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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE,

An ImmeESs Cotton Factory aEd Three
Hundred Other Buildings in Savannah,
Ga, Burned-Three Lives Lost-Pecun-
fary Damage Estimated at $1,000, 900.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. IA contiagra-
ton which had its origin Wednesday noon
in the large cotton warehouse of Garnett,
Stubbs & Co., in this city, destroyed ware
house containing three thousand bales OF
cotton, and three hundred houses, covering
an area OF half mile square, and caused a
loss of at least five lives and probably eight
or ten. An accurate statement of the
losses and insurance is unobtainable,
but careful estimate fixes the
former at nearly 81, 10000 and the latter
at not half that amount. The exact origin
of the fire will probably never be known.
All shipping sought safety. by drop
ping down the river. While the fire.
men were pouring streams on the
still-burning ruins of the warehouse
they discovered the charred remains of three
persons, a partly-melted watch, and q few
gilt buttons belonging to j. Cash, a white
clerk aged twenty-five years, one of the
victims, and it has since been learned that
he ran back TO get hose when the fire first
broke out. Cash was well known through
out the State, having played short-stop with
this seasons Dixie Baseball Club. The
second corpse identified was that of Moses
COStOn, the colored observation-disclosures
man. He was President of the Colored
Home Association of this city. A colored
woman employed as a cotton picker also
died with the men already mentioned. 1T is
almost positive that her child and another
cOlored man perished in the warehouse, but
their remains have not been discovered yet.
Several other colored persons are reported
as missing at their homes, and search
among the ruins will probably result in
swelling the death list considerably.
The burned district presents most desc
late spectacle, and is bounded OH the west
by Canal street.. on the north by River
street, OH the east by West Broad street, and
on the south by Faham street. AS the sec
ton bore a bad name, and it was feared
that the negroes would become intOx-
icated and riotous, the Mayor called
out the military, and guard of one
thousand strong was established. No disor-
ders were attempted, however, and the
scene, instead of being noisy and boisterous,
was sad in the extreme. At one time the
whole city was considered in danger, and
the Mayor was urged to blow up buildings
with dynamite, but did not resort to this ex-
peiient.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

SECRETARY TELLER has written letter
to the Attorney General submitting the
question whether he can legally detail al
examiner in the Pension Office to assist
Colonel Corkhill, United States District
Attorney, in investigating the frauds by
attorneys and claim agents upon pension.
ers. Secretary Teller says his endeavor
will be to vigilantly carry out the law re-
| garding this matter and to assist to the
best of lis ability and authority in the
prosecution of those persons who have COM
mitted offenses against the pension laws.
| COMPTROLLER KNOX, it is said, will de.
cline to grant authority TO operate a Ma
tional Bank in the Indian Territory. His
decliuation is based upon the ground that
the applicants are not citizens, hence not
entitled to the privileges under the banking
| act.
IT is estimated by the Commissioner of
Pensions that $40,0O0,0O0 will be required
for the payment of pensions during the
next fiscal year.
AT an early hour on the morning of the
4th, as the west-bound passenger train on
the indianapolis, Bloomington g. Western
Railroad was nearing Danville, H., four
men, who had boarded it some distance
over in Indiana, entered the passenger
coach, and, with drawn revolvers, ordered
the passengers to hand out their money
| and valuables. About 81 200 in money. q
| check for 81, 200 and few articles of ap-
parel were taken. When the train stopped
at Danville the robbers boarded the east
bound passenger train on the Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific Railroad, and robbed the
passengers of about $500, and made good
| their escape.
A BUNDLE of money amounting to about
$4,000, which was in the care of the Ameri-
can Express Company, was stolen the other
night at Portage, Wis. W. P. Long, night
transfer agent, had the packages for the
Chicago & st. Louis Railway and Milwau-
kee Company and in passing through the
door of the Office the bag caught on the
staple and was torn open on the side of
Milwaukee package. Between 5000 and
$1,000 fell out, but Long did not miss it till
he reached the car. Returning he found
| the package gone. No clew as to the thief.
ARTHUR B. JOHNSON, lawyer and we'll
known politician, was found dead in his Of
flee at Utica, n. Y, recently, pistol ball
in his breast. He was an uncle of johnson
L. Lynch, shot by Rowell, in Batavia, few
nights previous. They occupied the same
office. johnson probably committed sui
eide under the depression caused by the
shooting of Lynch.
In a recent conflict between whites and
negroes at Danville, Va, Walter Holland
and Thomas Stewart were shot fatally and
five negroes were killed.
THE Fat Stock Show at Kansas CITY
proved great sucseSs.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
COlOred Mass Meeting.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. IA large mass-meet-
ing of negroes was held at Springfield, Mo-,
Tuesday night to consider the recent de-
cision of the Supreme Court on the Civil
Rights bill A number of speeches were
made, conciliatory in tone, but urging
united action and earnest demands for the
rights OF the colored people. One of the
speakers advised his hearers to acquire
property and educate themselves, and they
would obtain the respect of the whites and
grow up to civil rights without the help OF
LEGISLATION.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
Starved into Madness.

FARGO, ID. T., Nov. George Knapp,
of Dawson, who was lost on the prairie on
the 9th, was found yesterday wandering in
a demented and starving condition, on Half
Breed trail, near DEVILS Lake, two hundred
miles from Dawson.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE Marquis of Lorne has contrib
ated to the Contemporary ReUiew an arti-
Gle on Canadian Home Rule, in which he
holds that if any one State of the Confed-
GRAFTON gains a preponderating influence
civil war will threaten.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE amount disbursed by army pen
sion agents the last year was $4,000, sol.
OF this there was disbursed at Washington,
D. c., $3,4o,61O; indianapolis, S5,154 ,s95 ;
Chicago, s., ,S56, ,779; Columbus, O., S, ,6S4 1920.
Total amount of "arrears pensions" dis
bursed by agents during the year, $79,s11.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

A HURRICANE passed in northeast
ern direction about three miles west of Ia
lequah, l. T., on the morning of the 2Sth.
Dwellings were blown down and trees up
rooted in a strip of country about 800 yards
wide. No loss of life is reported.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE Paris Figaro publishes the re-
port that the Governor of the Chinese
Province of Yum Nan, with 1900 troops,
received orders to enter Tonquin and oc-
cupy Kaobang, 80 miles north of Hanoi,
the French Headquarters.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

Miss MINNIE HILL, niece of the late
Senator Hill, of Georgia, was bridesmaid
at fashionable wedding at West Point, in
that State, day or two ago, and there first
met Todd Reed, one of the groomsmen. They
were married the same day.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

BEN BUTTERwoRTH took charge of
the office of Commissioner of Patents on the
31st, and General Phil Sheridan assumed
command of the army on November 1st.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

The liabilities of Morris Ranger, the
collapsed Liverpool cotton broker are up
wards of f1 100000; assets, f35O,0OO. His
failure is ascribed to the fact that he tried
TO control the cotton market of the world.
The range was too big.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

ORANGEMEN seized the City Hall at
Londonderry on the 1st to prevent the Lord
Mayor of Dublin from delivering lecture
there. Troops and police lined the streets
10 preserve order. Several persons were
shot.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

The Secretary of State on the 1st re-
ceived from the Geographical Society of
France very handsome gold medal in.
tended as a testimonial to Lieutenant Fred
erick A. Schwatka, q. s. A., in recognition
of his services in the successful expedition
to King Williamsland in 1878 and 1880.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE Irish Nationalist organs protest
against hastily charging Irishmen with
causing the London explosions, ,and suggest
that New York is the source of the dyna-
mite business.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

EXTRAORDINARY precautions were
taken on the I'd to guard the Southeastern
Railway in England in consequence of an
anonymous notice that the train carrying
the Duke of Connaught was to be blown
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

IT is reported that Governor Ireland
Of Texas, in addition to calling out State
troops, also asked for United States assist
ance to put down the supposed negro up
rising in Milan County.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

ALARGE part of the village of Will
ioughby, o., was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the I'd. The Hummell tannery
at Holland, Mich, burned; loss, $4,000.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

GOVERNOR BUTLER, OF Massachu-
sets. and Congressman Maybury, of Mich
igan, had long conference at Boston on
the 30th.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

The public debt reduction since June
30 amounts to 500, ,5S4,470.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE national debt, less cash in Treas
ury, November 1, was $1,5I1 500, ,737.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

A AREPoRT is published in Paris that
De Brazza, the Congo explorer, had been
killed in fight.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE business failures throughout the
United States and Canada for the seven
days ending on the I'd number 215, against
21S the previous week and 243 the week
of
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

The coinage ofthe United States Mint
for October was =, ,359, ,914, of which s., ,05O,-
050 were silver dollars.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

The Chinese Legation at Paris are
considering the question of demanding
their passports.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

A WASHINGTON dispatch says the
President will sustain Postmaster-General
Gresham's decision in the New Orleans lot
terry case including the ruling as to the Ma
.ional hank
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

A FLIBUsTERING expedition from the
United States is reported to have landed in
Cuba.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

A COURT of inquiry to investigate
the causes of failure of the Greedy relief
expedition has been ordered.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

A BROKERAGE system of furnishing
Chinese emigrants traders certificates has
been discovered at Canton.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

The Public Land Commissioner rec
ommends the repeal of the Forestry act,
because it, like the Desert Land act, is fla
grantly abused by spectators as a means
of securing large quantities of land with
no intention of carrying out the terms of
the law.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE people of Swan Island, in the
Gulf of Mexico, are nearly starving. A
schooner which visited the island October
"a, reports the fourteen people there as
living on wild hogs and cocoanuts, and out
, of ammunition with which to shoot the
bOpS
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

THE special agent of the Mexican
Government in London has been instructed
to renew his efforts to readjust the national
debit
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

INDICTMENTS were found by the
Grand Jury in New York on the I'd against
ten city government employees in the Comp
troller's office and the Bureau of the Water
Register. They are charged with misap-
propriating water rents and other funds.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08

An emissary of the Nihilists, who
claims to have been sent to assassinate
Bismarck, has been arrested near Dantzic.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
Miscellaneous.

The Board of Railroad Commissioners
recently received petition asking them tc
compel the Kansas City, Lawrence &
Southern Kansas Railroad Company to
build depot and side-tracks on their line
! of road between Oxford and Winfield.
The reports of County Superintendent
to the State Superintendent of Public In.
struction show rapid increase in school
children of the State. Sedgwick County
has an increase of over twelve hundred
school children, Pottawatomie County
about six hundred, and other counties kept
well in line.
ONE night recently young man by the
name of Henry Rice, who lived near the
! Santa Fe shops, in Topeka, deserted a
| young wife and has not been heard from
since. She thinks he has gone to Michigan,
but don't know that to be a fact. They had
been married about six months, and quar-
relied continually. The night he went away
both retired as usual. After she had gone
to sleep Rice chloroformed her, then took
all the jewelry she had, sixty-two dollars
in money that belonged to her and de-
parted. She slept until nearly eleven
O'Clock the next day, and was greatly sur
prised to discover what had happened.
She said this was the second time he had
deserted her.
ONE of the principal business blocks of
the town of Whiting, in Jackson County,
was recently destroyed by fire. The fire
broke out in the drug store of Love &
Green, in which building was kept the post
office. Several business houses were de-
stroyed, among others the hardware and
implement house of Hedge 6 Brown,
grocery store and others. The fire was sup
posed to have been caused by burglars.
ONE of the bears in Hartzell Park, at To-
peka, got loose the other day. The creature
was about half starved, and being of very
ugly disposition was an unpleasant GUS
toner to meet, but Mr.. Wilson did meet
the brute in the road, was attacked and
badly used up. A young man went to Will
sons assistance and shot the bear.
THE Adjutant General of the Army, in his
annual report, says the Military Prison at
Fort Leavenworth is successful institution,
under excellent management, and its Gov
ernor is recommended for promotion with
increased pay.
PARSONS is now city.
GOVERNOR CLICK recently received let
ter from Secretary of State Frelinghuysen,
informing him that the Postmaster General
of the United States had advised the De-
partment that no information had been re-
ceived of any law or action by the Imperial
German Government excluding from the
mails of the Empire publications relating
to the public lands of the United States.
A TEAM attached to a buggy ran away
the other morning on the road just west Of
Holton, throwing Mrs. Million, lady about
sixty-fve years old, on to barbed wire
fence, cutting her head nearly off, causing
death almost instantaneously.
GENERAL c. C.. AUGUR arrived at Fort !
Leavenworth on November l, and assumed |
command CT the Departmental the Missouri.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
Railroad Decisions.

The Railroad Commissioners gave forth
two decisions on the 2d-one from the
voters of Benton Township, in Sedgwick
County, who had petitioned the Fort Scott
& Wichita Railroad Company for the
establishment of depots in each township,
on the line of their road, together with side
tracks, which request, if granted, would
locate the two depots within five miles of
each other. But when bonds were voted
for the building of said road, it was stipu-
lated as one requirement that a depot and
side track should be established at Harri-
sonburg, point half way between the CEN
ter lines of these two townships, and only
five miles north of another depot on the
st. Louis & San Francisco road. To break
this requirement the Board concluded that
it would be doing injustice to all parties,
therefore the petition was refused. In the
other case, John Davis, a lumber merchant
of Wichita, complained against the st.
Louis & San Francisco Company of hav-
ing been overcharged on several car loads
of lumber shipped by him from Eureka
Springs to Wichita. The evidence, how
ever, failed to bear Mr.. Davis out in his
grievances, and the Board decided against
him. On a car, calculated to carry "a 900
pounds, he had put $4,000 pounds; therefore
on basis of so much per hundred, the
company charged him per cent. over and
above the amount that he was to pay for
the car, on the 1900 pounds extra. This
the Board held to be just an equitable.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Quo VVarranto Case.

The answer Of the Kansas Pacific Rail
way Company to the petition in quo war
ranto now pending in the Supreme Couri
was filed on the afternoon of the I'd with
the Clerk of that Court. 1t is a lengthy
| document, and the railroad starts out with
the sweeping allegation that it is not
a corporation created by any law of the
Territory or State of Kansas, and that it
claims no rights, privileges or franchises
as such. 1t alleges that it was created by
an act of Congress; that by virtue of the
rights conferred by that act it was organ
lied, built its line of road and under such
authority it has ever since operated and
still continues to operate its line of road; !;
that the road constructed by it is on a
different line than that designated by the
Territorial act, and that the consolidation
it has entered into with the Union Pacific
and Denver Pacific Railroad Companies
was made under authority found in the
acts of Congress creating it, and not under
any law of the State. 1t denies the right of
the State to forfeit its franchises, claiming
that the paramount control over it exists
solely in the Government of the United
States; it denies the existence of all the
l1SIo ny lllO AIbOILCN OCllCI al oo
specific causes for forfeiture, it denies that
it is parallel and competing line with the
Union Pacific Railroad; it denies that the
consolidation is in violation of the State
laws; it admits that it does not keep its gen.
eral offices in the State, but says there was
no such law in force when the Territorial
charter of the Leavenworth, Pawnee &
Western Railroad Company was passed, un-
der which it disclaims all right, privilege
or authority. 1t closes with a general de-
nial of all the allegations of the petition
not expressly admitted, and attaches as
exhibits copies of the acts of Congress and
the Legislature OF Kansas, and other public
documents pertaining to the Kansas Pacific
and Union Pacific Railroad Companies.
The answer of the Union Pacific Railway
Company, to the petition requiring them
to show by what authority it exercises the
franchises of the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company, was filed at the same time, set
ting forth substantially the same facts and
allegations. An application and bond
were filed for the removal of the cases to
the United States Circuit Court.
National Republican., 1883-08-17
Lace Department.

One small lot of Carrickma.
cross Lace, 21a and 3 inches
wide-about 200 yds.-reduced
from IS to I5c per yard to close
out.
Children's Lace and Ham
burg Collars are now being Of
fered at prices much below the
market. Attention is called to
two lots, all of which have been
reduced from $I.6S and SI.37H
respectively to 81 each.
One more opportunity to Sc
cure some of those Null Fichus
previous to stock taking.
Hand-embroidered Fancy
Null Fichus reduced to soc
each, formerly IS to SIZE.
Irish Point Lace, I2H, IS,
37H, and soc per yard, in pat
terms to match.
Opened to-day another lot of
Ladies Silk Jersey Gloves. They
include choice shades in tan,
terra Gotta, crushed strawberry,
shrimp pink, plum, &C., 6 and
S-button length, IS and 87Hc.
Out-of-town customers, or
dering these gloves by mail,
will do well to order them at
once, so as to get good shades.
National Republican., 1883-08-17
No Cats, No Experiment.

1t having been stated yesterday evening
that number Of protests had been filed will
the commissioners against the proposed ex
periments with cats and parachutes from the
capitol dome by Prof Harry Goodyear, the
famous balloonst and flying machine special
ist, REPUBLICAN reporter called upon that
gentleman later in the evening and asked him
what effect the protests would have upon his
proposed experiments.
why, they will just have the effect of pre-
venting me from making the experiments in
this city. The United States is large and the
world is still larger. do not sec any necessity
for protests in this matter, rs the animals are
subjected to no pain whatever. In fact the sem
sation, while slowly descending from height,
is very pleasant, and think the cats would
enjoy the ride very much. However, as long
as a kick" has been made by the animal so.
ciety and others, l shall try the experiment
in another city, where teines arc more plen-
tiful and humanitarians moro scarce. Good
evening, sir.
National Republican., 1883-08-17
Prisoncrs nj the LniI.

The number of prisoners in the district Jail
fuctuates daily For instance to-day five
may be added and ten discharged by reason
of expiration of their terms. The records of
the Jail yesterday morning were as foil ows
Number of prisoners confined at morning roll
call, l45 number discharged during the day,
81 new prisoners from the police court, l
total confined ut evening roll call, 1873. Among
this number there are two murdcrers-Minc
who butchcred his wife with razor, and
Christiana Taylor, who murdered the Fisher
children. Miners case will 60, before the gem
eral term next March, and tho old woman is
awaiting q new trial