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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21
ONLY FOUR NEGATIVE VOTES.
The Mining Congress at Denver Is Ere
Silver a Good Deal.

The Mining Congress at Denver Is Free
Silver a Good Deal.
DENVER, Nov. .l.-The chief event of
yesterday in the mining congress was the
report of the resolutions committee. The
men charged with the duty of stating
the sentiment of the convention on the
principal matter at issue took until 2
O'Clock in the morning to agree, which
looks strange in view of the fact that the
convention was evidently free silver al
most to a man. The resolutions were
ready, however, when the convention con-
vened, and are radical enough for Senator
Wolcott. Stripped of the verbage in
which they are clothed they simply mean
the coinage at the mints of all the silver
offered into pieces Of money containing
4l211 grains of silver, which shall be dol
lars of the United States. II is charged
that the treasury department has persist
emily disobeyed the law in not putting
silver to the uses designed by said law,
and congress is asked to force the treas
ury to obey the law.
Vote for Free silver Piute Indian.
G.. w Cassidy, of Nevada, said that in
his state both Democrats and Republic
ans had united in demanding free and un-
limited coinage, ana WOulu take no other:
that they would vote for Piute Indian
if he was running on free coinage plat
form against the best man in the country,
and he advised all the mining states to
DO the same, saying that only in this way
could they force the parties 10 respect the
views of the silver men. His remarks
drew out cries of ave will,n That's
right" from all over the house.
Neu EnpIauderS Converfed
The vote ON the silver question was
taken at about 4 O'clock by roll cali OF
states. The Colorado delegation refrained
from voting until the last. As state after
state was called and the chairman Of the
delegations Of the states OF Arkansas
Maine. Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania
New York aud many other eastern state,
responded in short sxplcna:ions that the,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21

executive committee or the anti-sub-trea
ury alliance, will publish an open letter
making fiery attack upon DIR. c. w.
Macune, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Alliance. In it he says:
when the serpent crept into the sancti-
fed Eden, leaving Shiny traces upon it's
sinuous trail, he was not more cunning,
calculating, nor treacaerous with credu-
ious Eve than Has c. w. Macune with
the confiding, unsuspecting Texas Ali
ance men when he iuveigled them into
putting their toil-earned dollars into his
financial grab-trap. The Texas Alliance
exchange f1ourished for little over two
years and failed hopelessly in the spring
of 1889.
Macune's First Balance-Sheet.
Manager Macune's first balance-sheet
shows its financial condition originally 20
have been as follows:
Original amount of cash capital ~ SIS, ,oOo
Later cash subscriptions - |. 500
subscriptions in cattle. ............... 1000
Contributed by the city = Dallas. ..... 5000
Contributed by the city of Belton l2.OOO
Total subscriptions s..........sl sls3. so
After the failure of the spring of 1889
the exchange property and assets were
sofa to pay its debts, for S3o, ,000. Thus
the loss borne by subscribers was sliS,
COG. What became of this S14S. .009S
Alleged Fraud In the Salaries
"The actual salaries paid were not as
great by half as were represented by Ma
cune to the investigating COMMITTEES. un-
der oath. He got thousands of farmers
to club together and give joint notes for
provisions to be purchased in the future
Inc accounts of the exchange show that
Si2G, 9Oi % worth of notes. secured by mort.
cages, had been placed in Macune's hands
and that s3iS. 035 81 worth of them Ead
been pledged as collaterals for casn loans
and as security for the payment of
amounts due for cotton compres-es, cotton
gins and other property purchased BY Ma
cUne for the exchange This left 81, e69 4
worth of these notes which Macuue
failed to account for. But those who had
siSned them have since had 10 pay them"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21

nauootne 10 Iearn ana nad been Convinced
that free coinage was right and recorded
their votes for the resolution, cheer after
cheer was given and it was apparent that
the congress was almost unanimous The
vote was announced 457 for and only
against the resolution.
Made Permanent Organization.
1t was decided to make a permanent
organization of the congress, and the
president and vice presidents are to con-
stitute standing executive committee.
The congress adjourned sine die. The ex-
ecutive committee held session immedi-
ately following adjournment and decided
that the next session Of the congress
should be held at Helena, Mont, on the
second Tuesday of next July. Ex-Gov-
ernor Hauser, of that city. was APP
pointed to take charge of all arrange
ments
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21
They Didn't MAKE 8, H.;,

COLUMBUS, lnd., Nov. 2l-If rain were
produced 10y conclusion Southern Indiana
ought TO be drenched Nearly 40 600
pounds of a newly invented explosive.
equivalent to $1,000 pounds of dynamite,
have been used on the government work
on the Ohio river since August. Yet the
signal service shows a great deficiency in
the fail OF rain during Septem ber, Ocso-
her and November. The explosions have
frequently been heard and felt at Emf
nence, Ky, forty miles off, showing that
agitation of the air was tremendous.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21
THE MARKETS.
Chicago.

CHICAGO. Nov. 20
Board of trade quot for today We're
as follows: Wheat-No.2 November, opened
saa4c, closed 9-3s,; December. opened 93lsc,
closed 93l4c; May. opened sl.OOss, closed
Sl.OOls. Corn-November, opened 54lsc closed
5sc; yer. opened i5ssc, closed 46I4c: May,
opened 43c, closed i31sc. Oats-November,
opened S9sc, closed 33lsc: December. opened
Sss-. Pork-Decemb r. opened and closed
Ss.fi; January, opened Sll.20, closed
Sll.3O; May. opened s1l.521s, closed SllS2ls.
Lard-December, opened S6.l2Ia. closed
S6.l.1e.
Live stock-Prices at the Union Stock
yards ranged as follows: Hogs-Market
rather active on packing and shipping
account; good heavy lots firm and prices a
tritie higher; medium grades steady; sales
ranged at S2.iaJj.50 pigs, S3.3Gl3.10 light,
Sj-5oGL3..5 rough packing, S355da a.g0 mixed,
and S3.s0G4.Gj heavy packing and shipping
lots.
Cattle-Market rather active and prices
without material change; quotations ranged
at S5.eDGr53J prime 10 shi Jping steers, $4,000
4-sO good 10 fancy do. S3.o0fs40J common TO
medium do, S3.U0d425 butchers steers. s1.SJ
92.6Q stocker-. S2rad,3.l9 Texans. S250fl4O
rangers, s@5ad3.i0 feeders. sl5OG3.59 cows,
Sl2i@2.15 bulls and s2.25 G5.25 veal calves.
Sheep-Market rather active and prices well
maintained: quotations ranged at S3506,4.70
westerns. sS.1ja,5b natives, and S35oa5.25
lambs. y
Produce: But e-- Fancy separator. asc per
lb: dairies, fancy, fresh, .ad:ic: packing
stocks. fresl, 1i1lic. Live ponltry-Oid
chickens, &C per 10; spring. s4 J9c; ROSTERS
+13lg5c: mixed turkeys. 9JeGlOc; ducks,
mixed. s;2Gs9c: geese. S5.oGG6.O per doz. Eggs
Fresh candled. l,ss of, 23c per doz; ice
house stock, lsalac. Potatoes Home grown.
4cGE5lc per sack; Wisconsin and Michigan
common. De: good to choice. 30G34c per bu;
sw ct potatoes. Illinois. Sl.@5dl.50 per Dbl:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21
The weather We May Expect.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-The following ara
the weather indications for twenty-:uur hours
from p. m. yesterday. For Wisconsin and
lowa-Threate;i ing weather and rain; warm
er. except stationary temperature in extreme
southeastern portions; southerly Winds rain
probable tomorrow. For Michigan-Increasing
cloudness and rain or snow; southeasterIy
winds; no decided change in temperature:
rain or snow probable tomorrow. For Indi-
ana and Illinois, Threatening weather and
rain; southeriy winds; no decided change in
temperature: rains are probable tomorrow.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21
PEOPLES PARTY PROCLAMATION.
Results of Conferences Most Satisfactor,
The Vote in Kansas

Results of Conferences Most Satisfactory
The Vote in Kansas.
The executive committee of the Peoples
party issued a proclamation signed by II.
A. Taubeneck, chairman; Robert Schill-
ing, secretary, and NJ. c. Rankin, treas
urer. 1t starts out thus:
The national committee of the Peoples
party of the United States deem it proper to
lay before their constituents at this time some
statement of the reports of the conferences
held by them with various representatives of
organized industry in this city during the past
few days. Those results have been in every
respect most satisfactory. There is no longer any
doubt that candidates for president and vice
president will be in the field before June l.
1892, nominated by the Peoples party. 1t
seems TO us very plain that the time has come
when no influence of the old political organiza-
tions, and no power of aggregated capital ca n
prevent the honest and unanimous coming to-
gether and cooperation of all the labor organ
izations in the United States. whether en-
ployed in the workshop, or in the mine, or on
the farm.
The Election in Kansas.
1t has this to say about the Kansas cleo
ton:
As striking illustration of the colossal lies
with which the people are fed and misled, we
would point TO the vote of the Peoples party
this year in the state of Kansas. Nine-tenths
Of the population of this country, in conse-
euence of the gross misrepresentation of the
press, believe that the Peoples party vote of
Kansas in 1897 fell of very greatly from their
vote in 1890, while the official publica-
tion of the vote taken this year shows that
although the total vote of all parties in Kan
sas was about aoooO less than it was year ago
the Peoples party vote was actually increased
about IL per cent over its vote in 1896 4. per
cent. Of the entire vote. The Republican ma
jority in South Dakota was reduced from To-
600 in 1870 to 200 in 1891. while in Nebraska the
Peoples party came within 1900 votes of de-
feating the combined power Of both the old
parties and elected eleven district judges
AN ATTACK ON Or. MACUNE.
McAliister, the Anfi-sub-Treasuryit
Opens HIS yerbai BATTERIES.
". s. MeAllister, chairman Of the ex.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21
Echoes of Canadian BoodIerv.

QUEBEC, Nov. 2l.-The Hon. Mercier
premier of Quebec, has sworn out Grim.
inal charges against j. p. Wheelan, the
contractor for the Quebec city court
house, who is alleged to have stated that
he had to pay heavy sums to Mr. Mercier
and several members of the latter's gov
ernment to secure the contract to do GER
tain work
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-21
AN ATTACK ON Or. MAcUNE.

McAliister, the ApiI-sub- -Treasuryite
Opens HIS Verbal BATTERIES.
". s MeAllister, chairman Of the ex-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
did HE BURN IT?
A CONFESSION REGARDING THE
BERRY BLOCK FIRE.
A Prisoner in the City Jail Claims
to Have Been the Incendiary-
Doubts as to His Reliability.

Considerable excitement has been
caused in criminal circles by pre-
tended confession made by one Will
liam Foy, who is now confined in the
city jail On a charge of drunkenness.
Foy is a nondescript specimen of hu-
mainly from nobody knows where but
has been seen here before in the
remembrance of the officers.
The other day he manifested de-
sire to impart some startling infOrma-
ton and the story he told is now given
to the public for the first time.
He claimed to have been the incen-
diary of the great Berry Bros. block fire
in the winter of 16S7-S.
On the morning of Jan. 10, 1887, at
about 5 o'clock the two story double
brick block of the Berry Bros. Mercan-
tile company corner Cedar and South
First street was discovered to be on fire.
Although the night Waterman and D.
g. Smith had been near the building
half hour before there had been seen
no indication of fire. No alarm was
sent in to the fire department and
many other suspicious circumstances
surrounded confagration. In spite
of the fremen's efforts nothing was
saved and the loss was put at 100000
with an insurance of $4,000. After
the fire there was difficulty in adjusting
the insurance and many ugly rumOrs
were afiOat regarding the fires origin.
These, however, gradually died out
and no more was thought of them.
Foy, the prisoner, says that he was
the individual who set the fire. He
states that he was furnished keys to
the cellar and his agreement was to
burn the building late in the night or
early in the morning. He went to the
cellar and started the fire. Then &C.
ing out quietly locked the door and
walked southwark toward the Santa
| Fe track where he mad team waiting
and drove to Manchester.
His story duplicates others with
whom be claims to have been associat-
ed and while having good many ele-
ments of reasonableness is nevertheless
bold one and the officers hardly know
whether to believe him or not. He
says lie had been working for Berry
Bros. for some time before lie did the
deed and so skillfully did he manage
the affair that not the least suspicion
ever attached to him.
We understand that the officers are
looking up the matter and that more
developments may be expected soon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
Navarro Nuggets.

Special REFEcToR Correspondence.
NAVARRO, Feb. 3.-Jaeob n. Engle
has moved back on his farm recently
vacated by D. F. Stauffer.
DR.. Wrightsman went to Mcpherson
to attend a Bible meeting held there.
James Rock and family are expected
home this week.
Simon Lenhart had a trio of fine
geese sent him from Indiana.
John Hice will sta1t for Louisiana in
a few days.
Itseems the ladies are becoming in
terested in the alliance-tWo new lady
members have been received, one by
card and one initiated.
G. W. Stiles wears a continued
smile since last Wednesday night. In
quiry reyeaies the cause, Miss h.
has returned efter several weeks visit
with friends in The east part of the
state.
S. P. Kaufman has been very sick
with mumps but is improving.
Quite number of River Brethren
took the train for Abilene today.
J. Fl. Engle went to Abilene Tues
day. No school at the Abbey in con-
sequence.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
Y M c. A Notes

We believe the friends and support
ers of the work in this city will rejoice
to know that as a result of our subur-
ban and school house meetings last
month, nineteen professed conversion
and many others requested prayers.
This work is being geatly blest aud we
are planning for even broader work for
the near future.
1t will be gratifying to our friends
to learn further that the average at
tendance at the Ladies Auxiliary
meeting last month was 81 and that
the average at the mems meeting was
higher than any month since we have
known the association. These things
are not referred to as a matter of pride
but simply to call attention to the fact
that the work is being honored and
blest by Him in whose name it is being
done.
The Ladies Auxiliary at Sheir bust
ness meeting yesterday planned for a
social to be given Thursday evening,
Feb. 18th. A program will be provided
and the evening will be pleasantly
spent by all.
SECRETARY.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
EGGS AND POTATOES.
Finley and Brewer Make a Special
Announcement of Interest.

lu16y anu O1CHCA uAuShO O SRSNA0s4
Announcement of Interest.
The firm that has the biggest store
is not always the one that does the
largest business or that gives its pa
irons the best values for their money
or the best treatment. Finley &
Brewer do not claim to have the largest
store in the state but they do claim and
can prove that their stock is selected
with especial attention to the needs of
the farmers and that no house in the
city can give better barg aims than they
offer in dry GOODS and groceries of all
descriptions.
Now is the time to prepare for
spring seeding. We expect in few
days carload of northern seed pota-
toes, Early Ohios, and it will pay every
farmer of the county to get his seed
potatoes from this stock. We shall as
usual lead in potatoes this year.
Anothers thing, no one can compete
with Finley s. Brewer in one thing and
that is their wants when applied TO
the poultry output of Dickinson coun-
ty. There is practically no limit to
their desire.
Therefore every farmer is notified
hereby that Messrs. Finley Sc Brewer
are making a speciality of eggs, pOul-
try, butter, etc.. and in order to sup
port their large and increasing con-
tracts they pay the highest market
price either in cash or in trade.
Messrs. Finley s. Brewer have hereto
fore been the means of saving farmers
a large amount of money in the single
item of eggs alone, and as they have
done so in the past they will do so in
the present and future, hence the
farmers owe it to themselves 70 take
all of their produce to above firm.
Bring them in in large quantities or
small. FINLEY & BREWER.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05

tntions and the principal architect and
investigate the practicability of turning
the Hutchinson reformatory into an in
sane asylum. Also to report on the
economies incident to such a change.
After sharp discussion the resolution
was adopted.
House bill No. IL, by Brown, of Har-
vey, passed in the House yesterday af-
ternoon. The bill prohibits the hiring
of private armed detectives by railroad
companies, other corporations or per
sons. The penalty for violation of this
law is a fine of $40, payable into the
school fund of the county where the of
tense occurred, and the Imprisonment
of the person, officer or agent employ
ing such armed private detectives not
less than six months nor longer than
five years. Each day such forces are
employed to constitute a new offense.
This bill is aimed directly at the en-
ployment of the Pinkerton and other
private detective forces.
House bill No. 81, the chattel mort
gage bill, was passed by the House
without further amendment. 1t shuts
off the loaning of money on chattels il
the Western part of the State, should il
become a law. The Republicans in the
House, excepting Webb, of Shawnee
voted no"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
RECENT REFLECTIONS.

Faulkner s. Bearce's electric shoes
attract much attention.
Several new buildings will be
erected when spring opens.
-Abilene's schools show an increas-
ed attendance over previous years.
Junction City gets more out of her
police court than any city in Kansas.
Don't invest in patent hog cholera
cures. They are more likely to kill
than cure.
U. ROhrer, one of DillOn's most sue
cessful farmers, was caller on the
REFLECTOR. Mr.. ROhrer has made
for himself a pleasant home in south
Dickinson and deserves the prosperity
he has met with.
An alliance man from Clark coUn-
ty has introduced bill in the Kansas
house which provides that any person
who will file a petition in the district
court stating that he or she is of good
moral character shall be permitted to
practice law. This will be encourag-
ing to certain law students who find it
difficult to master Blackstone.
One of the reasons given By the
county attorney for not prosecuting a
criminal case in the present term was
that tue principal witnesses are in jail.
1t happens that the principal witnesses
are the sheriff and deputy sheriff.
Another reason was because the defen.
dant and complaining witness were the
only persons present at the ARRAY.
That ought to let down the bars if two
persons want to go out on the prairie
and hammer one another's brains out.
Hutchinson News: The tariff on
eggs has already had the effect of at
tracing more attention to the poultry
business than has heretofore been ac-
corded it. Reno county could just as
well make money out of this as any
thing else. Every farmer in the county
could make a good, clear profit each
year by raising enough chickens to
consume the waste products. 1t would
all be profit except little time. This
matter should receive more attention
the coming spring than ever.
Considerable doubt is being ex-
pressed by the teachers who took the
recent examination as to the validity
Of the certificates issued when one OF
the associate examiners is not legally
qualified for the position. The law
says the associate examiners ''shall be
holders of first grade certificates or of
diplomas from the state university, the
state normal school or the state agricul.
tural college" One OF the examiner:
has no such qualifications and the value
of his signature or a certificate is il
doubt.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
Is DEAD THIS TIME.
T. Il. Burris Passes in His Checks at
Chattanooga.

Chattanooga.
In the 70's there was no more proml-
nent man in Abilene than f. II. Burrls.
Later on there was no man talked OF
more OF who was execrated more
severely by certain parties with whom
he had dealings. But praise or blame
have no meaning to him now. A pri-
yate letter received by the editor OF the
REFLECTOR from w. E. Birchmore at
Chattanooga, Tenn, says: IF. ID.
Burris, formerly of Abilene, died at his
residence in Chattanooga yesterday,
Jan. 3Ist." This is in one respect
Burris' second death as it was currently
reported and believed some years ago
that he died.
Burris was the builder of the BurriS
house which burned few weeks ago.
He also ran a general merchandise store
in the old block between Second and
Third on the west side of Broadway.
He was a licensed preacher of the
Methodist church but like the boys
father he was not working at it much.
Ee burned out and went to Albuquerque
n. NJ. His next move was to form a
syndicate of Abilene capitalists to make
some big real estate purchases in New
Mexico. After the money was raised
and he had gone down to New Mexico
to close up the deal there came a dis
patch from some place in Iowa that
he was dead. The money was gone
and the syndicate was furious. Then
other dispatches came saying that he
had been seen down near the RIO
Grande and later in Florida. So his
death was generally discredited but his
whereabouts were lost. His family
disappeared and the first news the
majority of the old settlers of Abilene
have of him for ten years is this article.
tt charitable to suppose that his
necessities compelled him to take the
steps he did and it is to be hoped that
his later years have been devoted to a
compensating piety.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
Advertised Letters.
SECRETARY.

The following is list Of unclaimed
letters remaining ID the Abilene post
Office for the week ending Feb. 8,
1891. Have your mail addressed to
street and number, and it will be
promptly delivered.
LADIES LIST.
Duff, Miss Kate Sturn, Miss Ley
Swain, Mrs Serheme Snider. Miss Cessy
shrimp, Miss Jennie Taylor, Mrs John
GENTS LIST.
Basehar, B Evans, Cd
Jacobs, 2 Moore, henry
Murphy, Jas Neild, John
Payne, J N Rinehart,
starley, is Schusroind, Henry
Wilson, n
Persons calling for the above win
please say advertised giving date.
n. Binder the late order of the
postmaster general. one cent (lc) viii
be charged for all advertised letters.
D. B. G0aDzE, Postmaster.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-05
Colorado Distress.

CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-Postmaster Sexton
has received from T. ]. James, post
master at Townsend, Col, a letter tell
ing of bad crops for three successive
years and saying the citizens of Denver,
which is In the same county, were sup
plying the sufferers with -four and
meat, but there is urgent need of cloth
ing and money, the latter to buy seed
grain and feed for stock Postmaster
Sexton has laid the appeal before the
Chicago posts of the G. A. R., and is
urging other charitably disposed per-
sons TO do what they can