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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
STRIKE NOTES.

A MOB, on the 5th. threatened to attack
the rolling mill at Bay View near Milwau-
kee, Wis, when they were fired on by the
militia. Four of the rioters were shot dead
and four mortally wounded Milwaukee
was i'll a ferment of excitement.
THE iron workers at Cincinnati. Coving-
ton and Newport struck for eight hours on
the 4th.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has declared a semi-annual dividend of q s
per cent. cash.
RIoTING in Chicago was renewed on the
4th, with serious loss of life. In attempt
ing TO diSperse a crowd of anarchists in the
Haymarket part of the city, bombs were
thrown by the mob, the result being that
four policemen were killed and twenty
two wounded. The anarchists lost about
forty wounded.
THE Chicago police raided a hall and
captured several hundred rifles the other
night They belonged to a company of
zouaves composed of foreign socialists.
THE Chicago Trades Assembly on the
4th issued a circular to the workingmen of
Chicago, which says: 'Our advice is, that
where disagreement as to terms exist, in
ISTN lew Tue
Determine to secure the adoption of the
eight-hour system, even if concession to OBJ
tain it must be made"
THE Chicago lumbermen claim the con-
dition of trade will not justify them in ac-
ceding to their employees demands for
shorter days and more wages.
THE strike on the Union Pacific was COM
plete on the 5th- No freight trains were
running.
A wORKINGMEN's mass meeting was held
recently at New York under the auspices
| of the Knights of Labor. Resolutions were
passed denouncing the violence at Chicago,
deploring acts looking to anarchy and so,
cialism, and asking for State labor arbi-
tration board.
THE switchmen of the railroads coming
in over the Chicago & Western Indiana
track struck on the 9Th. They demanded
S55 per month, a raise of so. They were
followed by the shOpmen OF the same road
The action of the switchmen seriously COM
plicated railroad matters.
SEVENTEEN hundred employees of the
Deering Harvester Works, at Chicago,
struck on the 5th. Three thousand men
employed in the car shops also quit work
at Chicago the same dau
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
MISCELLANEOUS,

THE French Government is vigorously
protesting against the Vatican's appoint
ing a nuncio at Pekin as tending to inter
fere with Frances secular rights in China
IT is reported in Winnipeg that the Yank
ton Sioux and other American Indians are
threatening. and have invited Sitting Bull
to join them.
| IT is positively denied from Chicago thai
the artesan well water used TO wash dOwT
beef at the stockyards is impure, as charged
by the New York board of health.
PUBLIC trials will be given at Champaign
| Ill, June 10 and IL, under the auspices oi
the State Board of Agriculture, of ma
| chimes for opening bitches for drain tile
and of machines for the excavations ot
canals. Two gold medals are offered as
prizes.
WHITE men married to Crow Indian
squaws have been cutting wood on the
Crow Reservation in Montana. The wood
has been confiscated and several of the
men arrested.
JUDGE T. FAUNTLERoY, of the Supreme
Court of Virginia, has sustained the judg.
ment of the lower court in the Cluverius
case. Nothing can now save the condemned
man but executive clemency.
Two men were burned TO death in fire
at ST. Johns, New Brunswick, recently.
IT is officially announced that cholera has
appeared in Venice and Vicenza. Several
cases and some deaths are reported in these
places daily.
THE Scottish Amicable Life Assurance
Company has ceased to lend money on
~ ic
now in suspense.
THE officials of the French New Hebrides
Company on Espiritu Santo island, in the
South Pacific, have been massacred by ma
tives from Port Stanley.
THE Pioneer Cooperage Company, Gin
cinnati, O., has made an assignment. AS
sets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
The business failures during the seven
days ended May numbered for the United
States, 16f for Canada, p, total of 1872,
as compared with total of 207 the week
previous.
News has been received of the MUIR
der of number of Hungarian peasants by
a gang of gvpsies, who afterward robbed
the persons and premises of their victims.
Two or three American fishing schooners
have appeared in the basin at Digby, n. s.,
within the past day or two for the purpose
of buying bait Another American fishing
vessel has been captured for violating the
Canadian fishing laws.
By collision between the British steam
er Martello and the cutter Ida, off the Liz
ard Point lighthouse, England, the sailing
vessel was sunk and one person drowned.
IN the trial of Captain Jeffrey Gerrior
for barratry, and scuttling and casting
away the schooner Racer, the court at Bos-
ton charged favorably for the defendant.
The jury rendered a verdict of acquittal.
A TORNADO which ravaged the country
near Woodstock, ILL.,, on the 9th, killed three
persons and injured a number quite seri-
ously.
THE rigging of the Thayer Oil Well,
Washington, Pa, was struck by lightning
the other morning and destroyed. The
Thayer we'll was the largest in the district,
the average daily flow being sixty barrels
THE thermometer at Abilene, Tex, sud
denly rose to 101 degrees on the 9TH. This
was the highest heat at that time of the
year known to the Oldest inhabitants, and
rarely reached at any season.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

THE line between the German and
English possessions in the South Pa
cific starts near White Rock, in eighth
parallel south latitude, crosses Solomon
Islands, leaving the large northerly
islands of Bougainville, Choiseue and
San Isabel in the possession of Ger
many; passes northeasterly toward the
Marshall Islands, Samoan and Tonga
Islands, which remain neutral. The
agreement stipulates mutual freedom
of trade in the South Pacific, reciprocal
treatment of British and German ships.
Land disputes will be referred to a
mixed commission. Colonies already
organized are not included in the de-
marcation. The establishment of penal
colonies in any of the islands affected
Is not allowed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

A LARGE number of barges were wrecked
IN the Monongahela near Pittsburgh, Pa,
by a sudden rise of the rivor recently.
MOB made an attack on a Salvation
srmy meeting at Zurich, Switzerland, re-
Gently and demolished the building in
which the meeting was being held. Sew
eral persons were injured
AMEETING offreight handlers was held in
/ Chicago Oh the 9th and a committee was
appointed to take steps to end the strike.
JOHN WYmER, farmer, recklessly drove
his team in front of a locomotive on the
Fort Wayne road, at Inwood, Ind, recent
ly. Wymer, his wife and two children were
killed, their bodies being shockingly man
gled
SPEAKING of the recent seizure of Ameri-
can fishing vessels in Canadian waters,
British Minister West blames Congress for
refusing to appoint commission to sub
stitute something better than the "misera-
bic old treaty of 1SlS," with its various in
terpretations.
THE President recently vetoed two pri-
vate pension bills, sending message to
Congress pointing out certain vicious ten
denotes as claimed belonging to this class
of legislation.
THE Senate was not in session on the Sth.
The House passed the Military Academy
Appropriation bill.
A COURIER who arrived at Guaymas
Mex, recently from General A. Martinez
reports the capture by the Mexican troops
of Anil, the central defense of the Yaqui
Indians. In the fight one Mexican officer
n nd rc-h ILL o..
Jsme and the greater portion of his army
had lett before the engagement.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
Nay showed an average increase of 30.2
compared with the corresponding week of
last year. In New York the increase was
349
AMERICAN securities declined in London
during the week ended May S The Paris
Bourse improved; Panama shares fell 20
francs.
THE piano makers strike in New York
for eight hours proved failure.
The Philadelphia maritime exchange
signal station at Cape Henlopen was entire
ly destroyed by fire the other night
The announcement is made that the
United States Express Company, which
has operated since 1854 on the New York,
Erie & Western and New York, PennsyL
vania & Ohio railroads, will at the expira-
ton of its yearly contract, be superseded
by the Pacific Express Company, which is
controlled by Jay Gould.
The other night an attempt was made to
wreck passenger train on the c., B. & Q.
railway at Chicago by throwing the switch
and removing the light. The engineer dis
covered the attempt to throw the engine
OF the track In time 70 aTart terrible dis
aster.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

SPEAKING of the way in which the
Mint at Philadelphia is guarded, it is
stated that people may know in a gen.
eral way that great care has always
been exercised for the protection of
the building at night, but they do not
know that after daylight has departed
the building puts on the character of a
little garrison; that in its corridors
and passages are arms (not displayed
to the public in daytime). and that
armed watchmen patrol the building,
both inside and out, during the entire
night. BY the grant of the Gatling
guns these projections are greatly en-
HANGED, and while the superintendent
has not the least fear that there will
ever be any need for the use of any of
these mortal conveniences. d" he thinks
that they are good things to have
about the property under his care.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
senator Frye.. $500 600 Amendments.

WASHINGTON, May 4.-The prevailing
sentiment among Senators appears to be
that the amendment on Mr.. Frye to the
Post-Oflice Appropriation bill, appropriate
ing SsO0,O for the carrying of mail in
American vessels to South and Contra
American ports, Australia and Japan, will
be carried by majority of about
ten or twelve. 1t will not be
a strictly party vote, by any means, as
there are several Republicans who will
vote against it and several Democrats
who will favor it. Mr.. Plumb, who is III
charge of the bill, is very confident OF the
adoption of the amendment. As soon as
the question is settled he intends 10 leave
the city for few days.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

CANTON, Miss, May 8. s.-Thursday night
a negro entered the house of William BIed-
soc and attempted a criminal assault on his
fourteen-year-old daughter. He was iden-
tilted as one Chambers, and was arrested
and locked up. 4 meeting was called at
the court house to determine what should
be done with Chambers if he was found
guilty. The motion was made that the
chairman appoint a jury Of twelve leading
citizens to examine the negro. This was
approved and the jury appointed. TheH
examined the negro and found him guilty.
Chambers was taken from jail to-day by s
number Of citizens and hanged,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

HORNKLLsvILLE, y. Y, May IA
prominent young man of Almond, this
county, was married last week. In the
evening 4 number of mischieyous youth'
of the village assembled to give the bridal
pair an Old-fashiOned ''sk~nmelton.' -
They went 10 the house with horns and
tin pans, and the bridegroom invited them
in and treated them 20 the wedding feast.
Afterward many of them were taken very
i'll, and there was great indignation whea
it was found that the host had treated
tEe,n with crotsn oil mixed with wiIisky.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

THERE is considerable interest in
Decatur, H., over the discoveries of
natural gas wells at Macon and Cerro
Gordo, where parties were boring for
water. At Macon the well is on the
farm of Thomas Davis, and is ninety
feet deep. The gas shot out suddenly.
and when lighted made a flame twelve
feet high. AT Cerro Gordo gas struck
at depth of one hundred and twenty
five feet
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
AN ILLINOIS TORNADO.
Three Persons Killed and Several Injured
Property Destroyed

WOODSTOCK, Ill, May Word has just
reached here that the region between the
towns of RingwOOd and McHenry, in
this (McHenry) county, about ten miles
from Woodstock, were visited by cyclone
which resulted most diSastrously. Three
persons were killed outright and others
seriously injured and the destruction
to property was prOpOrtiOnately large. A
frame barn in process of erection received
the full force of the cyclone. -Four men
were working on it at the time; two on the
roof and two on the second floor. The barn
was lifted from the foundation and COM
pIeteIy demolished. The two men on the
roof were hurled a distance of thirty feet
or more and were dead when found. One
man inside the barn was crushed to death
under the timbers and the fourth was badly
bruised. A number of persons in the
neIghborhOod were severely injured by be-
ing struck by heavy objects carried against
them by the wind.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

AT recent meeting Of New York
representative citizens a committee
was named to prepare suggestions for
cleansing the city government of the
pothouse politicians and discreditable
wire-pullers who manipulate politics.
A crusade is to be inaugurated. as
against Tweed in 1872.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

A MEMORIAL signed by some of the
most prominent shipowners, ship build
ers and lumber dealers of the Pacific
coast has been addressed to Congress,
asking that Hawaiian reciprocity
already with this country be not abro-
gated, as it would seriously interfere
with the interests represented by the
netitionerS.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

r. c. SAMSON, of Galena, ILL.,, one
of the twenty-seven cadets discharged
from the service under a ruling of
Secretary Chandler, has been ordered
to report for duty at Brooklyn, with
pay from July l, 1882, to March /.
1887 The other cadets have also
been restored to their positions.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
daily.

SENATOR HoAR, from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, has re-
ported favorably bill creating a COM
mission, to be appointed by the Presi-
dent, to select an accurate ballot-box
and counting device, which shall be
used in all Congressional elections.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

CAPTAN LEBo, of troop K, Tenth
colored cavalry, had an hours engage
ment with the hostiles recently in the
Pinyoe mountains, losing one killed
and one wounded. Three Apaches
were killed. Being unable to dislodge
the hostiles, Lebo withdrew his troops.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13

SINCE the strike in the coke regions
has been declared of, the Pennsylvania
road has been handling on its system
some nine hundred carloads of coke
I6nilrr
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

The only ordained clergyman in
Congress is Representative Anderson,
of Kansas.
Daily Republican., 1886-04-06
Twenty Years Ahead Of
Competition
SWEET & SherWood's
1888 Hand SeWed Shos.

The public, for the last few
years, have been swindled by
parties selling them all kinds Of
Machine Sewed Shoes and war
ranting them Hand sewed.
Therefore, to secure the public
from further imposition, SwEr1
& SHERWOOD offer
Daily Republican., 1886-04-06
wANAMAKER's.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, April q. 1889.
Easter cards are ready.

PHILADELPHIA. Tuesday, April O. 1889.
Easter cards are ready.
North of Thirteenth street door.
Flower subjects on ground
glass and other trifes. All
artists materials.
Basement, foot of center stairway.
Books just out are on a
table by themselves to be
looked at. What they are
and what they cost you read
in Book News for April, sc
(25c a year,. That table in
1.-THE bookstore is what BOOK
NEWS Is out of it. Put il
1.-THE other way. Book News
is what that tableful of new
hooks is: epitome OF what il
Igolng on in the literar,
lworld
All the books a bookstore
fought to keep are on on
shelves, with now and then ;
miss OF course ; and An,
Daily Republican., 1886-04-06
Aristocrat and Proletariat.

Secretary Whitney and his good
wife would have no objection to Lent
lasting all the year round, for during
this ,eason Tim" Rigney, who lives
in q shanty opposite, is supposed to
keep quiet. Secretary Whitney has
made every possible effort to buy the
Rigney property, Offering double what
1t Is worth, but when he told the owner
that he wanted to pull 1t down as it
was an eyesore, Gtgney was offended,
and swore that the R'gney house
should still be the home OF the Rig
neys for generations yet unborn. But
Mr.. Whitney's troubles did not end
here. He had reception one night, to
which the leading notables Of Wash
ington were invited. A scowl came
over his countenance when the gas
was turned on In his own residence, to
6nd every window In "rim's" resi-.
dence across the way lit up with tallow
dips. When the costly equipsges ar
rived in front of Mr.. Whitney's resi-.
dence, and ladies in rustling silks and
flashing diamonds truniled up the
marble steps, Irish cham bermaids,
scrub women, pickmen and street
scrapeIs arrived and were met with
genuine Irish hospitality by the owner
OF the Rigney shanty. Mr.. and Mrs.
whitney looked across the street at the
Rigney mansion as IL 1t was too hor-
lid for any thing," but it had to be en-.
dured. Glasses clinked In the Rigney
mansion in answer to the good chez
In the Whitney mansion. Aristocra
and proletariat were bent ON the enjoy,
ment, but real true enjoyment only
stirred the bosom OF the latter. Wher
near midnight the waltz commenced II
the Whitney mansion, and kept TIM
to the inspiring strains Of the delicat
music, fun also commenced 10 the Rig
ney home. The violin led the way 70
real genuine hoe-dowDs with sucl
hearty emphasis ON the Il 'or that tn
fner strains OF fashionable must
could not be heard over in the Whit
ney mansion, and when toe Whitne.
gathering TO * their carriages for home
the Rigney gathering was out in fore
equally expressive Of the good tim
they had. Whitnsy says he mus
stther buy out the higneys or get OF
OF the neighborhood, aud as the hea
Ktgney says no money will buy hi
ont. we suppose Mr.. Whitney wi
have to hunt some other place Vher
he will be secure from the vulgar pre-
Sace of the proletariat.
Daily Republican., 1886-04-06

MEssRs. Seidel and Hastings have
complied with the request OF their
workmen, and have raised their wages
ten per cent An samicable arrange
ment OF this kind between the employ.
ers and tho employees Is much better
than permitting strike 70 occur. The
men seemed to have q very strong ar
|gument In the statement that rolling
mills In Wilmington should pay a.
much ~ rolling mills in Coatesville,
and Mr.. Hastings promptly admitted
the strength Of the argument. When
this 10 the case there 10 no trouble be-
tween employers and employees coming
TO micable terms.
Daily Republican., 1886-04-06

IL 10 fortunate that the X Knights OF
Labor have such Q cool, level headed
man ct their head as Hon. I. v. Pow
dariy. His course through all these
Western and Southwestern troubles
has been moderate and conservative,
and had his counssls prevailed the rail-
roads would have ell been In full opera
ti0n before this time, and violence and
bloodshed would have been avoided.
Unfortunately Mr.. Powderly Ia sick, 90
sick that it has been deemed advisable
20 keep from him all information rs to
what 10 transpiring. II he could only
ret about, we have no doubt his infiu-
snce would be used TO bring the trou.
bies ON the Western railroads to an
early and yet honorable close.
knights Of Labor is high and hon
orable distinction. They have taken
under their guardian protection the In.
forests of the bread winners. II will be
for them to be just, moderate and i'm.
partial. The great majority Of the peo-
pie Of this country are laborers-by this
We mean those who earn their daily,
weekly or monthly pay by manual
labor. They are composed Of all ma
tionslittes, all scots and all degrees Of
Intelligence; though, owing to the hard
Lot OF labor, the uneducated and IN
learned amongst them are most numer-
ous. One common bond links this great
mass Of humanity together. However
much they may differ in all other re-
spects, they are laborers. The grand
objects OF the knights OF Labor is to
bring this great mass Of labor humanity
into common sympathy, that 1t might
protect itself from imposition aud clai %
an equitable share Of the profits Of com
bined labor and capital. This is GER
tainly q laudable object, one thai
should receive the hearty commenda-
tion OF all good citizens.
But the occurrences Of the last few
days out West show that the KING ut.
Of Labor should move cautiously and
slowly when great objects are to b,
accomplished. Mr.. Poxderly is the
head Of the order In the United Sta .es
and 1t Is supposed that his order.
should have teen respected. He saw
that the strike on the Texas Pacific
Ralroad, In q general sense, could 40;
be justifsd, and he ordered the men to
return to work after agreeing with the
on ,ials OF the rosd to arbitrate the
matter.
But here a new difficulty arose. The
places OF some Of the striking men hat
been fl led, and the railroad officials re
fused 10 take back the old hands, and
hence we are met with the ghastly re-
suits Of the Fort Worth troubles. The
diff guilty in this Western strike SEEM
TO be that the heads Of the order wer,
mot consulted 1t cannot, Of course, b,
expected that the heads OF the ordel
should be consulted when every littlt
local strike Is contemplated, but wher
It Affects A great railroad line, which
An turn affects other railroad lines anC
the general business OF the country
most assuredly the heads of the orde
should be consulted. We have n
doubt whatever that had this been don
the difficulty on the Texas Pacific woul
have been settled without strike tina
has resulted in such o great loss {
property and, worse still, loss Of life.