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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

A BRANCH of the British Sailors and
Firemen's Union has been formed in
New York and increased wages will be
asked January IA, when there will be a
grand street demonstration. The long
shoremen are with them.
BY collision between freight trains
in cut near Meyer station, below
Scottdale, Pa, the other day both en-
gineS and fifteen cars were wrecked
and the train men all injured but not
fatally.
A CAvE-IN of large proportions oc-
CURED at Plains, suburb of Wilkes
barre, Pa, recently, when. without
warning, the surface of the earth settled
and great holes appeared, some of them
thirty feet deep. st. Leo's Catholic
Church was damaged, as were the par
sOnage and several other buildings.
WILL and Calvin Odell, brothers, of
Burnett County, Tex, charged with
murder and robbery, were killed the
other night by the deputy sheriff of
Edwards County while resisting arrest.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
numbered 2SS.
THREE new Bishops of the Roman
Catholic Church were consecrated at
st. Paul, Mimi, on the 9th. They
were Rev. John Stanley. of st. Paul;
Rev. James McGolrick, of Minneapolis,
and Rev. Joseph r. Cotter, of Winona.
On the Frazier river road near Van
couyer, B. c., six young men were out
sleigh riding when tree fell, crushing
the sleigh and four of the occupants
and the horses. The other two escaped
with severe bruises.
ONE house was wrecked, Steeple
blown down and other damage done at
Fall River, Mass, the other night by a
storm. No one was hurt.
By the giving way of scaffold fifty
feet from the ground on a new bank
building in Baltimore, Md, three men
fell and two were probably fatally in
jured.
JOSEPH NEWMAN and Ernest Lom-
berg stepped from a Chicago street car
in front of freight train the other
evening. Newman died in two hours
and Lomberg's case was critical.
NANHIzE, an Apache Indian, who
murdered Lieutenant Seward Mott, of
the Tenth cavalry, on the San Carlos
reservation March 10, 1857, has been
hanged at Globe, AriZ.
The cable working between Maran-
han and Bio de Janeiro has, according
to latest advices from Brazil, ceased to
work. No cause is given for the break
In the line, as means of communica-
non between the two points are limited.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
NO-Man's Land Criminals.

WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 2S.-Deputy
Marshal Mcdonald has arrived here
with four men from No-Man's-Land
charged with murder. They are known
as Charles, Tom and George Johnson
and Dick Brodhurst. The johnson
boys had had their headquarters in the
Strip for five years, going there from
Dakota. They are believed to be
members of noted gang of despara-
does.
The recent decision of Judge Brewer
is said to have caused much consterna-
ton among the characters of the Strip.
George johnson, the most intelligent
of the quartette, said: Il wonder if
they intend to call us to answer crimes
committed before the Brewer decision.
If they do the boys down home will
have a tough time of it."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
MALIGNANT pIPhTHERIA.
some bOdy's Folly In Chicago Causes q Bad
Outbreak In Ohio

outbreak In Ohio.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-The Ohio State
BOARD OF Health has been notified of
the outbreak of diphtheria at Zanes-
Vile, o., which bids fair to develop into
terrible epidemic. A Chicago phvsi-
clan is blamed for the calamity. 1t is
said he issued false certificate as to
the death of a child, whose remains
were shipped from Chicago to Zanes-
vile, and infected people there with
diphtheria. About one week ago the
corpse of the child, which was the
daughter of Henry B. Tuttle. and
had died in Chicago, was shipped
to GAINESVILLE for burial. 1t
was taken to the residence of
Thomas Gibbons, a relative for funeral
services. The certificate OF death,
signed by Chicago physician, gave
the causes of death as heart failure and
blood poisoning. Subsequently it was
discovered that the child had died of
dlphtheria. Two inmates of the Glib
bonS house have since died of the
disease, three other deaths outside of
the family have occurred and six MEM
bers of the Gibbons family are down
with the disease. There is great indig-
nation in GAINESVILLE against the Chi
cago physician, and Secretary Probst
will confer with the State Board of
Health of Illinois in an attempt to
have him prosecuted.
Upon receipt of the above informa-
ton from GAINESVILLE DR.. Wickersham
took immediate steps to locate the case,
and discovered that the child had died
in RavenSwOod. DR.. Porter, the med
lcal examiner of Lake View, reported
the facts back to DR.. Wickersham.
The case was that of Ethel C. Tuttle.
1t was first reported to the Lake View
branch of the health department OH
November % by DR.. s. p. Hedges as a
case of diphtheria. The death certif-
cate was issued December 7. THE
cause of death was diphtheria," says
DR.. Porter. 1.-The permit was so made
out and the place of burial was desig-
mated as GAINESVILLE, o. 1.-THE railroad
company received the body for trans
pOrtatiOn and the permit as issued by
this department was presented to them
L am of the opinion that the company
is responsible for the spread of any
cOntagiOn from the body after being so
accepted for transportation.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRESIDENT CARNOT, of France, who
is suffering from influenza, is slightly
better.
DIsCoURAGING rumors existed on the
23d of Samuel ]. Randall's health.
EDWARD I. WAITE, son of the late
Chief Justice Waite, died at his
mothers home in Washington on the
2Sd of Bright's disease.
AN old speech of Lord Salisbury 'shas
been unearthed, in which he blamed
England for Ireland's misery.
Rev. Mr.. STURGEON has had another
severe attack of govt.
DR.. SCHwEINFURTH, in letter from
Cairo, urges the German Government
to secure the services of Emin Pasha
and send him to the interior of Africato
conciliate the Arabs and create COM
mercial center at Lake Tanganyika.
ITALIAN Anarchists have posted pla-
cards in Lugano calling upon Italians
to follow the example of Brazil and
overthrow the monarchy.
THE funeral services over the late
Henry W. Grady took place at Atlanta,
Ga, on Christmas day. His remains
were inferred in Oakland cemetery.
THE widow of General George II.
Thomas died suddenly at Washington
on the 25th.
THE President accompanied by Sem
atOrs Edmunds and Hawley and others
left on the 26th for a three days duck
hunting trip to the mouth of the PotO-
mac and along Chesapeake bay. They
went in Commodore Bateman's steam
yacht.
GENERAL BOULANGER denies that
he has been engaged to lecture in the
United States or has ever thought of
such thing,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
THE SOUTHERN QUEEN.
Cuban AnnexatiOnists Looking to a Union
With the United States-Advantages of
Annexation.

Cuban Annexationists Looking to a Union
With the United States-Advantages of
Annexation.
HAVANA, Dec. 29.-The excitement
caused by Senator Calls resolution in
favor of the acquisition of Cuba by the
United States has not subsidized. 1t
increases if any thing, although not so
openly displayed. A cablegram from
Madrid tends to keep up the anxiety
and showing that the prevailing opinion
in the mother country is that the
United States Government, although
appearing to be Indifferent, is aiming
at annexation. The liberal party in
Spain is taking advantage of the
situation and is pressing the Govern
ment to grant Cuba all the liberties and
privileges she claims and thus secure
her fidelity and defeat the claims of
the annexationists. In Cuba Calls
motion has taken hold not only of pro-
fessed anneXationists, who are in larger
numbers here than is generally
supposed, but also of a vast
majority of the Cuban people,
who profoundly believe that it
was presented in the Senate in &C
cordance with some secret resolution
passed in the Pan-American congress,
which is the bette noir of the loyal
Spanish party. The Hidalgos believing
Spain to be still the Spain of the Fiji
teenth century never cease to declare
that tine eTer-faithful island' is not
for sale, that there is not enough treas
ure in the world to buy her, that force
can not take her. and that Spain would
spend her last dollar and sacrifice her
last soldier to maintain the integrity Of
her territory. They contemptuously
ignore the possibility of Cuba going
over to the United States of her own
accord, yet the party in favor of such
action is growing every day. 1t en-
braces all the liberal and disconnected
elements of the population with a pow
erful nucleus of the Old republican
party, which has made many efforts to
establish the independence of the isl
and. All now see their only hope is in
the United States. They claim
Blaine is well aware of the i'm
pOrtance of Cuba to Spain, and are con-
WINGED that before long Cuba will enter
the American confederation, where her
commercial interests and political as
piratiOns lie. The plundering and
ruinouS administration of employees
whom the Spanish Government sends
to Cuba have greatly increased the
public discomfort, and has converted
with the annexationists large number
of rich Spaniards belonging to the con-
sentative party, who see their fortunes
melting away through steady deprecia-
ton of property of all kinds. All these
elements only need to be
united under strong hand to make |
the annexation sentiment of the coun- |
try tell. Then Cuba would fall as
to the United States as a ripe |
pear to the ground. One of the strong
est incentives of the patriotic annexa-
tionists to a union with their great |
neighbor is that their fair island may |
be saved from the grasp of negroes and |
the fate of Hayti and San Domingo,
to which it is tending.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

THE contractors for the construction
OF the new cruiser, Baltimore, have
notified the Navy Department that the
vessel is completed, and Secretary
Tracy has formally instructed Captain
Scllley to accept her conditionally upon
the completion by the contractors of
any work remaining to be done under
the contract. The Baltimore is the
eighth vessel accepted by the Govern
ment since it undertook the construc-
ton of the new navy. All the vessels
are built of steel, of which the Roach
cruisers were the beginning.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

THE National zeitung, of Berlin, at
tacks Stanley's statements in regard to
Emin PaSha. 1t says these statements
seem to be made with the intention of
replying to the reproach that Emin's
embaTaSSments were caused inpart by
Stanley's appearance and his determin-
alton to rescue one who did not desire
to be rescued and that Emin must be
heard in his own defense before con-
illusions can be reached.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

THEODORE T. CONKLIN, the Clark
street salOonkeeper and particular
friend of DR.. Cronin, has filed in the Chi
cago probate court an inventory of DIR.
Cronin 'sestate. Conklin is the admins
traitor to collect, and his reports show
that the only property left by the muir
dered man consists of a library worth
$500 and surgical instruments worth
500. The inventory was approved.
but no final disposition was made of
the property, which will go to Conklin
as a creditor and DR.. Cronin's brother
In Arkansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

SPEAKING about the Union Pacific
Refunding bill, Charles Francis Adams
recently said be had been waiting nine
years for Congressional action upon the
Union Pacific debt, and he had got used
to waiting. His maternal family co.,
nections had waited ninety years for
Congressional action upon the French
spoliations claims, and the virtue of
patience when dealingwit Providence
or the United States Government had
been fully impressed upon him.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
California Rains.

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Dec. GA
terrific rainfall Tuesday night did in
calcuIable damage. All branches of the
Santa Fe railroad in Southern Cali
fornia were washed out and many
bridges are gone. 1t is estimated a
mile and half of track is covered with
debris from land-slides. Bridges and
culverts are washed out all over the
neighboring country. Two Santa Fe
overlands are tied up at Barstow and
all Southern Pacific trains are block
AIDED. No mails are expected to get
here for several days. Mountain streams
are torrents, and are sweeping over a
large territory, doing immense damage.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Busy Railway Shops.

At Parsons almost the entire force of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad
shops have been for some time past COM
peeled to work nights in order to get the
large amount of work done. The road
is short of engines, and this makes it
necessary for the engines in the shops
to be rebuilt as speedily as possible.
The force in the shops will probably be
largely increased soon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

SOLICITOR HEPBURN has returned to
washington from New York, and is
engaged in the preparation of his re-
port on the condition of affairs in Castle
Garden. 1t is understood that he will
recommend certain changes in the
present immigration system with a
view to reconciling the long prevailing
differences between the Federal and
municipal authorities in charge of i'm
migration affairs at the port of New
York.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

AT present when drummer from a
foreign country visits Mexico he is
compelled to pay Federal, State and
municipal tax, which completely closes
him out, asthe taxes altogether amount
tonearly $500 trip in any one State.
Mexican buyers have to purchase by
catalogue or go abroad in person to pro-
cure foreign goods.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Coal Operators CIose.

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. N.-The Dela-
ware, Laekawanna & Western Coal
Company has notified the employees Of
the Brisban, Sloan, Archibald, Dodge,
Manville and HaHsted mines, number
ing over 1900 miners and laborers, that
the collieries would shut down until
the weather was cold enough to raise
the present stagnation in the coal trade
The Pennsylvania Coal Company, with
fourteen mines at Dunmore, Pleasant
Valley and about Pittston, have also
shut down al but enc at each place.
throwing about 4,00e employees out OF
employment.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

A New YORKjudge recently set aside
verdict of $4,000 damages ''for loss
of wife's affection, and in doing so
remarked that 1.-THE finding was prob
ably the result of an acute attack of
that species of mental hysteria to
which juries in sexual cases are pecu-
liarly table,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

HERBERT WARD, the African ex-
plorer, denies the story that Major
Barttelot was killed by a native
because he struck a native woman.
Ward says Stanley has been deceived
on many points, and that he will prob
ably modify many of his statements
about BarttelOt and Ward when he
learns all the facts.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

IN the Western College fire at Tole-
do, Iowa, the collection of curios of
the late S. H. Thomson, of Chicago,
was totally destroyed. 1t cost in cash
over Sl25,OO0 and was the property of
his brother-in-law, Charles Mason, of
Toledo, to whose wife it was be-
queathed. Not single relic of the
valuable collection was saved.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

Mrs. DELLA PARNELL, mother of
Charles Stewart Parnell, states that
she has received only One-quarter of the
$1,000 reported to have been presented
to her, and that when all her obliga-
lions are met there will be but a small
margin left for future necessities.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

Rev. Mr.. ELLSWORTH, of the New
Plymouth Church at Milwaukee, Wis,
has made an. innovation in the usual
Sunday evening services, delivering up
his pulpit to laymen, who are permit
ted to discuss all manner of themes,
while he acts as umpire. His church is
open every day of the year, and is fit
ted up with gymnasium, a reading
room and a restaurant.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

o. NJ. Browder, who four months ago,
through misrepresentation, mortgaged
some property belonging to his father
in-law at Ell Dorado, was arrested few
days since at Bentley, twenty miles
north of Wichita, on a train going west.
He was en- route to California, having
spent the time since his disappearance
at st. Louis
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

The Secretary Of the Navy has
adopted new design for the flag of the
navy, to take effect July l, 1891. 1t
will be applied to both the flag and the
union jack of the navy and consists of
a rectangular arrangement of the forty
two stars.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

THE United States Supreme Court
has granted the State of Virginia leave
to file complaint against the State of
Tennessee in regard to the disputed
boundary line.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
An Old Soldier Killed.

An old veteran stationed at the Leav-
enworth Soldiers Home, named Alex
ander Blackburn, was foully murdered
and robbed in that city few nights ago
for small amount of pension money he
had on his person.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Atchison Mills Wanted.

Ex-Governor Waller of Connecticut,
until recently Consul-General of the
United States at London, was at Atchi-
son recently to investigate for English
friends certain Touring mills and other
local enterprises which they contemplate
investing in He will soon sail for
London to make his report.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

TEE Governor of Texas had informa-
ton recently that riot was threatened
in Tyler County and ordered out the
militia to aid the sheriff in keeping the
naapa
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
A Preacher Suicides.

Rev. Joseph Tramble, of Wichita,
spiritual preacher, committed suicide
few nights ago by shooting in the right
temple. Domestic trouble, together
with suit in court which is looked up
on as Matchmaking scheme, is said to
have been the cause. He had lived in
Wichita eight years, coming from Cleve-
land, o.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

THE Warren Avenue Baptist Church,
Boston, has voted to call Rev. George
C. Lorimer, D. D., of Chicago, to the
pastOrate, made vacant by the resigna-
ton of Rev. o. p. Clifford.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
A Child Poisoned.

At Parsons. few days ago, achiid Of
William Johnson was poisoned hv drink-
ing carbolic acid The bottle had been
thrown into the yard, where the child
picked tup. Il can not recover.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Judge Dostler's Decision.

An item is going the rounds of the
press stating that Judge Frank Dostler,
of Marion, had decided that mortgagee
could not buy property at a sheriff's sale,
under foreclosure proceedings. The fol-
lowing extract from letter written by
Judge DOstler explains his decision:
DEAR SIR-Yours of the 18th instant with
clippings from paper saying had decided
MORTGAGE could not buy mortgaged prop
erty received. 1, Of course, did not so de-
eide as far as mortgage of real estate is con
eerncd. i did decide that a chattle
mortgage could not buy at his own
sale, where he had refused competitive
bids, and where instead of selling in parcels,
he sold in gross, after being requested by
by ISLANDERS to sell i'll parcels, and in such
case he must account to mortgagor for value
of property and not its purchase price
simply. In this case probably instructed
that chattel mOrtgageecOuld not buy at his
own sale, but such instruction was intended
to apply to the particular facts of the case.
A few days after this case was tried the
supreme court decided, so the syllabus
reads, that a chattel mortgage may buy ut
his own sale, but the burden is upon him to
show that such sale was fair and bona fide
etc, etc.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

WHEN Congress. reaSsembles Presi-
dent Harrison, it is said, will send a
special message adverse to the further
coinage of silver.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

COUNT KAROLYI, formerly Austrian
Ambassador to Great Britain and Ger
many, died suddenly while hunting on
his estate at Pressburg, Hungary.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
CURRENT COMMENT.

EMIN PAsHA recently had a relapse.
There was a secondary hemorrhage
from the ear and great anxiety was
felt.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02

JOSEPH G. Fox, professor of civil
Typographical engineering in Lafayette
College, Easton, Pa, died the other
night of paralysis.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Took Laudanuun.

j. Z. Martin, a grocery man, who
moved To Wichita two years ago from
jefferson City, Mo-, committed suicide
recently by taking laudanum.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Shot by His Own Gup.

A hunting party twenty miles west of
Wichita, while chasing a jack rabbit,
was startled by the explosion of gun
and John Dillman falling from his horse.
He was accidentally shot in the side by
his own gun, and soon afterward died.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
a Poor woman's Terrible Bereavement.

OMAHA, Neb.. Dec. 27.-Three chill
dren of Mrs. Lena Schipp were burned
to death in the cottage at 2O21
Pierce street shortly after eight
o'clock yesterday morning. One was
a boy of seven, another a girl of four
and the other baby boy six months
old. The wOman's husband deserted
her eight months ago and she had since
been earning her living by taking in
washing. Yesterday morning she
started the fire and locked
the door and went out to get some
clothes. During her absence the house
caught fire and the children were
burned to death in the presence of
about 100 people, who were pOwerless
to save them.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Kansas Asks For Ten.
:. Perkins wants t.
1 his district-one
lie other at Arkansf
IN introduced a bill
lding at Kansas City
tchinSon and Newton
trict, each wants a
MIR. Kelley desires
# the Topeka post-ofl
k for a public bull
Going 10 WORK.
Going 10 WORK.

Secretary F. L. Dana has issued the
following call:
GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. 24-DEAR SIR-The
board of engineers asked for by the Denver
resolutions has reported to the Secretary of
War that Galveston is the most suitable
place upon the Texas coast for the cOnstruc-
toni of the deep harbor asked for; there
fore President Evans instructs me to call the
general committee together to meet in Gal
weston, January IA, $780, at ten O'Clock a. M,
in the parlOrs of the fremont llotel ~ con-
slider the report and provide for further
carrying out of the Denver resolutions. 1
am making arrangements for transportation
w:-d every hope of success. Correspond
with me at Topeka, kas., until December 20,
afterwards at Denver, Col, until january 2
Your presence is earnestly desired at the
meeting. Hoping to see you there, 1 am,
truly yours, +. L. DANA Secretary
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-02
Fatal Playing of Santa Claus.

c. II. Long, of Wichita, leading citi-
zen, who personated Santa Claus at the
First Christian Church entertainment
Christmas eve, died few hours after
ward. His physicians say the mask
worn at the entertainments caused him to
breath bad air and bring on heart
trouble