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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19
Band Supper.

The members of the Merchants Mill.
tary band will give supper in Armory
hall Monday evening and invite every
body to partske. The supper will be
served from o'clock and will include
all the delicacies of the season. Take
supper down town Monday night and
help the boys out.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19
PUBLIC SALE.

will offer At public sale miles east OF
Abilene on Enterprise road on Ihui ICY
February ., 1891, commanding AZ ~ o ciOcA,
the following described personal properly
fo-wIf. 4 head Of hofses, u head OF &ooo
Silk COWS, head Of Yearlings and bun.
I3head OF Snoats, farm wagon. seorn p. .os ;
: stirring uloWs, float, ! corn harvester, l
-. h,--Sr / set single harness, set ooubie
bsFness. loo shocks of corn fodder, % heoge
13osts, brown corn planter and eneck
tose55 e snd MANY other articles too numer-
Ios 10 mention Terms, all sums OF Ss99 ano
les can. on ali sums oyer goo q cre1lt o.
10 months wall be gtysn, purchase. tt thant
note Nth approved security Nltno1t
fntsrest II paid when due. II not pare WIEN
drie IA uer cent from date. y II oNOAs
- E st6nErs Auetsgaesr.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19
Natural Gas ExpIosIon.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb, 1S.-Early
this morning an explosion of natural
gas occurred in residence No. % River
avenue, Allegheny, occupied by Owen
McLaughlin and family. The interior
of the dwelling house was almost to-
tally demolished. The inmates were
all badly but probably not fatally hurt.
The house was surrounded by water
from the Allegheny river. The injured
were taken from the wrecked building
in boats
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19

COwGLI- No, Feb. 1s--At dance
here last night John Kincaid, son Of
Frank Kincaid, of Ray County, got into
a difficulty with James Gates and cut
the latter's throat killing him Instant
", and got away. Kincaid IS about .
to % years old, light complexioned and
tall and slim. His face was beaten up
in the fight. Parties have gone 10 arrest
him II he can be found.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19

FORT SMITH, Ark, Feb. 1S.-Consta-
BILE George Fl. Barnett was shot and
MORALLY wounded at McCrary's saloon,
one mile from Jenny Lind, by George
Loftin, miner, while trying to disarm
him of pistol. Loftin was the mining
partner of Charley Joplin, who shot
and killed a traveller on the prairie,
then went to Jenny Lind and killed DR..
Stewart and three Of the Miller family
and committed suicide.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19

The correspondent of the London
Chronicle at ROmo states that Bishop
Freppel has departed for home, having
failed to induce the Pope to disavow
the policy Of Cardinal Layigere.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19
SOCIAL HOURS
Spent by the Odd Fellows at Their
Hall Last Evening.


Hall Last Evening.
Famous as Abilene is for enjoyable
lodge socials there has not been more
CHEEKY, companionable and delightful
one held than that of Western Home
lodge of Odd Fellows in the lodge hall
last evening. The members and their
families 10 the number of so or more
made the room a scene of social
pleasure and the hours sped most rap
idly.
A taking portion of the evening was
a literary and musical program given
with excellent success. 1t was as fol-
lows:
Opening address. l. H. Maiot'
Recitation Edna HorEaday
instrumental solo -. Beatrice Warning
"Why am an Odd FelIow"...A. o. VanDyke
Address. ........................-H. u flsher
Odd Fellows in General............s. s'smlth
Closing address. ....''''O' L. MOoTe
Each portion of the program was
generously applauded as the partlcl-
pants did themselves much credit. 4
fine lunch was prepared by the COM
mittee in charge and was dispatched
with due appreciation. The lodge may
well be proud of the evenings success.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19

The safes of the defaulting banker,
Victor Mace OF Bernesn, Of Paris, have
been found to contain S72O, 900.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-19
Wanted to Trade,

A nice home in Abilene for small
farm OF live stock. Address
OLA Lock Box 297,
Abilene, Kas.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
HE CAN'T CONE.
Hon. A. Nj. D0ekery Can't Be With
Us at the Road Oyerseers' Con.
yention-The Road Question
of Much Importance.

To the Editor Of the Ledger.
GALLATIN, Mo-, August 90
DEAR Bob: I very much regret
that congressional duties forbid the
acceptance of your very courteous
invitation Of the 10Th inst. to
meet with the road overseers of
Missouri in your beautiful little
city. Missouri needs an efficient
code Of road laws and a well equip
ped corps of road overseers. The
question Of improved county roads
is exigent, and to this common
wealth of almost equal dignity
with the question of reduced rates
for railroad transportation. With
marvellous fertility of soil and
great variety of productiveness
consequent upon its climatic range,
with mineral wealth inexhausti-
BILE, with unsurpassed railroad
facilities, with a people tireless In
energy, Missouri yet lacks a
Democratic system of macadam-
lied roads. Let US have the aid OF
your trenchant pen to the end that
We may speedily secure this 'one
thing needful." Yours Truly,
A. M. DoCKERY,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
OLD.TIME "SAND CLASS"
Sand Took the Place of Slate i'm the
School of Long Ago.

"Sixty years ago l taught the
sand class In the schools OF this city
IN the grand jury Don of the old
court house." said a gentleman to
a Harrisonburg Telegram reporter
last evening. "The sand class"
exclaimed Gossip. "What in the
name of Socrates was a sand class?"
And then the ancient pedagogue
proceeded to say: "Sixty years
ago the schools of the town occu-
pied the old court house and I was
one of the scholars. In the grand
Jury room there was a long table
about eighteen inches high with a
strip of board fastened on top all
around the sides, thus making the
center lower than the sides. This
| center was filled with fine sand an
inch deep.
sat the end of the table was 6
wheel which the letters Of the al
phabet were printed SO but one let
ter would appear at q time AROUND
the table the smallest children 0:
the school were gathered and each
furnished with q stick. /, the ped
agogue, appointed by the heac
teacher, would take my stand a
the end of the table and alongside
the wheel, and as [ moved it would
announce the letter that was
brought to view, which the children
would proceed to make in the sand
with their sticks. When all had
made their letters, l would leve.
the sand with a comb, and the
wheel would be moved on to an
| other letter. And these little one.
were called the sand Glass; L
was an interesting sight. The sys'
tenn was somewhat like the kinder
garten of the present day, and i
was clearly an economical mode o
supplying writing material" This
was the sand class Of sixty years
aoo
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
Removes to Mexico.

From the Sloan Springs {Ark.) Herald.
Many hearts in Sloan we're sad
dened Wednesday by the departure
from the city of Mr.. Robert @.
Gibbs and his most estimable
daughter, Miss Anna, who go to
make their future home at Mexico,
Mo. Mr.. Gibbs came 10 the state
just ten years ago and for several
years was among the most promi-
nent farmers on Lindsey's prairie,
but later on was one of the owners
of the City Roller Mills, eontinu-
ing in that business until last
spring, when he sold out to Mr..
J. H. Chitty. During all these
years Mr.. Gibbs has been found
an upright, honorable citizen, gain
ing the friendship of all and
maintaining that high degree OF
popularity characteristic Of the
good citizens. He has been a zeal
GUS worker for the cause of his
church and in all the social and
business circles @ the city and
country was always found on the
side for the advancement and bet
tering Of his ieiiowman. Miss
Anna is no less popular with our
people and will be badly missed
from the young peoples circle.
Both have hundreds of friends and
no enemies, and now that they
have returned to their old-time
home at Mexico, we can assure
them that the love and best wishes
of the people of Sloan follows.
They expect to return to Sloan
some time ia the future. Mrs. Eliza
Kenyon accompanied them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
The KansasCi lily Starsays: DR.. AT

The KansasC City Starsays: DR.. At
wood, superintendent of the insane
asylum at Fulton, advocates the es-
t%ablishment of a separate asylum
for incurable insane patients, where
they may be given light employ
ment either in shops or outdoors.
The idea is plainly a good one.
A little story is being told of an
incident of the encampment. Gov.
Francis and a number of officers OF
the National guard took supper one
evening at one of the lake hotels. A
waitress was anxious to know
which was the governor, and ap.
preaching the Governor, who was
the only one OF the party not in
uniform, asked him to tell which
was his excellency. 81 AM The
man." and to assure her he added,
"but I've lost my uniform"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27

nave very little.
The old lady had been asleep and was
still only half awake when she went up
stairs. She had had a glimpse of soIne
one through a crack of a door, and had
thought it was a short man with a beard.
But he might have been sitting down,
and a shadow might have caused the ap-
pearance of a beard. The jury would
have noticed that Mrs. Simpson, in the
witness box, had worn s~pectacles. She
certainly was not likely to have worn her
spectacles to bed, however, nor to have
put them on to go up stairs on a voyage
of discovery after acandle. Consequently
that glimpse of hers through a crack in
the door was likely to have been a very
blind glimpse indeed. But it was TN
necessary to pursue the subject Or to
weary the jury with further details.
Everything pointed one way, and that
was to the prisoners guilt. 1t was a ter
rible thing that a man of his position and
training should be guilty Of a crime so
hideous, but it was the jury's duty to
dict, besides avenging the death of an
honorable and honored citizen, would
show the world that in the city of New
York there was but one law for rich and
poor, for gentle and simple.
The judge, in summing up, said that
the jury must confine themselves to the
legal evidence that had been produced in
court. The statements of the prisoners
| counsel regarding the prisoners motives
and explanations did not come under
this head. They might or might not be
true, but the jury could not consider
| them. On the other hand, the testimony
as to the short man with the dark beard
| should receive their careful attention. II
might be of Importance. All the evi
| dence against the prisoner was circum
stantial. There had been instances o.
such evidence being fatally mistaken
but such cases were as one to ten thou
sand where it had been correct, and i
was sometimes even preferable to direc
evidence itself. His address was shor
and impartial, and at its close the jur.
retired for deliberation.
They remained out eighteen hours
When they re-entered court the roon
was nearly empty. In answer to tn
clerks question the foreman said tina
their verdict vas guilty of murder in tn
second degree, generalization not havin:
been established. 1t was, as some of tn
jurors afterward explained in interview
with the reporters, a deed done in tn
heat of passion over the refusal of Tren
to listen to Darke's proposal-the hast,
outcome of a quarrel between two me
both loving the same young woman.
The judge sentenced the prisoner t
Imprisonment at hard labor for life.
Motion for a new trial was denied.
The prisoner was taken back to tn
Tombs, and arrangements were made t
send him to Sing Sing that night.
fro BE Continued
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
III.
TRIAL AND SENTENCE.

As our aim il not to harrow the reader
with the multiplication Of vain details,
only the gist of the newspaper reports Of
the time will be given here.
The ~coroner's jury found that Harry
Trent was feloniously murdered on the
night of February twenty-five or the
morning Of February twenty-slx, eight
cen hundred and seventy, by a knife
or dagger III the hands of keppel Darke.
an artist and portrait painter. The case
was promptly laid before the grand jury,
who brought in q true bill against the
accused. He was committed for trial,
and meanwhile was lodged IN the Ioinbs
prison.
The district attorney announced That
he was ready to go on with the trlal at
once, and Mr.. Bannick, Of counsel for
the accused, replied that no Obstacles
would be i~nterposed on their side. Ac-
cordingly, after a day spent in getting q
Jury, the trial began. We will summa~
rize the evidence according TO the chrome
logical order of events.
Mrs. Sally Matehin, who appeared
dressed in black, created a sensation in
court by stating that her real name was
now Mrs. Harry Trent, widow OF the
deceased, she having been privately mar
ried to him in France in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. 1t
was on account of this marriage that
Trent had built his new house. She was
asked to give a reason for the secrecy
that had been maintained, but the ques-
ton was objected to and the objection
was sustained. She said that she be
lieved she had been provided for in her
late husbands Will, but no will had at
this date been found. She added that
Mr.. Trent had taken tea at her home on
West Eighteenth street on the afternoon
before the murder, and that they had
then arranged to Immediately issue In
vitations to a reception at his new house,
when the public announcement Of their
marriage was to have been made. When
they parted that evening he was in good
health and spirits.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
Pay Up.

Parties who owe me store &C
counts must pay the same by Sep
tember 10th. If such accounts are
not paid by that date they will be
placed in the hands of the consta-
BILE. Please call at once and settle
and save additional costs.
D, O'CALLAHAN,
21.3t Thompson, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
The Soap
that
Cleans
Most
is Lenox.
Want to Trade.

Want TO Trade.
A farm of 100 acres we'll fenced,
with orchard, plenty of good wa
ter, timber in abundance, one hall
mile from school and Neutral, in
Cherokee county, Kansas; 5 miles
from Columbus, county seat, a
thrifty town of $500; all in cult.
uation and a rich productive soil.
Want to trade for farm in Audrain
county. ] II. LAwLER, Mexico 21-8t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27
Coal! C0aI!!

Anthracite, Bituminous and
smithing Goals. Order Office in
City Hall building. Delivery Of
flee south of railroad on Jefferson
street, Mexico, Mo. Prompt at
tention given to all orders.
JOEL GUTHRIE & Son.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27

Billy West went to st. Louis to-
day were he will consummate the
sale Of q $500 running colt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-08-27

DR.. HALEY will return from
Europe September 18th.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
CURIOUS CULLINCS.

John Clark, of Pittsburg, Pa, is proba-
bly, the richest colored man in the country,
he having amassed the snug sum of $500
OOO
The mayor of Philadelphia receives S12,-
600 year, the mayor of New York re-
ceives $4,000.
Seven of the nine justices of the Su-
preme court now occupy their own houses
in Washington.
Art Lecturer W. Lewis Fraser says the
first printing press in this country was set
up in Harvard in 1889.
A mausoleum for the Schliemann family
is being built at present in the beautiful
cemetery near Athens.
The first trace of the British gunboat
Wasp, which left the port of Singapore in
1887, is buoy just found in the China sea-
A seamless steel boat made from one
piece of metal by hydraulic pressure
promises to be very desirable It will last
great while and can not leak
A newspaper of the Gypsy jargon, the
Romany tongue, is soon to be published in
England, with the expectation of making
it the organ of the wandering people,
Pure chloroform, something hitherto I'M
attainable, will now be made by NJ Pictet,
a chemist of Geneva. The majority of
deaths from chloroform are said to be
traceable to impurities
A new government tax of one mark on
all cats kept as house pets has been i'm
posed at Dresden. Thousands of the ami
mails have been destroyed by owners de-
s1rous OF avoiding the ''cat taxi
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
A Successful Man.

One OF the brightest advertising
men in Chica go made his rise through
the fall ofanother. TWAS some years
ago when as a mere boy he was
tramping the streets Of Chicago in
search of any sort of a job which Of
fered. His last nickel had gone for
food: and one afternoon he was walk
ing through q down town alley, tired
and disgusted. Happening to glance
upward he saw a boy leaning out OF
window. In a moment the boy lost
his balance and fell to the ground
with the customary dull, sickening
thud. The discouraged man hasten
ed to the boys side and discovered
that death had been instantaneous.
Looking up at the open window from
which he had fallen the man counted
the stories and then sought the stair
way near by. Mounting the stairs
he dashed into the editors room, for
it was the Office of The Prairie Farm
er, and blurted out: do you want
a boy?" Looking up in surprise the
editor answered, "No. we have a
boy" Then the man said, :'I'll bet
you haven't-your boy just fell from
the window and is dead. I want his
place." Investigation found that
the man was right, and he was en-
gagged for his pushing way. Since
then he has risen by degrees and
made money, and very few Of his
friends know how he gained his place.
Chicago Herald.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02

Why That Title Was Given to the
Late Gen. Mcneil.

Gen. John Mcneil, who dropped
dead in St. Louis few days ago, was
known as the Butcher OF Palmyra, /"
q name given him for his slaughter
OF prisoners at Palmyra, Mo-, in
1862. He was born in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, in 1914, learned the hatter's
trade in Boston, was in business in
New York, and came West to ST..
Louis. At the breaking out OF the
war he responded to the call for
troops, and was elected colonel OF a.
regiment OF the reserve corps.
In 1862 he was placed in command
OF a cavalry regiment and ordered to
Northeast Missouri to operate against
Sterling Price. In October, 1862, An
drew Alsman was taken prisoner, and
carried off by a. band of guerillas.
Col. Mcneil arrested ten of the most
important people of Palmyra, and
without q trial of any kind ordered
them shot to death. One of these
victims was q lad about II years
old, and all of them were non-com-
batants. The stain of this atrocitv
chung to him all his life, though he
claimed to be acting under orders
from Gen. Halleck and Gen. Schofe!d.
When news of this bloody affair
reached Richmond, ten Federal
colonies were ordered held as hostages,
and a demand was made on the
United States for the surrender to the
Confederacy OF Mcneil to be tried for
inhuman warfare. He was never
given up and the colonies We're re-
leased. Mcneil served through the
war and fought with distinction, but
was always under the cloud OF the
Palmyra butchery.
Since the war Mcneil has been in
politics, but never elected to any
office, though often a candidate. He
has held many appointive Offices,
however, Cincinnati Enquirer.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
FLYING FISH.
It Seems Now That They Really Do Fly
Like Fowls.

AS~A~y
Like Fowls.
There has been much argument on
the subject of the fight of so-called
flying fishes" says the St. Louis Re-
public, some eminent naturalists hold
ing that true flight is peculiar to fowls
and insects, and that the motion of
this piscatorial curiosity is closely allied
to that of the flight of flying lizards, I"
flying squirrels, - etc.. being simply
a single long sweep. At present. how
ever, the weight of the evidence seems
to favor the theory of true flight. c..
O. Whitman, in an article in the
American Naturalist, demonstrates
from actual observation that, in the
language Of Rev. Mr.. Jasper, Flying
fish do hy.' The observations upon
which Mr.. Whitman bases his very in
teresting and detailed account were
taken during a voyage from San Fran
cisco to Yokohama Japan. After
carefully noting the movements of fly
ing fishes from the start to the finish,
Prof. Whitman does not hesitate to
pronounce the motion 'strue and grace
full fight" Prof. D. S. Jordan has
also carefully examined the fight of
EGoc0etUs Calto2mle0s. Exc is the
flying fish of Southern California. and
is one Of the most agile of its species.
Prof. Jordan says that his most trust
worthy observations were taken early
in the morning when both air and
water were free from motion. He
says: When the fish. rises from the
water the movements of the tail are
continued for some seconds, even after
the whole body is out Of water While
the tail is in motion the pectoral fins
are in a state of very rapid vibration,
the ventrals being closed or folded.
When the action CT the tail ceases the
! pectorals and ventrals are spread, and,
as far as we can see, held at rest.
When the fish begins to fall, the tail
touches the water and the motion OF
the pectorals recommences thus en-
abling the fish to resume its flight. In
some instances Prof. Jordan noticed
that the distance covered by the flight
was upwards Of a quarter of a mile.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
The Secret of Fine Pastry.

Is wholly in using DR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
The only pure Powder sold the market
Other brands contain ammonia alum other
adulterant Ammonia powders dry OUT make the
dough too porous, leaving bitter taste, etc.
agency has assisted much toward perfection in
cookery Prices Cream Baking Powder It's ingredients
are simple and so blended as to exist pro-
portions after there is Of either left in
the Hence there be impurities whatever left in
finished food No bitter TASTE faint of ammonia, but
food raised Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder partakes
natural flavor Of the -four and keeps moist and
fresh days This powder qualities peculiar to
alone No other makes such delicious pastry No other
contains the white Of eggs
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-02
FAMOUS FOR AN HOUR.
A Case of Mistaken Identity Makes
Man Famous,

A Case Of Mistaken Identity Makes
aMan Famous.
It is not often that a nonentity is
mistaken for a notability for several
days. Yet that is what happened
quite recently at a small watering
place in upper Austria. All of a
sudden the town was convulsed with
the delightful intelligence that Girardi,
the famous Viennese comedian, was
in it's midst. A charity concert was
in process Of organization, and forth
with a deputation waited on the great
man to solicit his assistance. 1t was
yraciOusly accorded and the deputies
withdrew in high feather, one OF them
remarlSlng how strange it was that
al actor should have so fine beard.
"Why, don't you know" replied an
omniscient colleague, ''that actors
always let their boards grow in the
holldays?" On the eventful night the
concert room was packed to sutfoca-
ton and a vigorous round ofapplause
greeted the appearance Of the famous
actor. What followed may best be
described in the words OF the Vienna
News: ''Instead OF the excruciating
funny song expected by the public
Herr Girardi began a sentimental
dirty in a. very hoarse tone of voice.
This rather astonished the audience
at first, but they rapidly came to the
conclusion that it must be a frst.rate
imitation of some opera singer. The
object of the mimicry they did not
know but they roared with laughter
all the same'' Girardi was encored
and sang a romantic Italian aria,
and once more the audience was con-
vulsed at the subtelty OF the imitation.
Next morning it happened that the
official visitors list was published
from a perusal Of which it appeared
that, barring a certain Samuel Girardi,
described as ''merchant, nobody oil
that name was stopping in the town
The actors name being Alexander
the extent of the blunder was soon
apparent.-London Globe.