The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Exposition directors at Louisville
3Oth.
A BERLIN editor has been convicted
of libeling the Russian Minister of the In
terror.
SIX children of John Stouffer of
Ligonier, Pa, were poisoned OH the 10th by
eating weeds, two of them fatally.
THREE men have been arrested at
yer certificates.
JOHN HAY and Frank Work are the
new directors in the Western Union Board.
THE Treasury Department has COM
promised Judgment of $4,000 against A.
C.. Hesing of Chicago for =, 700.
THE recent alarming reports about
yellow fever at several points in the South
appear to have been unfounded.
The coastwise steamers City of Brus-
sells and Ludgate Hill collided in the Eng
lish Channel on the 10th. Both were badly
damaged.
The summer residence of Thomas W
Pearsall, a New York banker, burned on
the 10th at Growers Hill, Conn.,; loss 2j,-
900.
In an election fight between whites
and negroes at Cumminsville, o., on the
10th, a policeman was shot in the thigh and
a negro mOrtally wounded.
THREE men charged with blowing up
a house at Pawling, n. Y, and causing the
death of Samuel Grauer were arrested on
the 9th.
THE breaking of an axle caused a bad
collision on the Pennsylvania Road, near
Elizabeth, y. J. Several cars were smashed,
but no one was hurt.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany earned its largest months revenue in
August, 81 ,927 200. a dividend of five per
cent. is declared.
HENRY Haas shot himself at Troy,
n. Y, on the 9th, and was sent to the i'll
firmary. On the 10th he hanged himself.
AGRICULTURAL Department reports
indicate that the cotton crop will fall l. .OO0,-
0)) bales short OF last years yield.
The lower house of the Hungarian
Diet has adopted a resolution to discOn-
:inue the bi-lingual inscription OH the
Croatian escutcheon.
':HE Mexican National Health Con-
e,ress proposes an amendment to the consti-
tuition giving the Federal Government cen
tral sanitary control.
SURGEON-GENERAL CHAS. II. CRANE,
U. S. A, died on the night of the och.
REV. Dr. EVER, of New York, who
was stricken with paralysis while preach
of o1 tbe
morning of the 10th.
HERR LASKER, the German statesman,
reached Galveston, Tex, on the 11th, in
his tour of the country.
THE largest parade of firemen ever
held in New England took place at Bridge
port, Conn, on the 1lth.
THE sum of 1,SC0 for the Parnell
testimonial fund was forwarded from San
Francisco on the 18th.
AT jersey cattle sale in New York
on the 1Ith a COW, Saragossa, brought
s. 800, and another, Withersea, $500
THE excursion of Oregon pioneers
reached New York the night of the 11th,
when the excursionists separated to do
their visiting.
YELLOW FEVER is ahating at Quay
mas and Hermosillo, Mexico.
GEORGE G.. WANDELL, ter-carrier
and son of the Assistant Postmaster of Jer-
sey City, was arrested on the 18th for steal
ing money from letters.
A BRAKEMAN named G.. w. Hall, at
Las Vegas, New Mexico, caught his foot in
a frog on the 1lth and could not remove it
in time to avoid train, which killed him.
JENNIE noon, of Scranton, Pa, was
reported dead. A friend called recently
and expressed surprise at finding her alive.
The girl fell in a swoon and remained un
until the 11th, when she died.
REBEL bands recently entered the
city of Port au Prince, Hayti, pillaged the
stores, set fire to the houses and murdered
all resisting. Among the killed were two
Generals. Troops finally dispersed the
rebels.
\ PARIS dispatch of the 18th says
that owing to the resignation of the Span
ish Ministry France now considers the diff
ficulty with Spain, arising from King AL
fonso's reception IN Paris, at an end.
JOHN T. ANDREW, son of the famous
war Governor, at Portland, Me-, married,
on the 11th, Miss Harriet Thayer, daughter
of the late Nathaniel Thayer.
a MAN named Urena recently at
tempted to assassinate the President of
Santo Domingo at Neyba, Hayti. The
President shot his assailant dead. The
wculd-be assassin had no accomplices.
REAR-AD11IRAL j. NJ. B. CLITz, L. S.
N, has made application to be placed on
the retired list under the forty-years'
ice provision.
EDWARD COLLINS, child hurt by a
street-car in Boston lately, was awarded
So, 900 on the 18th for injuries received.
NEWSDEALERS held a meeting in
Brooklyn on the 11th and again resolved
not to sell the New York Herald for less
than three cents.
CHARLES H. COOKE, boy of fifteen,
who lost three fingers in a New York manu-
factory, obtained $1,000 damages on the
18th.
ALBERT WOoD, MIssourian, brake
man on the st. Paul & Omaha Road, was
killed in the yards at Blair, Neb., the night
of the 11th.
HARRY JONES, a clergyman's son and
salesman tor an indianapolis
cigar firm, was arrested in that citv on the