The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PROSPECTS of war between Franc
and China seem to grow stronger.
THIRTEEN buildings were burned il
the business portion of Miles City, NJ. T. ol
the night of the 22d. The flames wer
checked by blowing upa building in th
track of the fire.
A HEAVY snow was reported in Yer
mont on the oath.
The Government paid S19, 234, 1893 fol
mail transportation last year.
The annual Convention of Fire En-.
gineers met in New Orleans on the oath.
GENERAL CROOK again reports the
Chiricahuas on their way to the resvera
ton.
THE hardest northeast gale known in
years was reported raging on the New
England coast on the 24th.
The police in New York raided ten
policy shops on the 9th, arrested the pro-
prietors and closed the establishments.
lT is stated that the Commercial Bank
of Reading, Pa, is to be placed in liquida-
tion. Depositors will probably be paid in
full.
In Salt Lake City, Utah, a petition
was recently presented to the City Council
for cable railway, with five cents fare,
from Jordan River to Fort Douglas.
The Bundesrath has decided to pro-
long the state of siege in Berlin and Ham
burg under the Socialist law.
ALBEIT, the Democratic nominee for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Massachusetts,, has
declined to make the race.
The Geodetic Association at Rome
recommends the universal adoption of the
Greenwich meridian as time standard.
DANIEL b. VERMILYE has been ar
rested in Chicago, charged with embezzle-
ment of $1S3,OOO from the Weems Stone and
Marble Company of that city.
A MASSACHUSETTS workhouse con-
vict some time ago was dissatisfied with
his treatment and set fire to the buildings.
He has been transferred to the Penitentiarv
for twenty years.
The wholesale clothing house of
Stern, Trautman & Co., Philadelphia, has
failed for $150,0O0.
THE Society of the Army of the Cum
berland met at Cincinnati on the 24th
BALTIMORE polled 81, ,475 votes at the
city election on the 23d. The regular DEM
ocratic ticket was successful.
BILLY PORTER, the burglar, has been
locked up charged with shooting Walsh
in New York at the time Walsh and Irving
were reported as having Killed each other.
AMONG the cases recently docketed in
the U. S. Supreme Court is the City of New
Orleans VS.. Myra Clark Gaines. The record
in the case is the largest ever submitted to
the Supreme Court or probably any other
court. 1t is bound in one immense volume,
which weighs over 200 pounds and contains
J, 100000 words. 1t takes two men to open
and shut the book.
DAVID STEINBACH, of Germina, Mimi,
vas murdered the night of the 24th, sup
1Osably as the result of a neighborhoOd |
quarrel.
The National Board. of Steam Engi- |
leers are taking steps to have Congress re-
Use the navigation laws.
Two strangers went to the house of |
n aged couple near Clinton Falls, Ind, on |
he night of the '23d and knocked both
own with clubs iuf1icting fatal inju-
les. They plundered the house, securing
II, and left.
JOHN TAYLOR and Joseph Bird es-
aped from the Penitentiary at Salt Lake
'ity on the 25th, snatching rife from the
uard as they ran.
STEPHEN JONES, in the employ of
iaskill, Greenlie & Co., New York, fled on
he 18th with the box containing the weekly
RACES of employees.
NINE more deaths from cholera were
eported at Alexandria, Egypt, on the 25th
A DISASTROUS fire occurred on the
9TH in the lumber district at Pittsburgh,
a.
MICHAEL WATERS, one of the Irish
murder conspirators, died in prison on the
5th.
THE Naval Advisory Board recon-
lends the construction of seven new war
hips.
MEXICAN troops are reported to have
outed the Apaches in a recent fight with
reat slaughter.
A CABLEGRAM brings news that Rus
ia in her foreign policy is entirely devoted
} peace.
REV. Jos. LESSON has been elected
rovincial of the Franciscan Order of the
nited States.
THE saw-mill of Bliss, Brown & Co.
nd some other buildings burned at East
aginaw, Mich. Loss, $6O,0OO
The Society of the Army of the Cum t
erland reelected the old officers on {
lie 18th, and decided to meet next year at ,
ochester, N. Y. +
The United States survey steamer
assler, just returned from Alaska, reports {
lie discovery Of fine harbor at the south s
n end of Nichol Pass.
The Treasury Department has decided
reopen the question as to the amount of I
1ty to be paid on imported rice. Brewers
e interested in the decision
ONE of the Mexicans engaged in the I
urder of four men near Garner, Arizona,
few nights ago, was caught by vigilantes
Id dragged by the neck at the pommel of d
saddle till dead.
SUIT has been begun at Philadelphia :
l behalf of Mary Rose Berlear against the q
sters of the Order of st. Francis, to re- =
ver $500 deposited with the order in =
oney and goods upon her admission, =,
ghteen years ago, and six years. salary at =.
800 for services as needle woman.
THE Second Presbyterian Church of h
I.