The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-29

ABILENE REFLECTOR
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
STROTH E r BROS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
MINISTER LOWELL was elected Rec
tor of st. Andrews University, Eng, on
the 22d.
THE newly organized Peruvian Gov
ernment has had a ministerial crisis al
ready.
CHINA has informed France that an
attack on Bac Mini will be considered
cdSuS belIt.
IsMAIL PAsHA, ex-Khedive of Egypt,
says the calamity in the Soudan is due to
inefficiency of the central government at
Cairo.
THE British superintendent of the
Nicobar Islands was shot dead by Sepoy
officer recently, who Immediately commit
ted suicide.
CHINA has sent circular letter to the
powers setting forth that if the French in
wade Northern Anam they will be opposed
by Chinese troops.
QUEEN VICTORIA returned to Wind
sor Castle on the Goth. Extraordinary pre-
cautions were taken to guard the tram and
line of the railroad.
THE Prussian system of government
railways is making money. A bill pro-
viding for further purchase Of roads is to
be brought forward.
THE Pope has made editor Dawson,
Of the Charleston Is. c. Ne,vS and Courier,
a Knight of st. George for the stand he has
taken against dueling.
REPORTS of flood damages continue
to come in from all quarters. The Wabash
Valley is inundated and small streams
everywhere are swollen to rivers.
CURIO VAN TROTHA. who lately sued
The Long Island Railroad Company for
S5O, 900 damages for injuries received, was
awarded $500 by the Court on the 21st.
GEORGE d. BAUR, of Portsmouth, O.,
a clerk in the railway mail service between
Columbus, O., and Ashland, KY, was ar
rested on the 21st charged with rifiing let
ters.
An ex-Deputy Sheriff and a night
watchman who were caught in the act of
setting fire to store in Manistee, Mich,
declare that they were hired by the owner
to do it.
PORTIONS of the cargo of the steamer
Manistee have been found on the shore of
Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and little
doubt is now felt that she was lost with all
On board.
RECEIPTS of bituminOus coal at Pitts
burgh, Pa, for the year 1888 will be about
L. 900 tons, falling off of 100000 tons
from last years receipts. Shipments show
a decided increase.
An early adjustment of differences |
between the window-glass manufacturers |
and blowers at Pittsburgh, Pa, is not ex-
pected. 1t is probable the factories will |
not resume this year.
The Toronto (Ont.) people continue |
to protest against the influx of pauper i'm |
migrants. They want the British Govern
ment to refund what it will cost Canada to
take care of these people.
THE French brig Vocaberg is reported |
to have sank October so in consequence of
a collision. Eighty y-eight lives were lost. |
The American ship Thomas Dana landed |
twenty-one survivors at Fayal.
A PENNSYLVANIA manufacturer, who |
neglected to put up a fire escape when no.
titled, has been mulcted for $4,000 dam
ages by an employe who was crippled in |
from his burning factory.
ANDY TAYLOR, the last of the three |
Tennessee desperate brothers, |
who killed two sheriffs, was hanged at Lou
don, Tenn, on the 23d. He made desper-
dUO SllOII W uSI duOOuSl OIl OLO |
22d.
THE verdict of the Coroner's Jury on
the Wisconsin State-house disaster holds |
Contractor Nowlan responsible for gross
negligence, and Architects Jones and Koch |
for designing the interior without due re-
gard to safety during construction.
ADMIRAL PORTER's annual report
the new cruisers lately contract
ed for, and recommends the construction
of swift ships with heavy guns and good
going qualities under sail. Also, he rec
increased attention to lake de-
fenses.
THE storm on the 21st was exceeding
ly severe over wide area of country.
Railroad washouts were numerous and teIe-
graph service was impeded. At Piedmont,
No., two women and three children were
drowned and much property destroyed.
At Fredericktown, Mo-, the freshet was the
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