The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BURGLARS broke into store in Mount
Clemens, Mich, the night of the 2Sth and
carried off a wagon-load of the most val
liable goods.
FRosTs prevailed in the Province of
Quebec on the night of the 9th.
THE annual convention of the Fire
Underwriters of the Northwest began on
the 29th at Chicago.
THE steamer John Rowen was dis
abled and beached in Massachusetts, Bay
with 700 passengers on board on the 29th.
No loss of life.
Two HUNDRED head of Jersey cattle
and a number of ponies, sheep, and hogs,
valued at $4,000, were landed at Chester,
Pa, on the 29th from Hull. The animals
were quarantined.
LIEUTENANT BOUTELLE MOVES of the
United States navy was killed at Yoko-
hama recently by the fall of spar while
the crew were exercising.
JACOB ANTONBURY shot and mortally
wounded Jacob Bush and then blew out his
own brains at Indianapolis on the 2Sth, and
wounded two other persons in the opera
tion.
DAvITT, Sexton and Parnell attended
a meeting of the Irish National League at
Dublin on the 29th.
PAYMAsTER Zachary T. Brown died
OF yellow fever at the Pensacola Navy
Yard on the 29th.
LIEUT. COMMANDER Thomas and
Lieutenants Woods and Meigs will compose
ha 70 %Lo
Cadets Breed of Kentucky, and Strife of
Maryland were not among the hazers, and
Cadets Reilly of Wisconsin an Wither-
spoon of Connecticut have been added to
the list of culprits.
THERE were twelve deaths from chol-
era in Alexandra in the 18th; ia in Upper
Egypt and seven in Lower Egypt.
A FARMER named Cutcher was found
dead in his wagon in Shiawasse County,
Mich, on the 2Sth, supposed to have been
poisoned with strychnine administered by
a rival in love.
RUSSIAN officials now in Bulgaria are
to remain two years longer by command of
the Gar, and opposition to their rule is to
be treated as rebellion.
In Vienna the summoning of the Ger
man Parliament was held to indicate that
Spain had been admitted to the triple alli-
ance.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, out of consider
alton for French feelings, decided not to
hold the annual review of the Guards on the
of Sedan.
THE imports of British iron and steel
during July were 70,3O3 tons against 103,-
39S tons for the corresponding month last
year. The imports of iron and steel for the
first seven, months of the year compared
with the corresponding period of last year
show a decrease of 7,326,075 tons.
THE California Cotton Mill Company
has been Incorporated; capital stock, $780,
600. The factory will be located at Oak
land. Spinning and weaving cotton works
are now in progress in California.
ELEVEN thousand bales of New South
in London on the 29th.
THE London Missionary Society has
denied the statement that Mr.. Shaw, the
English Missionary, intended to press a
claim for indemnity against France for the
loss of his property in Madagascar, and for
false imprisonment.
HENRY WILLARD, President of the
Northern Pacific Railway, with his Ger
man guests, fifty-tive in party, were at Nj
agara Falls on the 29th; also Count Lippe
Weisenfelds, Minister for Austro Hungary,
and Baron Won Esendecher, Minister of the
German Empire.
REV. HOWELL GARDNER, who was
so badly injured in the Riverdale explosion
died on the 30th.
IT was reported on the 29th that the
Emperor of Abyssinia, having heard that
King Menelek of Shoa intended to send an
to France to solicit French pro-
over Shoa, had declared war
against King Menelek and the Abyssinian
army had already invaded Shoa.
THERE were thirteen deaths from
cholera in Alexandria on the 30th.
RECENTLY stage was upset IN the
streets of Aguasco Calientes, Mexico, when
robbers gathered and plundered it of all
small articles that could be easily made
way with.
A MAN recently arrived at Guaymas
Mexico from the Lower California gold.
1iggings with a nugget of gold weighing
nearly eight pounds.
ABOUT 160 returning Knights, COM
prising parts of the Michigan, Pennsyl
vania and other Communicates, visited
Salt Lake City on the 30th.
THERE were three new cases of vel
low fever at Pensacola on the 30th, serv-
ant in DR.. Ovens family, Freddie Owens
and hospital attendant. There was one
death.
IT was asserted before the Under
writer's Convention that under the regula-
tons required electric lighting is safer than
kerosene.
The French will lay cable from
Saigon to Hanoi. Harmand, the French
Civil Commissioner in Tonquin, has been
decorated with the Cross of the Legion of
Honor for his services in the negotiations.
THE express train on the Philadelphia
& Atlantic Road was ditched on the 3Oth
at Pleasantville, Pa, and some thirty pas
sengers badly injured.
Miss CATHARINE CONNELLY has been
arrested in County Limerick, Ireland,
charged as being implicated with her two
brothers in a murder conspiracy.
The conductor of an excursion train
put boy off while under way near Scran-