The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-23
cs-re.;- President of the Tribunal Of Com

| Gerreti, President of the Tribunal OF Com
merce OF Naples. He died in great misery
notIong ago. All efforts to save him were
in vain.
IT has been determined that the British
advance in force will not be made for thu
relief of Khartoum until late in November
IT has been decided by the German Gov
ernment that hereafter the purchase o
stores for the German army will be negoti
eted without the aid or interference o
middlemen, who are entirely ignored.
Four men have so far been suspected o
causing the late explosions in the Cahadiar
Parliament buildings az Quebec. They
range in age from twenty-one to forty
years and all seemed to have plentiful
share of American money, which they haC
some difficulty in exchanging for Canadian
| money.
1t was lately rumored that the Chinese
| Government had concluded loan of 1000,
| 600 taels with a great German Banking
firm. Half a million, according to the ru
NOR, was at once paid into the Cantor
| Treasury on account.
LATE reports from Russia are to the eff
| feet that new and startling religion.
revolution is imminent. The white Czal
has long been the religious as well as the
political head of the State. He is Pope q
the Popes as well of King of the Kings
| A set of dissenters has arisen and threat
ened to overthrow the divine selection idea
A REWARD of $500 was lately offered
| for the econvictinn of the men who caused
the explosion in the new Parliament build
ing at Quebec. The corner stones of the
structure are so much out of place tha
the whole wall will probably have to b.
taken down.
GENERAL DE LIsLE lately telegraphet
from CEu, on the upper Loo Chuan River
that Colonel Dennier, after brilliant en-
gagement, carried the heights command
ing the fortress of Chu Forwing, Point
Dappui, of a large intrenched Chinese
camp, defended by five very large case
mated forts. The Chinese forces were re
ported to be very large and their losse:
during the engagement, heavy. When
they assumed the offensive the French
artillery covered the earth with Chinese
corpses. Their losses are bout 3,OOC
killed, including their chief commander.
AFTER the celebration of mass recently
i'll st. Peters Church, London. the BishoI
of the diocese and the clergy and congre
CATION, numbering 500, proceeded to the
shrine of Edward the Confessor, in West
minister Abbey, where they knelt and
prayed for the conversion of England tc
the ancient faith. They were not disturbed
by the visitors. The visitors at the Abbey
or hnl hxTt tha
AT Libury Centre, on the Canada South.
ern Road, there was recently quite rail
road wreck. An express going east ran
into a gravel train. The express train
consisted of baggage, express, smoking
two first-class cars and two Pullmans
The smoking car was turned upside down
and thrown into the ditch, breaking it tc
fragments. The express engineer, Dan
Cox, was instantly killed. The injured
were Samuel Woods, of Fletcher, head
seriously cut; child of John Callahan, OF
Toronto, hands burned by being thrown
on the stove; baggageman of Detroit
badly burned about the body. A wreck.
ing train accompanied by surgeons was
dispatched from the city at once.
THE steamer Neptune, sent out by Cana.
da to explore Hudson's Bay and Straits,
lately returned, having established mum
her of meteorological stations and dis.
covered new channel through Labrador
to UDgara Bay. The average temperature
for September was thirtv-six degrees above
zero. Navigation is practicable for steam
ers six months in the year.
l.. ROEvEIR, the new French Minister OF
Commerce, promises to begin his Ministe.
rial career by an investigation of the pres.
ent commercial crisis, with view to the
adoption of remedial measures.
MICHIPICOTEN, on the north shore of Lake
Superior, was lately in possession of a
gang of roughs. The respectable people
of the place received notice to quit town.
One night the Canadian Pacific Railway
Office was riddled with bullets by band
of masked men. John Mackenzie, an EN-.
ploye, was shot in the head. Cashier
Burden was fired at in bed, the ball pass.
ing within few inches of his head. The
Police Commissioners sent about ten
picked constabulaIy to the place and their
labor led to several arrests.
FROM recent estimate by agriculturists
it appears that the vintage of France this
year will be the best s;rcs 1871 Tue vines
are delicate and full of bloom.
A HUNGARIAN was recently arrested at
Liverpool on board the Lord Give. Thirty
packages of dynamite were found in hiy
luggage.