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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
HOTEL VICTIMS.
What the Register of a JohnstOwn Hotel
Disclosed.


Disclosed.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, June S-The register
and safe of the Hurlbut House were taken
out of the ruins intact yesterday. The
following is the entire list of dead and the
survivors of the Inflated hotel: The dead
are: Mrs. E. E Benford. Johnstown; Miss
Maria Benford, Miss May Benford, Lou
Benford Mrs. Katzenstein and child,
Mrs. Smith and three children, Miss
Homer, Mrs. Dr. De France, Miss
Laura Hamilton. Miss Ella Byrne, Jane
Maloy. Minnie Houston, Mary Rogers,
Ella Harrigan, Bertha Stofhel, Lottie
Yost, Jennie Smouse, Ella Johnston,
Charles Wilson, clerk, William Henry,
j. c. Clark, Nellie Clark, DR.. Brinkey,
Butler; Charles Marshall. John Byrnes,
Albert Wherry, ]. w. Weakland. DR.. St
John, Harrisburg; Carrie Richards,
Ypsilanti, Mich; Mollis Richards, Ypsi-
lanti, Mich. Jennie Wells. Tioga, Pa. Miss
Dill, Shippensbsrg, Ia Miss j. A. Cox,
Philadelphia; w. L. Splits, Philadelphia;
- Carlin. Philadelphia; j. E. Little,
pittsburgh; Sidney McCloud, Chicago;
Frank d. Felt Chicago; W. E. Down, New
York; James Murray, Philadelphia,
Charles Dewalt, Altoona; - Hero
Pittsburgh
The survivors whose names are on the
register are: John d. Dorsey, OF Phila-
delphis, in a critical condition; Hart
ley and II. W. Gulager, Philadelphia; b.
Il Lane. Pittsburgh; Mary Early, Johns
town; j. l. Smith, William Marshall
Laura Rodgers. Maggie Jones. Walter
Benford, T. A. Benford. Elvira Prosssr.
The body of Rev. Alonzo P. Diller, rector
of the Johnstown Episcopal Church, and
those Of his wife and child were recovered
yesterday under circumstances both sad
and strange. Four Episcopal clerg5msn,
who had been sent here by Bishop
Whitehead were working about the ruins
near Lincoln street, when they came upon
the body of their late brother. Claspsd
in one rigid arm was the body Of his babe
and in the other his wife, whose arms
were about his neck. They were removed
in this position and will be so buried to.
day, the Episcopal clergymen officiating.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
A Consul Investigating.

JoHNsTowN, Pa. June s-Max Scham-
berg, the Hungarian Consul at Pitts
burgh, arrived here yesterday for the
purpose of making an official inves-
tiqatiou of the charges that the
Huns had plundered the bodies OF per-
cons who met their death in the flood. Mr.
1Scbamberg said that the only charge
which ne substantiated was that man.
supposed to be Hun, had been caught IN
the act of cutting on tine nnger
of a corpse to secure gold ring ana
that he had been hung to tree Tor snort
time, but not long enough to produce
strangulation. The consul viii pursue ms
investigation further and report 70 the
Austrian legation at Washington.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
Result of an Old Feud.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June 81. d.
Benjamin, editor of the Deland News,
shot and instantly killed Captain J. w.
Douglass, of New Smyrna Douglass was
a prominent citizen of Dayton and well
known Democratic politician. The shoot
ing was the result OF an old feud renewed
by recent attacks by Benjamin in the col
u INNS of his newspaper. Douglass as
saulted Benjamin, knocking him OF the
pier into the marsh and jumping on him,
choking him and holding his head under
water. Benjamin managed to get hold Of
his revolver and placing it against Doug
Lass body fired, the ball entering his
heart and Douglass died almost Instant
w There was Ruch excitement
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

The passage of the ordinance CIV
ing cows the freedom of the city was
causing excitement at Fort Dodge.
Iowa Ostracism is the price paid by
every member of the Board of Alder
men for their action. One who holds
a street sprinkling franchise was CON-
PEELED to remove his sprinklers be-
cause of the withdrawal of the mer-
chants patronage, which is entirely
voluntary. The grocers have also
withdrawn their patronage from an
other alderman who owns market
gardens and hot houses. Other alder
men are being similarly treated as a
result of the boycott A number of
citizens armed with cowbells paraded
the streets the other night and sere-
.nsded the aldermen.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
All Quiet at Samoa.

SYDNEY, N. S. W., June s-The steamer
Lubeck has arrived here from APia, Sa-
moa with advices to May % Every
thing was quiet in Samoa A truce was
maintained between the contending ma
tives owing to reports that additional
German men-of-war were on thei,
way to Apia- Tamasese ana
, 600 adhsrents remained encamPeo
at Atua. All the men-of-war nao
left Apia- The British man-of-wsr hapIu a
had sailed for the Fiji islands Inc
American steamer Nipisic, conveyed py
the steamer Alert has gone to Tutuiia Ter
coal. and from there was to proceeo 70
Sydney.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

The managers of the Interstate
Railway Association have prohibited
free storage in the following rule: In
no case shall any line, either directly
or indirectly. furnish special facilities
in the way of free storage, either by
the use of cars, freight houses or other
means, the intention being that each
line will require observance on the
part of their patrons of the rules as
established regarding the observance
of property; neither will any line
allow its cars, freight houses or other
facilities to be used for the purpose of
making up carload shipments.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

ALEXANDER MCKAY. general freight
agent of the Michigan Central rail-
road, Local Freight Agent Nichols
and Contracting Freight Agent w. P.
Griswold, of the same line, and E. L.
Somers, agent of the Blue Line. who
were few days ago indicted by the
Federal grand jury for violation of the
Interstate law, have given bonds at
Chicago forS1 900 each. A. W. Street.
formerly assistant freight agent of the
Michigan Central, who was also in
diaed. did not appear.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

AT the annual meeting of the Liv-
erpool (England) Gas Fittings Com
pany it was stated that the company
was about to try the experiment of
using an automatic gas meter. Itwas
an apparatus of recent invention and
had been successfully tried in Bir-
mingham. The consumer, by putting a
penny in slit in the apparatus, could
obtain a supply of twenty-five cubic
feet OF gas. and it was expected that
for small tenement holders this ar.
rangement would prove both conven.
lent and economical.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

THE attorney for the new Catholic
University at Washington has notified
the Treasury Department of an inten-
tion to appeal to the Attorney-General
from the late decision OF Solicitor of
the Treasury Hepburn, that the foreign
professors engaged for the new uni
versity could not be allowed to
land as it would be a violation of
the law prohibiting importations OF
contract labor. The attorney claims
that the law had no intention to except
professional actors, artists and SER
wants and at the same time include
professors and ministers within the
law.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

JUDGE SULLIVAN, of San Francisco,
in an order in the Sharon case. re-
fusing to recognize Judge Sawyer's
injunction, holds that the United States
Circuit Court is not superior to the
State court and that it has no power
TO annul the decree of a State court.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

ASSISTANT SECRETARY TICHENOR has
received petition from delegates to
the wool growers convention. asking
the President to call an extra session
of Congress to consider tariff legisla-
ton with special reference to woolen
y,ral,,ntc
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

"A young couple were recently mar
ried in the highway in the town Of Har-
wintown, Litchfield County, Conn, under
circumstances which show the genius Of
young people on marriage bent Fred
Chamberlin, a stout and handsome Y an
kee farmer about twenty-five years OF
age, had arranged to marry Miss Hunger
ford, a neighbor Most of the Harwinton
people go to church at Terryville, where
Rev. W. T. Arm breaches. The knot
could not be tied until license was had
from the town registrar, and Fred pro-
cured one from the town clerk in Harwin-
ton. Then he and his affianced got into
carriage and went to the clergy mans res
idence in Terryville and arranged to take
short bridal trip on the Naugetuck railroad.
But when the license was produced
the clergyman told him it was good for
Harwinton. but not in TerryvilIe. and he
could not violate the law. The unhappy
young couple were in a quandary, but
they finally adopted the proposition of
the clergyman, that he get into the hack
with them and drive over into the town OF
Harwinton and there tie the knot. The
driver, John Abbott, put his horses
through in quick time, and the parties
went beyond the town line into Harwin-
ton, and there, in the m ddle of the road
and with uncovered heads, the marriage
ceremony was quickly performed The
driver acted as subscribing witness, and
they all got into the hack and drove rap
idly back in time to take the train for theii
Wedding trip.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

COLONEL J. c. KELToN has been
appointed by the President Adjutant-
General of the army to succeed Cen
eral Drum, retired. He was born in
Pennsylvania in 1928 and is graduate
of West Point.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

COUNSEL for Kemmler. the oon-
demned murderer, of Buffalo, n. Y,
will appeal on habeas corpus proceed
ings for a review of the verdict, on
the ground that death by electricity is
a cruel and unusual punishment, and
therefore unconstitutional.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

The steamer Baltimore City, from
Havana by way of St Iago, arrived at
Lewes, Del, recently with sickness on
board and was quarantined. The cases
of illness were looked upon with sus-
picion as the steamer came from a
feyer-infected district.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
Babies Floating ON the Potomac.

WASHINGTON, June 6-Three bodies OF
the victims of the recent flood in the Po-
tomac have been found since the waters
went down. This makes five lost In this
vicinity. Two babies were rescued from
boxes. floating alive and hearty. One
youngster had q nursing bottle full Of
milk which he was enjoying hugely.
None have been identified.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

ENGINEER BoURKE. of the British
war ship Calliope, the only ship which
escaped from Apia during the terrible
March storm, has been promoted to
be feet engineer by the British author
tiles as a reward.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

ALL the arrangements have been
completed by Governor Warren, of
Wyoming, for the election July s OF
delegates to the constitutional conven-
ton to be held September 2. This will
be the first step toward seeking ad-
Yniccion
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

The Postmaster-General has sent
circulars to about 100 post-offices to
get statistics of Sunday work with
view to reducing such work if pos
oihla
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
The Doctors Indicted.

NEW YORK, June Sin the matter OF
the death of Washington Irving Bishop.
the mind reader, it is understood that the
grand jury has found indictments against
Drs. Irwin, Ferguson and Hance, the ply
sicians who performed the autopsy, but
the district attorney declines 10 state that
this is or is not fact
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

THE Pope has prohibited the cler-
ical newspapers from publishing the
polemic of Giordano Bruno. the free
thinker. who was put to death in the
year 1000.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

Two American travellers have been
arrested at Tullamore, Ireland, be-
cause they carried quantity OF sus-
picious luggage.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

SUICIDES are becoming alarmingly
frequent in Vienna, no less than forty
three cases of self murder having been
reported for the last month.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

A Fire at Ishpeming.

IsHPExIse. Mich, June S-The engine
house at the Salisbury mine, owned by
the Iron Cliffs Company. burned yester-
day morning. Loss, $4,000; partly in.
sured. Mining must be suspended until
new machinery is secured
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

LATE reports from Crete show that
complete anarchy reigns on the island
Murders and outrages of all kinds are
of daily occurrence and go unpunished-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
THE NINEvEH DEAD.

GREENsBURG, Pa, june IO-The jury
impaneled by the coroner of Westmore-
land County to inquire into the cause OF
the death of the 21S persons whose bodies
were picked up at Nineveh, has rendered
a verdict that each of them ''came to his
death by violence due to the food caused
by the breaking of the dam of the South
Fork reservoir, and as well the aforesaid
coroner as the jurors aforesaid do certain
ly under their oaths find that the deceased
died of violence caused by the action of
the food or there is such strong suspicion
of such violence or other unlawful acts as
to make an inquest necessary"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13

nearing, numDeT Oh appointments nav
ing been taken. After considerable talk
the railroad men requested that further
discussion of The matter with the board
be postponed until July in order that ths
representatives of the different roads
might be able to reach an agreement
among themselves. The board declined
this proposition and notified those present
that if the arguments had ceased tho
board would take the rate question under
advisement and render a decision as soon
as possible.
PAT CLEARY, who murdered Jesse Turn
er in 1855, was lynched by mob at Lin
coin on the night of the Sd. He had been
tried and sentenced to imprisonment for
twenty years but got new trial, when
the Jury failed to agree, one juror holding
out for a-quittal H then pleaded guilty
to ma1slaughfer and was sentenced for
three years. He then attempted to escape.
but was shot and then hanged.
DRs. RoBsRr ARKMAN, H. d. Baker and
c. E. Currier have been appointed pen
sion examining surgeons for Fort Scott.
PROF. Snow. of the State University,
reported the past month the coldest May
weather on his record for twenty years.
The rainfall for the month was q q inches,
the heaviest May rains on record.
In the United States Court at Leaven-
worth the other day a verdict was rem
dered against the Board of Education Of
Atchison for S31. 500. 40 on bonds to the
amount of SIG. coo, issued in 1869. and held
by Francis NJ. Dekay, of Orange County,
n. z.
THE other day Abram Gold. prosper
Gus and wealthy farmer of Brown County,
drew s, 500 from the bank for the purpose
of taking a trip to Scotland. Two days
later his house was robbed and the money
taken.
REPORTS from all sections OF the State
indicate that the wheat crop will be the
largest Kansas has harvested in yearA
Corn is backward, owing to the excessivs
moisture and cold weather.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-17
BASEBALL FOG.

QuoSque tandem2 How much longer are
you going to abuse our patience, o profes-
sionsl ball players? Is it not, to depart
from the Ciceronian style, about time to
'play ball, ;" or, in other words do business
and let your jaws enjoy well-earned rest?
Possibly, gentlemen of the old and new
leagues, you do not know what a terrible
strain this suspense is upon the nerves of
the nation. Know it now, then, that the
national appetite is falling off and the
national digestion is getting out of order
because the prospects of baseball next year
are hidden in fog.
One day we are RECALLED with the stupen-
dous statistics of the strength of the project
ed Players club in Pittsburg; on the next
the magnates of the old League point with
pride to the contracts the best men of this
years team have signed with them. The
third day brings us word that the Pittsburg
Players club will not be, but St Louis will
reign in its stead. And on the fourth MORN
ing beautiful batch of denials, contradic-
tions, assertions and rejolnders throws the
whole situation into confusion worse con-
founded than ever. This is cruel. What will
the nation, Congress, the President do if this
awful state of affairs continues?
Ifitwere certain that professional baseball
were about to follow all the other profess
sional sports to the bow-wows, we would not
complain. But this is not certain. Nothing
is certain about baseball.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-17
WEATHER pIsAPPoINTMENTs.

The advent of a moderately cold wave
would be hailed, we believe, by almost
everyone with delight. It is presumably a
knowledge of this sentiment and desire to
crafty it, that prompt the Signal Service
prophets to trot out copper-hned predic-
tion of blizzard about twice week. The
Signal Service officers must not be discour-
aged because nothing larger than a baby
frost has come to the surface as vet. The
sympathy of the whole community goes out
to them in this the hour of their aflictIon.
All we hope is that the funerals of weather
forecasts will be less frequent as time
goes on.
Aside from the embarrassment which sb-
normally warm weather in winter months
causes the Governments prophets. there are
many other reasons why reform in the
distribution of weather is needed. The
dealers in Christmas goods are damaged:
the writers of Christmas poetry, now almost
as important and dismal an industry as
that evoked by the vernal spring, are hsndi-
capped, and the habits of all the animal
creation, including man, are being changed
for the worse. Confidence lost in the
weather, means confidence lost in every.
thing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-17
LOSSES. PERSONAL AND poLrr1nAI.

Mr.. Roger @. Mills is reported as saying
that if the Democrats support the PROPOSE
tion to reimburse from the national Treas
ury the members of the House who have lost
part of their salaries by Silcott's defalca-
ton, it will cost the Democracy forty seats
in the next House
This, as the New York Sun agrees, is
more than probable; but the Sun also points
out that ii the Republicans support the
proposition, as must be the case if it is car
ried, the Republicans will also be visited
by the judgment Of popular indignation.
Perhaps this fact, that if both sides share in
the raid for the benefit of the plucked men,
bers, the loss will be even and neither party
will be relatively the gamer for it, has
already occurred to the members Of the
House.
With that fact before them it may also
occur to the members that they can better
afford to have both parties lose seats equally
than they can to have themselves lose the
money with which Silcott ran away. At
least the reported view of the committee
that Silcott was a disbursing officer of the
United States indicates that conclusion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-17
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. TUESDAY. DEC. Il. 1883.
AN. ARoRTIYE VERDICT.

The report which reached The DIS
PATCH, night before last, that the jury In
the Cronin case had reached an agreement,
may have been correct, but the inierences
based on that belief are proved by the
event to have been all wrong. The verdict
sentencing Burke, Coughlin and Sullivan
to imprisonment for life, Kunze to the peni-
tentiary for three years, must go on record
as the most remarkable production of a
jury, that could we'll be conceived.
The verdict is, of course, a compromise
verdict, and the result is the most complete
travesty Of law and logic that could well be
made. There were five men accused of
deliberate and prearranged murder con-
spiraey, which if true, constituted most
wanton defiance of the laws of the land.
The defense did not aliege any mitigating
circumstances which might justify lessen
ing of the utmost penalty. They simply
denied the murder and attempted to show
an alibi. Under these circumstances but
one of two verdlcts was possible-that which
found the men guilty and sent them to the
gallows, or that which set them at liberty
the moment the verdict was rendered.
In view of the verdict it may not be nee
essary TO discuss the question whether the
evidence was strong enough to hang the
men; but it is essential to point to the fact
that if there was not sufficient evidence to
hang them there was not enough to keep
them in prison for a week. Either they
committed most wsnton and defantly con-
spIred murder. or they did not. If they did
to send them to Imprisonment is a travesty
upon justice; if they did not it is an outrage
upon them. In the case of Kunze the ver-
dict is peculiarly farcicsl. To find that he
was an accomplice in such peculiarly out
rageous crime, and then to send him to
prison for three years, is simply an invita-
ton for the repetition of such m urders at
the edict of revolutionary societies. The
only logical finding is that in the case of
Beggs, which simply finds that he was not
proved guilty.
Such results as these. following upon the
other peculiar features of the trial, are
sufficient to bring the present system of
justice into universal contempt If we can
not get juries with sense and courage
enough to either punish men as they deserve,
If they are proved guilty, or else to acquit |
them il they are not proved guilty, let US do
away with juries altogether.