Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-02-20
POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
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Telegraphic Service.
THE MACHINERY MOSTLY At HAND.
The Admission of Idaho as n State-The
Question CT Authorizations, Etc.-Cur-
rency Measures-An Election
Contest.

any person surrendered by either party
be tried for any other offense than the
one for which he was extradited. The
treaty does not apply to any crimes
committed before its ratification.
During the discussion of the measure,
which lasted about two hours, several
efforts were made to amend it in impor-
tant particulars, but they were not sue
cessful. The principal points of attack
were the sections including manslaught-
er and obtaining goods or money under
false pretenses. The amendments that
were made are said to be of an unim-
portant character.
The treaty makes applicable to the
article of the extradition treaty con-
cluded between the United States and
Great Britain August 4, 1882, providing
for the extradition Of persons charged
with specified crimes the additional
crimes of manslaughter, counterfeiting
or altering money and bringing it into
circulation, embezzlement, larceny, re-
ceiving stolen money, etc., fraud OF all
kinds. perjury, rape and abduction,
burglary prescribed by the laws of ma
lions, revolt or conspiracy to revolt on
the high seas and crimes against the
laws of both countries concerning slav-
cry. Political criminals are exempted
from the provisions of the treaty.
vITRIoL THROWING.
ERIE, Pa, Feb. 19.-Last evening Miss
Emma Fischer, young lady of promi-
hence and responsibility, went to the
door of her house in response to sum-
mons, when a man who stood close by
with masked face threw a quantity of
vitriol into her face and ran away.
Dennis McCarty, the young lady's ac-
cepted lover, hearing of the outrage, set
out to find the wretch. About midnight
he heard suppressed conversation in an
old building, and being satisfied that he
was on the track, attempted to enter
the door. The men in the inside fired
upon McCarty, who was wounded; but
he pressed on in the direction from
which the shots were coming and Or
dered the would-be assasSins to surren-
der. They refused and sent a ball
through his body. lie stood by the
door, cutting off that channel Of escape,
hoping his calls would secure help, but
the men escaped. McCarty is painfully
but not fatally wounded. Miss Fischer's
eyes escaped the fiery liquid but she
will be sadly disfgured.
A BAD CASE AGAINST GRAHAM
CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-When the trial of
the alleged jury bribers was continued
in the criminal court yesterday morn
ing a number of witnesses who had
been approached with offers of brides
by defendants to try to get themselves
accepted on the jury and hold out for
acquittal, gave their evidence to
the same general effects as was
made public at the time the plot
was discovered. Joseph Konen and
Fred w. Smith, both indicted men who
had turned States evidence, testified
alleging that John Graham and Bailiff
Hanks had offered them brides. Ex-
Bailiff Hanks, another of the States
witnesses among the indicted, was the
last witness of the day. His narrative
related chiefly to meetings with Ora
ham whom witness said gave him list
of names which he turned over to Bailiff
Solomon. The latter, who was indicted
with Hanks, Smith and Konen, will
take the witness stand to-day for the
State.
TEXAS VIGILANTES IN JAIL
GAINESVILLE, Tex, Feb. 19.-Deputy
United States Marshal Smith, of this
city, returned home yesterday from
Young County, where he arrested and
placed in the Dallas Jail Will Williams,
Eugene Logan, Vernoy Wilkinson, Clint
Rutherford and John Level, all promi-
nent citizens of Young County, indicted
by the late Federal grand jury at Dallas
for participation in the mob murder OF
two of the NARROW brothers in January,
1888, at which time Deputy Marshal Ed
johnson, assisted by six guards, started
to transfer the four NARROW brothers,
charged with Offenses in the Indian Ter
ritory and also of being accessory to the
killing of Sheriff Wallace, of Young
County, in 1887, and two other prisoners
from the Jail at Graham to the Jail at
Weatherford.
wHITECAPS SHOOT A WOMAN.
FREDERICK, Md, Feb. ia party Of
masked men, numbering about thirty
and posing as Whitecaps, surrounded the
house of Dennis Davis, colored, at Brook
Hill, a small village six miles from this
city, Sunday night, and calling for MIS-:
Rebecca Bruchey, white, forty years
old, accused her with undue intimacy
with Davis and threatened to kill her.
She opened the door little way, when
a Colts revolver was fired by some one
and the bullet struck the woman in the
left breast below the heart, coming on.
under the right arm. She is probably
fatally wounded.
AN ABSTRACTION.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19.-Mrs. Haines,
sister of the forger, Mrs. Lippincott,
examined her box in safe deposit vault
here aud discovered that her deeds
bonds, mortgages, ETC., worth many
thousands of dollars, had been alb.
stracted and disposed of by Mrs, Lippip-
colt, who had duplicate key of the
box. Mrs. Lippincott is said to have
passed through this city yesterday bound
south, and is supposed TO be in Balti-
more or Washington.
BURGLARS FARE BADLY.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 1.-TWO bur
glars visited the house Of John Frengel,
a farmer living near Crestline, O., Sun
day night. A struggle ensued, during
which Frengel shot one Of the men.
His dead body was found in the door
ward next morning. The other was ar
.ossfa6 b,t fIa' Trf1iarashzl of Cresflina - a.
Henry Eapz, the timer Of Aberdeen.
Miss, fame, has been recommended ios
appointment as a special agent OF the
Census Office, to COLLECT statistics OF 70:
corded Indebtedness,
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