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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

IL Is very fitting in view Of Mr..
Cleveland's well known views on Amer
icanism that his minister, Mr.. Blount,
who has been trying for 80 years to
haul down the American flag should
accomplish it Immediately on his arrival
In Honolulu. In his course Mr.. Cleve.
land left no possibility of question Ne
to his entire responsibility in the affair
His letter Of introduction OF Blount to
the provisional president was written
In the first person with big II" and
he presented Mr. Blount as "my per-
sonal commissioner" and in that capac-
ity Mr.. Blount ordered the flag down
and the U. s. forces off from the
island, This, according to the latest
statements and explanations, appears
TO be the Democratic manner Of open
ing negotiations. The first movement
Is to strike your flag. The flag OF
America once hauled up should never
be hauled down. 1t should float and
stay at the masthead and especially 1t
should not be hauled down by an ex-
rebel as the personal representative
of a Democratic president who once
ordered returned the flags the Union
men captured in many bloody con.
flict. The treatment OF the Honolulu
affair by the new administration TO-
fleets disgrace rather than credit upon
the United States.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
TORNADO TWISTER.
Usage City, Kan, Visited By the
Funnel Vagrant.
MANY HOUSES, ETC., DESTROYED.
A Negro Woman Killed-wsir City and
other Places Also stricken-Fatal
Storm In Arkansas-seven
Killed.

OsAoR CITY, Kan, April ia tor
nado struck this place at o'clock yes
terday afternoon. Many thousand dol
lars worth Of property was destroyed
and many persons injured. Eighteen
or twenty houses were totally de-
stroyed and nearly every house In
the business part Of the city was
more or less damaged. Mrs. An
drew Wagner, colored wom-
an, was instantly killed and her
husband severely hurt. In the north
east part Of the city many residences
were completely destroyed and In nearly
every instance the occupants were Sc
riously injured, Mrs. J. Maker and
daughter lost everything they had and
both parties badly hurt. II is esti-
mated that about fifty persons are made
homeless and destitute by the storm.
After leaving Usage City the storm
took a northeastcrly direction, follow
ing the direction of the railroad TO
Paola, leaving the track few miles
west Of Paola, and swooping down up
on the farming section between Paola
and Bucyrus, destroying hundreds Of
dollars worth Of property As yet no
reports of loss OF life has been received
from this locality, but several are known
10 have been hurt.
In Paola several buildings were
shaken badly, and u few houses un-
rooted. Window glass was cracked
and broken, but the loss TO property
will not be large in the city.
In Usage City the houses ruined will
exceed 100, bat only forty were totally
wrecked. In nearly every house In the
city window glass was broken out, and
the business part Of the city will suffer
heavy losses.
A meeting of the citizens has been
called for TO take measures for assist
ing the sufferers.
The blow IL hard one 10 the citizens,
from which II will take some time to
recover, as the loss to the business in
terests Of the city has been great.
ANOTHER TORNADO REPORTED.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April l9.-Reports
reached this city last evening that u
disastrous tornado visited Weir City,
KAN, Schell City and Joplin, Mo-, but
ut late hour this report could not be
confirmed.
II was rumored that many houses in
Weir City were wrecked and several
persons injured.
In Schell City IL severe hail storm ac-
companied the high wind and the hail
stones were three inches deep on the
streets Of the city.
1t was reported that not much dam
age was done at Joplin, as the storm
only struck the outskirts of the city.
The baggagemaster Of the Joplin
train said the train encountered one of
the hardest winds he had ever expert
enced and that the hail was terrific.
BAD STORM ~ ARKANSAS.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, April l0.-'rhc
most terrific windstorm ever known in
Arkansas passed over scott county last
night. Seven people were killed at
Bowles. Everything was destroyed in
the track of the cyclone. 4 woman
and two children were taken up by the
wind and have not yet been found.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
NEWS NOTES.

Lucy Larcom, the New England poet
ess, Is dead.
The municipal government OF Lead
vile, Col, is populist.
Riots of workingmen at bucharest,
Roumania, are reported.
A woman has been chosen city
weigher at Danbury, Conn.
Johnny Couthran, aged 10, died at
Elkhart, Ind, from cigarette smoking.
j. D. Roberts has been appointed re-
ceiver for the Lookout Iron Co., at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
Scorpions have become so numerous
In Durango, Mex, that rewards are
offered for their destruction.
The new United States cruiser De-
troit in her trial trip at New London,
Conn, made 23 miles an hour.
II is believed that Secretary Carlisle
has recommended Col. Dalton for sur
veyor of the port OF st. Louis,
An attempt was made TO wreck 20"
train between Plymouth and Coleman,
Ill. Some tramps placed a tic on the
track.
The pope has ordered that prayers
foi rain be offered by Catholics through
out Italy. Rain has not fallen for two
months.
The report of Assistant Attorney
General Colby on the weather bureau
scandal charges most outrageous thefts
by employees
Advices received from 81. Helena at
New Bedford. Mass, report tremend-
GUS catch by the Atlantic ocean whalers
during the past season.
The Minnesota legislature has adj
journed after an exciting session, dur
ing which numerous sensational inves-
legations were carried on.
A proposition for IA compromise on
home rule, excluding the counties of
Ulster from its provisions, has been
submitted by the radicals.
Irwin $. Merrill, IA real estate dealer
OF Kansas City, who had been mourned
as dead for three years, surprised his
New York sisters by visiting them.
Riots and. battles with the police and
troops are prevalent everywhere in
Belgium, where the great strike is on.
AT Mons strikers were shot dead after a
bomb explosion.
The United States legation at Con-
stantinople has made an investigation
into the outrages upon Christians by
Mohammedans and reports Turkey
action as partly justifable.
The jury in the case Of Min Shepard,
tried at Bentonville, Ark, for the muir
der Of Officer Dalton, found a verdict OF
involuntary manslaughter and fixed the
penalty at one year in the state prison.
The lord mayor of Dublin, accom-.
ponied by the high sheriff, appeared AT
the bar of the British house of com
mons and presented petition urging
the passage Of the bill 10 establish
home rule in Ireland.
Three of u pleasure party Of four per
sons from Bayview were drowned IN
the harbor at San Francisco by the cap.
sizing Of their slSiff. Henry Schroeder
and sister, George Reinfeldt and wife
We're in the party MIA Relnfsldb wa
FssVasd
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
Political Honesty.

II there ia any one trait which 10
characteristic of the Republican party
more prominent than another II is that
OF political honesty. No man ever sin.
cerely questions the sincerity of a Re-
publican platform. No man has ever
been required to get an interpreter to
determine the meaning Of any plank in
the Republican platform. Whatever
the Republican party means 1t does not
hesitate to promulgate and what it
promulgates 1t does not hesitate to
advocate. This Integrity Of purpose
in all its dealings with public questions
has led the people of this great coun.
try to trust II with the management of
the government for the past thirty.two
years. No other party ever enjoyed
the confidence Of the people for any
thing like 30 long period, and no other
party ever proved as faithful TO the
trustreposed in 1t by the people as the
Republican party.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

No wonder Senator Martin is wor.
ried. A Washington dispatch says;
I'm the senate today memorial
signed by seventy.seyen members of
the Kansas legi stature against the right
Of Mr.. Martin to hold his seat AZ
United States senator from that State
and stating that Mr.. Ady was legally
and fairly elected, was presented by
Mr., Sherman and was referred to the
committee on privileges and elections"
1t is bad enough for Kansas to be
afflicted with PETER in the senate with.
out having an Illegally elected fusionist
representing us there. Still with a
Democratic majority In the senate MIR.
Ady will never take his seat.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20


This Is the eulogistic kind of an idea
the Atchison Champion has of the San
flower State: "Kansas is all right
Her soil, her climate, her people are the
best on earth. From Atchison to Good
land; from the rugged bluffs Of Wyan.
dotte to the high plateau at Wallace;
from the classic land of Bourbon ana
Paint Creek to Syracuse, you are within
the realm where more than $4,000
square miles of arabic land dehes the
world to match 1t match 1t for wheat
corn, oats, tame grasses, sugar cane
and fruits Of the orchard and the vine.
II You do not succeed it will not be the
fault OF Kansas"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
Sham Reforming.


T, J. Norton. the Topeka represent
tative of the Kansas City Journal, has
been cogitatlng over some of the IRE
form" Populist methods Of looking out
for their own pocketbooks. lie says:
The dear and oyertaxed people are still
getting II from the reformers "where
the chicken got the axe" to use the
revised version. Judge Doster who
consecrated his life some time ago to
ameliorating the hard conditions Of
the Kansas serfs, drew $3.50 from the
treasury Of said serfs in fee Of legal
services rendered toward making the
revolution revolve. Then G.. @. Glenn.
ems asked for $1,000 for similar services
performed but he has not received II
yet. And now comes Judge W. @.
Webb, who dislnterestedly takes fee
Of 5000 from the treasury Of the ''over
taxed poor"
TO hear those patriots talk during
the campaign one would think that
they were ready to give TO the aid Of
the masses all physical belongings and
their abundant speech. Oh, how these
men longed 20 lift the yoke which bad
government had laid heavily upon the
necks OF the peoplel How they berated
the tariff and all other forms Of "iniq.
uitous taxationi" How the Republi-
cans were tongue threshed for having
made government so expensive to the
poorl
Bnt when the opportunity came for
these generous hearted men to give In
their way a kindly service to the people
they imposed II fee greater, probably,
than their law practice would have
yielded for the same time and labor.
They did not do anything as patriots.
They drew upon the over taxed people
with vigorous pull, just as hard
hearted Republicans might have done.
Mrs. Lease, too, whose generous
heart has been bleeding 30 profusely
for the burdened people, has drawn
from the pockets Of the masses" $l47
as one months salary as a member Of
the board Of charities. That is good
round pay for month and many Of
her party ridden constituents, II reform
orators are TO be believed, would be
happy to get such sum for six months
Of hard labor.
But Mrs. Lease did not show any
disposition to "divide" and so relieve
the wretched, as phIlanthOpists are
disposed to do. A poor Populist ought
to consider half that salary good
months wages for very little work,
and the other half might have been left
In the treasury Of the overtaxed toll
ers.
But the pocket book is not the re-
formers gland of affection. Far from
showing a disposition to aid the masses
substantially, Mrs. Lease drew In the
full mileage allowed by law, although
she travels upon railroad pass. She
might at least, since she has the favor
Of the corporations, have spared the
poor people the expense of mileage.
But she drew from the public purse the
last farthing, just as II bad Republican
might have done.
This reform In Kansas Is an interest
ing thing, but IL is In nowise cheaper
than "Republican corruption
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Aprnis Opened Hish'st Low'st closin

The rain in Kansas covered less than ono
fourth OF the state The Iowa weather bulletin
reported wheat damaged by freezing weather.
Receipts were fair Exports were moderate
July wheat in Chicago opened at 73h, sold up
10 73ko and closed where It closed yesterday,
at7sAo May wheat closed At INC decline
Prices OF corn changed very slightly. Chioa-
go prices declined No but recovered the small
loss and the close OF the market was Arm. Re-
oeipts were moderate. Cash trade seems bet
ter than It has been Liverpool quoted an nd.
vance OF I'd
The provisions market has been less active
than usual Closing prices were at slight ad-
vance The supply OF hogs ct western markets
was fair.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Never were truer words spoken than
by Governor Mckinley at the banquet
of the Republican club at Canton.
Said he; The country needs the Re-
publican party, for its principles and
and purposes and policies underle
every American interest and are allied
with its true growth aud advance
ment." Those words express the
fundamental mission of the party. A
political organization based upon such
broad platform is not for one day or
for one object. II can cease to exist
only when American institutions cease
to exist. 1t finds duty In whatever
tends to promote the welfare of the
American people. Its glory in the
past has been its steady pursuit of this
purpose, whether the immediate ques.
tion we're the safety of the Republic,
the abolition Of slavery, the preserva-
ton of the National credit, the main
tenance Of sound currency or the
protection Of American industries;
and its past career is an earnest of It's
achievements in the future.-[Wichita
2salN
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
First published in the Abilene Weekly Re
Hector April 10, lse3
ROAD NOTICE.


plhNc VI
Dickinson County, ~
once of County Clerk. April IS 1893.
Notice is hereby given, that on the 18th day
OF April 1893 petition signed by D. Lowe and
10 others, was presented to the Board Of County
Commissioners of the county aforesaid. praying
for the opening OF a certain road, described as
follows, viz;
Commencing at the south west corner OF sec.
ton number ten NO) township number twelve
~ south of range number three t9 east OF the
Sixth principal meridian. thence running north
on section thres ts) miles to the north west
corner Of section number thirty-four $40 townt
ship eleven UD range three C3) east TO intersec.
road number one hundred and ffty.seven (l57.)
whereupon, said Board OF County Commits
sioners appointed the following named persons
viz; l.. II. Long, James Dunlap and John Reel
as viewers, with instructions to meet at the
place Of beginning in Hayes township, on
Monday, the 18th day Of May, A. D., 1893, and
proceed to view said road and give all parties
a hearing.
by order of the Board of County Com.
missiOneTs.
re. RoTToRF.
County Clerk
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

One Of the least excusable deeds Of omls.
sion that tho late legislature accomplished
was the defeat Of the appellate court hin.
with Ave years delay In tho supreme court,
which IL now the case, rich men ana corpOr-
ations have too great power, and Justice in
many cases Is practically defeated. a little
less politics and n little moro sense OF fair
ness and n little more regard for the welfare
OF the people NJ the late session, would have
given tho State this beneficial btll.-ITopeEa
Press.
Glad to see that the drubbing you
got in not being chosen official paper
has pounded some sense into you,
Chapman.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

The leading symposium in the new
number of the Agora will be 1.-THE
Late Conflict-What II was About, "
by Frank Doster; THE Governors
Advisers" by +. W. Hoch; militia
and Deputy Sherifrs," by G, G. Glen.
ems; THE Farmer in the Procession y
by G. s. Gleed. If Kansas people
won't read u magazine that keeps close
up to the times, like the Agora, they
would better go back to last years
almanacs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

The Kansas City Star is very indig.
nant because the Republicans of Kan.
sas are saving as trophies the doors
battered down by the Republicans
when they took possession of the house
Of representatives. The Lawrence
Journal suggests that the Star feels in
this matter, perhaps, very much az
Cleveland did about the Confederate
Gags that he wanted sent back to the
south.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

The Academy Of Language and Lit
erature honored hard worker for the
organizations welfare, Prof. l.. ID.
Wbittemore, Of Topeka, with the
presidency. T. Il. Dewey, Of this city
remains at the head of the executive
committee. The next meeting will be
Mt Topeka
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

ingalls, has this prophecy for the Goth
century; "The railway and steamship
will be as obsolete as the stage coach
and 1t will be as common for the citizen
to call for his dirigible balloon as II
now is for his buggy" Since the fail.
ure of his prophecy on last falls cleo
tlon he should refrain from further
dips into the future.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
MARKET REPORTS.
Money and Investments.

NEW YoRK, April ls-1he stock market
opened strong this morning and Il further ad
vance was recorded In the first few moments,
Rubber sold up To 6JH, Sugar to lOlh Chicago
Gas to Bs, Distillers to 2s4, Reading TO 2lh
New England To $50, Missouri Pacific 10 BON
Cordage to 6i5f and Lackawanna TO 1857. After
these advances had been made Manhattan
broke from l5l 10 las and the general list ran
on 4 to ~ In sympathy. The bears whC
covered moderately at the start sold again anc
this operation led TO the decline
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
G.. 4. WYANDT.
RostcfAoe Block


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, 19.-Gov. Stone
has named the delegates from this
state TO attend the Transmississippi
congress, which convenes at Ogden,
Utah, the cath inst. They are: Il. w
Major, Louisianai Hon. Il. j. Bland,
Lebanon; Hon. Paul b. Moore, Charles.
town; Louis Nelson, st. Louis; Hon.
John Crossgrove, Boonville; 4. b. Love
Springfield; Il. NJ. HARDER, Trenton,
Charles II. Dobson, Kansas City; Hon
c. T. Cochran, st. Joseph, and Col. W
II. Kcnnon, Mexico.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Stirred by the vibrant impulses Of the
verdant season, Is. l.. Strother gnzed
out toward the Abilene postonlce yes
terday and then, taking his pen IN
hand, poured forth his soul in poetry
after this fashion:
There Ia n big white House,
Far, far away,
Where Grover hands out pie
Almost every day.
But although kick and yell
never hear tho dinner bell
And haven't had Il smell
Perhaps I never NAV.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20
First published in the Abilene Weekly Re
Hector April 20. 1898.
ROAD NOTICE,
State OF Kansas go.
Dickinson County,l 'S'

State OF Kansas
Dickinson County, HS'
Ofice Of County Clerk April 18th, 1898.
Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day
Of April, 1893, petition signed by j. R. Wilson
and 80 others was presented to the Board OF
County Commissioners of the county aforesaid.
praying for the review OF a cestain road, de.
scribed as follows, viz:
Commencing on the north line OF section two
~ and on west side Of half section line, thence
south to south line Of section two (2) all In
township sixteen Q6 range one ~ east
Dickinson County. Kansas
Whereupon, said Board Of County Commits.
sioners appointed the following named persons,
viz: John Watts, s. II. McAdams and J. r.
Callister as viewers, with instructions to meet
at the place Of beginning In Holland township
on Monday, the 18th day Of May, A. d. 1898,
and to view said road, and to give all parties a
hearing.
BY order of the Board of County Com
missioners.
F.E.N oTToRF,
County Clerk.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

II has transpired that state Senator
Sem of Dickinson county rides over
the Union Pacific railroad on pass No.
II. ! 062 This is the same man that
was invited over here last fall to talk
to our German friends south of this
city about the wickedness of this same
railroad and the Republican party,
and how the railroad commission
ers ought to be elected by the people,
and when he got an opportunity to vote
for the Greenlee bill, refused to do it.
Whyp Was 1t that railroad passp You
told us, thou immaculate Sem, that
railroads bought Legislators with passes.
Gypsum City Advocate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

This is the kind of questions the
county superintendent of WabAunsee
county sends out for twelve year old
boys aud girls to answer:
EToFp close study oftho Declaration OF
dndepenaeHee, oontrasted with some OF Ma
1or NcKinlsy's speeches fSvorinR protect
dyS tariff what comparison would you be led
4omake bstween tho method of thought OF
sur forefathers and our present methodsl
OF course he is Populist, and really
i6snnpt b sxpestsH VI knbw any hsttsr.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

s, Pearson, proprietor OF the Pearson
Carriage Works of Salina, has failed.
Liabilities, $25, 900. Assignment was
made to Il, Il. Swanson of the entire
business. real estate and personal prop
erty In favor Of the creditors, Salina
should not, however, feel bad, Abilene
once had carriage works, too, aud
lost II, and behold where Abilene is
nowl
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

When you want Populist paper
take a straightout one OF that faith;
when you want Democratic paper
accept no wishy washy sheet but sub
scribe for the straight stuff, and when
you want a Republican paper accept
no mugwumpery but send in your
name TO the REFLECTOR.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

The Leavenworth Standard rises to
remark that the fact that the governor
OF South Carolina will run the saloons
In that state after July !, will probably
be pleasant news to the bibulous gov
ernor Of North Carolina, and 1t will
probably not be 80 long between drinks
ms heretofore.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Bank Commissioner Breidenthal Ia
quoted as saying that the Kansas
banks are "hoarding gold" AS a
great majority of the bank stock of
the State is owned by Kansas farmers
and business men any such plutocratiC
method as gold boarding seems to be..a
reflection that 1t is pleasant to reflect
.Innu,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Supt, McBride's sudden resignation
gives color to the report that his resign
alton was In dwellings hands before
the governor declared the charges
against him unfounded. Mcbride
should never have resigned. The thing
to do was to let the Pops fire him II
they wished but never knock under.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

The newly appointed Democratic
postmaster at Pittsford, Vermont, may
have to serve term in Jail before he
can qualify, AS on the day Of bis ap.
pointment he was convicted of illegal
liquor selling. Turn the rascals out"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

Paderewski gets $4,000 for two
nights piano playing. Ten years ago
no was 30 poor that his wife died be-
cause he could not buy her the necessi-
Ties of life.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-04-20

When Axman Maxwell told some Of
his callers that 1t was his intention to
appoint only "live Democrats" he must
have had suspicion that somebody
was trying to run In on him some of
the dead Democrats" regularly voted
on slection day in certain parts Of the
Mkt,tn,