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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Dun's Weekly Review of Business-Trade
Somewhat Dull.

REVIEW OF buSineSS-IEdao
Somewhat Dull.
NEW YORK. March 2-R G.. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review OF trade is as follows:
Traders who have been waiting through q
belated season for the expected winter
trade find that it does not come and
spring has arrived Hence there are on
hand large stocks Of unsold winter goods,
which account for the tardiness of col
lections in many quarters, and for the
general sense of disappointment.
At fully half the interior points which
report this week there is noted a fairly
good trade or some Improvement Pitts
burgh observed an advance of % cents in
some kinds of pig iron and better in
quiry for manufactured in many forms.
Great strength is also observed at Cleve-
land.
Philadelphia notes most cautious deal
ing in dry goods, firmer market for
leather, and a slow market with tardy coll
lections for drugs and chemicals. As to
collections, Omaha alone reports improve
ment The money markets are amply sup
piled for legitimate business. The manu-
facturers are buying more freely of leather
and for hemlock prices are sc lower.
Rubber is firm at 64tc for Para fine. The
anthracite coal trade is stagnant The
output thus far this year has been 4,3O2,-
3l9 tons, against 4, 75a, ,6S2 last year. The
accumulations of coal at Port Richmond
is represented as greater than at any other
time for thirty years. In the minor metals,
a severe attack on the copper syndicate at
London caused a fall not followed here;
and tin is a little stronger at 21hc, with
lead firmer at 3 &c per pound.
1t is thought at Philadelphia that the
iron market is frmer. The market for bar
iron Is very unsatisfactory and scanty,
and no Improvement in rails is seen. At
New York No. foundry continues to be
offered at very low figures, and pressure
to sell wire rods is noticed but sales OF
$4,000 tons Of rails make that market
firmer, and it is stated that the allotment
will be readjusted April 1.
Wheat is &c lower, at S7xc. Corn, IN
changed, at 44c, and oats Hc stronger, at
30%c. Pork is steady; lard, a shade
lower; hogs, &C higher. Lower prices
are noted for butter AMI cheese, but oil is
| &c stronger, at 91hc; coffee, &C higher,
at 1SSc, and cotton, 1-16c higher, at $10.19
for middling uplands.
| Figures indicate that the excess Of i'm
| ports over exports for February may be
$1,000 ,000 or more against over SIC, 900, 900
last year. Foreign exchange remains
| steady. During the past week the stock
market has virtually done nothing; prices
are, on the whole, unchanged. The treas
ury has put out 1890 900 more cash
! than it has taken in during the week, and
owing to the large pension payments,
probably closes the month with lower
cash balance and larger volume Of cur
rency in circulation than at the end of
January. Meanwhile, the general course
of prices for commodities has tended up.
ward slightly for the past W eek.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Annlinfmenf&

The Governor mas made the following
appointments:
Members of theState Board of Charities
L K Kirk, Anderson; 7. +. Rhodes,
Marshall; Harrison Kelley, Cofey, and
B. F. Bond, Rice. Hon. Jake Stotler re-
mains at the head of the board.
State Board of Health-D. c. Jones,
Shawnee; W. D. Schenick, Usage; Robert
C. Musgrofe. Elk. S. W. Jenny, Saline;
I'D. Hill, Butler; Frank Swallow, JEFF
ferson, and R. a. Williams, of Johnson.
State Fish nmissioner-John Brum-
baugh, of Cloud County.
State Commissioner of Forestry-Martin
Allen. of Ellis.
Adjutant- General j. N. Roberts,
Douglas.
Assistant Adjutant-General w. d.
Ford, Crawford.
The Present Incumbents OF the Board or
Regents of the State Agricultural College
John E. Hessin, Riley; Morgan Caro-
way, Pawnee; A. B. Forsythe. Montgom-
cry, and Joshua Wheeler, Atchison.
Board of Regents of the State Normal
Institute-J. S. West Bourbon; Rudolph
Hatfield, Sedgwick, and c. w. Hull, Phil
lips. r..
INSTRUMENTATION. T. NJ. Carroll,
Miami
BIigadier- -Generals-A. NJ. Fuller, To-
peka; Adam Dixon, Belleville; Murray
Myers, Wichita, and 8. L. Patrick, Ottawa
Quartermaster-H.F F. Best
Paymaster- -General-F. NJ. Bonebrake.
Lieutenant Colonels andAides- de- Camp
C. C. Loghlin, N. E. Callahan, II. w.
Avery.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

edward 5. LOTUS, who is now staying
in Chicago, is the latest victim of the
tarring and feathering process, and is so
we'll satisfied with his novel dress that he
is 10th TO part with it. Edward was at
Fort Dubson, Wyo., and during his stay
there an assault was committed upon q
twelve-year-old girl. The criminal es-
capped and the offense was attributed to
Lotus. Early one morning body of men
called at his brother laws house and
Lotus was seized, bound hand and foot
thrown into a wagon and conveyed five
miles across the prairie. There, every
preparation had been made for avenging
the crime. LOTUS was unceremoniously
pulled from the wagon, dipped into a
hogshead of lukewarm tar and then
covered from head to foot with
chicken feathers. 1t was proposed to set
fire to him, but just when the light was
being applied LOTUS broke and made
dash for liberty. He was closely pursued,
but in the uncertain light of the early
morning, and while the bullets were
whizzing around his head, he effected his
escape. Reaching his brother-in- laws
house in safety he secured his clothes and
made off to Evanston. From there he
proceeded to Cheyenne, thence to Chicago.
LOTUS is endeavoring to make an engage
ment with the managers OF some dime
museum. His whole body, with the ex-
ception of his face and hands, is literally
covered with feathers, and when un-
dressed he presented an amusing appear
Herald.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on ths Goth con-
voked an extra session of the Senate to
meet at noon on March 4.
THE marriage of the Emperor of China
was celebrated on the 26th with impos-
ing splendor.
THE German Government has received
information from Washington that there
is no prospect of the United States COM
plying with the demand for the prosecu-
tion and punishment of Klein.
VICE-PREsIDENT MORTON visited GEN.
eral Harrison at the Arlington Hotel,
Washington, on the 9th.
A BILL has been introduced in the Can
adian Parliament giving the Government
authority to hand over refugee criminals
to their respective countries, treaty or no
treaty.
The italian Ministry, under Premier
Crispi, has resigned.
THE National League of Republican
Clubs met at Baltimore Nd, on the 2Sth.
President James p. Foster was in the
chair.
THE last Cabinet meeting of the Cleve-
land Administration was held on the 2Sth
and was attended by every member. The
session was devoted to a discussion rela-
tive to closing up affairs. At its close
each member received copies of a photo
graph taken of the Cabinet meeting.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, the sole surviving
ex-Vice- President was on the floor of the
Senate on the 2Sth. He was attending
Washington for the Inauguration cere-
monies.
THE report of Sir Julian Pauncefote's
appointment as British Minister to the
United States is semi officially confirmed
A BOLD move to break up Boulangism
was made by the French Ministry on the
2Sth by the suppression of the Patriotic
League and the arrest of its leaders.
GOVERNOR SwINEFoRD, of Alaska,
charges Rev. Sheldon jackson and other
Presbyterian missionaries with being re-
sponsible for the "vile ISLANDERS" concern
ing white residents of that territory.
The public debt statement, issued March
1, showed an increase during the month
of February of Sc, As, ,345.
A DUEL was to have taken place between
Lieutenant-Governor Knobloch and Sem
ator O'Sullivan on account of an encoun.
ter between them at Thibodeaux. La,
recently, but the seconds announced that
an amieable settlement had been reached.
CONGRESSMAN LAIRD, of Nebraska, was
to have left home for Washington on the
lst, but at the last moment stubbornly re-
fused to board the train and his friends
were nonplusSed.
ROBERT SIGEL, son of General Franz
Sigel, an agent of the Pension Office in
New York, has been arrested, charged
with frauds. He had taken money from
pensioners on the pretense of claims for
services in making out checks.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
Supposed to BE In Canada.

NEW YORK, March 2-Artis B. Cleve-
land, president of the A. B. Cleveland Com
pany Qimited), wholesale dealers in seeds,
with branches at Cape Vincent (whers
Cleveland first established the business),
Cape Breton, Ont, and London, Eng,
has disappeared, and rumors are afioat
that he has spent $40. 600 of the company's
money and $1O0, 900 borrowed from friends
in speculations in Wall street, and that he
Is in Canada
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

MEssRs. WADDELL & JENKINS, the
bridge engineers of Kansas City, have
under construction for the Phoenix
Bridge Company the largest cantilever
bridge in America. 1t is TO span the
Colorado river near Red Rock and
about ten miles below the Needles in
California on the California & Arizona
railway. part of the Atlantic & Pa
cifc system. The distance from pier
to pier center is Goo feet, while the
distance from center to center of the
anchorage is $50 feet. This makes the
suspended span $50 feet and each
cantilever and each anchor arm 165
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

A MEETING of the representatives of
roads in the territory of the Central
Traffic Association, but not members,
was held at Chairman Blanchard's
Office, Chicago, recently to prevail
upon the Independent lines to agree
upon a course of action that would
put stop to the manipulation of
through rates at such junction points
as Peoria, st. Louis, etc. All the
roads represented agreed to the estab-
. lishment of inspection bureaus at
various points and to submit to the
examination of their waybills by the
authorized inspectors of the associa-
Z tion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

APARCELs post convention has been
concluded between the United States
and the Hawaiian Kingdom, which is
similar in its provisions to the conven-
tion concluded with Jamaica. 1t went
into effect on the 1st, and will continue
in force until terminated by mutual
Roreement
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

AN inquiry has been instituted at
Vienna into the sudden death from
apOplexy of Countess DeWimpfen,
who was divorced from the son of the
celebrated General who led an Austrian
corps at Solferino. She was related to
the leading families of Austria. 1t
was reported that the death of the
Countess was due to violence.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

GREAT excitement has been caused
among the boodlers in Canada by the
Weldon bill with reference to their ex-
pulsion. Several members of Parlia-
ment have been approached by certain
American refugees with a view to de-
feating the bill. Weldon himself has
been the object of very careful scru-
tiny on the part of recent arrivals
who, in event of the bill becoming a
law, will have to fly from Canada.
The whole House supports the bill and
it is sure to pass.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

The Special Congressional Commit
tee on the Washington aqueduct tun-
mel has reported that there is not ten
continuous feet of solid work in the
tunnel, that a number of sub-inspect-
ors have been illegally paid under fic-
titious names, and that while Major
1ydecker and Lieutenant Townsend
can not be held guilty of corrupt prac-
tices, they have been careless to an
extent that can not be easily condoned.
The committee recommended, an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for a survey for
a new surface conduit
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

ADoLPHUs THOMPSON, a colored man
of herculean build. has been brought
into Waco, Tex, by colored men from
Tehuacana, bound hand and foot He
is about thirty years old and the son
of an aged and respected colored
farmer. For three years he has run
wild in the woods. resisting all at
tempts at capture. He was totally
nude and subsisted on herbs. acorns
and pecans. In attempting his cap
ture one of the party was terribly
beaten upon the face and arms.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

The jury in the libel suit against Gov
ernor Larrabee at Des Noines, Iowa,
brought in verdict of not guilty.
SETH Cook. noted San Francisco mine
operator and capitalist died drecently after
a long illness. He made q fortune from
the Comstock mines.
Two natural gas explosions occurred at
pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th. Five build
ings were wrecked and one person was
fatally and two others seriously injured.
A BOZ employed in printing Office in
vienna has been sentenced to six months
impr1sonment at hard labor for repeating
stories concerning the death OF Crown
irince Rudolph at variance with the oftc-
ial announcements.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

ETHAN S. 'CHAPIN, for forty-three
years one of the proprietors of the
Massachusetts House in Boston, died
recently, aged seventy-four years. He
was the author of ''Gravitation in
Nature" and 'Gravitation the De-
termining Force" He left a widow
and two children.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
Parcels Post With Hawaii.

WASHINGTON, March "A parcels post
convention has recently been concluded
between the United States and the Ha-
wa,ian Kingdom, which is similar in its
provisions to the convention concluded
with Jamaica. 1t went into effect on the
1st, and will continue in force until ter.
minated by mutual agreement
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
REPRESENTATIVE GLASS. of Tenn

REPRESENTATIVE GLASS, of Tennes-
see, from the Committee on Agri-
culture, reported adversely the bills
TO punish dealing in futures in agri-
cultural products and gambling trans
actions on articles of American farm
industry. The committee was of the
opinion that the States had jurisdiction
over such matters and not Congress.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
A Distressing Accident.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, March 2-Last night
Joseph 7. Page was playing with his
thirteen months old child near an open
window of the Schultz building on Grand
avenue when the child made a spring and
fell out of his arms to the ground below,
distance OF sixty feet, crushing its skull
1t lived for two hours afterwards. Page
formerly lived at Paola, Kan, and had
only recently come here.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

JENs CHRISTENSEN, editor of the
Arbeiter Zeitung. addressed a meeting
of furniture makers at Chicago re-
Gently, advocating revolution of
force and blood. A peaceful over
throw of the present system of socie-
ty, he said, was impossible without
revolution.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

IT is stated at Ottawa, Ont, that
Sir John a. Macdonald will soon re-
tire from the Premiership of Canada,
and Sir Charles Upper will form a
to the peerage.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

A BILL has been introduced in the
German Bundesrath providing that
loan shall be raised to meet the sup
Elementary estimate of 1892, 304
marks for homecoming expenditures
on account of the army.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

GENERAL GEORGE B. WILLIAMS, of
Indiana, at one time Minister to Japan
and later organizer of a financial
system for that country, has been
decorated by the Emperor of Japan
with the order of the Rising Sun.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

w. K. VANDERBILT is seeking to OBJ
tain the lease of the house now leased
by the Duke of Sutherland. in London.
The property belongs to the royal
family. The lease has fifteen years to
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07

The President has appointed Briga-
dier-General Orlando R. Wilcox IRE
-tired) governor of the Soldiers Home
at Washington, vice General Hunt, de-
ceased
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE strike at the Republic iron
works. Pittsburgh, Pa, has been
settled and the men have resumed
worn
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-07
Candrmed

LONDON, March 2-The report of Sis
Julien Pauncefote's appointment az
British Minister to the United States 10
officially confirmed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-11
Why She F.nr-ed IIcrseIf.

"It is easy ior married couples to quarrel
and bring themselves TO the point Of q IL
yorce,' enid well known New Yorker yes.
terday.
After | had BEEN married three months
came sadly homo enc night 70 tel Esy wife
that business would keep me away from her
for the next twenty-four hours. She was
girlish, and bT way o. reply she gave herset.
a little hug, with little wriggle Of her body
thrown II, and expressed hsr feelings ia aa
exclamation Of unuista<able Joy. Deeply
panied. | said 70 her that bad never SIP,
posed she desired my absence enough - CUR
gle with joy at the Insre proposal Of It. &ans
q man would have gone Of ang1v or dark
suspicious. Instead questlo1sd Ger. - hy,
you gooae, said she, when you SAID you were
going away one thing popped into nay head
70 the exclusion Of everything else. That
was, now hes going away and csn cat some
raw onions with salt and vinega. IEst VA
al l have been dying for raw onions syes
.Aace ozr wedaln. '"-&sw YORK Ss.a.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-11
Cruelty to Apprentices.

The stories of the treatment of apprentices
in England that have been told by novelists,
Dickens among the number, have hardly been
credited by their readers-this side the water
at all events. 1t seemed hardly probable
that human beings could be guilty Of the
treatment ascribed to them. But n case OF
inhuman treatment of an apprentice was re-
Gently ventilated in London police court
which rivals anything ever written hereto
fore. A little chap Of 10 was bound out to a
dentist, who was accustomed TO beat him in
q most brutal manner, and nearly starved
him to death The boy rarely got two meals
in day, and these meals consisted in the
majority of cases of piece OF dry bread for
one meal and a little porridge for another
He never had anything to eat before ~
o'clock in the day, and in many cases not Till
& o'clock in the evening The boy was SO
starved that he would eat the potato Feelings
and tea leaves, lick the bones that were
thrown away and the plates which his master
and mistress used. When the lad appeared
in court he was almost skeleton and showed
plainly the signs Of his Ill usage Yet the
brutal master was only given two months
imprisonment.-San Francisco Chronicle
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-11
TWO
: n A = =
No. l.
An elegantly shaped Sateen Cor
Arcade price
rs G.
No. 9.
The new FRENCH BUST Corset.
made OF fine French Sateen.
You never saw a batter one
for less than 81. Only
CSC.
Tr1lls or Neat

| The food which is most enjoyed is the
food we cali bread and fruit In all my
long medical career. extending over
forty years. have rarely known an in
stanre in which child has not preferred
fruit 10 animal food. have many times
been called upon to treat children for
stomachic disorders induced by pressing
upon them animal TO the exclusion of
fruit diet, and have seen the best results
occur from the practice of reverting to
the use of fruit i'll the dietary. | say it
without the least prejudice, as lesson
learned from simple experience, that the
most natural diet for the young, after
the natural milk diet, is fruit and whole
meal bread, with milk and water for
drink.
The desire for this same mode Of susie
nance IS often continued into after years,
as If the resort to flesh were a forced
and artificial feeding, which required
long and persistent habit 10 establish it,
permanency as part of the system of
every day life. How strongly this prefer
ence taste for fruit over animal food pre-
walls is shown by the simple fact of the
retention of these foods in the mouth.
Fruit is retained to be tasted and relish
ed Animal food, to use a common
phrase, is ''bolted.' There is natural
desire to retain the delicious fruit for full
mastication; there is no such desire, ex-
cept in the trained gourmand, Tor the re-
tention of animal substance. One further
fact which | have observed-aud that
too often to discard it, as a fact of great
moments that when person Of ma
lure years has, for a time, given up vol
UNFAIRLY the use of animal food in favor
of vegetable, the sense of repugnance TO
animal food is soon so markedly devel-
oped that return 10 it is overcome with
the utmost difficulty.
Neither is this mere fancy or fad pc
Culiar to sensitive men or over senti-
mental women. / have been surprised
to see it manifested in men who were
the very reverse of sentimental, and who
were, in fact, quite ashamed to admit
themselves guilty of any such weakness.
: have heard those who, gone over from
a mixed diet of animal and vegetable
food to pure vegetable diet, speak Of
feeling low under the Kew system, and
declare that they must needs give it up
in consequence; but have found even
these (without exception declare that
they infinitely preferred the simpler,
purer, and, as it seemed 10 thcm, more
natural, food plucked from the prime
source of food-untainted BY its passage
through another animal body.-Richard-
son In Iongmans Magazine.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-11
Trnnessne TOdHY.

Billy Foote, ex-railroad commissioner, aud
son of ex-senator Foote, of Mississippi, met a
friend at tee Baldwin the other day The
friend had come from Nashville, and was tell
ing Mr.. Foote about new drink he had dis
covered at the Maxwell house bar. It was a
Tennessee toddy. ''You put couple of small
canned cherries into the bottom of glass"
said the friend. Then you add little fine
sugar, pour in the whisky, cool it with lump
of ice, and your toddy is made" Mr.. Foote
listened to this. His patriotic soul wasroused.
He had lived for a time in Tennessee. He
went to the buckingham, saw his friend Mr..
Balfe and gave him the secret Of the Tennes-
see toddy. Balfe sent for two cans Of cher
ries, and Mr.. Foote started in quest of all the
Tennesseans he could find. At p N. that
day the fame of the Tennessee toddy had
spread abroad, and not man about town
who had ever been in Tennessee but that had
been obliged TO renew an old acquaintance,
And the fame of the Tennessee toddy is still
speeding while there is danger Of exhausting
the canned cherry market.-San Francisco
Examiner