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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
THE GOLD SNAP.
The Farmers Review Says 1t is Responsible
For Damage to Winter Wheat.

The Farmers Review Says 1t is Responsible
For Damage to Winter Wheat.
CHICAGO, March 6.-The Farmers Re-
view says: The report of our correspond
ents indicate that the present cold snap
damaged winter wheat in many counties
in Central Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,
Kansas and Michigan from 10 to 80 per
cent Wisconsin and a portion of the
counties in Northern Illinois are pro-
tected at present by a blanket of snow.
Very few reports of damage by winter
killing have been received from Ohio
and none from Kentucky. In the Ohio
valley, however, embracing portions
of Ohio, Indiana and Southern Illinois,
excessive rain has swelled the streams
and flooded the bottom lands, greatly
damaging wheat fields on low grounds.
With the exception of few counties in
Kansas and Central Illinois there are no
complaints Of damage from Hessian fly.
The best all-around report comes from
Kentucky, all of our correspondents in
that State quoting the condition of
wheat as good to very good" and no
damage from any cause. The most dis
cOuraging reports come from Michigan.
Owing to fall droughts many fields be-
gan the winter in poor condition.
While few counties are covered with
snow many are bare, and wheat has suf-
fered greatly from the alternated freez-
ing and thawing experienced during the
past month.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
THE DEAD BANK ROBBER.

Two Mysterious Women View His Remains
and Probably Know His Antecedents.
Topeka, Kan, March 6.-Two women
of this city called at police headquarters
to see Chief Gardiner about the dead
bank robber. The chief was absent,
but description of the dead man was
furnished, and the women left at once
for Meriden. When they saw the dead
body one of them tainted, but said moth
ing about the identity of the dead man.
They returned to Topeka and were fol-
lowed by County Attorney Gephart, of JEFF
ferson County, who came on the same
train. The women got off at the North
Topeka junction depot however, and
escaped Gephart. 1t is thought they
knew something about the case. The
picture of the robber in the sheriff's
Office still attracts much attention.
Depotmaster Watts, of the Rock Island,
has seen it and says that the man loafed
about the Rock Island Second street
station for several hours one day last
week. At that time he had several
packages under his arm.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
Personal AND POIITTcaI.

! WILLIAM b. ALLISON has been re-
elected by the Iowa General Assembly
to the United States Senate for the
term of six years There was not a dis.
senting Republican vote.
THE Irish Land bill to be introduced
| by the British Government contains
clauses to assist emigration and to abol.
ish the land courts and land commits.
sion.
A GLADSTONIAN won the recent Par
liamentary election in st. Pancras,
London.
THE Senate has confirmed Henry C.
Caldwell to be Judge of the United States
Circuit Court for the Eighth Judicial
Circuit.
EDWIN CowLEs, editor of the Cleve-
land (O.) Leader, died on the 4th, aged
sixty-five. He was we'll known Re-
publican writer.
THE National Republican League ad-
journed sine die at Nashville, Tenn, on
the 5th, after adopting resolutions Hon.
John NJ Thurston, of Nebraska, was
reelected president and Cincinnati was
chosen for the next place of meeting.
YOUNG Abraham Lincoln, son of Min
lister Lincoln, died at London on the 5th
from the effects of a malignant carbun-
Gle in his left side.
THE President has approved the act
providing for an Assistant Secretary of
War.
THE English Government has officially
admitted that the Sultan of Zanzibar
had no right to cede to the English COM
pany the islands of Manda and Patta.
ADvICEs from the Transvaal state
that a serious riot has occurred at Jo-
hannesburg. President Kruger at
tempted to deliver a speech, but was
prevented by the crowd, who organized
mass meeting, denounced the Trans
Vaal Government and tore the flags from
the Government buildings.
Much uneasiness existed in Berlin on
the 5th, caused by an announcement
that the Government had determined to
ask for fresh military credits and to re-
introduce the Anti-Socialist bill. The
bourse closed fiat.
THE forces of the King of Dahomey in
Africa have met with another serious
0OAOoO az GAC uduuS VI Iu0 L T0uCn, los
ing 400.
The Ohio Redistricting bill has be-
come a law.
The Prince of Wales has sent letter
to Minister Lincoln condoling with him
on the death of his son.
A CRISIS has occurred in the Hungarian
Ministry and the resignation of Premier
Won Tisza was expected.
Rev. CLEMENT NJ. BUTLER, D. D., died
in Germantown, Pa, the other night,
aged eighty years. He was at one time
rector of Trinity Church, Washington,
and chaplain of the United States Sem
ate. He was an intimate friend of Web
ster, Clay and Calhoun in their day.
The italian Chamber of Deputies ap-
proved the Governments African policy
by vote of 1913 to 55.
The Acknowledgement of North Da-
kota makes very grave charges of cor
ruption against Legislators over the
Lottery bill.
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REPUBLICAN, CLUBS.
Meeting of the National League of Repub-
Iican Clubs at Nashville.

Meeting of the National League of Repub-
Iican Clubs at Nashville.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March st was
long after. twelve o'clock, the hour for
the assembling of the third annual con-
vention of the National League of Re-
publican Clubs at Amusement Hall,
when the delegates were called to order
From eleven o'clock until the assem-
blage was called to order, the members
spent the time in admiring the beautiful
decorations and doing some sharp polit-
zeal work for the next president of the
organization.
The convention hall is the largest in
the city. 1t has seating capacity for
1,5OO persons The fronts of its double
balconies have been deliberately drsped
with flags, while the National colOrs-
elsewhere throughout the hall almost
hide the walls from view. A layer Of
sawdust two inches deep covers the floor
When Hon. A. j. Watson, chairman OF
the local executive committee. called
the assemblage to order and made the
address of welcome there were nearly
800 delegates present At least 100 more
are expected before the convention adj
journs-
Chairman Watson's address of well
come was brief.
Hon G. n. Tillman, Captain William
Rule, editor of the Knoxville Journal,
and w. g. Winstead, of Tennessee, fol-
lowed with brief addresses, after which
the convention was turned over to Pres
ident Thurston, of Nebraska, who de-
livered long address.
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YOUNG LINCOLN DEAD.
The Unfortunate Youth Succumbs to HI

4-O O-AoA eo-ASSo 4O4s1 00CCuL1Do ~ IL
Disease.
LONDON, March 6.-Master Abraham
Lincoln, SON Of Mr.. Robert Lincoln, the
United States Minister, who has been
suffering for long time from blood
poisoning, arising from a malignant
carbuncle on the left side below the
armpit, died at seven minutes after
eleven o'clock yesterday morning.
During the morning the lad was in q
comatose condition. He refused to re-
tain nourishment and the doctor stated
definitely that his death was only a
question Of few hours. He suffered no
pain. Mr.. Lincoln and his family were
at the bedside of the dying boy from
early in the morning until he died. He
passed away quietly.
The following account of the lads i'll
ness is authoritative:
He went to Versailles to study French,
and had been there about two months
when he began to feel vaguely indis
posed This feeling lasted for about a
week, when, on November 8, a large
carbuncle developed in a few hours on
the left side under the arm, both left
arm and hand at the same time becom-
ing greatly swollen. His parents were
sent for, and on their arrival from Lon
don, twenty-four hours later, they found
his condition as above stated, except
that the arm swelling was somewhat di-
minished. Next morning the local ply
sicians made an incision in the carbun-
Gle, and it was thereafter treated with
great care with poultices and antiseptics
until November Is, when an alarming
inhammatory and febrile condition set
in.
An operation was performed by dis
tinguished Paris physicians, and there
after the wound so made was carefully
treated. The patient continued to take
and digest nourishment perfectly well,
but notwithstanding this he began to
lose flesh, and the wound, instead of
healing at all, became unhealthy.
Finally, it was deemed expedient to
remove the sufferer to London where he
might receive attention from the famous
surgeons of that city, and this was
accordingly done on January IL.
The patient was at once placed
in charge of DR.. Maclagan of Cad
ogan Place, London, assisted by DIR.
Jones and DIR. Thomas Smith, surgeon.
The lads trouble was not limited to the
outside of the chest wounds, but ex-
tended inward, interfering materially
with the movements of the ribs on that
side and causing also an effusion within
the chest, which effusion increased to
such an extent that on February 20 the
patient was in imminent danger of being
suffocated. By this time the emaciation
had greatly increased. Desperate op-
erations were resorted to by the sur
yeons, but without success.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
CONGRESSIONAL FORECAST.
What the Senate and House Have In Hand
and What Ii Expected.

| Wnet the senate ana House Have In Hand
and What L. Expected.
| WASHINGTON, March 10-The uncer-
tainty surrounding the disposition of
the questions raised by the recent re-
consideration of executive session mat
tiers makes it impossible to forecast with
any degree of accuracy the work of the
(; Senate for this week.
Senator Dolph's committee will to-day
resume the interrogation under oath of
members of the Senate respecting their
connection with 'leaks" in the past, and
the report of the discoveries may pre-
cipitate another discussion similar to
that of last week. So much of the time
of the Senate was taken up with the dis
cussion that the Blair Educational bill
was not disposed of, and it still heads
the calendar as unfinished business. A
very general feeling exists in favor of
closing this debate this week and to take
vote on the bill if possible. Mr.. Evarts
will close the debate in support of the
measure.
The report of the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections on the Montana
case is likely to be made this week, but
the debate that must ensue will not
begin until the Blair bill is out of the
way.
The Urgent Deficiency Appropriation
bill will be reported from the Committee
on Appropriations this week.
Senator Stanford will offer resolu-
ton to-day instructlng the Finance Com
mittee to investigate and report upon
the expediency and desirability of the
Government loaning money upon real
estate mortgages at nominal rate Of
interest, one or two per cent. per annum,
retaining the right to call in certain
proportion of the loans when occasion
demands.
In the morning hours the Oklahoma
Townsite bill may be considered and
further progress made in the execution
of the order to dispose of public build
ing and bridge bills on the calendar.
The work of the House this week will
probably be devoted principally to add
ing new stars to the National flag. The
District of Columbia Committee will oc-
cupy to-day in the disposition of meas
ures relating to local affairs, and after
that the Oklahoma bill will be taken
up and passed upon finally, as far
as the House is concerned. Then,
according to notice already given,
the Territories Committee will present
for the consideration of the House the
bill to admit Wyoming as State of the
Union, and this will be followed by the
Idaho bill if any time remains.
The Committee on Elections desires
to call up the contested election case of
Mudd VS.. Compton, from Maryland, but
will only do so, according to present
if it can be done without
with the Statehood bills al
ready mentioned.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

WILLIAM NJ. POPE, teller of the City
National Bank, of Louisville, KY, is
a defaulter to the amount of sec, 900.
ANDREW ALEXANDER's saloon at Wood
side, Ind, burned the other night, and
Alexander persisted in the flames The
fire was supposed to be of incendiary
origin.
The withdrawal of the Rock Island
leaves the East Bound Passenger Associ-
alton OF Kansas City on its last legs.
IRE murder of Benwell, an English
man, by his companion at Niagara Falls
has features resembling the Preller
murder at st Louis.
CHARLIE MITCHELL, the pugilist, and
chesterfield Goode got into fight in
London recently and Goode was seri-
ously hurt
PRESIDENT JOSEPH STANLEY, of the
broadway & Newburg street railway,
cleveland, O., has died from injuries re-
ceived while jumping from one of his
own electric motors.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

Miss CLARA BARTON, OF the ned Cross
Society, has issued an appeal for the
pioneer settlers of North and South
Dakota.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended March s showed an average
increase of S.3 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was 54.
EN-SULTAN MURAD is reported to have
died at Constantinople. He was deposed
after reign of few months in 1876 on
the alleged ground of insanity.
The French position in Dahomey is
said to be critical.
The last honors to the remains of the
late Minister Pendleton were held at
Cincinnati on the sth. The interment
was at Spring Grove cemetery.
The final dissolution of the famous
Credit Mobilier Company was ordered at
Philadelphia on the Sth.
For the first time since the fire began
smoke ceased to issue from the South
Wilkesbarre Pa-) shaft on the 9th.
Over thousand gallons of water min
ute had been poured into the mine for
several days.
CONSIDERABLE restitution is reported
among the laboring classes of San Fran
cisco. Benevolent citizens have sub
scribed money to employ a number in
the Golden Gate park.
j. 2. MITCHELL, an oil we'll torpedo
handler of franklin, Pa, was literally
blown to pieces by an explosion of nitro
glycerine the other day.
RICHARD & MANN, lessees of the
Parker House, Boston, are involved.
Their liabilities are SS15, 600 and their
assets $500, 900.
w. r. COBB, who killed man named
Richardson in Cook County, Tex, seven
teen years ago, has just been sent to the
State prison for forty years for the
crime.
TIE five renegade Apaches in Arizona
have been Opposed of. Three were cap
tured and two killed.
THE trial at Wadowice, Austria, of
the persons accused of emigrant swind-
ling resulted in the conviction by the
jury of thirty-one of the sixty prisoners.
An extensive blaze in the Ebhard
Manufacturing Company's works at
Cleveland, O., destroyed three brick |
buildings containing the rolling and re-
pair departments. About 1000 men
were thrown out of employment
JUDGE ATTKIN, of Sacramento, Cal,
has ordered the partition of the As, 900 |
acre ranch of San Jacinto Nuevo among |
ten persons.
The Customs Committee of the French |
Chamber Of Deputies has decided to i'm
pose duty of 8 francs on foreign corn
and francs on corn -four.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
GREAT FIRE AT DETROIT.
A Quarter of a Million Burned Up in
Factory.

A Quarter of a Million Burned Up in q
Factory.
DETROIT, Mich, March 10.-At 6:15
last evening fire was discovered in the
rear of Gray & Bats six story furniture
factory, 9S to 1O2 Congress street. The
fire was on the fifth floor, and before the
department could get to work had gained
Roadway among the very dry materials
and spread rapidly to the roof and then
downward until the roof and up
per floor fell, carrying the fire
to the ground. Carroll & Hunts
chair establishment went next, the
two making an intensely hot fire, which
not only rendered firemen's work very
difficult, but threatened to consume
buildings on the opposite side of the
street. The Carroll cigar factory was
also Quilted.
At midnight the fire was under con-
troll, but still burning fercely. The
total loss is estimated at $3.50, 900, par
TALLY covered by insurance. The
burned buildings were the property of
Senator James Mcmillan and valued at
$40 600
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
Notes.

The best fruits and the best vegeta-
bles are the most profitable, the same as
the best stock and the best grain give
the best returns to the grower, and it is
only by having products of a good quail
ity that the best profits are possible at
the present time.
Ii the hot bed or the plants in the
window are kept warm, there is always
more or less danger of insect pests get
ting a start and doing considerable
damage.
In places where they will not be
molested by stock, grapevines can be
trained on the fences.
If the cows have been fed literally on
bran the manure is valuable for the
onion bed, as these plants require con-
siderable nitrogen.
A good assortment of ornamental
trees, shrubs and flowers add not only
beauty but value to the farmers home.
See that the grape trellis is in good
repair.
Trees planted for a wind-break should
be of quick growing and dense habit,
with as near perpetual foliage as pos
sible.
A handful of wood ashes applied
aroSnd each blackberry cane, viii be
found very beneficial as fertilizer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
HOPEFUL FARMERS.
Kansas Agriculture Has Good Prospects
For thu Year of 1890.


For the Year Of 1890.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 5.-The Kansas
Farmer prints q carefully prepared re-
port-the first of the season-from nearly
every county in Kansas, made up by its.
special correspondents on the last day
OF February, as to the condition and
acreage Of growing wheat, the condition
OF livestock, as well as the local market.
prices OF wheat, corn, oats, cattle and
hogs.
These reports show an increased acre
age in every county, ranging from S to.
so per cent, except in the counties OF
Brown, Doniphan, Woodson, Meade and
Nemaha, and the last two counties re-
port a decreased acreage. The most
notable increase, however, is
shown in Western Kansas, where the.
increase is from double to five times the,
acreage of last year. In the northern
counties of the State there will be an
increased acreage of spring wheat.
Some fears were expressed that the
recent cold snap may have injured the
wheat somewhat but the only wheat.
winter-killed up to March 1 was in spots.
OA OOSOOHA AdnAs 4nO hSSSAdA ny
some damage in Wabaunsee County.
Present indications are that Kansas will
produce from the increased acreage the
largest wheat crop ever known in the
history of the State, as the fall and
winter had been unusually favorable
until the recent cold spell, which was.
general over the State.
Livestock of all kinds is generally in.
splendid condition and free from dis
ease of any kind excepting a few cases
of hog cholera, which has abated.
Farm horses are generally in better
condition at this season. Feed is cheap.
and abundant wherever stock is being
full fed for market
The local prices for corn, wheat and
oats are hardly equal to the cost
of production, consequently more
full feeding of stock is be-
ing done than ever before in
order to secure better prices for corn.
The local prices of livestock are low
and cattle are lower than ever known,
and the supply of cattle will be reduced
as consequence of the continued de-.
preston in beef cattle prices
There has been an increased fall Of
snow and rain in Western Kansas dur
ing the past fall and winter and the
farmers feel hopeful as to good crops.
during 1890.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
AIcCahe ON Oklahoma

TOPEKA, Kan, March &c. P. Nc
Cabe, the colored candidate for Gov
ernor of Oklahoma, says that he puts no
faith in the dispatches sent out from
Guthrie and Washington that the whites
will forcibly resist any effort to make
Oklahoma a negro State. He said
to-day: eff appointed Governor
will administer the laws of the United
States without fear or favor to white and
black alike. That character of balder-
dash maydo south of Mason and Dixon's
line, but we go to the Territory to put
an end to that kind of politics. Stuffed
ballot box and shotgun policy must be
relegated to the South, where it belongs"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13
Kansas Insurance.

TOPEKA, Kan, March Cd W.
Wilder, superintendent of Insurance,
has received from all the fire insurance
companies doing business in Kansas re-
ports showing the business transacted
by them in this State during 1889. It
shows that risks to the amount
of So, 142, 25 were written in 1889 by
Kansas mutual companies, as compared
with 81, ass, 520.25 for the previous
year. The foreign companies, of which
there are seventy-eight. wrote risks to
the amount of s134, $50, 1Ss.02 last year,
the business for tho previous year b.
ing s129, "a, e52 o.
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FIRE AT WEBB CITY.
Horses Burned and Several Buildings De-
stroyed.

JOPLIN. Mo-, March 1O.-A fire at
Webb City at four o'clock yesterday
morning burned the livery barn of
Ward & Thalbarn, the Buffalo Hotel
and five one-story structures. The total
loss is 1000. There was no insurance
except $500 on a carpenter shop. The
fire originated in the livery stable.
Twenty-Five horses persisted, fourteen
belonging to the firm and eight to board
ers. Six buggies and carriages, two
transfer wagons and sprinkler, owned
by the firm, and ten vehicles owned
by boarders were destroyed. Twelve
horses were saved. Every thing except
stoves and carpets were saved from the
small buildings and hotel. Total loss,
5000 The Waterworks Company is
just laying mains and the town is abb
solutely without protection from a fire
ravage. Carelessness in leaving clothes
near red-hot stove by the stable en-
ployes upon retiring was the cause of
the fire.
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GONE TO MEET sILcoTT.

Louisville Bank Teller Decamps With.
$50, OOO-ToO Fond of Wine, Women and
Gambling.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 5.-William
H. Pope, teller of the Louisville Nation
al Bank, trusted man of good habits,
who was received in the best social cir
cles of this city, is gone. His absence
at the bank yesterday morning at first.
excited no suspicion, as it was supposed
he was at his sick sisters bedside or in
the country detained by the flood
When no word was received at 1890
o'clock President James S. Pirtle, Vice
President j. d. Leech and Cashier w. S.
Parker became somewhat suspicious
They opened the vault and hasty ex-
animation showed that about $50, 600
was missing. The missing money was
all in large bills. All the bulky gold
and silver coin and small bills were left
intact. 1t will require careful exam
ination to state the entire amount that.
Pope took with him.
Pope is a native of this State and is
thirty-eight years old. His father, Wal
lace Pope, resides eight miles out on
the narrow gauge railroad. He entered
the bank in 1881 as a clerk and was rap
idly promoted. He was thought to be
''close." He had been leading a DR..
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde life for some years,
as many of his boon companions are,
aware. At his room he was unusually
quiet.
The only articles missing from his
room were Bible and a prayer book,
which he must have taken with him. At
a room on Jefferson street he frequently
gave wine suppers to young men of his
class and fast young women. He.
gambled and was known as sucker"
He frequently was drunk at night, but
he was always at his desk promptly in
the morning.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-13

DETAILS received of the loss of the
British steamer Quetta in Torres strait,
while bound from Cooktown, Australia,
for London, show that the Lascar men
belonging to the crew took possession
of the best boat on the steamer and re-
fused to let any one else enter it. The
survivors of the disaster took the other
boats and landed on Ad0lphus island.
three miles from the scene of the wreck,
from which they were rescued by the
steamer Albatross.