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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-12-26
ADDITIONAL DIsPATCHEs

THE west bound passenger train on
the San Angelo branch of the Santa Fe
was held up the other morning at Bangs
station, 132 miles west of Temple, Tex
A brakeman named Penn shot at the
robbers, but paid for his bravery with
his life, the miScreantS wounding him
so that he soon died.
j. r. JONES, a farmer living near
Bloomfield, Tex, was shot dead by
Dan Blackburn and Rufus Hughey
during quarrel recently.
DURING a dense fog in New York
harbor two ferryboats collided, but
neither was seriously injured. The
passengers were panic-Stricken and
women tainted.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended December 10 num-
bered $40. The figures for the CORE
spending week of last year were 81.
THE strike of the Belgian miners has
ended in the defeat of the men.
THE business portion of Franklin
ton, n. c., was destroyed by fire the
other day; loss, $4,000.
THE German theater in PeSth, Hun
gary, has been destroyed by fire. The
adjoining buildings were also damaged.
ALFRED COwLEs, publisher of the
Chicago Tribune, is dead.
DIR. PARKE, SANKEY'S physician, was
reported dangerously i'll with fever at
Zanzibar.
THE Emperor of Germany has the
| influenza.
GOVERNOR LOWRY. of Mississippi,
has refused to pardon Kilrain, the con-
victed pugilist.
Two bars of silver, each valued at
$1,000, were lost from a truck at New
York the other night. They were in
transit from the American Exchange
National Bank to Cunard steamship.
NELSON JONES, living near Valdosta,
Ga, has been attacked twice in the
near past by WhitecapS and both times
barely escaped with his life. lie had
threatened to avenge the whipping of
an old friend.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for Captain Fran
coise, commissioner to the German
stations in Southwest Africa, have
sailed from Hamburg.
BEACH, the oarsman, has accepted
the challenge recently issued by Han
ian Tor rowing match, and is willing
that the race should be rowed over the
Paramatta course, n. S. W.
THE Canada Southern, Michigan
Central and the Lake Shore wander
bit hnesl directors have declared the
regular dividend and extra dividends
! OF one per cent. each.
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Abraham Lincoln and jefferson Davis
once served together under Major
Zachary Taylor in the Black Hawk
war. Lincoln at that time was a men,
Der of the Illinois State Guard and
Davis was an officer in the regular
army.
Jules Millet, a nephew of the great
painter of 1.-The Angelus," is a maker
of briarwood pipes in New York, it is
said.
Kate Field will call her new paper
Washington, probably because she in
tends that it shall never tell lie and
shall be first in every thing.
Senator Reagan, of Texas, is over
seventy years of age, but man who
carries his years remarkably we'll He
walks to and from the capitol in pleas
ant weather, and his step is firm and
elastic.
Half dozen farmers who were re-
Gently returning to their home from
Dallas, Tex, after selling their cotton,
were robbed by highwaymen. Blood
hounds were put on the robbers tracks
and two of them were captured and
hanged by the enraged farmers.
Settlers in the Big Bend country,
Washington, have to ride forty miles
to get their mail and to vote.
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THE BEALES LAND GRANT.
The Interstate Land Company Gets g
Setback.


Setback.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 22.-Judge
Brewer, as United States Court judge,
has rendered decision in the famous
Beales land grant case, the most i'm
portant land suit ever brought in the
United States. 1t involves the title to
over 60.000,000 acres of land in Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and vicinity.
The title of the case pending is: In
ter-State Land Company against The
Maxwell Land Grant Company; also
Maxwell Land Grant Company against
Vincente Pucteca and others.
Judge Brewer decided in favor of
the Maxwells.
The decision is long but comprehen-
sive. By reciting the conditions of the
grant to Beales and the laws governing
Mexico, Judge Brewer finds that Beales
had no title to any land except what
was set off to him by the Mexican Gov
eminent as an empresario. As Beales
claimed and decided the entire tract Of
land granted, his titles are void ac-
cording to Judge Brewers opinion.
It is not believed the case will stop
short of the United States Supreme
Court. Judge Brewer cites a decision
from this court as justifying his Opin-
ion. The ground on which Judge
Brewer bases his opinion is that the
Mexican Government limited the single
quantity of land owned by any one per-
son to eleven leagues square.
Charles Moonlight, of Texas, lead
ing cattle man, is the largest owner in
the Interstate Land Company. n. b.
Childs, of this city, brother of United
States Commissioner William Childs, is
also a member of the company. The
holding is against this company. The
company's headquarters are in this
CITY
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MISCELLANEOUS,

BUsHIRI, the noted Arab who led the
insurgents in their revolt, and who was
captured by villagers of Mgailla and
handed over to the Germans, has been
hanged.
IN front of the Chemical Bank on
Broadway, n. Y, Daniel Montague.
an electric company lineman, fell from
a pole by the breaking of a crossbar
and was fatally injured. He was try
ing to save the company's wires from
being cut.
THE strike of the printers in Berne.
Switzerland, has ended in the complete
defeat of the men.
JOHN GALLAGHER died at his home
in Butte, Mont, recently from the eff
fects of injuries received in a brutal
prize fight with G. II. Warte.
TIE new loan of the Mexican Gov.
eminent has been more than subscribed
for in London.
1t is reported that France and Rus.
STA have assented to the conversion OF
the Egyptian debt.
THE Western States Railway Pas,
senger Association was dissolved at a
meeting of the general managers of the
lines at Chicago on the 18th.
THE Grand Portage Indians of Min.
nesota who were in danger of starving
have been relieved by the Government
agent.
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FATAL RUNAWAY.
A Broken POlestrap Causes the Death of
One LADY, and Injury OF Another.

A Broken PoIestrap Causes the Death of
One Lady ana Injury OF Another.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 17.-An &C
cident which resulted in the death of
Mrs. Ella Huttig, wife of W. Huttig,
Jr., manager of the Western Sash and
Door Company, and the serious wound
ing of Mrs. Laura Logan, wife of
Floyd t. Logan, an officer of the same
company, occurred shortly after seven
o'clock last evening. The two
ladies, accompanied by Mike Rab-
bit and Mrs. Huttig'S two chill
dren, Hart, aged four years, and
Fred, aged eighteen months, were rid
ing in carriage on East Ninth street.
As they approached Vine street one of
the pole straps broke, which caused the
pole to fall and strike one of the horses
upon its fOreleg. The animal became
frightened and soon got beyond
the control of the driver. The
other horse also became I'M
manageable. The driver, fearing
that if he remained in his seat he
would be unable to prevent a serious
accident, jumped to the ground and
sought to stop the horses by pulling
upon the reinS. lie did not succeed in
doing so, and they ran at the top of
their speed. Rabbit took the two
children from the frightened
woman and jumped with them
to the ground. Neither himself
nor the children received any injuries.
The horses ran against the sidewalk.
The carriage struck a tree, breaking
two wheels. Mrs. IIuttig was thrown
out of the carriage. She struck upon
her head, and received a fracture at
the base of the brain which caused her
death almost instantly.
Mrs. Logan jumped to the ground.
She sustained fracture of her right
leg, just above the ankle, and received
several bruises, none of which are of
serious nature.
Mrs. Huttig was twenty-seven years
of age. Her maiden name was Miss
Ella Hart. She married Mr.. liuttig in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, six years ago.
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A DEAD SHOT.
Young woman Kills Her Tormentsr.
He Carried Hfs Jokes Too Far.

he carried k1A4 JOKES 100 r ar
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. IT,
Near Barkersville, Galloway County,
nine miles from this city, at noon
Yesterday, Miss Louisa Epperson,
daughter of wealthy farmer, shot and
killed Julius Hofer, young German
farm hand, as he sat at her fathers
table eating his dinner, because he
leased her too much about an admirer.
The news of the tragedy was brought
here last evening by brother Of the
murdered man, boy about eighteen
years of age and an eye witness of the
killing.
Hofer, the brother said, was en-
ployed by Epperson, who is an extern
sive farmer and stock raiser, and had
been in the habit of teasing the girl
about her admirers and one in particu-
lar. Philip Akerson, who called Sunday
afternoon and spent several hours with
her.
At the breakfast table yesterday
morning he began INVITING her about
this young man and made some allu-
sion which caused her to become very
WACA SAAC bOiO nm IuetJ II uC
peated that remark she would shoot
him.
Hofer promised to refrain, but at the
dinner table began again on the same
subject and in the same strain, when
the girl, without word, left the table,
walked deliberately into another
room, picked up a 3s-caliber revolver
and returning to the diningroOm shot
HOfer. The ball entered the right side
of his headnear the temple. and he fell
to the floor dead.
Miss EpperSon is known to several
persons in this city and they describe
her as an unusually attractive country
girl, nineteen years old. Her father is
a well-to-do man and the family is re-
garded as one of the best in Galloway
County
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DEFENDED HER HONOR.
The Missouri Girl Who shot Her Fathera
Hired Man Exonerated Bv the Jury.

The Missouri Girl Who Shot Her Fathers
Hired Man ExOnerated By the Jury.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. 1S.-AI
cording to the particulars received here
from Barkersville, Galloway County,
the scene of the Epperson-Hofer trag-
edy, the killing of Hofer was the result
of an attempted outrage upon the
young lady, who, in the absence of her
father, avenged the assault upon her
by taking the life of her assailant.
This was clearly proved at the inquest
held by the coroner of Galloway Coun-
ty yesterday over the remains of Hofer.
Miss Epperson stated on the witness
stand that Hofer came in from the field
about eleven o'clock with wagon load
of corn which he unloaded and then
went to the house saying it was too late
to return to the field for another load
until after dinner. She was preparing
the meal and when she went into the
smoke house for some purpose Hofer
followed her and made shameful adj
vanceS, which she resented. She was
alone in the place with the man and
pleaded with him not to insult her. He
replied in derOgatOry way, threaten
ing to disclose relations which he
claimed he knew existed between her
and her beaux. Maddened by his man.
ner and language she told him if he
did not desist she would blow his
brains out.
Hofer, the girl continued, followed
her from the SmOkehOuSe to the kitchen
and had no sooner entered the room
than he made an assault upon her and
had choked her almost to insensibility
when the arrival of the other hands at
the barnyard from the field caused him
to desist and leave the room.
Before the other men had reached
the house and had seated themselves at
the table. the girl continued, she recOv-
cred from the fright and shock conse-
quent upon the assault and went to the
/ room where her fathers pistol was
kept. When heprocured it Hofer had
sat down at the table with the other
men and she shot him.
The only other testimony was that of
one of the negro hands, William Cason,
who corrobOrated her statement.
The corOner's jury returned a verdict
Of justifiable homicide.
The greatest excitement prevailed in
the vicinity when the facts became
known, and if the girls aim had not
been true and deadly Hofer could
never have escaped the wrath of the
sturdy farmers.
Miss Epperson broke down immedi-
ately after making her statement and
at last accounts was suffering Sc
verely from nervous prostratiOn. Her
throat is very much diScOlored and
shows in black marks the effect of
Hofer's attempt to choke her into sub
mission to his lustful wishes.
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PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

JOHN A. SLEICHER, editor of Frank
Leslie's and Republican, has been
made Civil-Service Commissioner fol
New York State by Governor Hill.
SENATOR HOAR recently gave din
ner in Washington to his colleagues,
Messrs. Aldrich, Dolph, Allison, Hale,
Hiscock and Evarts.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has sent his
congratulations to Henry M. Stanley.
BREWERS nomination for Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court has been
favorably reported by the Senate Jul
dietary Committee.
THE wife of Congressman Cannon
died suddenly at Danville, ILL.,, on the
18th.
CHAIRMAN COOLEY, of the Inter.
State Commerce Commission, has been
obliged by i'll health to leave Washing.
ton for his home.
CAPTAIN L. G. SHEPPARD, com.
handing the revenue steamer Rush
now at San Francisco, has been ap.
pointed chief of the revenue marine
service.
Mr.. STEAD has resigned his position
as editor of the Pail Mall Gazette. He
proposes to start review.
SERGEANT-AT-ARNIs HOLMES, of the
House, has appointed E. j. Hartshorn
of Iowa, to be cashier of his Office, in
place of the defaulter Silcott.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has sent tc
the Senate the nomination of Cyrus
Leland, Jr., of Kansas, to be collector
of internal revenue for the district Of
Kansas.
THE Ohio Supreme Court has decided
that the biennial elections amendment
to the State Constitution was moi
legally adopted.
WILLIAM S. HARRISON, nephew Of
the President, and assistant to the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul gen
eral freight agent, died at River Forest
ILL.,, recently, aged twenty-five.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS ear is trouble
some again. 1t has recently grown
worse. He is under treatment all the
time and is in constant pain.
A MEETING Of Virginia colored Re-
publicans at Richmond adopted reSo
lutions calling on Congress to pass &
general election law.
THE Spanish Chamber of Deputies
has approved a measure giving the sui
frage to officers in the army and eX
Guiding soldiers in active service.
WILHELM VON GIESEBRECHT, the
German historical writer, is dead.
EX-CoNGRESSMAN JOSEPH LYMAN,
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was stricken
with paralysis while at his Office. His
chances of recovery were slight.
IT is stated that Consul Lewis, who
has created so much trouble in Moroc
co, has been recalled.
THE Prohibitory law has passed
both houses of the North Dakota Leg
iSlature.
MALIEToA has been proclaimed King
in Samoa, and has been formally sc
recognized by the Consuls.
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AFTER THE VERDICT.

The States Attorney Tells How the Cro-
min Verdict Was Reached-A Cranky
Juror.
CHICAGO, Dec. Estates Attorney
Longenecker, after a conference with
one of the Cronin jury whose name he
withheld, told how the verdict was
reached. AS was surmised, Juror John
Culver, who spent much of his spare
time during the long evenings reading
the Bible, was the influential factor.
The first incident in this connection
occurred while the trial was in progress,
the time when Mrs. COnklin testified.
That evening Mr.. Culver notified his
fellow jurors that he solemnly believed
she had committed perjury. Later he
thought Mrs. Hoertel was liar and
Martinsen, the eXpressman, did not
really know Burke, while the Carlsons
were plainly telling falsehOOds.
To illustrate as to the eXpreSSman,
Martinsen, Mr.. Culver told of mis-
take made by the wife of his partner,
who one day saw man riding in
buggy whom she was sure was he,
when, when III point of fact she was
entirely mistaken.
Culver, as the trial neared the end,
seemed to see in nearly every witness
for the State vindictive or pur-
chased perjurer. He plainly limited
that it looked like a conspiracy on the
States part. The matter of having
witnesses under the charge of detect
ives was one of the things he thought
looked bad.
Culver was not sure DR.. Cronin ever
went to the Carlson cottage, and when
asked How do you account for the
bloody trunk?" said: "Why, for all we
know dog may have been taken away
in it."
The cause of Cronin's death had not
been proved, the obstinate juror CON
tended, and he was impressed with the
idea that Dan Coughlin had a good
face.
When the time for balloting arrived
Culver voted for the acquittal of all the
defendants. He steadfastly declared
that Beggs particularly he would not
send to jail even for one day. The re,
suit was a long struggle and repeated
ballots ending in the compromise YER
dict announced.
Farmer Person had voted steadily
for the execution of all five defendants,
and was the last man to yield. 1t was
he who was holding out toward the
end, and not until an hour or so before
the verdict reached the public did he
give in to the entreaties of his COM
radeS.
The leading thought Of the majority
of the jurors other than Culver and
PiersOn seemed to be to prevent disa-
greement. They apparently believed
that a mistrial was what had been
aimed at by the defense.
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BAD Man GeneraIIx.

FORT SMITH, Ark, Dec. 17.-Deputy
United States Marshal G. E. Williams
brought in from the Cherokee Nation a
much wanted man. He is James Fox,
who stands indicted in Perry County,
KY, for the murder of E. G. Morgan,
and is also under indictment in the adj
joining county for rape in two cases.
There was a reward of $500 offered by
the State. Officer A. W. Sans, of Ken
lucky, is here, armed with the neces-
sary papers, and will take the prisoner
back to Kentucky. Fox was located
through letters he wrote back to his
friends
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BRApsrREEr ON TRADE.
Eject Of the Mild Weather-Wheat Ell
pOrts-Iron and Stesi Advanced.

ports-Iron and Steel Advanced.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-Dradstreet's
State of Trade says: Special kilograms
show noticeable decrease in the
volume of general merchandise dis
tributed, largely on account of the I'M
seasonably mild or wet weather.
Throughout the West a scarcity of
freight cars, low prices for produce and
the fact that many merchants have on
hand large portions of last winters
stocks, in addition to the weather, have
contributed to check trade, and COM
plants are heard from Chicago, st.
Paul, st. Joe, Omaha, Kansas City
and st. Louis, as at larger Eastern
cities.
The termination of the Missouri Pa
cific and Missouri, Kansas s. Texas
controversy and the increased earnings
reported by the New York Central
quite overcame the depre sSing effects
of irregular money markets and un-
favorable condition of the coal trade
yesterday.
Exports of wheat land flour as wheat)
are increasing rapidly, the total for
both coasts being 2,S72. 521 bushels this
week against 9, All PIG bushels lastweek
and l, 487, 720 bushels in the like week
of 1888. Total exports July to date
amounted to 50,195, 500 bushels, a
quantity equal to that exported in the
like portion of 1888, and as compared
with 70, 100000 bushels in 1887.
Special reports of the net railway
earnings of 1O1 companies for October
show gain of II per cent. as compared
with 1888 and of SO companies for 10
months ended with October, 1889, an
increase of Is per cent.
Recent advances in iron and steel are
regarded with some apprehension, the
trade showing symptoms of crowding
into the market for supplies for the
season delivery. Instead of crossing
into 1890 at $40 for No. l pig iron, it
may thus become the price in excess of
that figure. a general advance
throughout January and February is
not unlikely The gross rail prOduc-
ton for 1889 will equal 100000 tons.
Business failures reported number
$50 for the United States this week
against $40 last week and 335 this week
last year. Total failures in United
States January l to date is 1853,
against 10,0S2 in 1883.
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Cherokee Comm,.sIop a Puilure.

TAHLEQUAH, l. T., Dec. 1.-THE
Cherokee Strip negotiation has been
brought to a close. The United States.
Commission failed wholly in its at
tempt to purchase the Strip at sl.25per
acre.
The Governments proposition is now
informally withdrawn, and many of
the Indians who wanted TO sell are dis
appointed. No answer was given to
the Governments proposition and they
fear the result, and justly, too,
for it is believed that the re-
port of this Commission to Congress
VIII sharpely emphasize the imme-
date allotment of the Indian Territory.
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IncendIarlsm and Murder.

CoNTOOCooK, n. H., Dec. 1.-THE
barn of Moses F. Dodge, at Hopknton,
was burned about two O'Clock this
morning. Two bloody axes and fresh
blood have been found in a neighbor-
ing shed, and it is learned that aneigh-
Dor was at Dodge's placein the evening,
crazy drunk. Mr.. Dodge sent him
home, but the drunken man is said to
have escaped from his house about the
time of the fire. A boy named Henry
Searle, who worked for Dodge, saved
the horses in the barn, but Mr.. Dodge
was lost in the fire. Over seventeen
head of cattle we're burned
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REPRESENTATIVES of the railways
have concluded with the Governor of
Iowa general settlement of all litiga-
ton between the State and the rail-
roads. The State agrees to dismiss all
the suits which it has brought for al
legged violations and the railroads
agree to dismiss the injunction suits
which they had brought in the Federal
court to resist the enforcement of the
Commissioners schedule of rates. This
ends the long conflict between the rail-
roads and the State of Iowa.
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New ExtraditIon treaty.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-President
Harrison has transmitted to the SEN
ate the extradition treaty with Eng
land, referred to in his annual mes
sage, negotiated by Secretary Blaine
and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
Minister. By its terms the number of
extraditable ofenses is largely in
creased, the most important addition
being that of ENLIGHTENMENT, so that II
the treaty be ratified Canada and the
United States will cease to exchange a
class Of undesirable residents who have
hitherto secured immunity from pun
ishment.
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Mr.. LESTER, of Virginia, has intro
duced in Congress bill declaring I'M
lawful the combination of any number
of persons or any amount of capital, in
any respect whatever, for the purpose
of governing the price in the purchase
and sale of stock cattle, beef cattle on
foot or dressed beef 1t also declares
to be unlawful the offering for sale of
dressed beef which has been slaught-
cred more than thirty-six hours and
shipped more than 500 miles. 1t also
imposes penalty for the violation of
the provisions of the bill.
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MONEY STOLEN.
Six Thousand Dollars of County Funds
Hauled Of.
CITY,.

Six Thousand Dollars of County Funds
Hauled Of.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. 22.-Burg
lars entered the Office of County Treas
urer Herman Troebel, Kendall COun-
ty, last night and stole $4,000 of the
county's funds. Entrance was effected
by picking the lock of the Office door,
then the cracksman bored hole in the
door of the iron safe and blew it open
with powder. The thieves did not dis
turb drafts, checks and warrants in the
safe, representing several thousand
more. Nor did they disturb a
smaller safe in the Office containing
81, 100 of Treasurer TrOebel's private
funds. The robbers are unknown,
though two suspicious strangers, who
were seen in town can not be found,
and no description of the men can be
obtained. y Bodeman, sheriff and
collector of the county, had just turned
over to the treasurer $1,000 on account
of the school fund. The county is being
secured in every direction for the
thieves.