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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

DISCOUNT was weak in London during
the week ended January % at ~ for tire,
months and from sol for short On the
Stock Exchange business was inanimate
and dropping. The Irish question, baG
trade prospects and the war outlook in the
| East combined 30 unsettle business. Amer
lean railway securities were depressed
| throughout, closing at the lowest prices OF
the week under the reports of snow storms
stopping traffic.
1T was reported that an agreement had
been arrived at by the leaders of both par
ties providing for the admission of Dakota
Montana and Washington Territories. The
plan will be carried out in a few weeks.
ELEVEN bodies of the victims of the New
burg. W. Va, colliery explosion were re-
covered on the 9th.
GREECE has made an energetic protest
| against the decision of the Powers to dis
arm.
PARNELL has issued circular to the Ma
tionalist electors of Armagh requesting
them to vote for the Liberal candidate in
the Parliamentary election to FIJI the va
cancy caused by death of Mr. John Nc
Cane, LOyalist.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
January % showed an slcrease in New
York of 32.S compared with the correspond
ing week Of last year. The other cities of
the country also exhibited fair increases.
IL the Italian ChambeFeof Deputies, Sig
nor Maglini. Minister of Finance announced
deficit in the current budget of so, 0O0, 900
francs. The deficiency is due to the general
4 I, he hi
and the cost of maintaining the Massowah
expedition.
FIVE aged persons lost their lives the
other night by a fire at the county poor
house near jackson, Mich. The building
was destroyed.
CONGRESSMAN RANKIN, of Wisconsin, died
at Washington, of Bright's disease, on the
9th. He was born in New Jersey in 1888.
THE printer who attempted to take the
life of Estrupin. at Copenhagen, in October
last, has been sentenced to fourteen years
imprisonment.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, grocers have been in
dicted for working lottery scheme.
THE business failures for the seven days
ended January p, as reported to P G..
Dun & Co, number for the United States
3oS; for Canada, 20; a total of S29, as
against $50 the week previous. More than
two-thirds of the number were reported
from the Southern, Western and Pacific
States.
The Secretary of War has submitted to
the President the report of the FoTtifica-
lions Board 1t is a long document and
discusses fully the necessity and advan-
tages of better coast defences. 1t is estim-
ated that it will require S52, 6O0, 900 to estab.
fish good system of defences.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
rErsoyAL AND PoI1r1c.1.

Hon. z. E. WALTHALL and J. q. George
were reelected Senators from Mississippi
on the 18th.
THE Maryland Legislature in joint con-
vention on the Goth elected Henry Lloyd
Governor of Maryland for the term for
which Governor Robert N. McLane was
elected by the people. The two houses con-
firmed the election OF Hon. A. P. Gorman,
United States Senator, for six years from
the 4th of March, 1887.
THE Queens speech, at the opening of
Parliament on the 21st, took very decided
position against the home-rule demands OF
the Irish party. Repressive measures deal
ing with alleged lawlessness in Ireland were
also indicated.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN appeared
recently before the special Senate Commit
tee which is considering the proposal to
consolidate certain scientific bureaus Of the
Government, and expressed the opinion
that the Weather Bureau should be taken
from the control Of the War Department
and placed under civil law and duties.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
STOCK ITEM

The value Of hogs lost in Nebraska from
cholera during the past two years is
placed at S4,jO0OO0.
To clean your horses names Oh -ails from
dirt and dust put little kerosene on them,
and then wash them with borsx water,
which will prevent the hair coming out.
A leading swine grower of Illinois, who
has been at some pains to inquire as to
the facts, estimates that at least one
third of the hogs of Central Illinois have
died of hog cholera within the present
year.
General Benjamin F. Butler and Mr.
Jaynes, his partner, who own the celebrated
Hermosilla or Craig ranch in HuerfanO
County, Col, and which has been fenced at
a cost of several thousand dollars, will
stock it the coming spring with 5000
head of Indian Territory cows, the inten-
ton being to grade up the stock
S. P. Carpenter, of the Carpenter-Stanley
Cattle Company, whose ranch is at Fort
Cummings, has returned from Kansas with
300 head of fine high-grade heifers, which
are now on the company's ranges. Mr.
Carpenter very justly considers the quar-
antine fee of S1.00 on graded cattle an out
rage which can not be remedied too soon
for the best interests of the Territory
Sacer city ~ NJ Enterprise.
There has been a great deal of idiotic
nonsense uttered in the last five years by
those interested in their sale at fancy
prices about Red hogs being "cholera"
proof, but not one sane breeder or farmer
in a thousand of ordinary intelligence be-
lieves anything of the sort. The same
foolish claims have at some time or other
been made for each of the different breeds
Red hogs are subject to the same diseases
and the same mishaps that others are-no
less and probably no more.-KanSas City
Liye-StOck Indicator.
was much pleased to notice, one recent
cold day, that each reigbbor had all his
cattle shut in the stable. A few years ago
this would not have been so. 1t is surpris-
ing how many farmers cling to this Old
custom of keeping the cattle cold winter
days in the barnyard. Their fathers did it
for lack of stables and the sons and grand
sons do it because their fathers did. 1t
shows want of sense, or it is stupidity,
which amounts to the same thing, and the
result is cruelty to the cattle and double
cost to winter them.-COr. ". Y Tribune.
In a recent address on hog cholera before
the Kansas State Board Of Agriculture
State Veterinarian Holcombe stated that
he had Investigated the losses from the dis
ease in thirty-two counties of the State,
and if the proportion held good in the re-
manning counties Kansas lost during 1885
408, OGS head, worth, at Sc apiece, 81, AS, 405.
The entire mortality of the year is not, of
course, to be attributed to cholera, but the
from other causes does not much
exceed cIree per cent, or 1869 head,
worth s44l, 954. leaving the losses from
cholera at $1,000, 454, and he thought the
loss might even extend to S4,OoO,OOO.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
MINING TROUBLES.
Desperate Conflict With Hungarian Miners
In PennaYlYania.

In Pennsylvsnia.
PITTSBURGH. PA, January 2i.-A dis
patch from Mount Pleasant last night saws:
Sheriff Stewart and forty Deputies, and
Detective Brophy and twenty armed police
from Pittsburgh, had a desperate conflict
with $50 strikers this afternoon. Attack
ing the men at the Alice Works in the
morning. the rioters rested for dinner
and then maSsed at the Mutual Works near
Stoneyille. At this point negro, without
provOcaiiOn, fired at the Hungarans with a
shotgun, but failed to hit any of them.
They surrounded his house, dragged the
negro out, beat him fearfully and left him
for dead, with his skull fractured. He
probably will die. At three O'Clock tho
strikers passed up toward Norwood,
hOurishing every manner of weapon, from
revOlvers to case scrapers. They were
headed by Stephen StanniX the main agitator
in the strike. When they reached shaft "A, ;"
the MOrewOOd miners encountered sixty
two deputy sherffs and policemen drawn
up for battle. Detective BroDhy talked to
the foreigners, telling them that it was use
less to resist, and that they would arrest
the ringIeaders. BrOphy arrested one
striker, which opened the ball. The COM
OaL WIS udilu 10 NdUi, DuJ tue OIllcelS won,
arresting thirteen men and one woman,
who ware sent to jail at Greensburg. The
balance Tetreated. Over one hundred shots
were fired and seyeraI Iiungarians injured:
how badly it is not known as they were
carried away By their companions. Only
one officer was slightly hurt. The authOri-
ties, it is stated, have teegraphed TO Pitts
burgh for more officers. The strike is
Iniy inaugurated, and more blOOdshed
is feared. Some little excitement
Gas Oceasioned by a stupid report
that the Hungarians were acting under
orders from the Chicago lodge of Socialists
ard that dynamite taken from loves
magazine during the recent raid was to be
used in blowing up the cOmpany's property.
The story, however, was generally dis
credited. The strike is undoubtedly the
most dangerous in the history of the coke
industry, The operators have entirely a
different class OF men to deal with, as the
Hmgarians when drunk are unmanageable
and more like fiends than men. In former
strikes this element was not in the field,
and the operators had more intelligent men
to deal with. 4 feeling of insecurity pre-
walls, and citizens near the various threat
ened districts are arming themselves.
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TIE following STRANGE story is told

THE following strange story is told
by Henry J. Tolbert, an electrician of
Reading, Pa: The City of Reading is
furnished portion of its light by a
company which produces the electric
current by means of the Brush ma
chimes. Mr.. Tolbert says that he
visited the plant of the Reading Com
pany. and while looking at the brushes
gathering the sparks of the fluid a rat
came running over the floor. To es-
cape its human enemies it jumped di-
rectly to the floor on to one of the
brushes and was thrown back to the
ground. 1t lay motionless, apparently
and certainly dead. but without even q
hair turned. One of the employees was
sent with a shovel to gather it mp, but
as soon as the shovel touched it the rat
fell to dust, with little cloud of par
ticles rising from the place where its
body had seemingly lain. There was
no vestige of hair, flesh or bones re-
naming.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
GRAND ARMY GOSSIP.

Under the auspices Of Farragut Post, OK
Kansas City, an Evolutionary and musical
entertainment was recently given under
the direction of Miss Louise Hutchinson.
Farragut Post No. 3, of Kansas City, held
open house at Arion Hall the other after
noon and evening, music, dancing, re-
marks and an abundant supply Of eatables
being the order of the day
Department Commander Cole, of Ne
braska, invites proposals for the State re-
union of 1886. Localities competing are to
furnish grounds, water, ice, hay, transport
tation for tents. ETC., etc, free.
Michael Fitzmaurice, one of the long-suf-
fering veterans, died at Topeka recently in
destitute circumstances, and was buried by
General Rice Post of which he was a mem
Der He was born in Ireland in 1928.
Blue Post, of North Topeka, Kan, recent
" had public installation, followed by q
public installation of the Woman's Relief
Corps, a social dance and supper. The
opera house was Hastily and periodically
decorated
The members of General Rice Post and
woman's Relief Corps, of Topeka, with the
representatives from Blue Post and
Woman's Relief Corps met the other night,
and after the transaction of other business,
each decided upon holding a charity fair
and appointed an executive committee to
cooperate with like committees from all
other G.. A. r. Posts in the county.
man named James Stewart was re-
Gently sent to the hospital at Omaha who
claimed that he had been treated heart
81 4 ID hat
he had been Colonel of a New York regi-
ment and when confronted with proof to
the contrary he concluded that he had been
a Major of another regiment, but heproved
really to be an impostor and fraud the
most charitable conclusion arrived at was
that the man was demented.
Post Department Commander Walkin-
shaw, of Kansas, in reply to the recent in
quiry, 'has g. A. r. post any right to
pass resolutions in regard to political ap-
pointments or combinations" answered
negatively, and that lit is very bad taste,
as well as a violation of the rules and regu-
lations to do so. The objects of the G. A.
R. are to perpetuate the memory and his
tory of our dead comrades, who lost their
lives in defense of our country, and to care
for the widows and orphans, and train up
our children to love and honor the flag OF
our country that cost so much blood and
treasure, to honor our constitution and our
laws, and protect our own country's flag
No society or church stands on the broad
platform of the G. a. R., composed of men
of all nations, conditions and color; all
citizens of one common country. 1t COM
mands the respect of the church and State,
and is honored by our late enemies as well,
and the fact that the late armies now
fraternize in reunions, show their respect
for each, as men who fought for principle
and not power. Every member is allowed
to vote, speak and write as he wishes on all
questions, but has no right to use the
organization in any way other than the
objects above stated"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
ADvIcEs from Washington state tn at

ADvICES from Washington state tn at
the Interior Department has rendered
n decision that hot-water privileges for
bath houses outside of the Hot Springs,
(Ark.) reservation can not be granted.
The decision, it was reported, would
be disappointment to large number
at Hot Springs. There was an almost
general desire for the establishment of
bathing establishments in different
parts of the city outside of the Govern
ment reservation, upon which most of
the bath houses are now located. The
Superintendent of the reservation, Gen
eral C. w. Field, in his report to the
Secretary Of the Interior, recommended
granting water privileges to two bath
!. houses south of the reservation.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
IT is understood that the represent

IT is understood that the representa-
tives of the Pennsylvania, Baltimore &
Ohio, Lake Shore, Lake Erie, New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio and Tuscarawas
Valley roads, who We're in session at
Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, with refer
ence to an equitable distribution of iron
ore and coke, agreed to hereafter re-
fuse passes on account of freight, with
one OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES who come
in with their cattle will get return
pass homeland no coke, coal, iron ore
manufacturers-in short, no freight
shippers will this year get passes.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
ALARM IN THE COKE REGIONS.

The Strike Assumes Enormous Proportions
-Hungarians and Americans Fraternize.
MOUNT PLEASANT, PA, January e.
While the mass meeting of strikers was in
progress yesterday afternoon. the police car
came up and was stopped a short distance
away. The miners left the meeting and
surrounded the car, threatening to mob the
officers. For time affairs looked squally,
but through the prompt action of the Rev.
Father Landing, Catholic priest,
who addressed the strikers, cOunseling
moderation, serious riot was averted and
the miners dispersed. Since Thursdays
convention the strike has assumed enOr
nous proportions, aud may be said to be the
greatest struggle between labor ard capital
ever known in the coke regions from
the number of men engaged in the strike,
the extent of territory covered, and
the value of the interests at stake.
Over 5000 men are now out and nearly
every works in the Connelsville district is
idle. The strikers of all races held mass
meeting last night and the Hungarians and
Americans frateTniZed and organized for
future wOrK. Similar action has been taken
throughout the whole region.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
TWO SENATES.
Ruling of the Chair Causes q Rupture OF
the Ohio Senate.

COLUMBUS, o., January 23-The Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections made a
report in the Senate yesterday asking fur
Their authority to make the investigation
and minority of the committee to be re-
lieved from further consideration of the
contest cases, and that the matter be
brought back to the Senate. On the
adoption of the minority report and all
other motions relating thereto, the Chair
held that the four Hamilton Coun-
ty members could not vote The
Democrats refused TO vote, and the Chair
declared the report adopted by the seventeen
Republican votes. which he ruled to be the
majority. Under his ruling the feeling
grew intense, and while numerous motions
and appeals were being made, the
Lieutenant Governor put the motion
and declared tine Senate recessed. Presi-
dent pro TEN. O'Neil took the chair, and the
Democrats then reversed part of tbs Fro
ceedings. The Senate adjourned to four
p. m. Monday. The Republican portion of
the Senate adjourned to this morning at
ten a. III. instead OF taking a recess. There
are virtually two Senates at the present
time, each eOntending for authority. There
is great deal of speculation as 10 what
will be the further proceeding. The Oppos-
ing sides have been in caucus. but the
programme of proceeding on the part of
either has not been made public The Re
pubicans will meet this morning, but will
not have working majority. About all
the Democrats left for their homes last
night, and it is doubtful if any Of them
will respond in the morning. 1t is
suggested that about the only course
to be pursued is to adjourn from
day to day and compel the attendance Of
members. IL would be impossible to pro-
coed to the consideration Of the contest
cases in the open Senate until the Lieuten-
ant Governor should hold that in the con-
sideratiOn of these cases the seventeen Re-
publican members constitute a majority
against the twenty Democrats, including
the Hamilton County members.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
A Fatal ScaroldinS Accident.

RooD HOUSE, ILL, January 2S.-Thomas
Hamilton, a carpenter at work on the new
Chicago e Alton bridge over the Illinois
River at Pearl, ILL.,, was precipitated into
the stream, a distance of thirty-fiye feet, by
the breaking of scaffold, about 4: 80 yes
terday afternoon. In falling his head
struck beam, which stunned him so that
he drowned in the icy water, though skiff
reached the spot in two minutes. He was
thirty-three years of age, unmarried and
his home was at Glasgow, Mo. The Chi
cago & Alton is now working big force of
men on this bridge night and day.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
Feted Atmosphere.

Sr. LOUIS, January 20.-DE A. B.
Nichols. whose Office is at No. 226 Olive
street, was surprised last night to receive a
note from his nephew. F. Flint, 4 student
in the Missouri Medical College, dated from
the St Louis hold-over, and re.
questing assistance in escap-
ing from the fetid atmosphere
of that place. Accompanied by Z. j.
Bliss. an attorney, DR.. Nichols went to the
four courts, where he found the student
was he'd OH the charge of petty larceny.
He secured his release by identifying the
boy and then got a somewhat singular
story from him as TO his arrest.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28
A BRACE OF THIEVES.
One Jumps His Bond, the Other Sentenced
for Five Years.


for Five Years.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, January 23.-Sev-
eral weeks ago W. S. Hall, son of Rev.
Thomas Hall, of Bloomfield, KY, and John
S. Dorsey, of Virginia, came to this city
from Louisville. They became acquainted
with leading society young men and were
introduced into the best families. On jan
uary 9TH they were arrested for stealing ar
tces from acquaintance and business
houses, Hall being taken into custody as
he left the residence of prominent citizen
some days ago. Hall gave bond and was
released from Jail, but Dorsey was without
friends and remained behind the bars.
Their cases were called in the Criminal
Court to-day, when it was discovered that
Hall had fled, and his bond of $500 was
declared forfeited and the Governor was re-
Quested to offer a reward of $500 for his
arrest. The Governor declined on account
of the scarcity of public funds. Dorsey was
tried on two cases and was given five years
Imprisonment. He was committed to the
penitentiary last evening. 1t is believed
Hall has gone to Mexico via st. Louis.
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Desperate Efforts.

New ORLEANS, January 2O.-The hang
ing of Pat Ford and John Marphy for the
murder of Captain Murphy is indefinitely
postponed. The prisoners are allied to the
powerful political ring which rules the
State and its chiefs are moving heaven and
earth 10 secure a Communication of the SEN
tenee. The State Board of Pardons, CON-
posed of Lieutenant Governor Clay Knob
lock, Attorney General NJ. j. Cunningham
and the Judge who tried the case in this in
stance. Judge Joshua Baker, has already
passed on the application for communication
and refused to recommend it, but the case
will be brought up again and all influence
possible will be used in their favor.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

Mr.. SHoENHOF, American Consul at
the English POtteries, in an interview
recently expressed his belief that the
decrease in the British exports of pot
terry was due to the depression in the
pottery trade in America as much as
to the high tariff. He added that the
pottery market in America was Quilted
by purchasers from England in 1883,
previous to the raising of the tariff.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

NJ. DELEssEPs stated at a meeting in
Paris of the promoters of North Afri-
can INLAND sea that Captain Landas had
gone to survey the Tunisian oasis. On
M. DeLesseps' return to Paris from
Panama in April next company will
be formed to carry out the project of
creating the sea.
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WASHINGTON, January ga joint
meeting of the Senate and House Commit
tees on Commerce is being held to-day for
the purpose of hearing arguments upon the
Eads ship railway scheme. The measure
in furtherance of this projected enterprise
has made its appearance this year under
the title of "a bill to incorporate the Allan
tic & Pacific Ship Railway 1t provides
for guarantee on the part Of the United
States of $500, 900 annually for a period
of fifteen years, making the aggregate of
the guarantee S37, 500, 600.
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A PARTY of hunters who were re-
Gently in the Rocky Mountains have
returned to Bismarck, D. T. They re-
port that in many of the valleys the
snow is over twenty-five feet deep, and
trappers and hunters predict heavy
floods in the spring, and an immense
June rise in the Missouri when the
SHOWS melt.
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There is an sir of decay abor

There is an sir of decay about
Pekin which extends eTen to its tenn
pies. The number of its population is
not accurately known, but, according
to Chinese estimate, which is proba-
bly, i'll excess, it is 100000, of whom
goo, 900 reside in the Tartar, and 40O,-
GOO in the Chinese city. There is no
direct foreign trade with Pekin, and
the small population is made up of the
members of the various legations, the
maritime customers, the professors at
the college and the missionary body.
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The ceremony of blessing the Neva
River was performed at ST. Petersburg
on the 18th of January with all the
gorgeous display of former years. The
Gar and Czarina participated and
showed their confidence in the people
by appearing amid the great crowd
without special military escort.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-28

TUE Pan Electric Telephone Com
pany put their telephone system in
operation at st. Louis the other day
and gave an exhibition of its workings.
1t differs in several respects from other
telephones and includes aplan by which
communication may be had by anybody
by paying a toll of nickel.
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SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, JANUARY 2S.-Three
dynamite consp.rators were to-day SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment. They
were: Ester. Millerstadt and Chrissman.
The crime of which they were found guilty
was conspiracy to blow up tie Chinese
who favor employing Cinnamon.