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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
WARNING TO FARMERS.
The Agricultural Department Calls Atten-
ton to the Numerous SwindleS Perpe-
trated on Farmers.

The Agricultural Department Calls Atten-
ton to the Numerous SwindleS Perpe-
trated on Farmers.
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Agricul
tural Department has issued a caution to
farmers against the designs Of lot of inn
posters who are engaged in a syndicate to
impose on them by the sale of worthless
seeds. The department circular says:
There are reports of sales Of "hulless" oats
at an exOrbitant price in certain counties in
Wisconsin and New York. thirteen years
ago, but the swindIe does not ap-
pear to have taken root i'll those local
tiles. 1t is reported on good author
ity to have been imported from Canada
about 1850, and planted in Northern Ohio,
where il soon attained q particularly vigor-
Gus growth. 1t was early exposed and has
during the five years been driven westward
and made local incurslOns south in Ken
tucky and Tennessee. Correspondents re-
port the attempt to sell this grain at exor-
bitant prices in twenty-five States and the
presence of the agents of the organized
swindle in eighteen States. Indiana makes
returns of operations in twenty-four coun-
ties; Michigan, sixteen counties, mostly in
the southern part of the State; Illinois, ten
counties in different parts of the State. In
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa agents
have operated at five points, and only
an occasional fOray has as yet been
made in Missouri, Kansas Nebraska and
Dakota AS the name Bohemian is becoming
somewhat notorious, We begin to hear or
Austria liam and Russian oats and other va
rietieS. or the old variety under other names
may be expected to appear. Cases are also
10 of Ind
and other Western States in which "Hulles
Barley" and pretended new variety OF
wheat bearing such fancy names as Seneca
Chief" Red Line" etc, are being offered
for sale at high prices. The wheat is a.
high "a SIS per bushel upon the same plan
as has been followed with the Bohemian
oats. 1t is not necessary to know any
thing of the quality of grain Of
fered on that plan, as it is I'M
derstOod that these schemes are frauds,
because a plan which pre-SuppoSeS the
crop can be sold year after year at the same
price as tie seed, when the latter is twenty
or thirty times the ordinary market price of
grain, manifests a palpable lack OF common
sense. The correspondents of the depart
ment send reports of various other frauds,
that were more or less successful, being
practiced on farmers in different parts of
The country. Agents for the sale of fruit
trees, fertilizers. stoves, cooking ranges and
various other articles, succeeded in many
cases in selling their wares at two or three
times their value, or getting the farmers
money for things proved valueleSs. The
devices for getting the farmers signature
to some paper which can be changed into
negotiable note and sold for cash are too
numerous to mention.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
THE SOUTH.

THE steamer Chattanooga was run
aground by the pilot near Chattanooga,
Tenn. recently and totally wrecked. He
allowed the rudder to get the mastery and
the boat plowed into the bank with full
head of steam on.
NJ. B. GALBREATH & Co, cotton manu-
facturers of Memphis, Tenn, have made an
assignment. Liabilities, $1,000; assets,
$4,000.
a SPECIAL from Mckinney, Tex, of the
10th SAYS: The men employed at the Nc
Kinney oil mills struck yesterday for high
er wages The mills closed down and the
strikers were discharged. Several en-
ployes who did not join in the strike were
Immediately suspended until new force
can be obtained.
A TERRIBLE affair, due to race hatred,
took place recently at Carrollton, Miss A
party of fifty white men rode into town
and going to the court house shot dead ten
of the negroes awaiting trial for the at
tempted assassination of James Liddell, a
prominent citizen. Intense excitement pre-
vailed.
UNITED STATES Narshals have broken I'D
the Illicit still OF Wiley Hall and Ballard
Bailey, in West Virginia.
E:SNA NORMAN. a country girl. aged
twehty-one, near Memphis, Tenn, recently
shot and killed her seducer, Henry Arnold,
who had married Nellie Kiley. Miss Nor
man was taken to jail.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
Arbitration Secured.

COLUMBUS, o., March 2O.-The street
railway company ran one car over the line
under the requirement Of their charter yes
terday morning. The police assisted. On
the return trip the men endeayOred to take.
possession OF the car but were dubbed off
by the police. One man was badly
bruised mp. The mayor made a speech
to the men, extending To them his SYM
pathy so long as they INDUCED in no Vio-
lence, and he had the strikers under good
control and ready 10 obey his order. The.
mayor was not inclined To allow further
police interference. At night both sides
agreed to submit their differences to a.
board of arbitration.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
WHOLESALE SHOOTING.
A Terrible Shooting Affair in Mississippi-
Mcagre Report of the Affair.

A Terrible Shooting Affair in Mississippi
Mcagre Report of the Affair.
WINoNA, Miss, March 1S.-At Carrolton
yesterday a fearful tragedy occurred in
which ten negroes were killed and three
wounded. Some weeks ago two negroes
attempted to assassinate J. NJ. Liddell, Jr.,
inflicting some painful but not serious
wounds. The negroes engaged in this
dastardIy attempt are known to be the most
defiant ard lawless in the county, and since
the attempt on Mr.. Liddelrs life had been
more openly defiant than ever. For some
reason not known they swOre out war
rant few days ago for Mr.. LiddeiPs ar
rest 1t was at this trial that the
killing occurred. The negroes present
were mostly armed. About one
O'Clock a party of armed men num-
boring about forty or fifty persons rode up
to the court house. They diSmounted and
entering the building at once commenced
firing on the negroes, with the above result
They then returned by the same route they
came. They do not live near CarrOlltOn.
At the trial about twenty cOlOred men were
present when the fifty white men well
mounted and each carrying Winchester
rifle, came gallOping up and surrounded the
court house They then fired into the
building, instantly killing ten negroes
and wOunding three Others so that
the died soon after and with the eX-
ceptiOn of few who escaped through
window. all the other negroes in the build
ing were wounded. some of them seriously.
The trouble between Liddell and the ne
grOes occurred three weeks ago. LidGell
had interfered in row between two ne
grOes and afterward heard the crowd ours
ing him. He walked up To them and in
quired why they were abusing MIN. An
alteration ensued and several shots were
fired, Liddell being severely wounded.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
TELEGRAPH MONOPOLY.
An Investigation That VIII Probably Re-
suit in Good-Rates to Be Reduced.

An Investigation That VIII Probably Re-
suit in Good-Rates to Be Reduced.
WASHINGTON, March 1S-It is a subject
of considerable comment in public circles
that tho investigation instituted under the
resolution of Congressman Anderson, of
Kansas, to inquire into alleged discrimina-
tons made by the Western Union Teie-
graph Company over the telegraph lines
leased from the subsidized Pacific railroads
is the first investigation by Congress which
promises to yield beneficial results. Here
tofOre the Western Union has been enabled
to fOrestall the results of investigation into
its various mOnOpolies and to defeat all
legislation calculated to relieve the pub
lie from the grieyous burdens, not only in
the way of extortiOns in telegraph tolls,
but in preventing the erection OF their
lines of telegraph by companies desiring to
compete for this service. Congressman
Anderson has pressed this investigation
with considerable yigor and intelligence
and has at last succeeded i'll directing the
attention of the House to the necessity of
strictly enforcing the law under the terms
of which these lines. constructed with tina
peoples money, were permitted to be built
The primary fact has already been estab-
lished to the undoubted satisfaction Of the
Post-Office Committee that the Western
Union, notwithstanding the attempted dis
claimcr Of the manager, does enjoy and
maintain monopoly of the telegraph bust
ness west of the Missouri river in direct
cOntTaventiOn of the provisions contained
in the charters TO the land grant roads.
During the proceedings before that CON-
mittee Yesterday morning Congressman Pc
tiers, OF Kansas. called the attention OF DC.
NOrvin Green, president of the Western I'm
ion, 10 the fact that the local telegraph rates
in Kansas We're grossly unequal and that the
toll charged for a message of ten words
from Washington or New York to places in
Kansas was the same as that charged from
these points across the continent 10 San
Francisco. so that the people of Kansas
paid the same rate as the people of San
Francisco, although the distance was only
one-half.
DR.. Green replied thatnO complaint of this
had ever been brought to his notice from
Kansas, to which Judge Peters made retOrt
that he did complain of this inequality now
in behalf of Kansas, and charged that the
rates exacted in Kansas by the Western
Union were higher than in other States of
like business population.
DR.. Green, being driven to cover, meekly
reioined: 1.-The rates do appear to be too
high, and will have the wrong remedied."
DR.. Green then read brief recapitulatiOn
OF the points made by himself in his testi-
mony yesterday, and said that as Mr.. Peters
had remarked upon the high tariff to Kan
sas points, lie would promise that the rates
would be reduced i'll thatlOcality.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
ST. PATRlCK'S DAY.
4 Big Celebration in New York-Prorninent
Men Present.

A Big Celebration in New York-Proininent
Men Present.
NEW YORK, March 1S.-FIags of the
Emerald Isle and the United States yester-
day flOated in the air from public buildings
and private dwellings in honor of St
Patrick's day. As early as nine o'clock the
sons and daughters of Ireland, wearing en-
blems of green, began to assemble in Wash
ington Park, from which the great pro-
cession was TO start. Seven hundred
policemen under the command of
Superintendent Murray were detailed
to clear the way. The procession
started shortly after twelve O'Clock,
headed by the Sixty-nnth regiment, Colonel
Cavanagh commanding. There were ten
thousand men in line, representing all the
Irish societies in the city. All along the
route the procession was greeted with
cheer= from the multitude. IL moved
through the principal streets to Union
Square, where il was reviewed by Mayor
Grace and the Common Council. Then the
march was resumed to Jones IL Woods
Coliseum, where the remainder OF the time
was given to music and dancing. Early in
the morning a solemn pOntilical mass was
celebrated AT tine Cathedral by Archbishop
Corrigan. The Right Rev. Hugh Llley,
pastor of ST. Vincent Ferrara church,
preached a sermon which was brilliant
panegyric on the life and work of st. Pat
rick The weather was fine. The day
closed with balls, banquets and meetings
at which addresses were made. The chief
affair of the night was the banquet of the
Friendly Souls of St. Patrick at DelmOn-
icn's. Charles A. Dana, II. w. Beecher and
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew were among
tLuSo present
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
THE LATEST.

CONFERENCE was held with the Missouri
Pacific officials by the Governors of Kan
sas and Missouri at St Louis on the after
noon of the 2lst. The railroad was willing
to abide by the agreement of 1885, but with
conditions inimical to the Knights of La
Dor.
THE Senate was not in session on the
Goth. The House devoted its time to a sill
yer discussion.
TWENTY missionaries sailed from New
York on the Goth to join Bishop Taylor of
the Methodist Church in Africa. They ex-
pect to travel 500 miles into the interior of
Africa.
FIRE started recently in A. K. Robert
sons wholesale grocery store at Helena,
Ark, and before it was subdued nearly
$500, 900 worth of property was destroyed.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
March 20 showed an average increase of
400 over the corresponding week of last
year. In New York the increase was ST..
MASKED men raided the roundhouse of
the Texas Pacific at Denison, Tex, early on
the morning of the 21st. After capturing
the watchmen, the masked men proceeded
to kill all the engines. The damage was
considerable.
GERONIMO, the Apache chief, surrendered
to Lieutenant Maus on the Goth. Geronimo
had just been defeated by Mexican troops
and surrendered to Maus to escape Mexi-
can vengeance.
CHARLES B. MATTHEwsoN, president Of
| the Norfolk National Bank, Norfolk, Neb.,
has absconded to Canada. Matthewson
had previously occupied several important
public positions.
THE German schooner Rosalie, from Rio
Grande De Sui for Falmouth, has been
wrecked on the coast of Cork. The Cap
tain died from exposure. The crew suf-
fered terribly.
EX-CoNGREssMAN JOHN S. WILLIAMS, of
Cambridge, Mass, died recently, aged sew
enty-six.
THE greater portion of the officers and
crew of the steamship Oregon sailed for
England on the 21st from Boston.
REPUBLICAN rioters recently pillaged the
club Almerade in Alicante, Spain. Sew
eral shots were fired. The police quickly
suppressed the disorder
4 TELEGRAM from Marshfield, Oregon, of
the Goth, says: The steamer Beda, loaded
Win idtIOau HOu- SpTduS d lcdA anu
foundered forty miles off Cape Perpetua.
The Beda carried crew of thirteen, in
Guiding Captain Healy. The only two
saved were picked up and reached here on
the tug Fearless.
THE House Committee on Contested
Elections agreed bysS to on an adverse
report on the claim of Frank Hurd to be
Representative OF the tenth district of
Ohio against Jacob Romeis, the sitting
member.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
LATE COMBINATIONS.

Senate Combinations to Various Offices
Made Public For the First Time.
WASHINGTON. March 19-The cCntirma-
tions by the Senate made public yesterday,
after having been withheld for from day
to a week. were as follows:
United States Marshal-William c. Jones,
for the District of Kansas.
Internal Revenue COliectors-CorneliuS
Voorhees,. for the Fourth District OF Mis-
souri,; A. Welch, for the Second District Of
Illinois.
Major General of the Army-Brigadier
General Alfred Ii. Terry.
United States COnsuls-JOhn WaessDer.
Of Texas, at SaltillO, Mex; w. o. King. of
Texas, at BogOta, United States of Colon
bia.
Indian Agents-Elf Bannistef, of lndi-
ana, j. w. Cramsie, of Dakota, at the
Devils Lake agency, Oak.
POstmasters among others confirmed by
the Senate in the recent sessions were as
follows: In Missouri-F. A. Dessert, at
Macon City. In Kansas. S. Rogers, at
RaIOit
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25

AT Aerona, KY, recently an aged, un.
known man was burned to death by the
grass catching fire near where he had lain
down to sleep.
INCIDENTAL to the strike in Texas train
was derailed near Marshall and bridge
burned near Fort Worth on the 18th
JUDGE BAXTER, Of the United States Dis
trict Court, sitting atKnoxville, Tenn, has
ordered the sale of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia & Georgia railway on or before May
%, no bid to be taken for less than S1O,-
0OO,OOO.
Patton & Co., merchants of SandersviIle,
Miss, have made an assignment Liabili-
ties, $3.50, 900; assets, $4,000.
JOHN GILLESPIE, the negro who murdered
Mrs. Thomas Grey near Loudon, Tenn,
was hanged by mob of 200 men near the
scene of the crime.
ANOTHER bridge was burned on the Texas
Pacific thirteen miles from Marshall on the
18th. A reward was offered for the convic-
ton of the incendiaries.
c. W. MONROE. editor of the Redfield
(Ark.) Star, was recently knocked down by
J. N. White for certain criticisms in his
paper. The same day the editor, in an
other part of town, was knocked down by
JEFF Clark, an intimate friend of Whites
A PIRE at Nuevo Laredo, Tex, recently,
consumed the large wholesale house of A.
NJ. Bruni & Bros. Loss, SEC, 900; insurance,
$4,000
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Ten thousand Irishmen paraded in New
York City in honor of st. Patrick's day.
The procession was cheered all along its
route. Mayor Grace and the council re-
viewed it.
THE Democratic State Convention Of
Rhode Island has nominated the following
ticket: Governor-Amasa Sprague; Lieu
tenant Governor-Thomas P. Robinson;
Secretary of State-Franklin T. Owen;
Attorney General-Edwin Metcah: State
Treasurer-John J. Perry.
Ex-PREsIDEST ARTHUR was reported to
be seriously sick on the 10th There were
doubts Of his recovery.
A DIVER sent to the scene of the Oregon's
wreck has returned to New York and re-
ported that the Oregon had broken In two
and that pieces of the cargo from her hold
were coming to the surface. The theory
was that she broke in two when the bow
struck the bottom.
A DISPATCH from New York of the 10th
saws: The Union Pacific, Burlington &
Missouri River, and Denver & Rio Grande
roads to-day met the lowest cut in passen-
ger rates which had previously been made
by other roads, the rate now being SIS from
the Missouri river to San Francisco, with
81 rebate for first-class tickets, ard $50,
with $40 rebate, for second-class or mixed
tickets.
THE Assembly at Trenton, n. j., on the
18th passed a resolution approving the
course of Mr. Parnell, who comes of New
Jersey blood, and extending the Leglsla-
lures best wishes for the success of the
struggle for local self-government in Ire
land.
T. J. ORR's store at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
burned recently. Loss, S25.OOO.
ALL the cloakmakers in New York City,
numbering I,5OO, were reported out on
strike. They did not ask for increased
wages. but demanded that the contract
system be abolished so that they deal d.
rectIv with the firm themselves.
THE New York alderman, Henry D.
Jaehne, has been arrested, charged with
bribery.
Born branches of the New York State
Legislature have passed the bill requiring
that street railroad franchises in New York
be sold to the highest bidder.
THE city hall at Fall River, Mass, caught
fire the other night, destroying the building
with all the records. The money loss
amounted to S250,OOO
BY an explosion of natural gas at Muir
ravsvilIe. Westmoreland County, Pa, re-
Gently, seven persons We're injured, three
of them fatally The explosion was fol-
lowed by a fire, which destroyed seven
dwelling houses.
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Retirement of General Pope.

WASHINGTON, March 17.-TO-day, after
a public career full of honorable services to
his country, Major General Pope retires
from active service and takes his place up
on the retired list Gossip is active con-
ccrEing the changes which are involved by
his retirement, but it is believed that Cen
Terry, who was confirmed as major gen.
tial Gu Thursday last, will be assigned to
tie command of the division of the Allan
tic with headquarters at Governors Island,
y. Y. and that the next Major General,
probably Howard, will he given command
OF the division OF the Pacific, with head
ugarterS &. San Francisco.
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NEW YORK, March 1s.-Alderman Henry
w. Jaehne was arrested at the city hail at
noon to-day and taken TO police headquar-
tiers. charged with bribery. The warrant
for Jaehne's arrest was issued by Judge
Gildersleeve, of the court OF general ses-
sions, upon affidavits furnished BY
Inspector Byrnes. District Attorney
Martin, under direction of Judge
GiIdersleeye, ordered the papers for
the trial to be drawn, fixing the amount Of
the bail at 5000. Joseph O'DOnnelI, 4
saloonist at the corner of Twenty-fourth
street and Sixth avenue, who owns real
estate to the value OF 1000, was accepted
as bOndsman.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
GENERAL.


A NEW, exclusively American club is to
be organized in Paris.
LOUISE michel, the notorious female an
archist of France, announces that she in
tends to make tour of America.
THE French Chamber OF Deputies has
voted urgency for credit of 100000 francs
for the proposed Pasteur institution.
THE Hungarian Minister of War
has resolved to mass large forces of troops
on the southern frontiers in order to coun-
teract important military measures adopt
ed by Russia.
THE Canadian customs authorities at OF
tawa have seized $4,000 copies of Lord Bea-
consfield's "Endymion," published by Har-
per Bros, of New York, and sent into Can
ada for sale. 1t was understood that the
reason for the seizure was that Dawson
Bros, publishers of Montreal, had the copy
right of the work for the Dominion. The
books will be DESTROYED.
THE committee which has had under con-
sideration Prince Bismarck's spirit measure
bill, and which had already rejected the
first clause, voted against the remaining
clauses of the bill, thus defeating the en-
tire measure.
ST. PATRICk's day was celebrated in Ire
land without disorder save in Londonderry,
where during a row stones were used and
an inspector and a constable injured.
THE treaty of peace between Servia and
Bulgaria has been ratified by the represen-
tatives of the Powers interested.
THE English House of Commons, 202 to
Ia, rejected motion to pass the Scottish
Church Disestablishment bill to second
reading.
A BAND of robbers recently created a
stampede of oxen at Aulnay, in the Char
ante Inferieure, France, an out-of-the-way
town. Three persons were trampled to
death and more than one hundred injured,
some fatally. The robbers got away with
about 5000 ofbooty.
THE man who was recently carried over
Niagara Falls is believed to be Gustave
Mercier. the absconding ledgerkeeper of
the Banque Rationale in Montreal.
NJ. PAsTEUR has been decorated by King
Humbert of Italy.
THE English naval estimates have been
adopted by the House of Commons. They
are the largest since the Crimean war.
THE Mikado of Japan has donated $500
to the Grant monument fund.
OFFICIAL kilograms from Zanzibar con-
firm the recent report of the putting to
death of Bishop Harrington by the King of
Mombesa.
VIsCoUNT HINTON, of London, was SEN
fenced to years hard labor recently for
general financial worthlesSness.
A DISPATCH from Italy, of the 18th, says:
Two fatal cases of cholera are reported
from Candea, two from Pelia and seven
from Padua.
UNEMPLOYED workingmen at Liege Bel
GUM, recently attacked shops and cafes.
The gensdarmes finally succeeded in restor-
ing order, making many arrests.
THE National Zeitttng and other German
papers contain similar articles to that
of the Post, attacking France. In Ger
man military and political circles it is
feared that De Freycinet will be powerless
to oppose the desire of partisans for re-
venge.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended March 10 numbered: For the United
States, 100; Canada, 80; total, 225, COM
pared with a total of 239 the previous week.
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Want Grievances Redressed.

PlTTsBURGH, Pa, March 2O.-At q gem.
eral meeting of the street car employees
held in Allegheny City, the report of the.
Executive Board, demanding twelve hours.
for days work, exclusive Of one hour for
meals, and S2 day for drivers of box cars
and sufhIcient reason for the discharge OF
every man, was formally ratified. TO-DAY
at one o'clock the representatives will
present the managers OF each line in the
two cities statement of their grievances
with request that an answer be made
Tuesday morning next II is stated that
two lines have already arranged schedules
TO conform with the twelve hour arrange.
ment