The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
GENERAL.

GENERAL
THE Suez Canal Company have decreed
a reduction in tariff of fifty centimes, to go
into effect January 1.
| IT has recently come to light that Chi
nese telegraphic messages are sent in fig
ures, each word being represented by a
certain number, and the receiving opera
tor translates the figures into words. Their
war correspondence comes under this rule
The German West African squadron will
consist of the corvets Bismarck (fagshipl,
the Greisenau, the Olga and the Arladne
under command of Rear-Admiral Knorr.
AN attempt was made recently to blow
up the council house at Salisbury, Eng
land. A number of windows were smashed
by the explosion. Otherwise no damage
was done. No arrests.
THE Italian Diplomatic agent lately
submitted to the Egyptian Prime Minister
protest against the suspension of the
sinking fund. His protest was couched in
milder terms than those employed in the
identical note presented by the represen-
| tatives of Germany, Austria, France and
Russia.
THE police authorities of Vienna are
greatly pleased with the haul that they
have lately made of Anarchistical plotterS
They believe that in the wholesale arrests
which have taken place during the last
few weeks every member of Johann Most's
revolutionary committee in Austria has
been captured.
On account of the recent seizure of the
American schooner Island Bell by the Gus
toms collector at Gananoque, Ont, the rev.
enue cutter Bibb overhauled the Canadian
schooner Annie Falconer at Charlotte and
reported her at Washington for a fine of
500 because the Captain had no manifest.
GENERAL LORD WoLsELEY and staff left
Cairo for Khartoum on September 9th.
The famine in the dis ct of Bengal, In
dia, is growing serious, Government relief
proving inadequate.
AN inspection of the Canadian Pacific
Road has recently been made by the Chief
Engineer of Government lines. He reports
that a force of five thousand men is at
work on each side of the Selkirk Noun
tains, and that track will be laid to the
Pacific Ocean by next Spring, at the latest.
The statue of Bach was unveiled at Es-
senach, Germany, lately, in the presence
of the royal family.
AN attempt was lately made to blow up
the Council House at Salisbury, England,
the explosion causing but slight damage.
THE Copyright Congress has decided that
authors belonging to the Union shall enjoy
equal rights with natives of all contracting
countries. Apermanent International Bu-
reau was formed.
The Duke of Cambridge is going to visit
Ireland for the purpose of inspecting the
troops stationed there. Great precautions
will be taken to insure the safety of the
Duke in the "enemy'S country.
The English steamer Cordillera was re-
Gently stranded in the Straits of Magellan.
THERE are rumors i'll Panama of a revo-
luton against the Ceroera Government,
led by General Benz. Ruis.
ANOTHER dynamite plot has been un-
earthed in Cracow, involving the arrest Of
seven persons.
In Lyons, France, $1,000 worlmen have
long been out of employment, and stormy
meetings are frequent.
Mr.. HARRINGTON, Secretary of the Irish
National League, complains of the falling
off of the receipts from the Irish in Amer
lea.
IT is said that son of O,Donovan Rosa
was lately in Paris boasting that he had
$1,000 francs with which to buy dynamite.
IT was recently proposed by the Italian
soldiers to subscribe for the sword of honor
for King Humbert in recognition of his
heroism in going among the cholera pa
tients at Naples to minister to their wants.
MARY Z. BARROws and Oscar E. Blaney
have been sentenced to be banged the third
Friday in December, 1855, for the murder
of Thomas Barrows, the woman's husband.
THE French Government lately deci led
to impose a small poll tax on every person
landing at Calais or Bouogne. the money
to be used in improving the harbors on the
north coast.
SIR Erasmus WILSON, an eminent Brit
ish doctor who died recently, bequeathed
$1,00),000 to the Royal College of Surgeons,
London. The interest on this sum is to be
devoted to the education of young men i'll
pathological science.
II was recently estimated by the Rail
ardg Ige that 1888 miles of track have
been laid in the United States since JAN
uary l.