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


| in the cotton trade at Liverpool.
ROBERT KERR, dissipated member
of wealthy Scottish family, was burned
to crisp few days ago, at his home OF
Oak River, Winnipeg. He was intc1i
Gated.
LILLE RICHIE, alias Howell, of In
dianapolis, was found dead in her room on
the 30th. She had quarreled with man
known as her husband, and committed sui
eide with laudanum.
Two men digging sand at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 3Oth unearthed a pine
box containing skeleton. There is dis
pute among citizens as to whether the re-
mains are those of man who was mur-
dered or one lynched.
THREE men were aSphyXiated by foul
air in a we'll at Kiefer &; Stiefers tannery
in Pittsburgh on the morning of the 30th.
The Canadian Department of Agri-
culture has ordered the slaughter of all
flocks of sheep for shipment in which cases
of scab are found.
THE keeper of the Richmond (Va.)
morgue has been arrested, charged with
being accessory to the theft of bodies under
his charge by resurrectioniSts.
CHEMICAL analysis of the stains on
Carpenters whip and buggy show no traces
of blood. The. Zura Burns mystery is as
deeply obscure as ever.
The stationery and printing house of
Culver, Page, Hoyne 81 Co., Chicago,
recently suspended, opened on the Goth, in
charge of John Norris as successor. The
building, owned and occupied by the firm,
was transferred for $4,000 to John H.
Southworth, of Massachusetts, paper manu-
facturer, to whom it is understood the firm
was indebted.
A SHOCK of earthquake, accompanied
by subterranean rumblings, was felt at
capital of the Government OF
Podelia, Russia, on the evening of the 10Th.
The shock lasted thirty seconds.
The Emperor of Germany is greatly
shocked at the disorders at Oldenburg,
caused by the unpopularity of General
commander. The Emperor has
ordered a thorough inquiry.
AN engine and forty cars were
wrecked by collision near Lebanon, Pa,
ON the 3lst.
THERE Is great excitement in the Liv-
erpool market over the recent cotton fail
Ires.
THE public debt reduction for Octo-
Der is estimated at $10,500,000.
The National Woman's Christian
Union commenced its annual
session at Detroit, Mich, the 31st.
THE Pacific Mail steamer San Bias
Irrived at San Francisco on the 31st with
yellow fever on board.
FOURTEEN persons in West Cincin-
lati, O., have been poisoned by food bought
1t grocery.
THE False Prophet of the Soudan has
,een defeated i'll two battles and his forces
catered.
ANOTHER gold mining excitement has
'roken out in Clermont County, o.
A CONFERENCE representing 100000 |
english miners has resolved to call for a
fifteen per cent. advance in wages.
ALL banks, public buildings and rail
Ways in English and Scotch cities are now
uarded against explosives.
THE Marquis of Harrington thinks
he peace of Europe is assured, though the |
;hinese trouble may strain it slightly.
The London police are making stren-
Ious efforts to discover the miscreants who |
lew up the two railway stations.
LEVI L. TATE, a clerk in the Wash |
ngton City Post-office, has been arrested |
or collecting political assessments.
THE steamers Holyhead and Alham-
ra collided and sank in the Irish Channel, |
n the 3lst. The crew of the latter were !
ost.
MICHAEL DAvITT denounces the |
ourse Of Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford |
Iorthcote in stirring up discord in Ire
and.
THOMAS HOAG, who mySteriously dis |
ppeared from his store in New York some |
ime ago has returned. He went to London,
~ way of Halifax.
JOHN c. KLEIN, prominent lawyer
f Reading, Pa, has mysteriously disap-
eared. Charges of business irregularities
re made against him.
The net earnings of the Mexican Tel
graph Company for October were $21 ,6SS.
uO SCIli al 1eIS-
raph Company earned in the same time
1862.
CONGRESSMAN ERMENTROUT, OF the |
reading (Pa.) District, was knocked down
n the 31st in the street and beaten by
ieorge Smith, politician with whom he
ad quarrel.
AT meeting of colored people at
leokuk, Ia, the night of the 31st, it was re-
olved to petition the Legislature of Iowa to
dopt that portion of the Civil Rights bill
ately declared unconstitutional
JAMES MARTIN, of Williamsburg, o.,
yhile working in saw-mill on the 31st,
tumbled and fell upon the saw. Both legs
Tere cut off and the mans body cut in two.
O'DONOvAN Rosa claims that the
ecent explosions in London were the work
f Fenians, and that the city will be in ashes
efore long.
NEGOTIATIONS for peace have been
pened in Madagascar.
EUROPEAN ports are renewing pre-
autions against cholera.
The United States Army numbers
5,4IS officers and men.
BURGLARS robbed the Haverhill,
lass, Post-office of $500 on the night of
october 81.
Two million bushels of coal were
hipped from Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 1st.