The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-01

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TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
IT is reported that oil has been dis
covered on the Island of Conanicut, off tn
New England coast.
THE contract for turret armor for tn,
United States Monitor Miantopomah ha
been awarded to an English ffrM.
THE Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria hopes that the army of occupation il
Bosnia and Herzegovina may soon be re
duced.
THE Ceur de Leon gold excitement
has reached Salt Lake City, and miners
are starting north to the new placer dig
gings.
LIEUTENANT WAND the French Off
cer who told about the atrocities of the
French sailors at the taking of Hue, has
been retired.
HENRI ROCHEFORT charges the
French Ministry with having an under
standing with the Due d'Aumale to restore
the Orleans dynasty.
CARDINAL MANNING thinks the Pope
has shown much willingness to meet Bis
marck's advances, and that Bismarck is
anxious for reconciliation.
SECRETARY FoLGER has made requi-
sition on the Civil Service Commission for
five men to fill 5000 clerkShips which have
been usually filled by women.
THE Attorney-General of Pennsylva-
MIA has begun proceedings to compel the
Sinking Fund Commissioners to invest the
sinking fund in United States bonds.
THOMAS BRENNAN and John Dillon.
leaders of the Irish reform movement, were
in Chicago on the 24th, and proposed to de-
liver lectures throughout the country.
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AT Chicago on the 23d heavy track
prevented Jay-Eye-See and Johnson from
making great records. The latter paced
three miles in 2:l4, 2:15 1-2 and 2:15 3-4.
THE sum of S25O,OOO has been sub
scribed by Bostonians in aid of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, to be
called the William Barton Rogers Fund.
THE Chinese Government is charged
with trying to evade the anti-immigration
laws by issuing traders and students GER
tificates to persons not entitled to them.
VIM. H JENKINS q Co., door manu-
facturers, New York, have failed for $179,-
300. Eddy, Harvey & Co., hats, caps and
furs, of Chicago, have failed for 100000.
The New York Board of Aldermen
want $4,000 to celebrate the centennial of
the departure of British troops from that
city, and ask the Mayor to proclaim holi-
day.
COUNT Won MoLTKE celebrated his
eighty-fourth birthday on the Goth at his
estate at Kreisau i'll Silesia. The day was
observed in Germany as national holi- |
day.
LONDON Truth says that the late DR.. |
Begg, the leader of the Puritanical section
Of the Scottish people, has left his family
$4,000, the fruit of successful stock-gam-
bling.
THE New York, Lackawanna & West
arn Railroad Company has absorbed the
Pennsylvania Company of the same name.
The new combination elected Gould di-
rectory. |.
THE trial, for hypothecating pay ac-
counts, of Lieut.. c. E. Hargons, of the
Fifth Infantry, has resulted in a sentence
Of one months suspension from rank and
command.
DESIGNS have been invited for the
main building of the Worlds Industrial
Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Or
rans. The building is to embrace 1,0OO,-
BOO square feet.
Mrs. LANGTRY started on the 25th on
her professional tour through the country.
Her first engagement is in Montreal, and
from the United States she will probably
go to Australia.
A sTUCCO model of John Browns
statue has already been placed on a Pc
destal at Balmoral. The Queen is most
anxious for the completion of the statue of
her late factotum.
FOUR THOUSAND unstamped Chinese
letters were discovered on the 25th on the
steamer Toxic arriving in San Francisco.
1t is thought similar fraud is practiced in
sending unstamped letters to China.
DIR. G. FAYETTE TAYLOR has OBJ
tained judgment for $4,000 against a New
York elevated railway company for run
ming trains before house he had rented
for hospital before the road was built.
ALEX. MITCHELL, the millionaire |
President of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad, was rendered grand recep-
tion by Milwaukeeans on the Goth, in honor
of his safe return from Europe. The mill
tary turned out.
EX-COLLECTOR BEARD, of Boston.
makes statement to the effect that during
the administration of VIM. A. Simmons as
Collector of that port, an extensive system
of smuggling was carried on with the knowI-
l.