The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-13

ABILENE REFLECTOR
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
STROTH E r BROS
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
MARwooD, the British hangman died
on the 4th.
PROF. HAULB, an expert in volcanoes,
predicts another earthquake at Ischia, Oc-
tober 15.
THE Supreme Council of the Order of
Chosen Friends elected officers ON the 9Th
at Chicago.
PROFESSOR VARLEY, who was elec-
trician to the first Atlantic Cable Company,
died on the 5th.
The New York Greenbackers have
nominated Rev. Thomas K. Beecher for
Secretary of State.
SEVERAL groups of French Royalists
have declared in favor of Count de Paris
for the succession.
SITTING BULL has declined the invi-
tation to visit the Iowa State Fair. He pre-
fers the safety of the Reservation.
FRED. DOUGLASS denies that the
colored convention in Louisville is to be in
the interest of President Arthur.
THE Swiss Government on the 4th re-
fused to extradite Lennig, the American
student, who killed another in a duel.
SEVERAL earthquake shocks were felt
in Dusseldorf, Germany, on the 9th; also
on the Island of Ischia. No damage was
reported.
Mass was sung in the Milwaukee
Cathedral on the Sth in memory of the 800
persons lost on the Lady Elgin twenty
three years ago.
THE statue of Lafayette was unveiled
at LIE Puy, France, on the 9th in presence of
an immense concourse of people, including
many Americans.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COLERIDGE of
England, arrived in Boston on the 9th and
was the honored guest of the Common
wealth, Municipality and Bar Association.
THE schooner Hyperion, arrived at
Gloucester, Mass, from the banks of New
foundland, reported the loss of two dories
and four men, natives of Cape Breton, in
the storm of August %.
THREE THOUSAND soldiers took part
In parade by States on the 9th at Camp
Sheridan, Nebraska. Every Northern State
was represented. Thirty thousand visitors
were on the grounds at the campfire in the
evening.
IT was reported on the 9th that John
r. Boutwell,, of New York, with a Union
Pacific and a London syndicate behind him,
was the contractor for railway surveys be-
ing made from Fort Washakie to Yellow
stone Park.
The widow and children of Mahlon
Rowe, at Ithaca, N. Y, whom he deserted
eighteen years ago, propose to recover his
estates in Honolulu, which he bequeathed
to a Hawaiian woman and their three chill
dren. The property is valued at $4,000.
LITTLE CHIEF, a Cheyenne Indian,
sent unique appeal to the Secretary of the
Interior for new suit of clothes. He says:
81 don't care SO much for grub, but do |
like to dress in proper style. l want the
best white hat you can buy N the market"
ST. JOSEPH's Passionist's Monastery,
three miles west of Baltimore, Md, burned
the night of the 9TH. A church adjoining, |
in process of construction, was also con-
Siderably damaged. The damage is esti- |
mated at from $4,000 to So, 900; partly in
sured.
AT the opening of the general meet |
ing of the American Social Science Asso- |
citation, at Saratoga, N. Y, on the Sd, Prof.
Wayland, of the Yale Law School deliv- |
cred an address on capital punishment. |
He opposed hanging and favored perpetual |
Imprisonment.
THE excess in the value of exports
over imports for the twelve months ended |
July 81, 1888, was $1O7,379 ,236. The imports
Of merchandise decreased $23, 7S5, ,O54 for the
year ended July 81, 1883, as compared with
the same time last year, and the exports
increased SO, 1912.
A ROME dispatch of the 9TH saws
the Archbishops of Cincinnati, New York,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and several pre-
lates were expected at the Vatican shortly
TO confer with regard to the propaganda
upon the extension of the church regula-
lions to the clergy of America.
A Hong KONG dispatch of the 9TH
says the people of China seem to have little
fear of the result of war with France, and
believe that with their new armaments and
vastly improved discipline their forces are
far better able to cope with foreign ene-
my than they were in the war of 1860.
A PARIS diSDatch of tha 9Th saws both