Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-22

4 NdtiOn3i BANK moves.
THE President has directed the return +
their reservation in Dakota of three Grow
Indians arrested at the time of the Swor,
Bearer outbreak and sent to Carlisle, Pa
THE third annual convention of Christian
Workers of the United States and Canad,
began in Detroit on the 18th.
Six of the largest business firms in Dur
ham, n. c., failed on the 18th, causing
serious financial crisis in Raleigh ant
| other cities of the State.
THERE is a theory at Elgin, ILL.,, that the
| Whitecapel murderer is an escaped lu
natic from the insane asylum there nameC
Hutchinson, who had a mania for slaught
ering and had murdered a woman of the
town in Chicago.
THE statue of William II. Seward, Lin
coins Secretary Of State, was unvailed al
Auburn, n. Y, on the 18th in the presenc,
of huge crowd.
THE people of Denmark celebrated tht
twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession
| of King Christian on the 18th.
CLAIMS for over $40 000, 900 against the
Mexican Government and in favor of the
estate of the late Charles Butterfield have
been presented by ex-United State:
Minister John Foster.
ABOUT forty manufacturers of straw
wrapping paper from various parts of the
country were in secret session in Chicago
recently endeavoring to arrangaa pool ol
trust.
THE body of the late Bishop Seghers, OF
Alaska, has been brought to Victoria, B.
c., by the United States man-of- war
Thetis.
THE chief of the Bureau of Statistics re.
ports that the total values of the exports
of domestic breadstuffs during the ten
months ended October 81, as compared
with similar exports during the CORE
spending period of the preceding year,
were: 1888. $92, 2,9l2. s31; 1857, $13S 515, ,939.
CoNLEY, brakeman, left a switch open
recently on the B. & O., ninty-three miles
west of Wheeling, w. Va, causing the
wreck of freight train and the killing of
seven men, five belonging to the train and
two being tramps.
A RECENT letter from Port au Prince
says that seven American vessels are un-
der detention there. Anarchy prevailed
all over Hayti, and the necessity for men,
of-war to protect the foreign residents was
urgent.
THREE young girls were caught on a
bridge by train at Circleville, o., the
other day. Two were killed. The third
escaped by clinging to the stringers.
A HEAVY shock of earthquake was expe-
rienced at Guayaquil on the 10Th. Thou
sands fed from their houses.
THE strike of the brakemen on the Louis
vile, New Albany & Chicago railway has
been compromised, the men getting in
creased wages.
1T is positively denied in Washington
that ex-Minister Foster presented claims
for $40. O00, 600 against Mexico ON his re-
cent visit to the City of Mexico.
The coasting steamer Vonvairo, which
left Clutch, India, November with 900 ma
tives on board, was reported overdue and
it was feared she had foundered in a re-
cent storm.
ED MCDONALD, the most famous of the
Chicago boodlers, has secured a reversal
of his case by the Illinois Supreme Court
and it is thought that he will never go to
the penitentiary.
Two young sons of John Marvin, a
farmer living near st. Cloud, Mimi, were
drowned recently while skating over thin
ice.
THE men from Live Oak, Fla, claiming
to represent the relief committee of that
place and asking for aid are denounced as
frauds, as the place needs nothing
PORTUGAL has decided to send vessels to
aid Great Britain and Germany to break
up the East African slave trade.
VIOLENT gales on the 10th caused numer-
GUS wrecks on the west coast of Great
Britain. Among the vessels which met
with disaster was the Norwegian bark
Hypatia, but no lives were lost.
THE Public Ledger blames the Inter-
State Commerce law for the demoraliza-
tlon existing in railroad rates. 1t says
the prohibition of pooling forces the
weaker lines to cut rates as they are not
allowed to make amicable arrangements
with their stronger competitors.
LOUISVILLE, KY, has been chosen for the
next meeting of the National Board of
Trade, to be not later than October, 1889.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November Is numbered
237. compared with 226 the previous week
and 225 the corresponding week last year.
G. d. BIRDsALL, editor of the Hartford
(Conn.l Telegram, was cowhided the other
night by Allen Wyley and L. P. Smith of
the Sunday Globe, as the result of long
article in the Telegram accusing the Globe
of blackmailing operations.