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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
SMALL FARMS.
How They Can BE Run PrOfitably ana TO
the Rest Advantage.

How They Can Be Run Proftably and to
the Best Advantage.
If the farm is all tillable, / should
divide the sixteen acres into four sec
tons of four acres each, but it is not.
necessary to fence it, except the four
acres where the house and barn stand
This plat should divide up in the fol-
lowing way: Two acres for house,
small lawn, kitchen, garden, barn
yard, etc. This is rather large, L
think, and less would do if the house
and barn are in the right positionT
but call it two acres. Then one acre
for ruit-blackberrieS, raspberrleS,
cCrrants and strawberries. One acre
for poultry; this acre should be set to-
pear, ounce and peach trees, and plum
can be added if thought best; this af-
fords good shade for the fowls: | find
that the trees do much better where
the poultry run than those where they
do not. On this acre l would have.
four poultry houses, with yards for
runs of One-fourth acre each, and
should keep twenty-five in each yard
one yard of either buff, white or part
ridge COchins for sitters; one yard of
Plymouth Rocks or Wyandutts and
two of LeghornS-the COchinS for sit
tiers, the Plymouth Rocks for early
broilers and the LeghOrnS for eggs.
The remaining twelve acres l should
use as follows: four acres for
clover, four acres for soiiing
crops and the remaining four
acres for corn and potatoes. On
so small a place wheat and oats
do not pay. The twelve acres should
be rotated with clover, roots, miliet,
fodder corn and any thing that will do
for feed.
On the place four cows (and they
must be good ones, not necessarily of
long pedigrees, but of individual merit)
can be kept for the first two or three
years; after that more can be added.
The manure from the four COWS, one.
horse and one hundred hens will 90.
far toward enriching the land. Apply
the hen manure, we'll saved, to the hill.
as the best results are obtained in this
way; utilize every corner with some
thing that will either sell, make fodder
for the cows or food for the hens, and
my word for it the young man with the
sixteen acres will have profitable busi--.
ness at home; with Ibis little farm well
titled and his little wife well willed,"
he will be as cOntented rs those who.
roam their hundred acres over. One.
other thing | will mention, and that Is
this: Put in patch of early potatoes.
l found that nearly every season half
an acre or more of extra early potatoes
are as profitable as any patch of ground
on the place. Study the wants of your
nearest village and town, and supply
the people with the choicest and earli--
est Of fruits and vegetables.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

A TERRIBLE con1agration took place in
Strv, Austrian Galicia, on the 18th Over
500 houses were burned and more than 100
lives lost by falling walls, etc.
THE milk train on the RensSealler & Sar-
atoga railway, near Albany, n. Y, col
lided recently with two fat cars loaded
with huge granite blocks. attached to a sta
tionary engine. Passengers were shaken
up, but no one was seriously injured.
THE Bishop of Madrid was shot and
fatally wounded by priest whom he had
dismissed from his charge, on the 18th.
The priest afterward attempted suicide,
but was prevented and arrested.
THE Senate was not in session on the 18th.
The House passed a number of small ap-
preparation bills.
SECRETARY MANNING on the 18th was
able to sit up and had recovered the free
use of his limbs.
THE Treasury Department has received
notice that the Canadian Government has
fixed an additional duty of ~ per cent. on
all sugars imported into Canada through
the United States.
THE clearing house returns for week
ended April Il showed an average increase
of 11.6. In New York the increase was
21.4
THE Workingmen's Rife Corps, a Social
istic society of New York, held large
meeting recently. The editor of the TolbS
men generally to arm themselves in prep
aration for future troubles.
EUROPEAN money exchanges were gen.
orally dull during the week ended April
II. American securities were weak.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR was reported
somewhat improved in health at New York
on the 18th.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY. of Illinois. has issued
a requisition on the Governor of Missouri
for the delivery of Stewart Martin. Samuel
Jones. John T. Williams, George Burnett,
". F. Laird Charles Hentzler alias Kin
seller, William Lurton and z. G.. Hewlett.
the deputy sheriffs wko fired into the mob
in East st. Louis.
THE running OF street cars by electricity
was begun recently at Montgomery, Ala,
the machinery working perfectly.
JOHN BIGELow, who with N. De Lesseps
and as delegated representative of the
New York Chamber of Commere inspected
the Panama canal has submitted his re-
port. He says that it would be about as
safe to predict the quarter in which winds
will be settled next Christmas day at St
Petersburg, as the time when the canal
will be finished or what it will cost.
WHILE experimenting in the iron works
of Singer, Nimick & Co., at Pittsburgh,
Pa, the other day, with a COMPRISING
steel mold, 1000 pounds of molten steel
suddenly gave way, scattering metal in all
directions. Some sixty persons were in
iured, q few dangerously.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
Did 1t With His ReroIyer.

CHICAGO, April l5.-Henry Hutson Ell
gagged room at the Hotel Royal, 81 and
80 Adams street, Tuesday evening, and
retired. He did not appear yesterday,
and when the door of his room was forced
open last evening he was found dead in
bed, with bullet hole just above his
right ear. A thirty-twO-caliber revolver,
with two empty chambers, lay on the bed
by his side Three bottles of chloroform
and quantity of morphine was found in
the room. Several letters, addressed to
Louis Hinch. 5l9 Ellis street. San Fran
cisco, were found on his clothes. The
police say the man is 4 stranger in the
CITY
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
IndescrIbable Fury of the Tornado.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April ia special
from Sauk Rapids says that the fury of the
tornado there was indeScribable. Heavy
building were lifted from their fOunda-
tion-stOnes like toys and dashed in frag
ments to the earth. long string OF
laden freight cars on the Manitoba road
in St. Cloud were lifted from the track
and ruined. Nothing that felt the breath
of the cyclone surviv ed to tell of the eX-
perience. Horses and cattle were lifted
by It's mighty force high into the air and
dragged mile or more away, and men,
women and children were TuthleSSly
picked up and dashed to death by its
cruel power.
Beyond Sank Rapids the news OF the
disaster comes in slowly. Thus much
has been gathered from 4 farmer who
drove into town to bring the wOeful It'd
in@S. After destroying much timber and
much stock, but doing little damage to
life or limb, il selected a lonely house
near Rice's Station, and here wreaked its
utmost fury.
The whole city of Sank Rapids was laid
in ruins. Only one store was left stand
ing, and one side of that was stove in.
The principal thoroughfare, Broad street,
presents a scene OF utter desolatiOn, as
though moWn by the scythe of the de
strOyer.
Many saw the cyclone coming from the
direction of st. Cloud and fed for safety
to their cellars
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

AN emiSsary is said to have left Khar-
toum for Cairo, Egypt, with proposals of
peace from FL Mahdi's successor.
a DOZEN or more citizens of Laporte,
Ind, have been subpGnaed by the Senate
Committee on the Judiciary to testify as
to the offensive partisanship of the new
United States Marshal of Indiana.
FIVE strikers, among them c. L. Graham,
master workman of the Knights of Labor
of Big Springs, Tex, have been arrested
for disturbing the running of trains
A FEARFUL tornado ravaged st. Cloud
and Sauk Rapids, Mimi, on the afternoon
of the 14th. At least twenty-five persons
were known to be killed. Many persons
were injured. The extent of the damage
was believed to be enormous, as it was the
worst storm since Rochester and Elgin,
Mimi, were devastated by u tornado in
1883.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBT, of Illinois has re-
fused to issue a requisition, on the ground
of informality, for the deputies who took
refuge in St Louis after killing several
persons on the Illinois side of the river.
AT Horton & ellis butter factory. five
miles north of Harvard, Ill, cream sep
arator burst recently, killing William
johnson and wounding three others named
Alton, Bowman and Blake, Atoms inju-
ries being fatal
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

PRINCE BISMARCK, in the upper
house of the Prussian Landtag speak
ing recently on the Government bill
expropriating the land of the Poles in
Posen, declared that the colonization
of German Poland by Germans was a
defensive act undertaken by Prussia to
avert the destruction of GermaniSm,
and to prevent the inhabitants of large
communes of German ancestry from
becoming wholly Polanized, and as the
history of the past thirty years showed
they were tending to become. THE
Government" said the Chancellor,
''must withstand the cancer-like spread
of Polanism, and while it has no desire
TO eXtirpate the Poles, of themselves,
still it does not wish to be extirpated
itself by the Poles"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

Mrs. Maggie Dyer.
Two children of SemmA
Ed. Meehan-
g. +. Andrews
Miss >treitZ-
An unknown man, about thirty years Of
age.
William shortridSe. both legs OF above the
knee.
Joseph JungIen, forty years. hadlv injured.
Caspar Jungleu, four years, leg broken.
William Leiper. forty-five years, face
bruised and internal injuries; may die.
Mrs. Waldorf. leg broken.
Mrs. Fehr. internal injuries: will die.
F.. G. Jordan. internally injured.
Mrs I. Juneman. leg broken
Miss Mary Wicker, internally injured.
Mrs Anna GolEowSki. badly bruised.
Mary GOlkowski, thirteen years, leg brok
en-.
Agnes GolkowsEi. four years. leg broken.
Lena a foreign servant girl. Leg broken.
Mrs. Fred Seibold, badly bruised.
Fritz Sei6old. six years, both legs broken.
Two unknown babies. injured about the
head.
RICE'S STATIOS-KLLED.
Henry Friday, bridegroom at a wedding
John Schultz aged swentv-six
Mrs. ". G Schul5Z. the brides mother.
Rev. Mr. Smith, of St Cloud
Mrs. smith.
John Ssuer. a young farmer.
Mrs. GomiitZ
Miss c. Vogt AMI three unknown people.
At Ruckman, the killed is Fred Clark, a
farm hand.
BIG LAKE, MINI. April I5.-Drs. High ee
and DaIliver, of Minneapolis, who arrived
from ST., Cloud this afternoon, told re-
porter that more bodies were being recov-
cred hourly from the debris, and were
being brought in from the country on the
track of the tornado. Twelve injured
people were brought n,sseveral of whom
will die.
Druggist Scuabert's remains had Just
been found. He had only been in the
city two weeks. Four have died of
wounds since morning.
At a church east of Rice'S Station, thir-
teen instead of ten of . wedding party
were killed, including the officiating min
lister.
At Sank Rapids. thirtY-one are already
dead. The list will be sweled to forty.
DIR. Ames, of Minneapolis. who is on
duty at st. Cloud, told DR.. Dalliner that
at least thirty deaths can but result from
the visitation there.
DrS. Denslnw and Ritchie, shortly after
midnight, went across from st. Cloud to
Sauk Rapids to render what assistance
they could there; twenty-three dead
bodies had been found, and the doctors
from Minneapolis were busy caring for
the wounded. The first one they saw
was f. G.. Halbert, formerly State Sem
atOr in the New York Legislature. but
now Northwestern agent of the New York
Life Insurance Company for Minnesota
and Dakota. He was receiving every at
tentiOn possible. 1t is thought his skull
is fractured at the base, and both arms
and one leg are broken. He is desper-
ately injured. The chances are all against
his recovery.
Every house left standing in the place
was used as a temporary hospital for the
injured. Many people are missing, and
it is believed their bodies will be found
far distant from their former homes.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

SUITS were begun recently at
Raleigh, n. c., against the Governor
and Auditor of North Carolina, with
the object of forcing the levying and
collection of the special taxes imposed
in several acts of the North Carolina
Assembly of 1869, at which time the
special tax bonds of North Carolina
were issued. These bonds aggregate
eleven million dollars, and the special
taxes imposed were sufficient to meet
the annual interest. Subsequent legis-
lation forbade the State officers to col
lect these special taxes, and an amend
ment to the Constitution forbids the
Legislature to pay any thing, either on
the interest or principal, without SUBJ
mitting the matter to the people.
Before this suits have been brought in
the Federal Courts, without avail, to
enforce the rights of the creditors.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

A PECULIAR incident happened in
connection with the pardon of John
Thornton by Governor Oglesby, of IL
inOis, recently. Thornton is farmer
of considerable property, the farm be-
ing located near Peoria. He was sent
to the penitentiary for attempting to
kill neighbor during quarrel over a
line of fence. The day before his par
don Thornton's wife fell from her
farm wagon and broke her neck. A
neighbor at once telegraphed the hus-
band in his cell at Joliet and asked
Thornton to give an order so that a
team could be sold that money might
be raised to bury his wife with. Thorn
tOn refused to give an order to raise
the money. Had the Governor known
these facts it is doubtful if he would
have pardoned the old man.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
A Similar Disaster in Iowa.

OMAHA, Neb., April 15.-A special to
the Bee, from Panama, Ia, says
A cyclone yesterday afternoon at 4:3O
O'Clock, struck the town of Coon Rapids
and completely demolished most of the
place. One boy was killed and numerous
persons were injured. Twenty-Five
houses, two churches, one school-hOuSe
and several business houses were de-
strOyed. A freight train, except the
locomotive, was blown from the
track and demolished and
the contents ruined. The cyclone
Swep over Western Iowa. doing consider
able damage. 1t is supposed the cyclone
started about three miles east of Girls
void, and then passed north and slightly
east, then going about nine miles south
east to Atlantic, passed two and half
miles east of Brayton. The cyclone had
the appearance of funnel-Shaped cloud.
Southeast of Atlantic, about four miles,
Henry Rogers house was blown away,
and his hired man was badly injured.
Jno. Kinks big stable, 500 feet long, was
destroyed, together with his horses.
In Benton township ten houses were
totally destroyed and one woman fatally
injured. Near BraytOn the dwellings of
JOS. Reynolds and William and Donald
Brittner were destroyed and also the
Brttner schoOl-house. The pupils eS-
capped, however, by running with the
family into Brittner'S cave or cyclone
cellar, they having seen the cloud COM
ing. Mr.. NorthgraveS, in that vicinity,
was dangerously hurt. Much stock has
been killed. Reports from the cyclone
are very meager so far, but it is believed
that great damage has been done and
many lives lost.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
A Maniac Mothers Attempt at Murder

JOLIET, H., April 15.-Mrs. Sarah
Quirk became suddenly and violently in-
sane Tuesday night, and, seizing dull
broad-axe, which was lying i'm
the corner of the kitchen, struck her
daughter, a young lady of seventeen, a
terrible blow over the head. heavy coil
of hair saved her life. With blood stream
ing down her face and neck, MISS Quirk
rushed at her frenzied mother and, throw
ing her to the floor; held her there until
the police answered her own cries for as
sistance. Mrs. Quirk was a raving ma
MAC yesterday, and viii be sent to the
asylum.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

THE delegation of Mormon women
in Washington are remanaging their cam
paign very shrewdly. They go from
house to house. They pick out from
the list of Senators and Representatives
those most likely TO be affected by their
appeals, and it is really thought they
are making considerable sentiment in
their favor. They tell in detail their
grievous experiences with the Ed
munds law, and say that all they ask is
the appointment of an intelligent COM
mission to 60 to Utah and investigate
the practical enforcement of the act.
One quite effective argument used is
that the obnoxious rulings under the
law have been made by the Utah Judge
appointed from Michigan, whose name
was withdrawn from the Senate some
weeks ago. The test of his interpreta-
ton of the law comes up in the Su-
preme Court soon, and the Mormon
women think it is sure to be reversed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

AN electric light wire in Superior
street, Cleveland, o., broke the other
evening and the two ends fell upon the
sidewalk. Joseph Glaser, salesman,
ran against the wire and was flung into
the street, where he lay senseless. He
was taken to pharmacy and thence to
his home. 1t was believed that his
injuries would result fatally. Two
other men came into contact with the
wire and were also thrown down, but
escaped serious injury.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

EUROPEAN newspapers are again de-
voting a great deal of space to record
ing the oddities of King Ludwig, of
Bavaria. 1t is stated that when the
Emperor of Austria was recently in
Munich, the capital of Bavaria, King
Ludwig took no notice of him, and the
Princes Ludwig and Leopold, the
Kings nephews. were compelled to as
sumo all the responsibility of entertain
ing the imperial visitor.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

THE steamer Undine, owned by Cap
tain Braithwaite, was sunk at Rock
Haven, near Bismarck, Oak. recently.
The steamer was small, but her loss at
this time is severe to the people along
the river for a distance of one hundred
miles north and south, who depended
on her for the transportation of local
freight. She was lying in the channel
and had to be removed before boats
could run north.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
A FIERCE CYCLONE.
An Appalling Disaster to Several
Minnesota Towns
S.. Cloud. Sauk Rapids aud Eice's Landing
Laid Waste--A Heart-RendinS List
Of Casualties Partly Tells
the Tale of Woe.

ST PAUL, Minn., April ia tornado
struck st. Cloud, Mimi, at hal-past four
yesterday afternoon. 1t came from q
southwesterly direction, passed through
the town and went almost due north,
striking Sauk Rapids, three miles away,
the tornado was received at the general
Office of the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Man
itoba railroad just before five O'Clock.
The message said that the company's
every car in the company's yard blown
over and carried several blocks. A sec
ond message was received few minutes
later saying that sixty or seventy build
ingS had been demolished.
st. Cloud is the county seat of Stearns
County. 1t is west of the Mississippi,
several miles back from the river, and
seventyhve miles north of st. Paul. 1t
has a population of 1880.
Sauk Rapids is three miles above, on
the opposite side of the river in Benton
County.
At St. Cloud the loss to the Northern
Pacific & Manitoba railroad is $4,000,
and to dwellings $1,000. At st. Cloud
the storm seemed to have been almost
local in origin, and to have gathered and
spent its force within 4 space of less than
thirty miles in length and twenty rods in
width. 1t started less than two miles
south of st. Cloud. About 8 so p. m, i
number of dark and oninOus clouds gath
cred in the southwest, and snort dis
tance beyond the city began to take the
terrible appearance of 4 cyclone. A long
and exceedingly black and funnel-Shaped
cloud seemed to be let down
from the heavens. Some people who
were hunting in the immediate vicinity of
the fierce storm beginning say that a
stratum of hot and motiOnlesS air seemed
to settle on them for moment with q
sitting effect and they fed onward as the
fierce demon of the storm rode down
upon the wings of the wind.
The weakest part of the tornado was
felt in St. Cloud. The storm seems to
have barely gathered force when it fell
upon this city.
WORSE THAN FIRST REPORTED.
MINNEAPOLIs, Mimi, April l5.-Latest
reports from the path of the cyclone indi-
cate that the destruction of life and prop
erty has been even greater Jnan at HrSC
reported. The storm was the most ter
rife ever experienced. From the point
of starting, about one mile south
west of st. Cloud, to point some dis
tance beyond Sauk Rapids, distance
of fifteen miles, it destroyed every
thing it touched, tearing and rending the
stoutest materials. It's path, so far as it
has been examined, is from 800 to 1000
feet wide. From this every building,
fence, tree and shrub has been swept
away In places the ground is torn up as
if by an explosion, and in the yards of the
Manitoba railroad ut St. Cloud even the
rails were twisted from the ties aud bent
into useless shapes.
Each report received increases the list
of casualties The following is the most
complete list vet received, and it is feared
that 1t does not nearly tell the whole sad
STORY.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

ADvICEs from Zanzibar state the
Sultan has refused to cede to Portugal
the territory claimed by her, and that
the Portuguese Consul has on this ac-
count lowered his flag and placed the
Portuguese residents under the protec-
ton of the German Consul.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

RHODE ISLAND having adopted
prohibitory liquor amendment of the
State constitution the Newport saloon
men are fearful that their city is killed
as a watering place.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

NINE persons were killed and num-
Der were injured the other day at Ajac-
clio, the capital of Corsica, by the col
lapse of a mansion.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. the well
known English newspaper correspond
ent was reported sick with fever in
India.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
CURRENT COMMENT.

TwENTY-FoUR tons of snuff were
thrown into Dublin Bay for nOn-pay-
ment of duty recently.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-22
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Provisions.

ST. Louis. April II.
FLOUR-Firm but unchanged; XXX, $500;
OSLO; family, S3.Ijll3.25; choice, S360l3.75:
fancy. 81 1914 -; extra fancy, $4.4OGJ4. 40;
patents. S4%Jd5.25.
WHEAT - Active and strong No. g
red, cash. S7l4c; May, S6la0S7i3c; July, S3h9
SIC.
CORN-Fairly active and higher; No. 9
mixed. cash, 33Aac; May, 339sGL535sc; july
80 ati5 &C.
OATS-Firm; No. mixed, cash, 29I4 0311lc;.
May, 3014c.
RYE-Weak at sic.
BARLEY No market.
PRODUCE - Butter, dull and easy;
creamery, 2JG30c; dairy. lSG2jc. Eggs, hi CHER
at 81. per dozen.
WHISKY-Steady at S1I0.
PROVISIONS-Quiet Pork. easy at S9.6069
Q 65. Lard, tirmer at $5.75GI5.S0 Bulk meats
weak; loose lots lower long clear, $5-2O;
short ribs, $3.50; short clear, $3.50 Boxed
lots, long clear, Sj.gGJ5.35; short ribs, 50 40;
short clear, $3.50. Bacon, easier; long clear,
S5.SUc; short ribs, S5.SI12c; short clear, $1,000
6.05.
CATTLE-Fairly active but lower; choice
shipping and export steers, S5.lGlc5.50; COM
mon TO medium, $4.2J(t4 So; butchers steers,
So JJH+UJ; COWS and heifers, S2.jOI5.15; stock
erS and feeders, IS tOtI4l5
SHEEP-Fairly active at S3.j0f55.I5.
HOGS-Act We and lower; butchers and
selected heavy, *4.lG14 p; mixed packing
S3SOq4.U light, S3.S,04tO.