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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
CORRUPT ALDERMEN.
-Four Additional Hiew York Aldermen A
rested for Receiving BriFeS.

Four Additional Gew York Aldermen Ar
rested for Receiving Brihes.
NEW YORK. April 3.-Alderman Full
graft was arrested Yesterday morning on a
bench warrant by a central Office detective
on the charge of bribery in connection with
the passage OF the Broadway surface rail-
way franchise, and was taken to the dis
trict attorneys Office. Fulgrad walked
into the district attorneys Office closely
long interview with the district attorney,
FuIgraff was taken before the grand
jury. EXAiderman Kirk spent the
night in cell at the police
headquarters, sitting up all night
with his head in his hands brOOding over
his troubles. After the eX-alderman had
breakfasted he was taken to the district
attorneys Office, where he was given a pri-
vate room. Soon after ex-Alderman Waite
drove up in carriage, accompanied by two
of his assistant attorneys, and entered the
building. Ex-Alderman Finck shortly
afteTward made his appearance in company
with 4 detective and entered one of the
rooms of the district attorney'S 5 office AL
though the district attorney persists in
stating that eX-Alderman Waite is not :;
prisoner, he is guarded closely. The grand
jury has returned indictments for bribery
against Aldermen Kirk and Pearson. Kirk
was released on $4,000 bail and Pearson
was required to furnish the same bond.
EX-Alderman Waite is in charge of lnspec-
tor ByTne. EX-Alderman Pearson was re-
leased on bail, his brother. Alexander,
Justfying in the sum of c50.000. The Den-
atty for the Oifense is ten years i'm
prisOnment or $1,000 fine, or both,
in the discretion of the court. The
political organizations are casting out
those connected with the Broadway surface
road scandal. At a meeting of the Tam
many committee organization last night
the designations of eX-Alderman Kirk, Full
graft and Charles \. Dempsey and Billy
MalODey We're rendered and accepted. The
County Democracy executive committee
last night passed resolutions calling on the
district committees to retire all persons
from the organization in any way connected
with the steal
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
THE Fast

A DOG catcher of Newark, n J., was re-
ported down with hvdrophobia.
THE employees of the Grand Trunk rail-
way in London, Ont, decided to reject the
offers for a partial restoration of wages
and to demand a return to full pay.
RECENT specials from New York report
the sinking of the Capital City steamship
of the Hartford and New York line, at Rye
Beach, and also the stranding of the Ger
man steamer Europa off Quogue.
THE Philadelphia street railway presi-
dents have agreed to 81 a day of twelve
hours.
THE Boston TRANSCRIPT announces the
practical conclusion of the arrangement
by which the AtchisOn. Topeka Il Santa Fe
road controls the Gulf, Colorado q Santa
Fe and a road built to connect the system
THE New York Board of Aldermen re
Gently presented engrOSsed resolutions on
the death of General Grant. to Mrs. Grant.
when she told them the Generals remains
would never be removed from Riverside
with her consent.
JAMES p. KIRK and Charles B. Waite ex-
New York aldermen. have been arrested
on bribery charges. 1t was believed Waite
was the man who offered i'll letter to turn
informer.
THE police force of Troy, y. Y, was re-
ported in danger of disruption on account
of revelations in the Bill Porter and Mike
Kurtz diamond robbery case.
ALDERMAN FULGRAFF has been added to
the list of New York aldermen in Jail for
accepting bribes TO promote the Broadway
surface railway.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
THE LATEST

CLEARING house returns for week ended
April 3 showed an average increase of 42.0
compared with the corresponding week of
last year In New York the increase was
53.5.
THE United States grand jury at San
Francisco has found indictments against
eight prominent citizens OF California for
subOrnation of perjury, in the case of
fraudulent entries of redwood lumber land
in Humboldt County. The names of three
are Joseph Russ, David Evans and Charles
II. King, who collectively represent - 0OO,-
OCO capital The names of the other tive
were not yet known, bu5 they were all said
to be wealthy men.
\ MEMBER of the German Reichstag has
been summoned to appear before the courts
for violating the law which forbids any
member of the Reichstag to belong to q
secret society.
ALL the freight brakemen on the st.
Louis division CT the Louisville & Nash
vile railway struck work recently for =
cents per mile each way, instead of $50 per
month
AMERICAN securities were fairly steady
in the European bourses during the week
ended April 3.
y sERIo,s riot over the railroad strike
took place at Fort Worth, Tex. on the
morning of the I'd. In a fight for the pos
session of freight train, two officers were
fatally shot and one of the mob was killed.
For time the aspect of affairs was alarm
ing, but the citizens gradually restored
quiet
The Senate was not in session on the Cd.
II ~
tion bill by I95 to %. A discussion on sill
yer followed the passage of the Labor bill.
GEORGE SCoyILLE, the lawyer. kas been
locked up bv his divorced wife (Guiteau's
sister for neglecting to pay alimony.
Mis-. MARIA ?. EVANS, who figured con-
spicuOusly before the courts as !egatee Of
the estate of Myra Clark Gaines, under an
alleged viii OF Mrs Gaines, was arrested
recently in New Orleans charged with ut
tering a forged will.
THL Ficeroy of Kwangsi denies the report
that China viii make reprisalS for the out
RACES on Cinnamon in america unless coI--
penSated.
II the suit of the ex-priest y. P. Stack vs..
Bishop O'Hara, of Philadelphia, 1t was de-
cided that the Bishop could not be sued for
neglecting to assign the priest TO a charge.
TIE English University boat race was
won by the Cambridge crew by half
length on the Sd. Tee course was from
Putney TO NOrtlake, On the Thames.
NUsiBER of members OF Congress, in
Guiding Judge Perkins, OF Kansas, were at
the meeting of the House Agricultural
Committee recently when Joseph Il. Reail. /
president of the American Dairymen's As. /
sociation, made an arglmen. in favor OF 1
taxing bogus butter making.
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TEE principal feature of the Missouri Pa
cific strike on the Both was the consent of
Il. n. Hoxie, Vice-President of the com
pany, to meet a committee of the men TO
arbitrate the differences. At Kansas City
a train was switched off the track and some
of the cars were wrecked. One of the sup
posed guilty parties was shot in the leg by
an officer while resisting arrest. AT Par
sons, Kan, passenger train was wrecked
and Mail Agent Moore was seriously in
jured.
| FOURTEEN persons were seriously injured
by the train jumping the track on the Air
line between Huntingburg and Ferdinand,
Ind, on the 31st.
THE Merchants Hotel, Carver, MINI,
was destroyed by fire the other morning
and two men were burned to death in their
beds
The United States grand jury has re-
turned indictments against Nathan L..
| Baker and Allen White, leaders, and seven
others of the mob that drove the Chinese
out of Oregon City on the morning of Feb
ruary %.
AT North Fairfield, O., the other night,
Jerome Stevens, a prominent farmer, was
shot and mortally wounded by thief
whom he caught stealing grain.
THE bill appropriating $4,000 for the ex-
penses of the Iowa exhibit at the New Or
leans Exposition was defeated in the lower
house of the Iowa Legislature.
THE Indiana Colonization Society organ
ized at Brazil, Ind, was preparing to found
new State in Liberia, to be known as In
diana.
Four men were drowned near Readsboro,
Y. T., recently by the giving away of
bridge.
The strike on the Missouri Pacific was by
no means settled on the 1st. The Knights
of Labor issued an address to the public
claiming that in seeking a settlement as
agreed upon with Gould and Hoxie. they
were everywhere snubbed by the railroad
officials on one excuse or another. \ Bit
ter feeling of animosity was reported ex-
listing.
TWELVE hundred graders on the new
line of the Chicago, Burlington e. North
western railway struck on the 1st for an
advance in wages of p cents per day.
The st. Paul railroad cut freight rates
to St Paul and Minneapolis from Chicago
on the 1st nearly 80 per cent. The other
lines did not respond openly.
The wives of Governor Larabee, of Iowa,
Lieutenant Governor Hall, and many mem
bers of the State Legislature, have formed
society agreeing not to wear birds
plumage on their hats.
THE schooner J. H. Congdon was wrecked
off Point Keys, forty miles north of San
Francisco, recently, and her crew lost. The
supposition was that the vessel struck
hidden rock. An examination of the
wreck, however showed that the schooner
had been struck amidships and cut almost
in two, evidently by a steamer or some
other craft going at high rate of speed.
The Aquena was supposed TO have been
the vessel in collision and fears for her
safety were felt.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
THE SOUTH.

THREE tramps entered box car near
Wills Point, Tex, recently, and kindled
fire to make coffee. The car caught fire
and was consumed with eight bales of cot
ton, which were loaded for shipment. Two
of the tramps were arrested. The other es-
capped.
A RECENT dispatch from Key West, Fla,
says: The United States frigate Brooklyn
has arrived here from Aspinwall. The
United States frigates Tennessee, Gaiena,
Yantic and Swatara have sailed for Pensa
cola.
Two million dollars of English capital
are to be invested in iron manufacture at
Birmingham, Ala.
A NUMBER OF buildings were damaged
and four small houses destroyed by sud
den wind at Helena, Ark, on the afternoon
of the 29th. No one was injured.
HEAVY floods and much destruction of
property were reported in Alabama and
Tennessee on the 30th.
FIRE started in the st. Clair Theater at
Key West, Fla, early on tine morning of
the 30th An immense area was swept by
the flames, the loss being put down at
81, 100000. Insurance only about 100000.
A CYCLONE recently swept across a por-
ton of Bullock County, Ala, and in its
path struck a negro church in which a fu-
neral was going on. The church was blown
down and four persons were killed and ten
badly injured.
A DISPATCH from Franklin, La, of the
3Oth says: The steamer Mary Lewis of the
Morgan Line was sunk last night by collid-
inc b,iI pbaf lox
river a mile and a half below Patterson
vile. The engineer, pilot and two negro
deck hands were lost. To-day the steamer
Barmore went TO the scene of the wreck to
save the cargo and machinery and was
engaged in this work when her boiler ex-
ploded. Two men were very seriously
wounded and four were drowned.
THE American exhibition at New Or
leans closed on the 3lst. The Worlds EX-
position Company at once filed bill in
the courts for the possession of the build
ings on which $500 is still due.
THE Arkansas State Democratic conven-
ton will be held at Little Rock June 30.
THE main building of the Little Rock
Cooperage Company in Argenta, Ark,
burned the other day together with all
material. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $500
THE river at Lexington, Va, was report
ed eight feet higher than ever known be-
fore on the lSt and still rising.
THE food on the James river inundated
that portion of Richmond, Va, known as
Rockets to the depth of eight or ten feet
on the 1st. Rivers nearly everywhere in
the South were bank high and Overflowing
The Ohio was also reported on a boom.
T. j. DABNEY, highly connected man of
Georgia, was sent to prison at Atlanta re-
Gently for six months for fraudulent use OF
the mails.
JUDGE JOHN BANTER, ofKnoxville, Tenn,
died recently at Hot Springs, Ark, after
an illness of only a few hours. He was
sixty-seven years old, and was appointed
by President Hayes in 1877 to succeed
Judge II. H. Emmons.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
GENERAL.

THE story about two women fighting a
duel on the field of Waterloo is declared to
be Fantastic invention"
The British Government proposes to
make experiments in the production of to-
bacco.
The Pope has decided that Tory Catbo-
lies of England may join the Primrose
League, despite Bishop BagShawe's violent
denunciation Of that order.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has given S2500 for a
monument over the grave of DR.. Nachtigal,
the German explorer, in Siberia
TEE Belgian Republican League of Paris
recently called a meeting of the Belgian
workinglnen of France to assist their
brethren in Belgium.
DISPATCHES from Belgium of the Both re-
ported the troubles in the mining regions
quieting down.
News was received in Paris recently that
the natives of Senegal in rebellion against
the French authority have resorted to open
warfare. In recent attack the rebels
killed nine French soldiers and wounded
;hirty-two. ReinforcemeutS were being
fitted out at Toulon
By the falling OF the roof of theater in
Heronlal, Japan, February >, $50 persons
were killed or injured.
ALL the carpenters. g,ez;ers and turner's
in Basic, Switzerland. struck recently in
consequence of the refusal OF the masters
TO reduce the working day 10 ten hours.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
THE SOUTHERN FLOODS.
Immense Loss of Property by the Late
Southern Floods.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April S.-Specials
indicate the most terrible distress and loss
of life in Southern Alabama Railroad
traffic is completely blocked and no trains
are running on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad south of Birmingham. The Queen
& Crescent route is washed out so as 10
stop travel between Meriden. Miss. and
Chattanooga, Tenn. The Georgia road is
also bad washed. 1t will probably be ten
days before trains are running. The Ala
Oama river has OverflOwed its banks and
covers the country with a wild waste of
water. Numbers of people have been res
cued from the tree tops, where. they climbed
TO save their lives, and many from rafts
which are floating down the numerous
streams. Thousands of carcasses OF cattle
are seen in the Tennessee. The river has
OverfiOwsd and the bottoms are covered
with water. The destruction of the wheat
crop in the Cumberland lOwlandS will pos
sibly amount tO S5C0,600, necessitatng a
second plowng of the ground and the
planting OF corn or some other product
The flood IS tire greatest for years, and if
the rains continue The loss of property will
be terrible.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, April S.-A special
to the AdCcTiiSer states that the Warrior,
the CoOsa, and the TalIapOOsa rivers are
falling. Thousands of horses, mules, cattle
and hogs have been swept away. Corn,
cotton seed and provisions in reach of the
flood were destroyed. \ relief boat brought
large number of people who had been in
peril and were without food for three days.
On the farm employing State cOnvictS, WA
Ter Hooded the quarters. The president Of
the board OF inspectors made his
way with boats Ia imperiled places
and got them off in safety. So
far the reports OF drowning in va
riOus portions of the State foot up nine, all
cOlOred but one. -Four were women and
three children in a cabin on the Capiba
river, IL floating off with them. The water
| is two feet deep at the Union DepOt and
from there to Alabama river the bridge of
the north and south road is almost a con-
tinuOuS sheet of water. A special from
Opelika says Johnson Bridges. engineer of
the construction train which went down on
the IaliapOOSa river, died after his leg was
ampuiated. Six hands on the same railroad
died from injury or were drowned. Viewed
from the dome of the capitol the highest
point in the vicinity, the surrounding coun-
try is lake of water to the north and west
fully ten miles.
LOUISVILLE, KY. April 2-The river
here has reached the danger line and is still
rising rapidly. The atmosphere is coudr.
Rain Will cause additional alarm. The
streams throughout the State, particularly
the Kentucky and the Cumberland rivers,
are very high.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
WASHINGTON NOTES.

RECENT combinations by the Senate in
clude William L. Alden, of New York, as
Consul General at Rome: Charles T. Rus
sell, of Connecticut, as Consul at Liver
pool, vice S. Packard suspended; Samuel
7. Corn, as Associate Justice of Wyoming
Territory.
SENATOR CULLOM has introduced in the
Senate bill appropriating S5OOO0O for the
erection of a monument to Abraham Lin
coin.
THE correspondence of the State Depart
ment relating to Chinese immigration has
been sent to the Senate. 1t is very volumi-
nous, but contains little of fresh interest.
SENATOR DOLPH has introduced in the
Senate the bill introduced by Mr. Golf in
the House to grant pension to Mrs Octave
Pavy, the widow of the arctic explorer in
the Greely expedition.
THE House Committee on Labor has re-
ported favorably Mr.. LAWYERS bill to ap-
propriate $1,000 for special commission to
investigate labor troubles in the West.
The internal revenue collections of the
past eight months aggregate SO. .15S, 200, an
increase of 81, ,416,3SS over, the receipts for
the corresponding time last year
SECRETARY MANNING was reported by his
physician on the 1st as improving in health
slowly.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
has agreed to report favorably the bill au-
thorizing the President to arrange CON
ference for the purpose of encouraging
commercial relations between the Ameri-
can republics.
TIE President has approved the act au-
thorizing the appointment of an Acting
Assistant Treasurer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
a Summary Of the Daily News.
CONGRESS.

THE Senate was not in session on the
9th The session of the House was de-
voted entirely to debate on the silver Ques-
ton.
AFTER routine morning business in the
Senate On the 9th, Mr.. Logan's Army bill was
laid before the Senate, and a letter was read
from General Sherid an favoring the proposed
increase in the army. Mr. Plumb opposed
the bill. Mr.. Logan strongly advocated the
nill. Pend ng consideration the Senate went
into executive session and then adjourned
IN the House many bills and resolutions were
Introduced, among them resolution by Mr.
Curtin providing for special committee OF
i've to investigate as TO the cause of the
I.reSent labor troubles. Several committees
reported on bills, and after routine business
The House adjourned.
AFTER routine business the Senate on
fhe 3)th proceeded with the consideration of
the bill to increase the efficiency of the army,
debate on which continued until adjourn
.Ient... The House, in Committee of the
Whole, considered at length the Post-ofice
Appropriation bill. When the committee
rose the House adjourned.
THE Army bill was again placed before
the Senate on the 31st. when the details of the
bill were discussed. considerable time being
90 occupied. Mr.. Vance addressed the SEN
ate in support of the bill TO repeal the civil
service law. Mr.. DolDh addressed the Senate
n support of the bill for the admission of
on these measures, when the Senate went
INTO executive session, after which it adj
jOurned In the House Mr.. O'Nell, of Mis-
souri,, from the Committee on Labor, reported
a bill 10 provide for the speedy settlement of
controversies and differences between com
mon carriers engaged in interstate and ter
ritOrial transportation of property or passen-
gers and their employees. The House went
into Committee of the Whole on the bill. the
tenor of the remarks being that the principle
of arbitration as involved in the bill was of
TOO voluntary nature TO be of any effect.
Pending discussion the comrittee rose. Mr..
Willis. of Kentucky, reported the River and
Harbor bill The report of the majority on
The Hurd ROmeis election case was submit
ted, and Mr.. Martin, of Alabama. obtained
leave To file a minority report. The House
then adjourned.
IL the Senate, on the 1st, the bill to
provide for the erection of a S5OG,CO0 monu-
ment to Abraham Lincoln at Washington was
passed. The bill to admit Washington Terri
tory as State was considered. On motion
of Mr.. Edmnnds the Senate adjourned until
the 5th.--.The House was in Committee of
the Whole on the Labor Arbitration bill
Debate lasted nearly all day, and soon after
the committee rose the House adjourned.
The Senate was not in session on the ID.
Consideration of the Arbitration bill was
resumed in the House. and the entire day was
occupied i'm debate. The fifth section of the
bill was reached, and, pending consideration.
the House took recess until evening. At
the evening session thirty five pension bills
passed,
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81. LOUIS, April deputy United
States marshals are stationed along the
river front in Last ST.. Louis to-day, from
the Wabash yards to the Carr street
ferry, and two mars!Ials on the
ferry wharf. This array of author
ity is meant to protect all team
Sters who desire TO haul freight to
or from the Wabash yards. Tie only team
ing being donc is by coal men, who have
twenty or thirty wagons at work and are
getting coal 10 This side of tile Tiver as fast
as tIiey eau. This Is The only coal coming
flom East s. Louis today, and the bulk of
il = iri..s handled by Henry Mueller, who
j, sending it 20 Lemp's and AnEeuser's
L:tWSrii.S.
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A New Colorado Railroad.

FORT KEOGH, Mont, April 2.-Mon-
tana is booming with new railroad
schemes this year. Articles of incOr--
poratiOn were filed Wednesday with Re-
cOrder Lee at Billings, ClarS's Fork and
Cook City Railroad Company. The capi-
til stock is placed at 81 900, COO in 80,
600 shares at 800 each. Tie new rOaG
will open up the Clark FORK mining dis
trict, and also give :: northern outlet To
the new oil fields in Southern Montana
and North Wyoming. George v. Simms,
of New York, and Henry Kelly, of Phiia-
delDhia, are amoEg the incorporators.
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GERONIMO'S TREACHERY.
The Apache Chief Notorious For Treacher
CraTtiness and FaithlessDess.

CraTtiness and FaithlessDess.
TOMBSTONE, Ariz., April 2.-General
Forsythe, commanding officer at Fort Hua-
chuca, who arrived here to-day, made
known the startling fact that at the first in-
terview which General Crook had with the
hOstilrS Thursday last, Geronimo had
band of men ready to fire or all white men,
including Crook, at a signal. GeronimO's'
failure to keep his promise OF surrender at
Fort Bowie is ascribed TO the fact that
having so much blood to answer for
he could expect no cemency and therefore
preferred life in the mountains to pros
pect of hanging at the hands of the authOr-
tiles. The hOStiles had 200 rounds of AM
munitiOn each. General FOrSythe said it
it was impossible to fat!lOm GerOnimO'S in-
tentons and it is an open question whether
he will 20 south to join Mangas or remain
north 10 iarrAss the frontier. Geronimo is
a man of fifty-twO years of age, crafty,
treachernus and mercjleSS. This is the
thiri ,Ime he has proven faithless.
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LATcAsTEII y. H., April 2.-Y Yesterday
morning the ice in IsraePs river formed a
big Jam below the Mechanic street bridge,
and caused the river to be partially turned
from its course. One-half the stream ran
down Mechanic street. carrying huge cakes
OF ice with it, and all the houses in
that section were flooded. The SIe%art
House, a small hotel. was flooded. brE the
occupants were rescued from the second
story. Dynamite is being used to Eeak
the jam. but with little success. and it is
feared that jam which has formed SIX
miles further up the river Will break and
that the flood used thereby will destroy
all the buildings on Mechanic street.
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The gentleman who committed
suicide the other day in the Quarter
st. German called the attention of his
servant to the fact that he was about
to leap through the open window.
just when he had done so there came a
knock ut the door A friend came in
and asked the servant: Where is
your master?' lie has just gone out,
sir. was the calm reply Of the valet,
pointing to the window. - London
GLOJe.