The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

| cluQeS thirteen herman OIncerS, anu IOrUy
more are expected.
A COMMITTEE of the French Chamber of
Deputies lately reported in favor of the
abolition of life Scholarships.
THE residence of Mrs. Alice Fowler, at
Vincennes, Ind, was entered recently by a
burglar and several valuable articles sto-
len. The intruder was detected and he
grabbed Mrs. Fowler by the neck and al
most checked her to death. The same man
entered the residence of Joseph Schmidt
and stole $50 worth of jewelry. He was
chased over to the swamps in Illinois by
Marshal RULER, but escaped.
B. H. BLACK, Sheriff-elect of Lamar
County, Tex, was called to the door of his
residence few nights ago, by some I'M
known person, and shot dead.
SECRETARY MCCULLoCH recently refused
General Adam Badeau's application ask
ing for an arbitrament by the Court of
Claims of the Governments claim against
him for $4,000 in notarial fees, alleged to
have been illegally retained, and the Solic-
itor of the Treasury has been instructed to
begin proceedings to recover the amount
in dispute.
of Marine, lately put the steam transport
Isere at the disposal of the French Ameri-
can Union for the purpose of conveying
the BarthOldi statue to America. The Isere
will leave Havre for New York early in
May next.
! THIRTY loaded coal cars were wrecked on
the Lehigh & Susquehanna Railroad at
Perryville, Pa, few mornings ago by a
broken axle.
CLARENCE WILKINS, in Haverly's
Michael Stragoff Company, while playing
at Des Moines few nights ago, received a
severe cut from a sword on the knee, aud
was laid up at the hotel
THE friends of the Hennepin Canal pro-
ject will make a vigorous effort in the
Forty ninth Congress to secure the neces-
sary aid for this important work. AS pre-
liminary to this end, the Commission was
recognized a few days ago and new Off
GERS elected for the ensuing year.
FIRE broke out in Patterson, Juniata
County, Pa, few mornings ago. Eight
houses, occupied by eleven families, were
destroyed. The burned buildings COM
prised the Post Office and the stores of G.
nell, J. B. NJ. Todd, Samuel Strayer and w.
NJ. Hamlin. The loss aggregated 100000;
insurance, $4,000.
RECENT advices from Soudan were to the
effect that General Gordon was msuccess-
full in a recent attempt to dislodge the reb
els from Andermrn, a short distance from
Khartoum, on the west bank of the White
Nile, where they are strongly ;ntrenched.
THE exploring expedition to Lake Mistis-
shiny, in the Northwest Territory, British
America, lately returned to Quebec with an
interesting report of its experiences and
discoveries. From this report it would
seem that there is a large lake in that coun-
try, perhaps as large as Lake Superior,
which has for hundred years or more
been under the control of the Hudson Bay
Company.
AN inclined plane railway car at Pitts
burgh, lately struck and fatally injured
workman, jumped the track and admins
tered bad shaking up to the passengers
FOUR hundred hands at the Branford
Comm Lock Works struck a few days ago
on account of a cut of ten per cent in wages.
J. STADEKER 6 Son, a prominent mer-
camille firm at Canton, Miss, recently
failed with liabilities exceeding $4,000.
EXCLUSIVE of specie, the exports from
New York for the week ending November
18th were s., 0S5, 200, against S, 900 the
week previous.
WARNER weather in Paris revived the
ravages of cholera. There were thirty-six
deaths on November 18th, and many peo-
rlla Ivara Haaiuor from oitu
standing this remarkable fatality of
cholera, typhoid fever was killing more
people than cholera.
The official vote of Minnesota, as lately
returned by the State Canvassing Board,
is as follows: Blaine, ILL., 23; Cleveland,
&c, 144; st. John, 4,691; Butler, 1857. Re-
publican Congressman were elected by the
following majorities: First District, White,
. ,643; Second District, Wakefield, 1O,I64;
Third District, Strait, LIS; Fourth Dis
trict, Gilfillan, 4,4S4; Fifth District, Nelson,
11,41.
A SWITCH was recently left open on the
Lake Erie Road at Pittsburgh, Pa, A pas
senger train ran through, threw some cars
and gave the passengers
general shaking up.
THE eighth annual Convention of the
American Humane Association, met at the
Monongahela House, in Pittsburgh, Pa. on
November 2Sth. Delegates were present
from the principal cities in the Union, in
Guiding President Edwin Lee Brown ami
John G. Shortall, of Chicago; Mary L.
Douglas, of Washington, D. c.; Samuel j.
Levick, ofPhiladelphia; DR.. John E. Smith,
of Wheeling, and Henry Bergh, of New
York. Joseph G.. Walters, of Pittsburg,
delivered the address of welcome, and
President Brown responded and gave a
detailed account of the work done by
the association. He referred particularly !
to the improvements in transportation and |!
taking care of stock, directly caused by |
the work of the society. After effecting
reports were presented from
various State and local societies. Presi- !
dent Shortail, of the Illinois Association, /
offered a resolution which contemplated I
of the American Society so !
that the National body would have juris- ,
diction over the local societies. The reso- /
luton met with considerable opposition
and the matter was finally laid on the 4
table, after which the meeting adjourned. /
BETWEEN 100 and 1,S00 men were /
lately thrown out of employment by the |
closing down of the North Chicago Rolling
Mill Company's mills at South Chicago.
ACCORDING to the late annual report of /
the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury the .
growing evil in the expenditure of money /
by the Naval Department has been in !
creased by disregard of the law re- I
curing advertisements and contracts for