The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-25
GERALD MASSEY, the English poet

GERALD MASSEY, the English poet
arrived in New York on the 10Th.
A $4,000 package was stolen on the
18th from the safe of the Express Compa
ny's Office at Port Hope, Canada.
F. SHAW & Bros, the failed Boston
tanners, had liabilities amounting to s., 344
600, and will probably pay seventy-twc
cents on the dollar.
A PROSPECTUS was issued on the 18th
for the Worlds Industrial Cotton EXPOSE
tion in New Orleans.
NoCHNE, a Batocudo Indian woman
from South America, on exhibition in Pitts.
burgh, Pa, died in that city of pneumonia
on the 18th.
CARL WERBEcH, of New York, was
shot through the head at Altoona, Pa, and
robbed of $3.50 by w. Barns on the 18th.
The latter escaped.
A MAD dog created CONSERVATION in
the streets of Vicksburg, Miss, on the 18th.
The beast finally ran into a cabinet-shop
and bit a man, who beat its brains out with
| a hammer.
The French are preparing to resume
the offensive in Madagascar.
The average annual value OF pensions
paid by the Government is Sl0G.
TWENTY miners were killed on the
! 10th by an explosion in Yorkshire ENG.
colliery.
THE Mexican Government is trying to
raise SO, 10000 loan in New York.
A VIENNA dispatch says: Violent
storms on Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of
Finland have caused great loss of life and
shipping. Sixty vessels were stranded.
The bodies of sixteen persons have been
recovered.
HENRY w. GwINNER, president of the
Hoole Manufacturing Company and of the
National Railroad Publication Company,
committed suicide the evening of the 18th
in New York. He was sixty-two years
old.
. THE Greek Government has sent two
ships to the Grecian archipelago with sup
plies for the sufferers by the earthquake.
One hundred and twenty bodies We're re-
covered near Chesme in Anatolia. The earth
near Atalasa literally swallowed up the
houses and people.
THE outbreak of cholera in Egypt is
attributed to the sipage of infected water
from cemetery into the canal.
MIDHAT PASHA Is reported released
from exile. He was banished for com.
plicity in assassination of Sultan Abdul
Aziz two years ago.
VIM. G. BARRETT, a Philadelphia
broker, is charged with embezzling $4,000
from Captain Augustus Boyd.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs
is officially notified that Perryman was
elected Chief of the Greek Nation.
The Pennsylvania Company refuses
to meet the cut i'll passenger rates made by
the Delaware & Lackawanna Railway.
THE killed and wounded by the late
earthquake in Chios are reported to num-
Der 1000.
EDWARD HOVEY, who killed his sis
ter-in-law, was hanged on the 18th in the
Tombs, New York.
TIE General Land Commissioner is
after the perpetrators of land frauds in
Washington Territory.
THERE are 104 free delivery post
offices, employing 1850 carriers, at cost
of g, 1886 annually.
BURGLARS blew open E. l.. brakes
safe at Estelle, Mich, on the night of the
18th and captured 1900
THE County Clerk at Pittsburgh, Pa,
is charged with a deficiency of $4S, 900 in his
accounts.
MARGARET HARRISON, colored, was
hanged for murder on the 18th at Calhoun,
GA.
GENERAL HAzEN fully exonorates
Lieutenant Darlington from any disobedi.
ence of orders.