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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

! GOVERNOR EDMUND MCCCRTIN, of the
| Choctaw Nation, has issued a proclamation
declaring all freedmen of his Nation, who
registered under the registration act, Ell
titled to vote the same as Choctaws by
blood.
Mrs. ROsE GARFIELD CLEMENS, wife of
Samuel NJ. Clemens, better known as
"Mark Twain,' died in Jacksonville, Fla,
recently of consumption.
THE lower house of the Prussian Landtag
has adopted the bill for expropriating the
land of the Poles in Posen and colonizing
the province with Germans.
IT was reported at Washington that Sec
retary Lamar had requested the resigna-
tion of Commissioner Sparks and revoked
his celebrated land order of April 3, 1855.
Mr.. GLADSTONE introduced his scheme
for an Irish Parliament in the British House
of Commons on the Sth. Mr.. Gladstone
was received with considerable enthusiasm
and made a mastery speech in defense of
his project.
IL the New York Senate a resolution ask
ing Government aid to the amount OF
S5,OO0,0O0 for the Improvement of the Erie
and other canals was defeated.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has formally ac-
cepted the five years limitation on his
Governorship of Eastern Roumelia.
CYRUS FIELD and Lieutenant Governor
Ames. of Massachusetts,, had personal
encounter over Ames' testimony in the
New York q New England hearing in Bos-
ton the other day.
THE Italian ministry resigned on the Sth.
1t was formed June %, 1855, with Depretis
as president.
THE Committee of the French Chamber of
Deputies on Customs Duties has voted in
favor of imposing duty Of francs on for
eign maize, excepting such as is used in
making starch.
THE Iowa Legislature passed a joint res
olution on the 9th sympathizing with the
efforts of the Irish people to obtain home
rule and ordering a dispatch to Mr.. Parnell
expressing best wishes for the success of
Mr.. Gladstone's efforts.
THE Gladstone scheme for the govern
ment of Ireland occasioned various COM
ments. Parnellites in the House Justify
cheered it as Gladstone unfolded it, but
many prominent Irishmen and European
statesmen thought it defective.
BURNS, the Socialist leader, in defending
himself and his colleagues during their
trial on the charge of having iRcited the
Trafalgar Square riots, in London, said
that the occasion demanded strong lam
guage. He contended that if the language
for which he and the other defendants
were being tried was seditious then the
speech of Mr.. Gladstone in the House of
Commons when he proposed the disintegra-
tion of the empire, was also seditious'
THE Senate, by a vote of Sc to S, has
passed with unimportant amendments the
bill to authorize the Kansas & Arkansas
Valley railroad through the Indian Terri
tory. The road is TO enter the Territory at
Fort Smith and run north to a point at
or near Kansas City.
THE Russian ministry has approved of q
project for pipe line from the Baku Pc
troleum fields to the Black sea ports.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

| COMMISSIONER SPARKS has recommended
to Secretary Lamar the revocation of the
withdrawal of indemnity lands in Missouri
made fifteen years ago for the benefit of
the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company
and the restoration of tie unappropriated
| lands to entry under the settlement laws
of the United States.
A MOVEMENT is progressing in Illinois for
the erection of a monument to the late
Richard Yates, the War Governor of that
State.
No further violence occurred in East St.
Louis the days following the terrible loss
of life on the 9th. The military held pos
session of the various railroad shops. The
| funerals of the victims were attended by
| immense crowds.
TIE Senate, on the 10th, passed the bill
to admit Washington Territory into the
| Union substantially as it came from the
! committee. The vote stood so to l3. The
House passed a large number of bills prin-
cipally for the construction OF bridges
across navigable streams.
| GREAT opposition was reported as de-
velOping in England, Scotland and parts
of Ireland against the home rule scheme as
presented by Mr.. Gladstone, and it would
require considerable modification before its
chances for passing the Commons would
amount to any thing.
| IT is positively asserted that President
! Cleveland is engaged to marry Miss Fol
som, of Buffalo.
| BUSINESS was reported at almost a stand
still on the London exchange during the
week ended the 10th. The German bourse
was dull, the Paris bourse was lively on
| account of the new financial schemes of
the French Government and the Panama
Canal Company.
| AT great labor demonstration in Chica-
go on the 10th, in which fifteen thousand
| persons were present, resolutions were
passed denouncing Jay Gould.
| TIE intended journey of the Czar to Nova
Tscherkask to present his son to the Cos
sacks as chief has been prevented by the
| discovery of dynamite plot to assassinate
the imperial party. A Cossack officer and
his brother have been arrested in connec-
ton with the crime.
The Congress of Uruguay has appointed
General Santos Captain General of the
army. The electoral canvass was reported
proceeding with great activity. a minis
terial crisis was expected.
The trial of Burns, Hyndman, Champion
and Williams, Socialist leaders, on the
charge OF having melted the Trafalgar
! Square and Hyde Park riots, in London,
was concluded on the 10th. The jury rem
dered verdict of not guilty and the de-
! PENDANTS were all discharged.
The loss by terrible fire at the Pember-
ton mill, Lawrence, Mass, recently was
] 100000. Three fremen suffered fatal in
juries.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS

The Northwestern railroad lines have
succeeded in patching up compromise.
The Illinois Central representatives were
not present, but it was expected that they
would agree.
THE Gem City Touring mills at Quincy.
H., were destroyed by fire on the night of
the 9TH. The loss was estimated at $780,
600; insurance not stated.
A DETACHMENT of the Laguna Indian
cavalry was sent recently to the San Juan
Valley, where trouble with the Navaios
was threatened
THREE persons were drowned by the
wreck of the schooner Beta of Plum
Island, Mass, recently. The survivors of
the crew suffered considerably while cling
ing to the rigging and when on the sand
hills until rescued.
A PASSENGER train on the Fitchburp rail
road went over an embankment between
Bardwelrs Ferry and West Deerfeld.
Mass, on the night of the 9Th, resulting in
terrible loss of life. Ii was thought that
thirteen persons were killed and as many
more seriously injured.
ADvICEs from the Philippine Islands state
that February 5 a party of Mohammedan
fanatics attacked the mission house at
Zamsatics, on the island of Mindanao, and
burned it, as well as several other houses of
the colony. a Spanish force was sent to
chastise them, when twelve were killed
and several wounded, the loss on the
Spanish side being five wounded and one
killed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
HERE'S A PRETTY MESS.

Congress Continually Getting Behind With
Its Work. and a Strong Probability That
the Session VIII be Prolonged Until Sep
tember The Members Taking Things
Easily, However.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-Business before
Congress is becoming considerably COM
plicated. Three special orders, one made
for February % and two for DAYS in
March. have been passed over in the Sem
ate, while the Logan bill to increase the
efficiency of the army is spread like a
Washington Territory to Statehood,
which is unfinished business. In the
House the Labor Arbitration bill last
week ran rough shod over private-bill
Gay and the special order for the discus
sion of the free coinage of silver. Two
ar three appropriation bills hang fire, the
Post-office bill being in an incomplete
condition, with no time fixed for
resumin. its consideration. Then,
to make matters still more compli-
Gated in the House, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of the coming week
have been set aside for the silver debate,
"to make up for lost time" with a hope
and slight prospect of dispOsing of it
before the close of another week.
Old members and Senators say il has
heen years since the work of consider
ing appropriation hills was so far behind
as now. 1t would take two or three
months of solid work to finally dispose
of these appropriation bills were Con-
gress to confine itself to those meas
ures and the necessary incidental busi-
ness only. But with silver the navy for
tificatiOn ordnance, the tariff. Dakota
and other Territories, bankruptcy, ship
ping, Interstate commerce, foreign af-
fairs, public lands, rivers and harbOrs, pub
lie buildings and grounds, pensions, con-
tested election cases. currency and COIN
age, and number of judicial measures,
all of which demand, in stentorian tones,
action at this session, the prospects are
that adjournment will not be had before
the popular time, August, or the unusual
date of September. Up to this time.
however, no especial nervousness has
been shown by any one interested in any
especial measure, and things run along
with the apparent idea that time will be
taken for every thing urgent, if it takes
all summer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"Details of inventions prior to 16lT
are not known, as norecOrds of patents
were kept before that date
In Paris they call it ''seance de-
boxe." At Norris they call 1t a slug
ging match.-Norristolcn Herald.
The ''Wm. Penn" a locomotive
built in Philadelphia in 1885, was the
first railroad engine ever run in Cali
fornia. and is still doing good service in,
that Chicago Nal.
There are only one thousand peo-
ple-men. women and children-in all
of Harlan County. Kentucky, yet the
murders and assaSsinations during the
year Outnumber the births two to one
st. LOgiS Post.
"A Pennsylvania man has invented
mechanical cOw-milker which can be
operated by pulling a string. He should
present an accident insurance policy to-
every one who buys the instrument, as.
the mixer must stand at short range
while working the machine PhiladeL-
phid Press.
1t has lately been noticed in fac
tory at Cambridge, Mass, that the
fumes of naphtha, under certain condi-
tiOnS. produce the same effect as laugh
ing gas. In the factory mentioned .
number of girls We're rendered hySteri--
cal by, and some became unconscious
from, breathing the gas.-Lo1ceH Cai--
zen.
At a recent lecture delivered in
Philadelphia by a prominent scientist,
the gentleman said it takes prodigi-
Gus amount of vegetable matter to
form layer of coal: that the present
growth of the world would make q
layer only One-eighth of an inch thick,
and that it would take a million wears
to form coal bed one hundred feet
thick.
We believe Cal Turner to be the
best lumber operator and river driver
now living. He has but one hand. the
other having been amputated below the
elbow. We saw him swinging an axe
the other day, splitting some large logs
for the furnace at his house in Bethel,
and we were surprised at the telling
blows he struck.-LeIciStOn (Ns.(
Journal.
Los Angeles. Cal, was founded
by the Spanish soldiers, on September
4, 1871. One of the first things they did
was to dig an irrigating ditch or zanja.
This was the beginning of what is now
a magnificent system of irrigation. The
bitches aggregate Seventy-five miles in
length, and they irrigate eighty-five
hundred acres of land per month for
six months in the wear
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
f-S-
a Brutal HII.hnnd.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April Mrs. A. C.
Nicklin, twenty-eIght years of age, is
lying in a dying condition at the home OF
her mother, No. % Morgan street, Al
legheny. In her dying deposition to-
night she states that she is the victim OF
an assault at the hands of her husband,
Edward Nicklin, who, she alleges, on the
morning of Thursday last, as she was re-
turning from a party at a neighbours
house, struck her with his fists repeated.
", knocking her down. In the fall her
head came in contact with step, produc.
ing a compound fracture of the skull.
Her husband is in Jail. Mr. Nicklin is .
nephew of BsTtley Campbell.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
OPEN SESSIONS.

| The Proposition to Hold Open Executive
Sessions of the Senate Gaining Favor.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-The propo-Is
ton to hold open executive sessions of
| the Senate appears to be gaining friends
daily, and it is not improbable that some
thing will be done to remove this unpop-
ular feature of the proceedings of the
Upper House. There are two resolutions
i'm support of an open executive session
now before the Senate, the one intro
duced by Mr. Platt allowing secret exec
utive sessions when the Senate shall deem
it advisable, and the other, by Mr.. Lo-
gan, dividing for open sessions for the
consideration of nominations. Mr. Platt
intends to bring up his resolution and
speak upon it at an early date, probably
during this week.
Should Mr. EdmundS decide to support
a resolution in favCr of opening the doors
or of making public the journal at the end
of each executive session there is no
doubt ah5Ut it's adoption. The Vermont
Senator fully realizes the Importance of
gratifying the public III this regard, but
does not yet see how the matter
can be adjusted without injury to
the public service. During tine re-
cent discussion upon the EdmunGs reso-
luton several Democratic Senators
committed themselves in favor of
open executive sessions. among them
Messrs. George, Maxey, Butler and Coke.
Messrs Voorhees, and Beck are and
always have been friends of the proposed
change, while Mr.. Harris had pronounced
himself as bitterly opposed to it. On the
Republican side, MessrS. Van Wyck, LO-
gan, Pratt. Dolph, Allison, Sherman,
Pike, Frye, Mitchell of Oregon, CnllOm,
Hall, Harrison, Riddleherger, Morrill,,
Teller, Plumb and EdmundS have either
expressed themselves openly or in con-
versation with other Senators in favor of
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES.

Number of Prominent Citizens of San
Francisco IKdicted-A Lot of Scotch Cap
itaI Liable to Go Glimmering.
SAN FRANCIsCo, April 4.-The United
States grand jury yesterday found indict-
ments against eight prominent citizens of
this State for subornation of perjury in the
case of fraudulent entries of redwood
timber land in Humboldt County, Cal.
The names of three are Joseph Russ,
David Evans and Charles II. King, who
collectively represent $4,000, 900 capital.
The names of the other five are not yet
known, but they are said to he all wealthy
men. The Land Departments ut Washing
ton had reason to suspect irregularities
in the entry of these lands, and sent out
SPECIAL Agent B. +. Bergen, of the In
terror Department, to investigate the
matter. The result of Mr.. Bergen's in
vestigation shows that the parties indict-
ed were all members of the California
Redwood Company, the capital for which
was mainly subscribed in Scotland. The
indicted parties procured about six hum
dred American citizens to take up lG0
acres of land each, for which each re-
ceived fifty dollars. The entries in all
cases were lmmcdlatcIY conveyed JO
David Evans, one of the indicted parties.
The California Redwood Company after
ward sent an agent to Scotland
to form a syndicate to sell
the lands. The syndicate paid the Cali
fornia Redwood Company twenty dollars
an acre for the land. which, as shown, the
latter had frauduiently purchased from
the Government for g. 80 an acre. Mr..
Bergen has passed three months in Hum
hOldt County working up the case. and,
numerous difficulties
thrown in his way, has secured testimony
from over hundred persons who accept
ed the brides. Suit win be instituted by
the Government to set aside all these en-
tries rs well as the patents, which have
alteady been issued. The land embraces
&c, 900 acres OF the best timber land on
the coast.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

THE British Government, in CORES
pondence with the Dominion Govern
ment recently respecting Chinese re-
strictions, held that it was Canadian
matter. but intimated in an informal way
that it was their desire that the Chinese
restriction act should be made no more
stringent than at present, and that
great care should be taken not to pass
any legislation which would involve
Great Britain in dispute or disturb the
friendly relations with China.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

Dldn.t Know IL Was Loaded.

BALTIMORE, Nd. April A. August
Freis, German, aged forty-Gve and un-
married, was lying on a lounge ut Cables
summer garden this afternoon reading q
book, and was surrounded by crowd Of
young men aud boys who were examining
a pistol. The weapon, which was in the
hands of boy of seventeen years, named
Walter Opie Cook, was accidentally dis
charged, the bullet crashing through
Freis' eve, killing him instantly. A cor
oner's jury rendered q verdict of acci-
dental shooting, and the boy was re-
leased
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

The cause of the deplorable loss of
life in the rioting at the recent munich
pal elections in Laredo, Tex, is given by
City Marshal Bayard as follows: The
Botas imported men from Mexico and
defeated our tickets; so they undertook
TO insult us by burying our party in
effigy. The boys would not have it
that way, and we could not restrain
them when they saw the Botas, headed
by the city and county officials, carry
ing Winchesters, marching TO the plaza
to bury the Huararches. Although
outnumbered four to one, the Huar-
arches gave the Botas good thrash
ing"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

THE new postmaster at Kansas City,
Mo, not regarding it as his duty to
notify the Civil Service Commission of
the need of holding an examination for
Lis Office, treated the commission s
failure to hold one as creating an emer-
gency authorizing him to appoint per-
sons not examined. The Treasury and
Post-office Departments have decided
that there was no such emergency and
that these appointees must be paid by
The postmaster himself, or 90 without
paV
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

The Overland China Mail, recently
received, says the news of the anti
Chinese prosecutions in the United
States has created a dangerous anti
foreign feeling in Canton, and fears
are entertained that the natives would
attempt the reprisals mentioned by the
Viceroy of Kwang Tung in his dis
patches to the Chinese Minister at
Washington.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

News was recently received in Ber-
lin from the commander of the Ger
man gunboat Cyclops, on the west
coast of Africa, stating that he had
bombarded the town of Moneybimbia
The natives were driven away by the
bombardment. The marines landed
and completed the work of destroying
the town. Nobody belonging to the
Sunboat was injured.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

THE fact that the powers had signed
n protocol, which made Prince AleNan-
der Governor of Eastern ROumelia for
a term of five years, created bad i'm
preston at Sofia, but 1t was believed
that Prince Alexander and the Bulga-
rian ministry would accept the situa-
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

FIRE broke out early the other morn
ing in the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, and many valuable pictures
were burned and pieces of statuary
damaged. The amount of the loss
could not be estimated easily, as much
that was burned could not be replaced
by money. One of the largest paint
ings burned was Harrison's ''Bord de
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

An old-time story of Bronson AL
colt is good enough to bear repetition.
The philosopher was holding forth one
day on the benefits of a vegetable diet.
He said that the pork eater gradually
grew to look like hog, and the beef
eater in time resembles bull in his in
tellectual qualities. An attentive listen
er ct this point quietly asked Mr.. Al
cott if there was not great danger
that 4 vegetable diet might make a
man finally resemble q very small pO-
tato. -E0St0a bulletin.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

The British Home Office, it is stated,
will cease to offer rewards for the de-
lection of criminals or to offer pardons
to accomplices who may make confess
sions, on the ground that the principle
involved is wrong, and that experience
shows that such course almost in
variably fails of its object.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

A New York paper says that a
music teacher has been thrashed for
making love to his siXteen-year-old pu-
pil. This seems like the refinement OF
cruelty. Hasn't the teacher received
sufficient punishment in the regular
course of business in having to listen
to the practicing of his pupil? And as
for making love to her, poor man! he
probably did it merely to obtain mo-
ment's respite for his racked nerves.
Chicago Journal.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

THE Belgian Government was re-
ported preparing bill to make COM
pulsory the enrolment of all persons
in Belgium in a general military SER
vice, liable to be called into requisition
at any time for the preservation of
orlar
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

THE Khedive Of Egypt offered per-
sonal subscription of eight thousand
pounds sterling to the fund that was
being raised to assist Turkey against
lrrnncn
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

The Senate Committee on Inter
State Commerce has adopted the Cul-
Iom bill with an amendment mcreas-
ing the penalty from one thousand to
fifteen hundred dollars.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

IMOBOCHE GOTo, a japanese, re-
Gently became impressed with the fancy
that Miss Vanderbilt was in love with
him and was sent to the New York
Charity Commissioners as insane.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

The Lancet and some other medical
journals favor Prof. Buisson's treat
ment for hydrophobia in preference to
Pasteur's. 1t is alleged by these advo-
Gates that Buisson effects cures even
after rabies have developed. The treat
ment consists mainly in vapor baths,
/, of hot borage solution and injections
/ of pilocartine, inducing profuse perspi-
cation
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
a universal shorthand congress to be
held in London in 1887 for the discus
sion of the history and progress OF
stenOOraDhV
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

A solution recommended by the
Scientific american for extinguishing
incipient fires consists of crude calcium
chloride twenty parts, salt five parts,
dissolved in seventy-five parts of water.
To be kept at hand and applied with
hand pump.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15

BERLIN has of late years so COM
pletely boycotted French styles that
only a dozen Partisan modistes and
cooks are now doing business there.