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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
The Popular Line

To the East is the Burlington Route
(Hannibal & st. Joseph railrOad). The
service by this line has been constantly
improved until it has reached degree
of excellence surpassed by none, and
equaled by few. The BuTlingtOn's
''Eli'' is probably the finest and most
popular train running between the Mis-
souri, river and Chicago, being a solid
through Vestibule train of Pullman
sleepers and free. chair cars. Leaving
Kansas City, AtchisOn and st. Joseph
after supper, the passenger arrives in
Chicago at 9:15 in the morning. Hay-
ing taken breakfast on one of the Bur-
linStOn's world renowned dining cars
he is ready for the days business, or in.
ample time to make all Eastern con-
nectiOns.
For the convenience of passengers.
from Kansas City clip takes dining
car out of Kansas City on which east
bound passengers are served with a
supper which is equaled by few hotels.
The BurlingtOn's st. Louis line,
though comparatively new, is becoming
better known and growing in popular
favor every day until it bids fair in the,
near future to be the faYOrite line be-
tween the Missouri river and st. Louis.
This train, consisting of through sleep
ers, chair cars and coaches, leaves Kan
sas City, AtchisOn and st. Joseph after
supper and puts the passenger in st.
Louis for breakfast, and ample time to-
make all connections.
You are also requested to bear in
mind that the Burlington Kansas City,.
st. Joseph & Council Bluffs r. r.. is
the only line running through Pullman
Buffet Sleepers between Kansas City
and st. Joseph and st. Paul and Mime
apOlis. This is the short line between
Kansas City, st. Joseph and Omaha
Through daily trains with sleeping and
chair cars.
In whatever direction you travel be
sure your tickets read over the Burling-
ton Route, thereby insuring yourself
the greatest amount of comfort, with
the least expense of money and time.
Write for all information, circulars,
ETC., to II. G. Orr, General Southwest
ern Passenger Agent, 900 Main street,
Kansas City, or
A. G.. DAWES,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
st. Joseph, Mo.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
ADecI.Ion InvolvInr 500 Lots.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 27.-Judge Foster,
of the United States Circuit Court, has
decided case which involves the title to
about 500 of the most valuable lots in
Arkansas City. Thirteen years ago
these lots were given away because
they were about to be sold for taxes,
but the property is now valued at over
$50, 900. Subsequently suit was brought
to recover the property. Judge Foster
holds that the sale was legal and must
stand. A portion of the stockholders in
the Arkansas City Town Company were
the plaintiffs. The lots were decided to
the mayor of that city and his SUCCESSORS
in office
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
The Aafn- VIII

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-At noon yester-
day William Waldorf Astor and Lawyer
Southmayd entered the surrogate's Office
with John Jacob Astor's will and fled q
petition for its probate. The will only
covers two and half sheets of parch-
ment. By the terms of the will st.
Luke's Hospital receives 500, 900, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art $50, 200, the
New York Cancer Hospital 500, 900, the
Astor Library $3.50, coo, Alexander Ham
nton $50, 600 and James Simmons Arm
strong $50, 600. All the residue and re-
mainder of his estate goes to his son
William Waldorf Aston.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

The Senate smelling committee -
which is trying to learn the source from
which newspapers obtain their news of
executive sessions, it was said, would
make a preliminary report sett ng forth
the fact that many of the witnesses
called refused to answer the questions
put to them. 1t was not thought that
the Senate would take any steps to
make these correspondents answer ex-
cept, perhaps, in the case of the CORE
spondent of the New York Tribune,
whose paper published a copy of the
British Extradition treaty. There is a
law which is construed by some to war
rant the punishment of any person pub
fishing an executive document of the
Senate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
DICK HAYES HANGED.
The Alabama Murderer Pays the Penalty
For his F1endish Crime-A Full Comics

| The Alabama Murderer Pays the Penalty
For His F1endish Crime-A Full Confess
| sion.
| BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March dick
Halves was hanged for the murder OF his
wife and two children at three minutes
to one o'clock yesterday. His neck was
broken and death was easy. The little
Jail was packed to suffocation- In the
streets outside thousands of people
stood in the rain waiting, though they
could see nothing.
| Before the black cap was adjusted
Halves spoke briefly. He called news
paper man, shook hands with him, and for
gave him for all false statements against
him. He then handed an Age-Herald
man a written confession and asked
that it be published. He stated that he
was guilty and suffered Justly; that
whisky and bad woman had brought
him to his end. He warned young men
against following in his footsteps. His
written confession would tell the rest.
DIR. Purser offered prayer. The drop
fell and all was over.
The crime for which Richard Fl. Halves
paid the penalty of his life was the muir
der of his wife and two children, May
and Irene, Tuesday morning, December
4, 1883 The body of May Haws was
found floating in an artificial lake at
Eastlake, a pleasure resort six miles
from this city, but it was not identified
until the next day. The discovery led
to still further investigation and the
residence of Halves was visited by sew
eral persons, who found the place de-
serted and evidence that horrible crime
had been committed. There were blood
stains on the floor, and in corner Of
one of the rooms bloody club was found.
On the same day it was learned that
Halves had been married to Miss May
Storey, at Columbia, Miss. He was ar
rested the same night while passing
through Birmingham on his way to
Georgia to spend his honeymoon. He
identified the body of his child, but
stated that he had been divorced from
his wife and she had gone away. The
children, he said, had been placed in
convent at Mobile and he was at loss
to understand how Mays body came to
be found where it was.
The palpable improbability of such a
story convinced those who heard Hawes'
statement that he had murdered the
rest of the family, and by the direction
of the coroner the lake was drained and
the bodies of Mrs. Halves and little
Irene, heavily weighted with railroad
iron, were found on the bottom.
The finding of Mrs. Hawes' corpse
inflamed the public mind to a state of
frenzy All the efforts of the press of
the city and the county authorities to
allay the excitement were futile. The
Jail was stormed by 10000 persons de-
termined to lynch the murderer. The
sheriff ordered halt, but the mob re-
piled with cries of derision and pressed
forward. The order was given to the
guard to fire and a volley resulted in
the killing of ten persons and the
wounding of many more. The spirit of
the mob was broken and it never re-
turned to the attack, contrary to the ex-
pectatiOn of the authorities, who had in
the meantime telegraphed to the Gov
ernor for militia.
The trial of HAYES began April &c
and lasted eleven days.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
The WnrId,s Fair

New YORK. March While admitting
that the outlook for a Worlds Fair in
New York in 1892 was not at all encour-
aging, Mayor Grant said that he was
not prepared to say that he had given
up all hope of Congress regaining it's
senses and placing the proposed EXPOSE
ton where it properly belonged. There
are possibilities, he said, (which do
not reach quite up to probabilities that,
should Chicago find itself unable to sat-
isfy Congress that there is within reach
a sufficient sum of money with which to
carry on an exhibition suitable to the
dignity of the United States, Congress
NAV reconsider its action"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

LONDON. March Mr.. Pauncefote,
the British Minister at Washington, who
may not be quite in sympathy with Lord
Salisbury on important questions Of
policy, will in future be assisted by a
high official, probably Sir Charles Tup-
per, whose mission, however. will be
very temporary. He will probably sail
this week. The difficulty arises from
Lord Stanley, the Marquis of Salisbury
and Minister Pauncefote holding diverg-
ent opinions on the fisheries question
and the situation in Canada This has
caused the dispatches between the three
70 be slightly incoherent
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

IHE general passenger agents of the
Western roads after two days session
at Chicago agreed to run series of So
called home-seekers' excursions to the
West, beginning in April. A rate of one
fare for the round trip was decided
upon, except to points west of the Mis-
souri, river or west of St Paul and Min
neapolis, where the rate is to be the one
way rate to the river or to the twin cit
les plus So, which is to be the minimum
rate to that territory. The sale of tick
cts will be on April %, May 20, Septem-
Der 9, % and October IA. These excur-
slons will be run to points in South
western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Indian Territory, Arkansas, Texas, New
Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah.
idaho, Montana and the Northwest
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THERE is no doubt much of a sensa-
tional nature in the reports concerning
the intended management of Oklahoma
by the negroes For long time it has
been dream of the leaders of the
colored race to found State that shall
belong to the colored race, and many
have expressed the idea that Oklahoma
would offer the best opening. But ii
scarcely seems probable that an organ
lied movement such as that lately re-
ported has been made to bring about the
end they desire.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

JUDGE PERKINS has been instructed
by the House Committee on Indian At
fairs to report favorably his bill provid-
ing for the allotment of the lands of the
Quapaw Indians in the Indian Territory
in severalty to those Indians and to
open up to white settlement the remain
ing lands held by the Quapaws Under
the bill each Indian is to get 200 acres.
The balance of the lands amount to
something like 10000 acres and the set
tiers who purchase will be permitted to
occupy regardless of the general law on
the subject which excludes settlers from
the Indian Territory.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

BISHOP RANDOLPH, in dn address to
Methodist Episcopal ministers on the
Church, said that forty years ago the
Methodist Episcopalians numbered 7OO,-
600 and now they numbered 5000, 600.
Then there were only three important
educational institutions, while now
there were larger number connected
with the denomination and the educa-
tional work among the colored popula-
ton alone was greater than all the edu-
cational work of forty years ago.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE Russian Government has done
something to alleviate the condition of
the exiles- 1t has purchased steamer
in which to convey them down the Volga
more comfortably and quickly than in
the old barges which George KEENAN,
has so graphically described. But there
is not much consolation in the thought
that the journey to Siberia has been
made easier.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

Mr.. DAWN, member of the Canadian
Parliament for the Northwest Terri
tories, intends to ask the Government
to appropriate SIS, 900 to be devoted to
inducing Dakotans and farmers in the
Northwestern States to emigrate to the
Canadian Northwest. The request will
probably be granted.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

ONLY little while ago scientists an
nounced the discovery of worm that
lunched on nails and dined on railroad
iron. Not satisfied with this they declare
now that they have found another worm
that is making honeycombs of the big
icebergs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
The HandsOmest Train in the WOrld

t hnns sI TUm Fs Toe II ss1 over t
Union Depot every night at six o'clock
and arrives in Chicago the following
morning at nine. This time gives good
connection for all points west of Kan
sas City and for all points east of Chi
cago. 1t carries free reclining chair
cars, Pullman sleeping cars and dining
cars. 1t is Of the Vestibulepattern and
lighted by electricity; an electrician ac-
companies the train to look after tho
lights and signals.
JNO. J. BYRNE,
Asst Gent Pass. Agt.. Chicago.
II. A. BONN, Western Pass. Agent,
o12 Main street. Karsor City.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE influenza assumes newimportance
In view of the reported Papal decree
abolishing the Lenten fast this year or
at least making it optional because of
the prevalence of the disease.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE lower house of the Maryland
Legislature has passed bill granting
the Consolidated Gas Company a mo-
nopoly in Baltimore for fifteen years, on
paying the city S1O,O a year.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

HAROLD NJ. SEwALL has been con-
frmed by the Senate as Consul-General
for the Samoan islands
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE granite dealers and quarry own
ers of New England have formed an as
ISOLATION for mutual protection.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

Ex-TREAsURER constants, of Newport
KY, has offered to compromise his $685.
900 defalcation for Sc, 900.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

GERMANY is again permitting the i'm
port of American meat, subject to a very
elaborate system of inspection.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

An autopsy performed on New York
man the other day showed that his vital
organs were all III wrong places.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

The Portuguese Government has re-
duced the duty on foreign wheat to 10
refs per kilogramme.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE experts appointed to examine the
designs for the New York Grant monu-
ment have pronounced all submitted to
be failures.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE Armenian Patriarch has demand
ed that the Sultan of Turkey restore the
privileges of the Armenian Church and
institute promised reforms.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

OKLAHOMA papers say there is a sufi-
Gent number of contests already filed in
the Kingfsher land-office to keep the
officers at work for three years.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE starving" Chippewa Indians of
the La Pointe wis reservation have
refused the supplies voted by Congress
unless given as gratuity.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

DR. E. A. KILBoURNE, the noted ex-
pert on insanity, died at Elgin, Ill, re-
Gently of paralysis.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

THE, Socialists of Germany cast nearly
1850, 600 votes at the late election.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
CURRENT COMMENT.

Frost in Mississippi has played havoc
with early vegetation
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
> Routes G
To New Orleans.

For Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and further
information apply to nearest Ticket Agent or
j. Ii. LYON, W. P. A, 52s Main street,
Kansas City, Mo,
w. H. NEWMAN, Gen. Traffic Manager,
II. 9. TOWNSEND, g. p. Agent,
ST IOuia Mo
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06

ern urSvrrsv
cl.ange Rank
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03

Certain years in the life of man have
been, from great antiquity, supposed to
have a peculiar Importance, and to be
liable to singular vicissitudes in his
health and fortunes. Where or how this
belief originated is unknown, but it is
supposed to have been founded on the
teachings of Pythagoras. The well known
notice of the climacteric year-63-sup-
posed to be particularly dangerous to
mel of that age, in a letter of Augustus
Caesar, evinces its prevalence among the
Romans. Some astrological writer's have
called the sixty-third year mans s'hori-
GUS" because of a mythical notion that
it was or is fatal to great men.
The sole cause of its blighting influence
is supposed to revert to the fact that it is
a multiple of the z and 8, both of which
are mystical numbers. 1t is a remarka-
bic fact that all nations attach particular
Importance to Z or any multiple of that
figure. Thus at IA, twice seven, the male
and female are supposed to have arrived
at puberty; at 81, three sevens, the male
becomes ''of age" while many writers,
Aristotle in particular, fix 35, five sevens,
as the height of bodily vigor and 40 as
the year of maximum mental activity.
AT the age of G3, when nan is nine times
seven years of age, til, most trivial dis
eases are likely to cause the death of the
most robust old man, while the ten sew
II coy have been ascribed as the limit of
his earthly career.-St. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03
The Telephone in Germany.

The telephone service is admirable, as
is testified by the public appreciation,
there being over 10000 instruments in
use in Berlin. There are no private tele-
phone companies in Germany, the tele-
phone, like the telegraph, being a branch
of the postal service. The price for tele-
phone service is low, the annual charge
for an instrument being 100 marks, or
something less than $50. The long dis
lance service between the principal cities
of the empire is being rapidly introduced.
A telegram received for a person who has
a telephone is at nee delivered orally
from the central Office, and the written
message then forwarded by the local post.
Likewise a telegram is transmitted by
the sender to the telegraph office by tele-
phone. The telephones in use are manu-
featured by Siemens & Halske, the great
electricians, and are said to be a great i'm.
provement upon the Bell patent, upon
which they are based.-Cor. Mexican
Financier.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03

Deer in the Adirnndacks.

For the past month many reports have
been made that the deer in the Adiron-
dacks are being hunted down by dogs
running wild in the woods. One day
recently a force of men who were I'm
gagged in cutting ice ON a small lake dis.
covered a stray dog driving a deer
toward them. The dog drove the deer
upon the ice near them and then COM
menced biting it in the hams. The deer
bleated most pitifully.
The men drove the dog away, while
one of them who had a rifle near at hand
tried to shoot him, but failed. A guide
followed the dog'strail, but failed to over.
take him. The deer came to the men
for protection and they patted and
soothed it with their hands. During the
night the poor deer diedf from exhaustion
and fright. -Buffalo Express.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03
About Paper.

A new mill for the manufacture of
paper from moss has been recently es-
tablished in Sweden. Paper of different
thickness and pasteboard made of it have
already been shown, the latter eve i'll
sheets three-quarters of an inch thick.
1t is as hard as wood and can be easily
painted and polished. It has all the good
qualities, but none of the defects, Of
wood. The %pasteboard can be used for
door and window frames, architectural
ornaments and all kinds of furniture.
The ceiling of the assembly chamber at
Albany, N. Y, is made of papier-mache.
1t is a model of of its kind, and appears
so like marble as to deceive the most ex.
pert eye. The latest idea is to use paper
insteadof wood for lead pencils, by using
a patent preparation by which it can be
cut as easily as the softest' wood. st
| Louis Stationer.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03
Antiquity of Eootball.

The game of football was we'll known
in England prior to 1175, but it was never
regarded with favor by the law, and in
the reign of Edward Ill 1365) an act was
passed forbidding it. During the reign
of Richard II 13SS) a similar law was
enacted, and again, under the Scotch
kings, James I Q424) and James II (145D,
it was "decreeted and ordained that the
football and collie be utterly cryed down
and not to be used" In 1471 James Ill
and in 1891 James ~ passed similar
statutes. James 1 of England also op-
posed it in his "Basilikon Doron." He
writes: "From this court 1 debarre all
rough and violent exercise, as the foot
ball, meeter for lameing than making
able the users thereof" And in the
reign of Elizabeth, his predecessor, a
true bill was found against sixteen per-
SONS for playing the unlawful game. In
Cromwells days a youth was indicted
for playing the game.-Canada Law
Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03
Mesmer,o influence in Bu,io,...

cit is surprising the amount of mes
meric influence some men possess" re-
marked IN expert bookkeepcr. "Some
time ago in New York l had to go over
the books of a firm that had dissolved to
straighten out matters. When l started
the balance sheet showed $25, 900 in favor
of partner No. 1. Well, for days and
days W. worked on the books. 1t was
the most tiresome work l ever under
took. Partner No. 1 was a remarkable
man, persuasive and affable in demeanor.
Sometimes lie would come in to go over
some of the figures with me. These are
not right lie would say. l knew they
were and would say so. Then he would
start to argue with me, and l felt myself
giving way. Finally 1 would have to
leave the room. In the hall l would
walk up and down, saying to myself,
You're a fool. You know your figures
are right When he had departed 1
would recover and be able to go on. But
all the while l felt the mans subtle in
fluence. l struggled against it. DO
your duty kept saying to myself.
FINALLY, when l reached the result, l
turned pale. Partner No. 1 was short
S150,000. He came in. 'Well?' lie said.
There is the result l answered. He
looked at it and never WINGED. You are
sure the figures are right" Yes l said.
l struggled desperately and this time he
was not able to conquer me. 'Weil,' he
said, If those figures are correct. the
money will be paid
"And he did pay it, every cent, al
though it took all he had. You would be
astonished to know who that man was.
l attribute his marvellous success to
his magnetic personality. Every one
with whom he comes in contact
feels it. He associates with many
men in great undertakings, but lie al
ways gets the kernels while they get the
shells, and, moreover, everything isdone
as per contract. Year by year I watch
this mans career with added surprise
and always congratulate myself that l
was able to withstand him. He is the
only man l ever met who could for the
time being make me doubt my mathe-
NAUTICAL accuracy,"-Detroit Tribune,
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03
There is nothing that adds more to the

There is nothing that adds more to the
zest of life than an interesting occupa-
ton; even if it means hard work, there is
. recompense in the enjoyment of well
earned rest. No work ought, however,
to be overpowering or 30 exhaustive that
ones energies fall below their aspira-
tions. On the other hand, nc life is 80
thoroughly wretched as n where the
necessity and desire for work is entirely
wanting; and this is particularly true of
personso of education and intelligence who
allow themselves to fall into that unset
tied condition of mind where nothing is
OF interest.-Herald Of Health.
The Dickinson press., 1890-05-03
MIR. Edison's Substitute.

At Kansas City recently it was an-
nounced that Thomas A. Edison would
deliver an address, though he was thou
sands of miles away. One of his i'm
proved monographs was set in opera
ton, and, though it did not deliver an
address, it spoke the inventors apology
for not having prepared one, and spoke
it 80 loud that every word was heard dis
tinctly throughout the hall.-New Or
leans Picayune.