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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-22

How the Chinese Train Fighting Turtles.
Wong Chin Foo in Chicago News.I
Turtle fighting is very common in the
east, and | am surprised the sport has
not been introduced into this country.
It's quiet, nice, and very satisfactory.
Two kinds of the reptiles are good for
fighting-the mud turtle and the snap
per. The latter is quicker and more
ferocious Young and old ones are no
good. The best run from seven to
twenty pounds in weight, and are from
years old upward. After being caught
they are regularly trained. We feed
them with raw meat, raw fish, and
strong drug whose name / don't know.
To make their jaws strong and their
ewes quick, we tease them twice day
with wooden sticks and with rags tied
I'D to look like another turtles head.
Then we fix up their jaws and teeth.
We file them and fix them until they
are sharp as the blade of knife.
A few months training is all they
want. They'll snap pencil at a bite,
or crush and bite through a bamboo in
a minute or two. A week before fight
they should be teased every two or
three hours and given red pepper on
their food. They get crazy mad and
will attack their trainer at very chance.
When they are fighting we throw red
pepper on their wounds to make them
more savage. You want to be very
careful, tho gh, in training and fight
ing them, because they'll snap at you
every time. If they get hold of you
piece comes out or finger comes off,
and sometimes their bites are poisonous
and the trainer dies.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-22
Pneumonia and Ozone.
[Scientifc American. !

DIR. Draper, of the meteorological OBJ
servatory at Central park, New York
city, has called attention to the fact
that during the past eight years there
has been an apparent connection be,
tween the death-rate from pneumonia
in New York and the presence of ozone
in the atmosphere. The epidemic has
been particularly fatal during the pres
ent year, and it is stated on good au
thority that the death-rate from this
cause has exceeded that from cholera il,
1854. 1t has not been determined
whether the connection between the
disease and the ozone in the air is sim
ply coincidence, or whether there are
scientific reasons for their joint ap-
pearance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-22
AID florence in DsIicacv.

'It is true" observes NJ. O'Rell, with
a smile of superiority, that in England
you find soap in hotel bedrooms, but
English people and their American
cousins will perhaps be surprised when
we tell them that French gentleman
would feel perhaps as much repugnance
to using well-worn cake of hotel soap
as an Englishman would feel to putting
IN his mouth toothbrush that he hap
pened to find on the dressing table of a
lodging house. We will even venture
to add that many French ladies carry
dellcacy so far as to take their own bed
linen with them on their Journeys
Jumbo's heart weighed |, COO ponnds
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-22

JumbO's heart weighed Loo pounds.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-22

has in his residence at 10 East Thirty
fifth street, what looks wonderfully like
the famous peachblow vase which so
mysteriously disappeared when it was
sold from the Morgan collection for
$4,000. Mr.. Ives said that one of the
conditions of the sale OF the vase to him
was that he should not inquire who
owned it before. GLOW many peach
blow vases are there in America ?' was
asked of Mr. Ives. 81 understand there
are three, but 1 only know of one, and
you see it before you"
The condition of the Crown Prince
grew worse February 9th, and the diff
Guilty of breathing increased so much
that telegram was sent to DIR. Bergman
at Berlin, ordering him to come to the
patients assistance without delay. The
doctor arrived in the afternoon, and
shortly after o'clock he performed the
operation of tracheotomy on the Crown
Princes throat The operation was
success, and the patient at once showed
signs of relief. The physicians are
pleased with the results of the operation
and confident of the patients speedy re-
coverv. The Prince bore the operation
bravely.
The largest perfect emerald in the
world is that in the most valuable neck
lace ever made in this country, which is
now in the possession of William RE
man of the Aston House. There are
thirty-two emeralds and thirty-nine dia-
monds in the necklace, but the big emer-
aid was one of the jewels in the crown of
the Shah of Persia. Four years were oc-
cupied in securing the stones, and in
short time the necklace will adorn
prominent society lady. Her husband
gave Rieman carte blanche to secure the
best stones which could be found.
The Grant Monument Association has
issued circular addressed to artists,
architects and sculptors, inviting COM
petitive designs for a monument to be
erected over General Grants grave, to
cost $500, 900. Prizes of 81 800, 81 900,
$500, $500 and 5000 are offered. In
formation as to the rules governing COM
petition can be had on application to
Richard T. Greener, Secretary, No. 146
Broadway.
Willard F. Brown, about six weeks
old, has been put on exhibition at Hor-
ticaltural Hall, Boston, Mass, by his
parents, Lynn couple. The child is
just ten inches in length and properly
His wrists measure one inch
in circumference. Each foot is just "a
inches long. The infant is wrapped in
and lies in cradle IA
inches long.
The Rome Tribunal announces that
every vessel in the navy has been Or
dered in readiness for active service and
that the naval armament at Naples has
extraordinary activity. These
are in accordance with
cipher instructions from the Govern
ment.
Prince Phillip of Bourbon, son of the
Duke of Aquela and nephew ofthe En-
peror of Brazil, has been sentenced by
default to thirteen months imprison-
ment and to pay 5000 francs damages
for swindling jewelry transaction.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

tion has not proved . sectional policy. Wig,
gen tlemen, there is no longer the old distinc-
ton between manufacturing States and sgri-
cultural States Do you reckon yourselves
here in Indiana as an agricultural State sim
plys Your manufactures this very
year in the State OF Indiana have larger cash
value than your total agricultural product
Applause! Manufacturers are no longer con-
centrated on the eastern side Of the Allegha-
MES The cit- of Chicago is the largest center
OF steel manufacture IN America 1t has run
ahead OF Pittsb srgh and under the influence OF
this tariff the manufacturing interest has spread
each year further and further westward. bring
ing the home market nearer and nearer the
source OF food supply and proving all the while
to every intelligent voter in the country that
the nearer you bring the food consumers TO the
food producers the more certain is the prosper
ity OF both.
had occasion to show the other day in Mich
iean from indisputable statistics that the little
region OF New England with not so much pOpu-
lauon as Illinois and Indiana with scarcely so
much area as Illinois alone-I had occasion to
show that that little area with six small States
takes more from these Western States than is
shipped 10 old England, and that those little
States take from the other States of this Union
every year in food and raw material for manufac-
ture the enormous aggregate OF over SiOO.OOOOOO
in money. [Applsuse.l Add to that the amount
Il
take from the South. the Southwest and the
great West and you have an aggregate of more
than one thousand millions OF material Jap
plause.l And this country will have realized
the great objective point OF the tariff system
when every agricultural State shall have its
market nearer to the producers.
Farmers OF the West, you have been COM
planning of the price OF wheat and enormously
charging the fall upon the protective tariff
Why has wheat fallen during the last ten years.
Europe the wheat of Russia that is raised
in that vast country with labor that is not
more than to IL cents per day. and. beyond
that you are meeting vast imports OF wheat
from India where England has been expend-
ing hundreds of millions OF dollars TO
cheaper and expedite transportation to Eu-
rope. Neglect your home market and the larger
the amount you will find unstable and the
harder Will be your competition with these
hard-worked wheat producers on the other
side. Suppose you turn half the manufacturers
and mechanics. under the basis OF free trade
suppose you turn half OF them into wheat
producers s.ni farmers, is not the market
of the fa~r cut OF just that much
and the OF his product increased?
Suppose il another hundred and fifty
million ha 20 the product of the West,
where vii l market it: Where will you find
the men who are able to paw for it. who wants to
eat: Remember, gentlemen, it is the home
mark ct of the United States that every day is
arording more and more to the agriculturists
of this country their best market and the home
market Of the United States is the result log
icaly and indisputably, Of the protective tariff.
TGreat aDplause1
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

CHINA advices state that on the night of
August 13 a flood caused by great rains
inundated twenty villages, drowning more
than ten thousand persons and large num-
bers of animals in the Len Ii Ho district.
NEGOTIATIONS have been entered into by
the German representatives in Zanzibar
with a view of settling the differences
with the natives and preventing fnrther
outbreaks.
In the interview between Emperor Will
liam and the Pope at Rome, the latter
pleaded for a return of his temporal SOW
ereignty. The Emperor replied that it
would be better instead if the Pope aided
those having charge of the conservation OF
society.
HAMBURG, Germany, has ceased to be
free port and has become a member OF the
Zollverein. Bremen will shortly follow
her example and the last relic of the
Hanseatic league will thus be removed.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended October 13 showed an average in
crease of 3.4 compared with the corre-
spending week of last year. In New York
the increase was 0.4.
TWENTY-FIVE persons were killed re-
Gently by an explosion Of gunpowder
in q village festival in the province of
Madras, India.
A BLOCK of seven-story buildings in
Buchanan street and a three-story block
opposite were destroyed by FIRE in London
on the 14th. The loss was $500, 900.
THE Chicago street car strike ended on
the 18th, Mr.. Yerkes agreeing to pay an
advance of six per cent. Mayor Roche
was mainly instrumental by his untiring
exertions in bringing the strike to an end.
ANDERSON, Acting Commissioner Of the
General Land Office, has received informa-
tion of the conviction of Charles 4. Beach
for subornation of perjury in connection
with the entry of $1,000 acres Of redwood
timber land in California estimated by one
of the interested parties to be worth Sl1,-
0OO.O 900.
THE coroner's jury in the case of Thomas
Wardell, the coal operator killed by strik-
ing miners at Bevier, No., found that he
was slain by unknown parties in self de-
fense. Reports from the mines of the 14th
showed critical state of affairs with
trouble certain if new men were brought
In.
A LARGE crack, due to improper cooling,
has been discovered in the steel stern post
of the new cruiser Baltimore. which was
recently launched at Philadelphia.
The Norton Gingham and Cheviot Man
ufacturing Company, of Walpole. Mass,
has assigned with $4,000 liabilities and
unknown assets. 1t started last February.
FURTHER investigation of the terrible
disaster on the Lehigh Valley road at Mud
Run, Pa, put the blame upon Brakeman
Hannigan, who was sent back to stop
Cooks train with lantern. instead Of
doing so he remained to firt with some
girls at the windows of the cars which
were afterward wrecked.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

CHEF JUSTICE FULLER took the oath and
his seat on the Supreme Bench at Wash
ington on the Sth.
CARROLL TILToN, oldest son of Theodore
Tilton, of Beecher scandal fame, was mar
red in Brooklyn tlse other night to Miss
Miriam Alice Blauvelt. Mrs. Tilton was
one of those present.
THE charter election held at Newark, n.
j., on the 9th showed a Democratic gain
on the general ticket of about 200. For
the first time in thirty years the Demo-
Gratis carried the city at the charter cleo
ton previous to the Presidential election.
SENATOR HALE'S report on the civil-ser-
vice was presented on the 10th. The re-
port severely censures President Cleve-
land and the administration for alleged
violation of the principles of the civil-ser-
vice.
HoN. JAMES G. BLAINE spoke to an i'm
mense audience at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the evening of the 11th. There was great
parade and demonstration previous to the
speaking.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE, the English
surgeon of the late Emperor Frederick of
Germany, in his book ON the case blames
DR. Bergman, of Berlin, as the cause of
the Emperor's early demise.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
has requested conference with Chairman
Leeds, of the Transcontinental Associa-
ton and Chairman Midgley, of the West
ern Freight Association, in regard to the
tariffs which recently called forth such
vigorous protests from Chicago merchants.
TAMMANY HALL has nominated Ashbel
Fitch to Congress from the Thirteenth dis
trict of New York and Sunset Cox from the
Ninth district.
THE report that Bonanza Flood had died
in Germany was denied later.
AN anti-Boulangist meeting in Paris on
the 18th was disturbed by Boulangists and
fight ensued in which many persons
were injured
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

PRESIDENT ADAMS, of the Union
Pacific, thinks that the Interstate law
is greatly responsible for the demoral-
ization in railroad affairs and that ex-
perience has shown that it is not based
upon sound principles. The inability
of roads to make lower rates on traffic
between large commercial centers than
between intermediate local points, he
says, has the effect of driving the busi-
ness away from large points and the
prohibition of pools is leading to a
general consolidation of roads The
weaker lines being unable to compete
against strong lines on even terms
will be forced out of existence and the
strong lines will absorb them.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
BERATEO BY BARRY.
PowderIy and the Ruling knights of Labo
SeyereIy Handled.

PowderIy and the Ruling knights of Labor
Severely Handled.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-Thomas Barry, un-
til recently a member of the executive
board Of the knights Of Labor, addressed
a throng at Cooper Union last night Re-
ferring to Mr.. Powderly, he said: "We
pay S16 day TO man studying law and
languages" Barry said he was sent down
to Massachusetts, to help the strikers in
Salem and Peabody, q, coo in number, who
were starving. At that time there was
S137, 900 in the general treasury. Barry
begged for $4,000 to help the strikers but
could not get it until Just before the Rich
mond convention when it was done to
make votes for the administration. He
directly charged Mr.. Powderly with order
ing the 25 900 pork packers Of Chicago to
go back to work after Barry had Sc
cured an agreement from the employers
granting the demands Of the men, Pow
DERBY was Jealous of him and feared that
if successful Barry would supplant him.
Knights of Labor had been discharged
in the general offices at Philadelphia
and their places filed by "scab" help,
two of which were young and pretty girls
who sat around all day and read novels
During the last four years the board had
spent 1895. 900. "How, and for what, you
do not know, nor dare ask" he asserted.
While the head of the order had advocated
temperance. wine formed an important
item in the years bill. In conclusion he
said the labor movement of the last two
wears had been a miserable farce. The
order that two years ago had 702, 900 mem
bers had but 200. 900 in it now.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

An important engineering enterprise
now in progress is a railroad in the
Arctic circle. The Swedish and Nor
wegian railroad now building from
Lulea, on the Gulf of Bothnia, to Lotto
den, on the North sea, is partly sit
uated within the Arctic circle, and is
some twelve hundred miles further
north than any railroad in Canada.
An interesting meteorological fact
stated in relation to this work is that
the snowfall is found to be actually
less than in some more southern lati-
tudes, while the darkness of the long
winter nights has been partly COM
pensated by the light of the aurora,
The object in view in constructing
this line is to tap the enormous de-
posits of iron ore in the.Gellivara
mountains, the approximate exhaus-
tion of the ore in the Bilbao (Spain)
district rendering very desirable new
field of non-phosphoric ore suitable for
steel-rail making.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE general railway time convention
was in session at the Hoffman House, New
York, on the 10th. Eighty companies were
represented.
DR.. WILKINSON, president of the New
Orleans Board of Health, has notified
Surgeon-General Hamilton that nurses
from Camp Perry destined for New Or
leans will not be received. The nurses in
question are residents of New Orleans who
volunteered to go to Jacksonville under
the auspices of the Red Cross Association
and are desirous to return home.
The grand jury at Charleston, ILL.,, has
indicted j. B. Banefiel, ex-mayor; H. NJ.
Othed, L. d. Weaver, John Byers, Will
liam Kincaid, r. Brewer, S. II. Kirk
patrick, AdolRh Walker and Film Myers
for the lynching of William Moore on June
%. Moore was arrested for alleged as
sault upon Mary Baumgartner, who it is
claimed was of immoral character.
THERE were SO new cases of yellow fever
and no deaths at Jacksonville on the 9th.
Iris officially announced that the Adams
Express Company has concluded a con-
tract for term Of years for the express
facilities over the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad, now occupied by the
United States Express Company. This
gives the Adams Express Company en-
trance to the States of Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Nebraska and Dakota.
THE National line steamship Queen COL
lided with a French fishing schooner in a
fog off the banks of Newfoundland recent
ly. Twenty of the unfortunate fishermen
were drowned, the remainder being res
cued.
FIRE, probably caused by burglars, de-
stroyed A. Streets gun store, s. NJ. Fry's
stove store and the Grand Army and the
Knights of Of Honor halls in Dallas, Tex,
the other morning. Loss, $4,000.
The committee of Irishmen collecting
money for Parnell's litigation with the
London Times have secured $4,000 SO far.
but need much more and appeal especially
to Americans.
THE PAD Mall Gazette challenges the
German authorities to carry out the threat
made through the NdchrichteR Zeftung to
institute proceedings to prevent the pub
lication in London of the late Emperor
Frederick's diary. The Gazette warns
Prince Bismarck not to attempt to extend
abroad the tyranny over the press which
is exercised in Germany.
SERIOUS washouts caused by floods ware
reported from the province of New Bruins.
wick recently. The fall rains were nm
precedented.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

THE >'Fair Election League" is said
to have branches in every county and
precinct in Indiana. 1t has no connec-
tion whatever with the Committee of
One Hundred" whose officers recently
received donation of $500 from Chair
man Huston, of the Republican State
Committee, but has in view the same
results. Colonel Samuel Merrill, of
Indianapolis, is president, and Captain
John R. Connor, of the Indiana Farm
er, secretary.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

A LONDON newspaper says the en-
gagement of the daughter of General
Boulanger to Captain Driant, which
has recently been announced, repre-
sents the triumph of the lady's views
over her fathers wishes
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

THE Post-office Department has
established 491 new money order post
Offices, and $50 other offices have been
authorized to issue postal notes. Kan
sas has the largest number of new
money order offices, sc; Nebraska
next, Sc; California, "a; Colorado, %;
Michigan, 22; New York, Ohio and
Texas, each 19. OF the new postal
note offices Louisiana has the largest
number, 45; Texas, 25; Illinois, 10;
and Missouri. 16. The whole number
of money order offices established to
date is S,733.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

A YALE graduate, who was a stu
dent about thirty years ago, said, in
speaking of changes that had taken
place since his time: 81 never knew
whether to attach any significance to
it or not, but when l was there the
law school adjoined the Jail, the medi-
cal college was next the cemetery, and
the divinity school was on the road
to the poor house."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

THE Colt arms factory at Hart
ford, Conn, will soon begin the
manufacture of five thousand navy re-
volvers for the United States Govern
ment. The new piece is five-shooter
38-caliber. Besides being self-cock-
ing, all the cartridges may be in
stantly removed by slight pressure
of the thumb
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

THE investigation into the cause of
the accident on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad near Gaithersburg the other
night, by which three persons were
killed, has been concluded. 1t was de-
veloped that the train men on the
freight had gone to sleep.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

THE Secretary of the Interior finds
in the case of r. p. Waterman, of
Marion County, Kan, who claimed
$3.50 for depredations committed in
1864 by KiOwa Indians, that he lost
property to that amount, but the claim
not being presented within the period
fixed by law, he can not allow the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

THE Spanish American Literary
Society has appointed a committee
under the name Cuban Relief Fund
of New York" with headquarters in
room IA, No. 16 Beaver street. The
object is to raise funds to relieve
sufferers by the last cyclone in Cuba
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
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Mr. JOHN HoEY has completed ar
rangements by which the Adams Ex-
press Company will extend its SER
vice over England, France and
Germany. He proposes to have
Offices in Liverpool, London, Paris,
Berlin and Vienna, and employ a spe-
cial car daily on the express trains to
those cities.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18

A WAR in passenger rates to the
East was inaugurated at Denver on
the 9Th, which sent rates to Missouri
river points down nearly one-third,
and proportionately to other Eastern
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