
Fairlawn Coal Company, and D. C. Black
wood were fatally injured.
FRED LAUER, q well-known brewer
and first President of the United States
| Brewers Congress, died at Reading, Pa.
on the 9th, aged seventy three.
The natives of Zululand are reported
as waging war of mutual determination
AT Sandy Hilly, N. Y, on the night
of the 9th NJ. S. Teller, a druggist, shot
himself fatally with the came weapon, ir
the same room and at the same hour that
his father had killed himself year ago.
A STEAMSHIP was recently discovered
driven ashore near Indian Harbor, N. S..
and was supposed to be the missing White
Star line steamer Ludwig. The Ludwig
sailed from Antwerp on the Cd of July, and
had not been heard of since. She had TWEEN.
ty-six passengers and a crew numbering
pSISOHS.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR reached Wash.
ington on the 7th.
ENGLISH harvest work was being Sc
riously retarded by wet weather.
Ten leaders of the Vienna working
mems riot were arrested on the eth.
The steamer Lilley recently exploded
ON the Saskatchewan, 600 miles west OF
Winnipeg.
& ADMIRAL PIERRE, the recalled French
commander, was reported dying at Mar
seilles on the 7th.
FRANCE was mobilIzing her transport
service, but hoped the trouble with China
might be compromised.
LATE estimates placed the Michigan
wheat crop at 23,OO0,OOO bushels, being
slightly less than the July estimate.
Mrs. julia p. SMITH, novelist, was
killed by runaway horse while driving
at Hartford, Conn.,, on the 9TH.
REV. THos. OAKLEY, delivery clerk
in the Cleveland Postoffice, was arrested on
the 7th, charged with stealing postage
stamps.
The musicians quarters at the Long
Branch Hotel burned on the 7th. One man
was burned to crisp, and several were
saved with difficulty.
A CONGRESSIONAL election has been
ordered for the First District of North Car
olina on November 90 to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Walter F. Pool.
The city of Pensacola, Fla, was re-
ported on the 7th as still healthy, but
yellow fever was on the increase at the
the Navy Yard, eighteen new cases having
been reported within thirty-six hours.
No deaths.
AT the meeting of the American
Social Science Association on the 7th. Mrs.
Sarah K. Bolton, of Cleveland, read a paper
on employer and Employed"
The National Prison Association was
reorganized OH the 7th at Saratoga, and
Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes elected
President. Papers were read on preven.
tion of crime and prison reform.
RUDOLPH SCHLEGEL, who said he had
left his home in Chicago on account of fam.
lily trouble, shot himself at East Cleveland
the night of the 9th and lay down in a field
to die. 1t was thought the wound would
prove fatal.
THE business failures reported
the United States and Canada
for the week ending the 7th number 156, as
compared with IS6 the preceding week,
decrease of %, distributed as follows: New
England States, 10; Middle, 90; Western,
4S; Southern, %; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 13, and New York City, 4.
AT a session of the International
Labor Institute on the 9th at Munich,
Bavaria, John T. Dillon, Professor of the |
Law School, Columbia College, New York,
was elected an associate member.