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

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ing the yellow fever epidemic was seventy
five; deaths twenty-eight.
GENERAL AUGUSTUS G. DODGE, for
merly United States Senator and Minister
to Spain eight years, died fn Burlington,
Ia, the afternoon of the Doth. after an i'll
ness of four days. He was seventy years
of age.
IT is feared the steamer Manistee has
been lost on Lake Superior with all on
board.
A PARIS dispatch of the Goth stated
that the breaking out of war with China
was apparently only the question Of few
hours.
COMMODORE JOHN M. BERRIEN, re-
tired officer of the United States Navy,
died on the 21st at Philadelphia, Pa, from
paralysis.
ALL injunctions against the issue of
the Northern Pacific Railway second mort
gage have been dissolved.
The latest Chinese proposals on the
Tonquin question are not acceptable to the
French.
THE Mississippi Valley Bank at Vicks-
burg, Miss, has closed its doors.
THE Crown Prince of Germany will
not visit the King of Portugal.
COMMODORE kOUNTz, proprietor of
the Allegheny (Pa.) Nail, was on the 21st
found guilty of criminal libel.
The Canadians now propose to send
back undesirable immig grants to the places
from which they came.
THE Corean Embassy are reported
short of funds, and trying to borrow $10,-
600 from the United States Treasury.
THE French fleet will make a demon
stration on the Chinese coast during the
advance on Bac Mini.
THREE firemen were injured by the
fall of a roof at the burning of Stickney &
Poor's spice mills, Boston, on the 21st.
THEODORE THOMAS has received a ca
blegram from Vienna confirming contracts
with Frederick Watterna, Hermann Wink
elmann and Emil Scaria for fifty represen-
tations of Wagner's music in America.
Their first performance will be in Boston in
April.
. THE Government suits against Star
ro te Contractor Funk, of Philadelphia,
have been compromised for 1923.
II. G. FRICK & Co. have bought the
Coke-works property at Mount Pleasant,
Pa, for $S00,000.
FOUR men made an effort to rob
jewelry store at Camden, N.
j., on the 21st, just as the proprietor was
closing up. The attempt failed and one
man was captured.
EDWARD PAYNE, cashier of the Rush
vile Qnd.) National Bank, was shot
through the lung by burglar in his own
house the morning of the 2lst.
GEORGE DARRELL and Godfrey Brand
were arrested at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
21st for attempting to wreck a passenger
train on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Road.
A SPANISH republican society has is
sued an address threatening revolution if
universal suffrage is not granted.
THE Buffalo, New York and Phila-
delphia and the West Shore roads are to
form part of a new trunk line to Chicago.
OBID HUEY, Captain of the bark
Florence, is held under bail in Boston,
Mass, on charge of fatally beating the
vessels steward, John Dibbold.
JOHN A. LIHE, q wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Vincennes, Ind, is reported as
having eloped with Mrs. William Antler.
He leaves a family and is supposed to have
gone West.
Two freight trains collided at Colum-
bia, Pa, on the morning of the 21st. David
Mower, brakeman, was fatally injured
and an engine, a caboose and seven cars
were wrecked.
On the 21st the National Cotton Grow
ers' Convention assembled at Vicksburg,
Miss. The delegates were formally well
coined by Governor Lowery; ex-Chief
Justice Simrall of the Supreme Court well
coined them on behalf of the City of Vicks-
burg; Colonel F. G.. Morehead delivered
the annual address, and the venerable ex-
Governor NJ. Patton, of Alabama, responded
On behalf of the Convention to Governor
Lowery's address. There were about 800
delegates present.
THE German Crown Prince has land !
ed at Valencia.
A CAVE 700 yards long occurred on
5he 22d at the Logan colliery, Ashland, Pa.
The new Importers and Grocers'
Exchange in New York opened on the 22d.
The woollen and cotton mills at New
Albany, Ind, were partially burned on the
I'd; loss 100000.
HoRATIo G. BILLINGS, lumber dealer,
Chicago, has suspended: liabilities $780,
700.
The Northwestern Land Company
will only buy 100000 acres of Canadian
Pacific lands.
SECRETARY CHANDLER testified on
he 22d in the Proteus investigation. Cen
,ral Hazen was recalled and outlined the |
testimony he wished to produce in his own
behalf.
AT Ashland, Pa, on the 22d John !
killed Thomas Kerns, a boy of |
seventeen. He was hustled into Jail just in !
lime to escape lynching.
The news OF the utter rout of the |
army of Hicks Pasha by the False Prophet |
n the Soudan is confirmed.
THE League Base Ball Association |
has abolished all restrictions on delivery in |
pitching.
CAPTAIN MCKIBBAN of the Fifteenth !
is to be court-martialed for dupIi-
Eating pay accounts.
THE police and military were called |
out to suppress an anti-German demonstra- |
ion at Prague on the 22d
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