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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
ANOTHER KANSAS TRAGEDY.

A Farmer Beats His Wife to Death, and
Then Deserts His Little Children.
ELK FALLS, Kan, March IA horri-
bic murder was committed two weeks ago
last Friday, about seven miles south of this
place, on Salt creek, and the fiendish crime
was not discovered until Monday morning.
A farmer, whose name is John Hogan, had
family, consisting of a wife and six chill
dren, ages from four to fourteen years.
The chiljren's story is that he had some
trouble with their mother and commenced
beating her with a chair, knocked
her down and then chOked her. He then
put the children in an Outhouse and told
them if they told about it he would kill
them. They say that their mother was not
dead when he put them in the Outhouse,
but after while he took the body out and
buried it. The house is situated some dis
tance from neighbOr'S, and it was several
days before any one knew of the children
being alone. When it was learned that the
parents were absent the children
could not be induced to tell anything
relative to the matter until this
morning, when, on investigating, the
body of the wife was found buried beneath
the house, with but little earth covering it.
These facts are obtained from neighbOrs
who have just came in for the coroner. A
day or two since letter was received by
friend of the family, from New York. re-
questing them to look after the children.
There was no signature to the letter. HO-
gan left horse with farmer near here,
two weeks ago last Friday evening. saying
he was going to MOrehead, but has never
returned. Word from Morehead is that he
never stopped there.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
Assassination of a Brother.

NEW YORK, March 9.-John Devlin, O.
well known contractor, formerly United
States Assessor and General Inspector of
the City Works Department of New York,
and who was involved several years ago
in serious trouble with the Government i'm
connection with the illict whisky business,
was shot five times last night at his resi-
dence in Brooklyn, but none of the wounds
are considered serious. Daniel Devlin.
his brother, fired the shots with revolV-
er. John alleges that the shooting is the
result of a conspiracy on the part OF his
brothers TO take his life and get posses
sion of his property, the value of which
is from a quarter to half million dollars.
There has been trouble between the
brothers for years. 1t began after their
fathers death, over a dispute about the
will
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
Taking Their Cue From the West.

AUGUSTA, Ca, March s.-The arrival
of two Cinnamon here yesterday and the
promised arrival of twenty more to-
day." has caused some excitement, and
the threat is made that force will be re-
sorted to to drive them out of the city
The Chinese here number several hun
dred, all shop keepers, and they have
almost ruined the green grocers'business
The Chinese have married white wives
The City Council will be asked to revoke
the Chinese license, and if the request is
refused, the celestials will be waited upon
at midnight and marched out of town.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
Serious Charge

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 1O.-Samuel
c. Shaeffer, who is now under sentence Of
eight years to the penitentiary for obtain
ing money by fraud, and is under bonds,
having obtained a right to a new trial, was
1rrested again last night at the CentropOlis
hotel on an Indictment charging him with
conspiring to murder John L. Blair, the
New Jersey millionaire. The indictment
was found by the grand jury at Independ-
ence, and was returned yesterday noon.
During the afternoon capias was sent TO the
city and served on Schaeffer at the Centrop-
oils Hotel at 5:3e o'clock last evening by
Deputies T uggles and Moore. Schaeffer
was not locked up last night but was per-
mitted to remain at the hotel under guard.
This morning he was taken to lndepend-
ence by Deputy Ike Jackson. He pleaded
mot guilty. to the Indictment and was
placed under bonds for his appearance at
future day during the present term of court
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
Burglars Open Fire.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Marcn 10.-A
gang of robbers which congregated at
Dayton, Tenn, on the line Of the Cincin-
natl Southern railway two weeks ago,
attempted to burgIarize the large jewelry
store of ObiI & Co. and the Cincin-
natl Southern depot Their plot had
been revealed to the sheriff, and dozen
officers were in each building. When the
thieves broke in and commenced to drill
hoes in the safe, officers demanded their
surrender The burglars opened fire on the
shefiTs posse, and by means of the dark
ness. escaped without securing any booty.
Fifty shots were fired, but no one waS
wounded. A posse is in pursuit.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
LABOR MOVEMENTS.

Pittsburgh Miners Want an Advance-Tte
knights In Cansda-How Chicago Feels.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 10.-A conven-
citation of the fourth district is now in ses-
sion at Dubois, Pa, considering tie propo-
sal to demand an advance in wages of 12H
cents per ton, and to adopt measures to in
troduce the eight hour system. The dele
gates generally favor making the demand.
and assert that if it is refused they will
strike. A circular has been sent to the
operators inviting them to meet the execu-
tive committee of the miners at Dubois
March IS to arrange matters satisfactorily
to all parties. About 1000 miners are em-
ployed in the fourth district. A telegram
from the Meyersdale district reports the
miners still working but likely to strike at
any moment for an advance. Cumberland,
Irwick, Clearfield and Huntington miners
are nearly all idle, but as the Clearfeld
diggers have decided in favor of arbitration,
it is thought the strike will be settled in
that way.
TORONTO, Ont. March 1.-THE street
railway employees have formed branch Of
dismissed by the company, 500 men being
thus thrown out of employment The
president OF the company says that no
union men will be employed. Very few
cars are running. Yesterday afternoon a
car was stopped by the strikers, the horses
unhitched and the car turned sideways on
the track. Several coal carriers backed their
carts on the track and aided the strikers in
their work. A tremendous crowd gathered
and the police vanly endcavOred TO prevent
the strikers from carrying out their design.
One car on West Market street was sent
down grade at a rattling speed and cOllided
with another car. shattering windows and
smashing up platforms. No violence was
offered TO drivers or conductors except in
one instance, when driver and conductor
were pelted with mud.
CHICAGO, March 11.-CommissiOner
Wicke of the Chicago freight bureau, when
asked if the strike on the Gould system had
affected the freight business of Chicago, re-
piled that it had not materially as yet. He
said that there was belt of country in
Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, where, if
the strike should run along until the middle
of next week it would make trouble.
Freight shippers could reach points in
Texas by the Illinois Central and by the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe roads. 1t is
not the merchants, but the manufacturers,
who would feel the effect of the strike.
Manufacturers of plows and similar imple-
ments were the ones who would feel the
effect most seriously.
WoBURN, Mass, March Thames Skin
ner & Co. agreed to submit to arbitration
the demands of their wOrkmen. The
price list settled upon by the arbitratOrs
will doubtless be accepted by the other shoe
manufacturers here thereby averting a
strike of 1000 employees.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

THE Governor has issued the following
proclamation:
STATE OF KANSAS. EXECUTIVE DEPT,
TOPEKA March IL. 1856.
To the People of Kansas:
\ quarter of century ago Kansas was de,
scrfbed as n treeleSS prairie. To-day the
State is dotted with forests. The plant ng
and growth of trees has not only diversified
and beautified the landscape. but has mOhi-
fled the climate increased the rainfall and
improved the agricultural prOductiveness of
Kansas. 1t s important that tree planting
shall continue from year to year. ShenstOne
truly saws that 1.-The works of a person that
builds begins immediately to decay while
those of him who plants begin directly to i'm
prove" Therefore l. John A. Martin. Gov
ernOr of Kansas. do hereby set apart Thurs
dav, April |, 1885. as Arbor dav, and respect
fully Psk that it be observed as general
holiday. County, city and township officers
are requested to urge general and practical
observance of the dav.
Done at Topeka, this 10Th day of March, \
d. 1856, and of the State the twentv-siXth.
JOHN A. MARTIN. Governor.
e. e. ALLEN, Secretary of State.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

THE Secretary of the Treasury, in a
recent report to the Senate, says that
the reduction of the public debt from
July l, 1877, to June 80, 1885, has ex-
ceeded the requirements of the sinking
fund by 1912, ,647 ,531. The amount of
3 per cents outstanding is S1S4, 6S3, $50,
and these are the only bonds now out
standing redeemable at the option of
the Government. As these bonds may
be absorbed before the maturity of the
4 1-2 per cent bonds of 1891, which
come next in order for redemption,
further additions to the fund can only
be made by purchase of bonds in open
market
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

The panorama of the Second Battle
of Bull Run, or Manassas, which the
Chicago Company are exhibiting in
Washington, according to a report,
affords some entertainment OCCASION
ally that is not down on the bills. The
other evening while the lecturer was
glibly describing in his foreign
accent the scenes so wonderfully
depicted on the canvas before a large
audience. General Silas COlgrove, of
Indiana, q Pension Office official, who
was present, took exception to some
of the statements made by the lee
turer in reference to the forces en-
gagged on the Union side, their location
and their disposition after the battle.
This served to bring other participants,
who were present, into the impromptu
discussion, and quite little breeze
was created. The audience generally
sided with General Colgrove, who was
called on for speech, to which he re-
spOnded.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
jected the selection of some thirteen
thousand acres of land made by the
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railway Company within Dakota Ter
ritory, The selections made between
the six and ten mile limits were rejected
because of their having previously
been selected as indemnity land by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
and the Secretary holds that the prior
ity of selection gave superiority of
right. The selections within the six
mile limits were rejected for the rea-
son that at the date of definite location
of route the lands were in the Indian
country, and that the Indians title
thereto was not extinguished until long
after the right of the company at
fachad $50
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
To make Coney Island once more q

To make Coney Island once more a
resort for quiet, respectable people the
property-owncrs are discussing the need
of doing away with nuisances such as
'.little booths, sausage-shops, photo
graph stands, beer-shops, whirligigs
and other small enterprises. One
nuisance to be abolished was mentioned
as the blowing and footing of wheezy-
voiced horns away up in the cupolas of
ten-cent museums, that fairly blow re-
spectacle people out of their hotel
windows. ~ Y Tribune.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
The Trras GanifnI.

AUSTIN, Tex, March l0.-The Capitol
board to-day instructed the Attorney Cen
eral to institute suit against E. E. Myers, OF
Detroit, Mich, the Capitol architect for al
legged persistent declining to perform his
duties as required by contract. The board
also alleges that the plans and specifications
have proved defective in many particulars.
Colonel Taylor, of the Capitol syndicate, is
here and says he will have the entire 3,000,-
900 acres of Capitol lands inclOsed by JAN
uary, 1887. He now mas 100000 acres in
closed and is digging wells every six miles,
which thus far have proven eminentIy sue
cessful, water flowing from the top Of
Qaph
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
GrhnoI Lands.

Hon. William Sims, Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, has issued a
special report showing the public lands in
Kansas belonging to the Government, and
also the school lands, on January l, 1856,
with information as to how they can be OBJ
tanned. The following table shows the
number of unsold acres of school lands in
the organized counties on December 81,
1885, and the average price per acre at
which they would probably be appraised.
Much of the land given here as vacant is
settled uD and improved:
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
Westward, HO!

NEW YORK, March 9.-The low rate
of the "Sunset route" to San Francisco
has had one unexpected result. A dele
CATION of colOred men from New Orleans
was in New York yesterday seeing what
rates could be obtained from G.. P.
Huntington over Southern California.
One of the Sunset route agents enter.
tanned the committee. and it was stated
that as the cut rates were likely to con-
tinue indefinitely, a fair sized army of
colored citizens wOuld be soon trans
ferred from Louisiana and adjacent
Southern States to South California
1t is promised them that work will be-
found.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

The company of soldiers guarding
the convict camp at the Greenwood
mines in Pulaski County, Ky, had a
lively time of it the other night. The
free miners occupied the adjacent hills
and kept up a continued shooting all
night. No shots were fired into the
camp, but the convicts were badly
scared, and the soldiers, with drawn
guns. kept guard until morning, when
the miners disappeared.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
A Battered Up Tramp Printer Sent to the
County Poor House,

JACKSON, Mich, March 11.-John Gaunt,
the tramp printer and eccentric character,
who was arrested few days ago for mendi-
cancy, has been sent to the county poor
house Before the war he with two others
started the Philadelphia Age. He served
through the war, then came to Michigan
fifteen years ago and worked as printer.
He went to Canada at the time of the
Fenian excitement and was taken for
Fenian and sandbagged. He has been half
crazy ever since and tramps exclusively on
foot. At une time he held the position OF
Inspector of Customs in Philadelphia, and
was quite wealthy. His wife and two
grown-up children still reside in that city.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

BRADFORD, Eng, has a mad dog
scare of very serious kind. In Janu-
airy dog ran mad through the streets
and bit twenty persons. One of these
died day or so ago, in terrible agony,
with all the symptoms of hydrophobia.
The other nineteen have consequently
been thrown into state of fearful ap-
prehension lest they too may be at
tackled by the disease.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

Mrs. JULIA EvELINA SMITH PARKER.
the last of the famous Smith sisters OF
Glastonbury, died the other day at her
home near Hartford, Conn, aged ninety
three years. Her complete translation
of the Bible was published about ten
years ago and won much praise. She
married Mr.. Amos A. Parker, of New
Hampshire, when both were eighty-six
Years old
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

Almost every mother would cheer
fully face death to save her children,
but not one in a thousand could dis
play the Spartan endurance OF Mrs.
Wheeler, of Dakota, who upheld a
flaming can of gasoline until her arm
was roasted to the bone, and by this
heroic sacrifice saved her two children,
who were playing on the flOor.-Cti-
cdQO Standard.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

A DISPATCH from Portland, Ore,
gives the following: Mrs. Miller,
mother of Joaquin Miller, who two
years ago married a boy aged twenty
years, and was deserted by him, OBJ
tanned a divorce at the last term of
court. On Friday she married again at
Eugene, Lane County, the groom being
a young man named Kline. The cere-
mOny was performed by justice of the
paaop
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
THREE thousand socialists and unem-

THREE thousand socialists and unem-
ployed workmen held public meeting
at Amsterdam, Holland. to discuss
their grievances. The meeting de-
puted a committee to call upon the
mayor, and present through him a de-
mand upon the city for the Inaugural
ton of public works for the employ
mpnt of labor
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

+The clerks of these counties report that
counties have been settled upon. and the
settlers are awaiting the appraisement of
said lands
Z The lands remaining unsold in the coun-
ties of Allen Barber, Butler and Linn are re-
ported by the clerks of the several counties
as very rough and undesirable, and in many
cases almost totally unfit for settlement and
cultivation.
sGOve, st. John and Wallace Counties are
attached TO Trego County.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

To keep postage stamps in the
pocket or memorandum book without
sticking. a New Orleans post-office
clerk advises people to rub the sticky
side over the hair two or three times.
The oil of the hair coats the mucilage
and prevents it from sticking.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

The House Education Committee had
a sharp fight over the Blair Education
al bill, recently passed by the Senate,
and finally voted to table it. This prac-
tically killed the bill.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

In New York City during the past
year 1902 persons were arrested, 3d.
683 were held for trial or summarily
convicted, and of this number Sc, ,432
were males and II, ,251 were females.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

Mrs. BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER,
wife of ex-Attorney General Brewster,
died recently at her residence in Phila-
delphia.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18
CURRENT COMMENT.

RECENTLY the Russian Government
expelled number of foreigners,
mostly Germans, from Courland.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

THE cattle drive from Texas in 1886
will reach, it is estimated, three hun
dred thousand head. Several herds are
now ready for the trail.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

JOHN W. OLIVER, the founder of the
order of Sons of Temperance. is now
editor of the Yonkers (N. Y States
man.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-18

QUEEN VICTORIA has commissioned
Prof. Won Angeli to paint her a portrait
of Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria.
The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21

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The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21
Nnllrn 4 ASSluDsa Of his Annllnlmani.

At Skowhegan in the County OF Somerset and
State of Maine HE 9th day Of Apr, A. u lssd
The undersigned hereby gives notice ot his ap-
pointment ~ Assignee ct the esiate of Frank
y. Grindle of >kowh eean in said County OF
somer~et iusolyent pthtnr. who has been declared
AN lnsolyent npou his petition by the Court Of
Insolvency for saii County Of Somerset.
2wiS MM FOLSOM, Assignee.
The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21

When sho WAS Child, sho cried for Caatoria,
Whom she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21
DIED.

When the weather grows warmer, that
extreme tired feeling, want of appetite,
dullness, languor, and lassitude, afllict
almost the entire human family, and scrof-
ula and other diseases caused by humors
manifest themselves with many. 1t Is I'M
possible to throw off this debility and expel
humors from the blood without the aid of a
reliable medicine like Hoods Sarsaparia.
II could not sleep, and would get up in
the morning with hardly life enough to get
out of bed. | had no appetite, and my
face would break ont with p!mples. ! bought
The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21
School M Getting.
SkowliEe,> VILLAGE DISTRICT.

SkoWnEGAN VILLAGE DisfRfef.
II the Animal School District meeting
on Saturday, nj the High School honse
the following officers were elected \. K.
Bxby, moderator; 5. &. Sewall, clerk i;
4. G. Emery, agent; Miss Lizzie d. Mil
Ter, Member Of the Grading Committee.
Mr.. J. A. Colby, the retiring agent, pre-
scented his annual report,
committee consisting Of Il. d. Shep-
ard L. w Weston and G \ Marston was
raised To consider the subject Of intro
ducing water To. supply the High School
building for closets etc. and report at an
adjourned meeting
\ committee consisting of Messrs. Wal
ton, Brainard and Danforlh WAS raised to
consider the subject of an additional
school on the south side, 10 report at an
adjourned meeting.
Voted TO lay on table the article to rails
ing money until the adjourned meeting.
\ committee of five, including the 5 5.
Com with /. l.. Wa ton and A. q. En-
cry was raised for the purpose Of taking
into consideration tire courcs Of studies
pursued in the several grades of school
may think best, AT the adjourned meeting.
This committee WAS authorized to appoint
two addition | members, one of whom
should be a trustee Of the Academy. When
The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21

Mr. II. Warren I.aneey, of Petroia,
Ontario has been visiting relatives in
pittstield lately Mr., Lanccy is the
gentleman who generously presented to
the Maine Central Institute Il few years
ago the bell Which NOW hangs in the bel
fry of the Institute building
The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21
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The Somerset reporter., 1886-04-21
Found Help After Trying Four
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