The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

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TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
The public debt reduction since jun
30 amounts to $39,5S4, ,47O.
The national debt, less cash in Treas
ury, November 1, was $1,5I1 ,5O6,7 ,7S7.
A Fn1BUsTERING expedition from tht
United States is reported to have landed il
Cuba.
THE Chinese Legation at Paris are
considering the question of demanding
their passports.
A REPORT is published in Paris thai
De Brazza, the Congo explorer, had beer
killed in a fight.
The coinage the United States Mint
050 were silver dollars.
A BROKERAGE system of furnishing
Chinese emigrants traders certificates has
been discovered at Canton.
A COURT of inquiry to investigate
the causes Of failure of the Greedy relief
expedition has been ordered.
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An emissary of the Nihilists, who
claims to have been sent to assassinate
Bismarck, has been arrested near Dantzic.
THE special agent of the Mexican
Government in London has been instructed
to renew his efforts to readjust the national
debt.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, OF MasSachu-
setts. and Congressman Maybury, of Mich
igan, had long conference at Boston on
the 30th.
A LARGE part of the village of Will
foughby, o., was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the I'd. The Hummell tannery
at Holland, Mich, burned; loss, $4,000.
BEN BUTTERWORTH took charge of
the office of Commissioner of Patents on the
31st, and General Phil Sheridan assumed
command of the army on November 1st.
THE business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for the seven
days ending on the I'd number 215, against
21S the previous week and 243 the week
before.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says the
President will sustain Postmaster-General
Gresham's decision in the New Orleans lot
terry case including the ruling as to the Ma
sional bank.
THE Irish Nationalist organs protest
against hastily charging Irishmen with
causing the London explosions, land suggest
that New York is the source of the dyna-
mite business.
IT is reported that Governor Ireland
Of Texas, in addition to calling out State
troops, also asked for United States assist
ance to put down the supposed negro up
rising in Milan County.
EXTRAORDINARY precautions were
taken on the I'd to guard the Southeastern
Railway in England in consequence of an
anonymous notice that the train carrying |
the Duke of Connaught was to be blown |
ap.
ORANGEMEN seized the City Hall at |
Londonderry on the 1st to prevent the Lord
Mayor of Dublin from delivering lecture
there. Troops and police lined the streets
10 preserve order. Several persons were
shot.
The liabilities of Morris Ranger, the
collapsed Liverpool cotton broker are up
wards of g., 100000; assets, f35O,OO0. His
failure is ascribed to the fact that he tried
70 control the cotton market of the world. |
The range was too big.
THE Marquis of Lorne has contrib
nted to the Contemporary ReUiew an arti-
Gle on Canadian Home Rule, in which he |
holds that if any one State of the Confed- |
GRAFTON gains a preponderating influence |
civil war will threaten.
THE Paris Figaro publishes the re-
port that the Governor of the Chinese |
Province of Yum Nan, with 1900 troops, |
received orders to enter Tonquin and oc-
cupy Kaobang, $50 miles north of Hanoi, |
the French headquarters.
Miss MINNIE HILL, niece of the late |
Senator Hill, Of Georgia, was bridesmaid |
at fashionable wedding at West Point, in |
that State, day or two ago, and there first |
met Todd Reed, one of the groomsmen. They |
were married the same day.
A HURRICANE passed in northeast |
ern direction about three miles west of Ia. |
lequah, l. T., on the morning of the 2Sth. |
Dwellings were blown down and trees up
rooted in strip of country about 800 yards |
wide. No loss of life is reported.
INDICTMENTS were found by the |
Grand Jury in New York on the I'd against |
ten city government employees in the Comp |
troller's Office and the Bureau of the Water
Register. They are charged with misap- |
propriatiug water rents and other funds.
THE people of Swan Island, in the
Gulf of Mexico, are nearly starving A |
schooner which visited the island October |
"a, reports the fourteen people there as
living on wild hogs and cocoanuts, and out |
of ammunition with which to shoot the |
hogs.