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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
ARMY DEsERTERs.
The War Department Alarmed at the
Increasing Number.

Iue " Ut DcpdFCLlcuC 11ldflltu III CIIc
Increasing Number.
The War Department officials at Washing.
ton are greatly exercised over the number Of
desertions from the army, especially as they
are increasing in numbers every year.
During the six months ending June 80 last
the records show an increase OF 135 over the
number reported for the corresponding per-
iod last year. For the past six months Of the
present year there were 1857 desertions
against 1909 for the same period in 1888.
Fully seven-eighths Of the desertions took
place during the first year Of enlistment.
The importance Of these figures is appre
ciated by General Schofeld. This has been
the subject Of much thought and discussion
lately, and some plain action which will look
toward modification Of existing articles Of
war will receive the Generals earnest advo-
cacy and be presented to Congress.
A number Of officers believe that one of the
best ways of breaking up desertion in the
army would be to put stop to the soldiers
doing so much extra work. When q man en-
ters the army he expects to become soldier
When he finds that in addition to his duty as
a soldier he has to do all the work around
the garrison and the officers quarters the SOL
dier feeling dies out and he deserts at the
very first opportunity.
A decrease in the number of useless calls
now prevalent at army posts will also, it is
said result in fewer desertions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
KILLED BY STUDENTS.
A Montreal Lad Dies in the Hands of
Careless Doctors.

A Montreal Lad Dies in the Hands Of
Careless Doctors.
George Prendergast, boy employed by
the Sobiston Lithographing Company at
Montreal, Canada, had two of his fingers
caught in the machinery and badly crushed.
Hewent to Montreal General Hospital to have
them amputated. The house surgeon being
absent two young students, both under
twenty years of age, instead of calling in the
consulting physician, who lives only block
away, undertook to do the job themselves,
and to stop the boys yelling began giving
him ether.
The lads mother demonstrated, but was
told to mind her business. They guessed
they knew theirs. In fifteen minutes the
patient was taken with fit Of vomiting, and
within half an hour he was a corpse. The
students were arrested to await the coroner's
inquest. The boys brother wanted to shoot
them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
SHOT BY A MINISTER.
The Minister Says He was Provoked
by Being Hit With Oh Egg.

The Rev. D. Helnrick, pastor Of the
Methodist Church, OF Nicola, Iowa, shot
Earl Palmer, popular young man Of Coun.
ell Bluffs at Nicola, during the night. Palmer
was the successful suitor for the hand Of Miss
Ella Porter. The preacher objected to the
match, and in his opposition used strong
language against Palmer. The young couple
were married in Council Bluffs, July 3. From
that time the feeling intensified. On Sunday
before the shooting, the minister says, some
one gave him revolver, with the suggestion
that he might have use for it. On Monday
evening Helmrlck returned home from the
country and saw several men near his barn,
one Of whom was standing in the doorway.
He called to them to 60 away, when he was
struck by an egg. He then drew his revolver
and fred and the man in the doorway, who
proved to be Palmer, fell dead with bullet
in his head. ,... o..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
Telegraphing To and From Trains

A company is about being formed Im
Baltimore to place in operation the sys7
TEN of telegraphing to and from moving
railway trains invented by Baylus Cade,
of Raleigh, N. C. Mr.. Cade places a
wire along the railroad near the track,
and the communication is made with the
moving train by drag descending nom
the car. Recent experiments at Raleigh
demonstrated the success of the system.
It is proposed to equip one of the rail- :
roads between Baltimore and Washing
ton with the Cade system. 1t IS asserted
that, with the new system In operation,
collisions between trains equipped with
the instruments will be practically I'M
possible, as the instrument on one train
will automatically give notice Of the apj
proach of another train on the same
track. It will also enable all railroad
business to be transacted directly with
the train, and do away with the necesi
sity for the block system of telegraphioI
sienals.-Ne,o York Tribune. }
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
IN A BURNING MINE.

Two Americans Try to Rescue Eight
Mexicans and All Are Lost.
The Mexican steamboat Alexandra arrived
at San Francisco, Cal, from Guaymas
Mexico, bringing word that in the early part
of July fire broke out in the 15OO-foot level
of the Triurnfo mine, near the town of the
same name, and ten miners lost their lives.
Eight Mexican miners were in the mine at
the time of the fire and two unknown Amerl
cans formerly of San Francisco, volunteered
to 20 to their rescue. The shaft was 1ull OF
smoke and gases. and when the bucket was
hauled to the top the Americans were founo
to be dead. The fire lasted several days ano
finally burned itself out.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
THE SUMS ECLIPSE.
AUnited States Expedition to be Sent
to Africa.

A United States Expedition TO pe sent
to Africa.
Captain Phythian, the Superintendent OF
the Naval Observatory at Washington, says
that the preparations for the expedition to
Africa to observe the total eclipse of the sun,
which occurs in December next, are being
actively pushed forward The scientists are
making their advance calculations; Instru;
nents are being purchased and regulated, and
everything is being attended to that can be
done in advance. The meagre appropriation
given by Congress for this work, s5000 neces.
States very careful expenditures, and it it viii l
Paul de Loando, where the observations will
take place, except on a Government vessel
It was atfrst thought that the new cruiser
Baltimore would be selected for this purpose,
but it is now seen that she will not be ready
for sea in time for the expedition. which will
have to sail about October /. One OF the
older vessels will probably be sent over with
the scientists, possibly the Alliance, now at
Norfolk.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04

ASSISTANT POSTMASTER DEWEY, of Hunt
ington. Ind, has defaulted for $500. The
fugitive clerk took $500 of Postmaster Swint's
money, who is completely ruined by the
theft. He has turned over to his bondsmen
the paper of which hewas editor.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, Private Secretary
Halford, Attorney General Miller and Sec
retary Rusk left Deer Park, Md, for Indian
apolis, Ind, where the President was to
spend several days before returning to WASH
ington.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
CURIOUS FACTS.

CURIOUS FACTS.
Indiana has double-headed baby girl,
Damsons originally came from Damas3
Gus. -
The number of writers of the Bible 4
fifty. s.
German student life differs very ma
terially from the student Life Of all otheH
nations. u
A white Kangaroo, the first ever
known, is on exhibition at the LoAdoM.
Aquarium.
In France the doctors claim on the esa
tate of deceased patient has precedence
of all others. ~
The total number of bodies registered
as buried in cemeteries used by London;
is i, ,276, ,s75. ID
A letter can now be sent round the
world in sixty-nine days, via Vancouver,
British Columbia. ~ 81,
A Londoner advertises that he is
ssPorous. Plaster Manufacturer to Her
Majesty the Queen 3
"A new and expensive whim in jewelrI
is to have diamonds bored and strung
upon chain like pearls for necklace. !,
One of the wonders of Paris is aJweH
1880 feet in depth. Hot water rnshes
out of this well in stream LA feethigh
A Kanawha W. Vs.) fshaaman
caught jack-salmon that had Swallowed
one bass and had another half way down.
it's throat.
John Bright said that he owed his
quick imagination to his life long habit
of reading poetry every night before go-s
ing to bed. b
A murderer was convicted at Welhng-i
ton, New Zealand, by bits Of newpsper|
used by him as wadding and found fn the
wounds of his victim. 1gs ~
s. Landman, Of Waynestown, End. i,
has calf without tail or eyes and Reb-
ert Jones has another that has the skin OIL
an elephant and no hair on its body.
The most northern electric light in thel
world is at Hernosand, Sweden, On the
Gulf of Bothna, above the ed degree of
latitude. Light is needed there at ESQ
P. N. - 81
The Berlin newspapers chronicle the
fact that the heat of the rPresent season,
has been greater than ever recorded since
1719, the year when regular observations
were first taken. ~ ID q s
The story is told of PennsY Yyania
man who was bidding at am auction sale
when the stone upon which he was stand-s
ing split in half and precipitated him in-
to cellar, killing him instantly.
The great bell of Hung -wu, which has
long lain half buried in the ground, las
at length been lifted by foreign machine.
cry and hung in pagoda built Of nom
by foreign firm. According to proph1,
ecy, this bell was never to be lifted
until China had entered upon new ca-.
reer of prosperity. ,
In the Town Library (Stadt BhGotheh)
] of Nuremberg is preserved an interesting
| globe, made by John Schooner, professor
of mathematics in the gymnasium there
A. D. 1920. It is very remarkable that!
the passage through the Isthmns of Pan-tE
anna, so much sought after in later tines,l
! Is on this old globe carefully dilineated. Y
On the sides Of the Jesen Ford, on the
/ west coast Of Norway, mountains risei
perpendicularly to q height Of several
thousand feet. Recently stones and
rocks, some of which are said to have
been as large as house, began TO fAA eai.
one side of the ford. The avalanche
continued for more than two hours, and
the crash was heard ten miles away. =
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
LIGHTNING KILLS TWENTY.
The Missouri Valley Loses Over Hall
a Million Dollars by Storm.

The storm which passed over the Missouri
Valley recently was the most disastrous
known to that section this season. Fully
twenty persons, it is said, were killed by
lightning, and the damage in animals killed z
and ruined crops will run over $500, 600. This,
of course. includes the damage to railroads:
Among those killed were a son Of q. H.
Silver, at Cortland, Neb.; George Warner
and George Richardson, Of Dawson; Neb.;
E. Winkler, Of Winthrop. Mo-; d: amter,
of Hanlin, Kan, and Fred Case, OF Oalathe,
Reports from other towns state that there
were many fatalities
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04

SPRING chickens are shipped by the cef
load from Tennessee to New York and other
cities The business Is steadily increasing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
Washington.

PRESIDENT HARRISON has definitely de-
termined not to place the clerks of the Census
Bureau under the civil service rules.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04

On the sides Of the Jesen Ford, on the
west coast of Norway, mountains risei
perpendicularly to Q height Of several
thousand feet. Recently stones and
rocks, some of which are said to have
been as large as house, began TO 1AA eai
one side Of the ford. The avalanche
continued for more than two hours, and
the crash was heard ten miles away. n
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
CRIMINAL ASSOCIATION.
Suppression of n Cuban Order of White AND
BLACK Desperadoes.

Suppression of a Cuban Order of White and
Black Desperadoes.
HAVANA, Jan. 1S.-The secret associa-
ton in this city, Los Nanigos," is being
suppressed. This criminal association was
in earlier times composed of African ne
groes exclusively. The Africans disap-
peared and the society consists of Cuban
negroes and a small number of whites.
The Nanigos association is resolved into
many groups or parties. Each wears and
uses its own particular signs, and there
are no greater enemies than two Nanigos
who may belong to different bands. All
these several bands hold regular sessions.
A new member, among other things, must
drink the blood while still warm of a cock
whose head has been cut off.
The principal purpose of the primitive
Nanigos was a simple union against the
white race, but that character has disap-
peared, and in later years their efforts ap-
pear to be confined mainly to big war
upon each other. Shots exchanged in the
streets of Havana by Nanigos of different
bands have frequently created alarm and
excitement. The police arrested the lead
ers of some Mango bands. These upon
being released delivered up all the appar-
atus used in their ceremonies and prom
ised to dissolve. Later two other bands
surrendered their paraphernalia and
promised to go out of existence. The
surrender and dissolution of the remain
ing bands are soon expected.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
The Gray Comfy War.

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 15.-Brigadier-G Gen.
eral Myers, who commanded the regiment
ordered to the scene of the war in Gray
County, has arrived in this city and re-
ports serious state of affairs and fears
more trouble. He arrived at Cimarron at
two O'Clock Sunday morning. Sunday a
meeting of the citizens of Cimarron was
held in the city hall and resolutions were
adopted to have the county placed under
martial law.
General Myers then proceeded to ingalls,,
about seven miles west, and q similar
meeting was held there with similar re-
suits. Every prominent citizen. and in
fact everybody in the county, said Myers.
was connected with one faction or the
other and the most bitter feeling prevailed
from one end of the county to the other.
He found both towns in arms and pre-
pared for war, but directed them at once
=, lay aside their weapons.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

CLEARING house returns for the week
ended January 10 showed an average in
crease of 22.I compared with the COR
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was 25.7.
THE London Stock Exchange was quiet
during the week ended January 10. Ameri-
can securities were stagnant, Canadians
firm. The Continental bourses were quiet.
At Havana rise was reported in sugar.
The employees of the car works at Hunt
ington, Pa, struck recently against re-
duction of wages.
REPORTS published by San Francisco
papers indicated serious state of affairs
at Samoa German sailors were accused
OF various acts Of hostility to citizens of
the United States. Secretary Bayard
stated that he had received later dispatches
OF a more quieting tone. The Government
had gone to their constitutional limit in
protesting against the acts of Germany
and further action must come from Con-
gress.
CAPTAIN DAMN, Of the brig Alice Shaw,
which left Aux Cages January I, reports
that General Shaw, of Legitlme's forces,
had deserted with his army Of 1900 men
and Joined his fortunes with those of Hip
polyte outside Of Port au Prince.
The Senate on the 18th further discussed
the Tariff bill. The House passed the
Notifications bill.
GOVERNOR SwINEFoRD, of Alaska, in
his last report again charges the Alaska
Commercial Company Of infamous and
tyrannical conduct, and says the evidence
to the contrary given by parties at Wash
ington who have been wined and dined by
the company amounts to nothing.
The steam cruiser Atlanta left the
Brooklyn Navy yard on the Doth. She was
ordered to report to Admiral Luce at
Hayti.
A MOB attacked Deputy Marshal john
son and his posse near Graham, Tex, on
the night Of the 18th. The posse had
six prisoners in charge in two hacks.
Two of the prisoners and three guards
were killed, and johnson and another
guard were fatally wounded. One of the
mob named Pagan was also wounded
The four other prisoners escaped but were
badly wounded and would no doubt be
recaptured.
GENERAL" MOORE has been deposed
from command of the Salvation Army at
New York on charges of misappropriat-
ing funds. Colonel" Hilz replaces him.
The Spanish Government has granted a
concession for q submarine cable from
Cuba to Yucatan, but the concessionaire
will find difficulties in Mexico. 1t is
claimed that the Mexican Telegraph Com
pany's charter gives it the sole right to
operate a cable line.
Isaac j. BELL, JR, ex-United States
Minister to the Netherlands, died from
py8mia OF the heart, at St Luke's Hos
pitaL New York. on the Nth after a long
and painful illness. Mr.. Bell left widow,
the sister Of James Gordon Bennett and
three young children.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
Everybody knows the sizes of thread.

Everybody knows the sizes Of thread.
Every seamstress knows whether she
wants No. 30, or 60, or 100, and knows
when she hears the number, about what 10
the size of the strand referred to; but how
the numbers happen to be what they are,
and just what they mean, not one person
in a thousand knows. And yet it is a
simple matter to explain, was the infor-
nation accorded to a reporter. When
$40 yards of yarn weigh 1000 grains, a
pound of cotton, the yarn is No. l. II
1,6SO yards weigh pound, it will be No.
yarn For No. so yarn it would take 80
multiplied by $40 yards to weigh a pound.
This is the whole of the yarn measurement
The early manufactured thread was three
cord, and the thread took its number
from the number of the yarn from
which it was made. No. 60 yarn made No.
20 thread, though in point of fact the actual
caliber of No. 60thread would equal No. 20
yarn, being three 60 strands. When the
sewing machine came into the market as
the great consumer, unreasoning in its
work and memorable in its demands for
mechanical accuracy, six-cord cotton had
to be made as smoother product. As
thread numbers were already established,
they were not altered for the new article.
and No 80 six-cord and No 60 three-cord
are Identical in size as we'll as in number.
To effect this the six-cord has to be made
OF yarn twice as firm as that demanded by
the three-cord. As simple q thing as
thread is, there are two thousand different
kinds made.-N. z. Mad and Express
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

The Daily Business, of Chicago,
publishes letter from j. R. Dodge,
crop statistician of the Department of
Agriculture, In which, referring to his
estimate of Ala. 1858, 900 bushels as the
aggregate of the wheat crop of 1888,
given in the December crop bulletin.
he says that 1t represents the guam
tity Of the crop In the measured BUSH
els without regard to quality. If re-
duced to bushels of sixty pounds 1t
would represent less than 400, 1000, 900
bushels"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
HorHe-Thief CAUGHT.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., Jan. 1S-Ahorse-
thief giving the name of Brown sold a
stolen team here a few days ago and the
next day returned to Kansas where he
had stolen the team and stole nine head of
horses more and shipped them to Omaha,
where he was captured and yesterday
identified by his Nebraska City victim. He
will be taken to Kansas where it Is re-
ported mob awaits him, and he will un-
doubleday be lynched He is member of
an organized band operating in Kansas
and Nebraska.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

The cruiser Atlanta, it is said, will
not go to Hayti after all. but will start
on trip around the world. She will
60 to Aspinwall first and remain until
all signs Of trouble in connection with
the Panama canal cease, when she will
start on similar cruise to that taken
by the Ticonderoga several years ago.
1t is the object of the Navy Depart
ment to make a showing of the Ameri-
can flag in isolated ports.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

UNLESS unforeseen events should
occur to change the natural course of
things. the Dutch crown will, upon
the death of the now almost moribund
King of Holland, fall to the Princess
Wilhelmine, aged eight years, and
Luxemburg will become part of the
German Empire. Hollands civil list
is enormous. and is secured by the
revenues from Borneo, which are
greater than the sum required.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

The Mormons of Salt Lake City are
talking of erecting magnificent salt
palace from the most finely chiseled
salt of the quarries, together with crys-
talized salt from the lake. 1t would
eclipse completely every thing of the
kind so far, and would be durable and
practically permanent if it were shield
ed from the heavy rains of winter.
Such an edifice would draw great num-
bers OF tourists to witness this novel
palace. E~fl&
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

A DISPATCH from Philadelphia re-
Gently stated that Claus Spreckles had
obtained control of the entire sugar
crop of the Philippine islands for his
Philadelphia and San Francisco REIN
cries. This was not credited by New
York sugar men.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

The trial of r. Z. X. Balm, a di-
rector of the Exchange National Bank
of Norfolk, Va, which failed some
time ago, ended in a verdict Of guilty.
Pending motion for new trial he
was admitted to bail.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

PRESIDENT COTTRILL and Mrs.
Freund met recently at Ann Arbor,
Mich, to discuss electric sugar affairs.
What was decided upon was not
known Mrs Freund's attorney ad-
vised her to take the $1,000 offered
and give up her secret, but the $50
pound widow replied: Sir, pay you
to inform me as to my legal rights,
not to conduct my business"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
GOVERNOR BEayER of Pennsvlvani

GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania,
chief marshal of the Inauguration pa
rade, has appointed Adjutant- General
Daniel A. Hastings, of his State, chief
of staff, and notified all organizations
of more than fifty men to notify him
before February 20 of their intention
to participate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
"A Scientists Error scie

"A Scientists Error "A scientific
writer has discovered why men are
bald. An impression prevailed that it
was owing TO an absence of hair on tho
head. or that they had married the
wrong woman; but the scientist says
it is because they wear wool hats in
stead of the silk stove-pipe brand.
Will the scientist aforesaid please ex-
plain why the tramp, who never wore
a silk hat in his life, is provided with
enough hair to stuff a Mattress
BRAKES Magazine.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

= NEWS has been received confirming
the reports that the Bishops of Tir-
nova, Varna and Vrantza were re-
Gently pulled out of their beds in the
dead of the night and hurried outside
the limits of Sofia by Bulgarian gend-
armes. The night was bitterly cold, a
stiff northern wind prevailing, and the
prelates suffered severely from their
exposure. The incident is considered
sufficient grounds for declaring holy
feud against Prince Ferdinand.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

A CURIOUS idiosyncrasy is said to
have possessed Miss Elizabeth Pea
body, of Boston, the last of circle of
eminent men and women. She is
eighty-six years old and. although
surrounded by intellectual friends of
both sexes, she devotes herself exclu-
sively to Sarah Winnemucca, an untu-
tored Indian woman, even sharing her
room with her.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

The wife of a New York tailor Of
Teutonic extraction dubbed him ''Jack
the Ripper" and he was SO aggrieved
thereby as to carry his troubles into
court. He complained that every
where he went to get work he was
greeted with: go way, you are Jack
the Ribber."