The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-22
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
THE United States consular service
pays its own way and turns over a small
surplus to the Treasury.
DIR. SToCKER made another attempt
tolecture in London, on the 10Th but was
booted down by Socialist mob.
A sHIP-LOAD of imported Jersey cat
tie were sold at auction in Philadelphia on
the 10Th at an average of ninety dollars a
head.
SECRETARY FOLGER has ordered an
Investigation of charges that Chinese i'm
migrants are unlawfully evading the i'm
migration act.
COLONEL A. K. MCCLURE, of the
Philadelphia Times, has been arrested on
a charge of criminal libel at the instance of
George Smith.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ending the 10th in the United States and
Canada aggregated 235, against 215 for the
previous week.
The Governor of Manchuria has been
ordered from Pekin to have 5000 Mogul
irregulars ready to embark for Tonquin at
a moments notice.
THE Austrian Minister promises to
try and secure the electrical display of the
late Vienna Exposition for the New Orleans
Exhibition next year.
THE company of visitors from Chi
14th and were handsomely entertained &C
cording to programme.
A RECEPTION was given Monsignor
Capel on the 10th by the Catholics of Phil
adelphia, Pa. His leave of absence has
been extended six months.
DR. SToCKER, Chaplain to the Ger
man Court, lectured recently in London to
an audience so disorderly and insulting
that he left the hall in disgust.
DIR. ALBERT GEHON, of Washington,
D. c., has been elected President of the
Public Health Association. The next an
nual meeting is to be held in st. Louis, Mo.
A MEETING of stock men in Chicago
on the 10Th took action to enlist the Govern
ment in further efforts to prevent the
spread of conta gious diseases among cattle.
SAMUEL j. RANDALL is lying seri-
ously i'll at his cottage near Berwyn Sta
ton, Pa. His malady is gout, which, it is
feared is about to be followed by erysipe-
las.
GENERAL HAZEN testified before the
Greely relief Court of Inquiry on the 18th
that the bungled statement about the sup
elemental instructions was made out DUR
ing his absence.
The National Reform Association,
which has for its object the amendment of
the Federal Constitution so as to express
the Nations homage to God, meets in Cleve
land, December IL.
EDWARD GIBSON, member of Parlia-
ment for Dublin University, is proposed as
candidate for the Rectorship of st. An
drews' University in opposition to Minis
ter James Russell Lowell.
THE late DIR. Ever, of San Francisco,
admired Edwin Booth when the actor was
comparatively unknown, and aided him by
appreciative articles. Now Booth heads
with $1,000 a subscription for the benefit of
DR.. Ewer's family.
REV. JAMES BRAND, of Cleveland, o.,
denounced Frank E. Bronson in the pulpit |
for selling liquor. Bronson sued the
preacher for $4,000 for libel, and disa-
greeing jury on the 14th stood ten for con-
viction and two for acquittal.
EARL CARNARvoN, in speaking of a
recent tour in Canada, said nobody could
estimate how great its future would be if
the Canadian people persevered with the
same judgment and moderation that had
characterized their legislative proceedings
for many years.
THE Secretary of War in his esti-
mates, which have been submitted to the
Treasury Department, recommends the ap-
preparation of $S,O0O,OO0 to be expended on
river and harbor improvements during the
coming fiscal year. This is only $2S,000,000
less than the engineers estimates of what
could be proftably spent during the year
on the works now in progress.
Two machine guns have just been
completed at Hartford, Conn.,, for General
Grant as presents to the Viceroy of China |
and the Mikaao of Japan. The guns are an
Improvement over the gun once known as
the Gardner gun. Guns of the model after
which they are made have Government |
record of sos shots a minute, and have been |
fred at the rate of 100 shots minute and |
5000 shots in thirteen minutes twenty-six |
seconds.
SECRETARY TELLER has rendered an |
Important decision in reply to question of |
the Commissioner of Pensions asking for a |
proper and uniform construction of the Re- |
vised Statutes concerning pensions to de- |
pendent mothers. The Secretary maintains |
that if a son was minor the father was |
entitled to his services, or if not living the |
mother was so entitled, and therefore de- |
pendent father or mother should be allowed |
pension.
TESTIMONY in the Proteus inquiry |
tends to show that Lieutenant Darlington |
obeyed his instructions to the letter. Lieu
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