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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
Cool Heads Prevent y Panic.

CARTHAGE, Mo-. March l7.-At ten
o'clock this morning the Washington
ward school was found to have caught
fire around the furnace in Miss Bryan's
room. Word was quickly carried to
all the teachers, who marched the
children quickly into the school yard.
Then Misses Bryan, Cupp and Beard,
all teachers, formed q bucket brigade
and the flames were extinguished.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
GATHERING At HUTCHINSON.
Kansas Popultsts Arc Making Ready for
Their state Convention.

Kansas Popultsts Are Making Ready for
Their state Convention.
HUTCHINSON, Kan, March l7.-The
populist politicians Of Kansas are gath
ering in this city to attend their state
convention, which will be held in the
Auditorium Wednesday, for the pur-
pose OF electing 90 delegates and as
many alternates to the national con-
vention at st. Louis. Chairman John
W. Breidenthal and Secretary
Bob Semple, Of the state cen.
trail committee, arrived last night
and opened headquarters at the Mid
land hotel. The hotel and boarding
house keepers are getting ready to en-
terrain a big crowd. People have
been writing and telegraphing for
rooms for week. And then the citi.
zens of Hutchinson, regardless of
politics, are taking great interest in
the convention with the view of show.
ing the public what they can do in the
way of entertainment
The most of the delegates now here
are in favor Of making platform in
line with the Omaha platform, with
few planks about state affairs, and in
structing the St Louis delegates to do
all in their power to carry out the
principles advocated. 1t Is not likely
that there will be any instruc.
ton for specific action. The
Kansas populists seem to be
very much in doubt as to what
the st. Louis convention ought to do.
There Is an element diligently at work
which wants Kansas to come out
for national ticket without
waiting for the republican and dem
ocratic parties to act
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
DECLARE THEMSELVES.


Mayor" Davis and Walbridgs and Mai.
Warner IN the A. r. A. Principles.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March H. Fiji.
teen hundred people crowded into Mu-
sic hall last night to hear the speeches
OF Mayor Davis, Maj. William Warner
and Mayor Walbridge on the A. P. A,
question. Judge John b. Stone pre-.
sided. Maj. Warner eulogized Ameri-
can patriotism and Landed Abraham
Lincoln, but adroitly evaded any
mention of the A. P. A. Mcssrs Davis
and Walbridqe. however, were more
pronounced, and IN words that could
not be misunderstood unequivocallv
Endorsed the principles of the order,
although declaring that this govern.
ment must not represent any par
ticular religion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19

ST. Louis, March II. = Walter uraham
Sharp, 20 years old, was mfstvro,sly
shot and fatally wounded We, or lv
while on his way home. The only
clew ms to the IDENTITY Of the murderer
IL hat left behind, which bears the
initials of Ill b" Owing to the p..
culinrity of the circumstances Of tho
shooting, and tho strangene,s Of tho
assault. the nolice are mvs, ,f,,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
Wichita Ia Wet Again

WlcHIrA, Kan, March l7.-pollce
Commissioner L. Keck has sent his
resignation TO Gov. Morrill,. He gives
no reason for his action. The reor.
ganized police board has re.esta plshed
the saloon revenue system, us the re.
suit Of which over $500 In fines has
been collected since last Thursday.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
THE EXODUS TO ALASKA.
Steamer Umatllla Carries 100 Miners q
the Gold Fields,

SAN FRANCISCO, March II. - The
steamer Umatilla sailed last night fog
Victoria and Puget Sound ports, car
rying away at least 100 miners with out
fits for the gold fields Of Alaska. Many
OF them are going to Cooks inlet, while
not a few are to brave the dangers Of
a northern winter and attempt to cross
the ice from Dia inlet to the Yukon.
10 reach the Yukon by water
1t will be necessary to wait until ths
end of May before leaving this city,
and 1t will be some time in June when
the river is sufficiently free from ice 70
admit Of navigation.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
BIG GOLD STRIKE.
Ore Assaying e4.820 to the Ton Alleged 10
Have Ieen Found.

WV "sS"yuk rp,U~V W tne ION Alhg0u 10
Have H.en Found.
CREEDE COL, March 17--Great ex-
citement prevailed in Creole yester.
day, caused by Anton Fran and 0. H.
Mayatt bringing in several rich
samples OF ore containing large fakes
OF free milling gold. An assay showed
s48 ounces, or $500 in gold, to
the ton. No information can be
obtained as to the whereabouts
OF the claim in which it was taken, ex.
cept that II Is within three miles of
Creole, and that the vein is 2S inches
wide. This has always been regarded
as a purely silver district heretofore.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
SALV ATIOyISTS.
4xcitem snt Mt the St Louis Head
quarters Over tao Secession.


ST. LOUIS. March l7.--There was con.
siderable excitement around the local
headquarters OF the Salvation army
yesterday. Brig. French held long and
serious conferences with the melnb beers
Of his staff md dictated vouminous
letters to his staff officers throup bout
the division over which he has juris-
diction. All this activity was caused
BY the action OF little band OF Sal
vstiOnists in going out on the street
Sunday afternoon and making the
initial movement toward the forma-
ton OF an independent army In
the west, 'We are not at all
worried about the NATTER said
the brigadier to reporter yes.
terday afternoon. THE fact Of the
matter Is that those who are interested
In the formation OF this new move
mont have been more or less dscon.
tented for long time, and it was no
surprise to me to find them taking &C.
ton. The disatfection viii not
spread" From an officer In the local
ranks 1t was learned that Vincent and
Shannon, the leaders In the secession
ist ranks have approached nearly
every captain and lieutenant In the
city with proposition to form new
corps TO enlist under the standard OF
Ballington Booth.
CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY.
TORONTO, Ont, March .7-Circulars
arc being distributed through the
mails by the so-called canadian indie.
pendence Party" declaring, In effect,
that Great Britain Is robbing the do
minion through the medium OF the
Canadian government The sending
OF such matter through the mails is
In direct violation OF the laws
and government detectives have
been set TO watch affairs
Tho documents which have been
sent out bear no signature. They are
dated Toronto, where they are mailed. +
Tho Canadian independence party Is
supposed to have headquarters at
Windsor, Ont, where the movement +
originated. The reason assigned for
flooding Canada with such literature
st the present moment Ia the belief
that whichever party Is defeated at the
next election Is certain to declare II.
self for Canadian Independence and
make that the issue Of the next battle
st the polls
WALLER STILL IN PRISON.
PARIS March 1.-The patrie says II
has been informed at the ministry OF
tho interior that Mr.. John L. Waller
formerly the United States consul Ut
Tama tave. undergoing sentence OF 20
years imprisonment for corresponding
with the Hovas, Is still in prison, no
order for his release having been re.
ceived, and that negotiations between
France and the United states.on this
subject are still proceeding,
DISAPPOINTED IN aEv wEyLER
MADRID, March " Tne press and
public ete express disappointment
md impa thence ut Cen Wrvlers fail
are TO suppress the Cumn laSnrgents,
who are still securing the provinces OF
Havana. piuur del Rio aud Matanzas.
md burning plantations, villa res, etc,
IN rs extensive IL scale as they were
LONG during Gen. Campos' command.
HERBERT BOOTH TO LEAVE CANADA.
TORONTO. Ont, March II. "A special
rom Winnipeg says that Herbert
Booth the head Of the Salvation nrmy
n Canada, will give up his command
md leave the country June /.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
Heavy Frost in Texas

Fort WORTH, Tex, March l7-All
over north and northwest Texas there
was heavy frost last night and ice
formed an eighth Of an inch thick.
Fruit Is killed in all this part Of the
state
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19

ST. Louis, March l7.-One of the
largest cattle sales recorded in the
west during recent years was closed
yesterday, the details OF which have
just become public. By this sale the
entire herd owned by the Arizona Cat
tie Co., of Flagstaff, Ariz., numbering
about $4,000 head, was sold to the Kan.
sas City Live Stock Commission Co.
The terms Of the sale are private, but
1t is understood that the price was
above last years figures
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
THEIR FIRST MEETING.

Victoria and Francis Joseph become Ac-
quainted Late IN Life.
LONDON, March H. The meeting re-
Gently between the queen Of England
and the emperor Of Austria was their
first, though they have occupied their
respective thrones In the neiyhbor-
hood OF half century. There may
not be much significance In the meet
ing OF these two snddened old sover.
eigns, but the incident is picturesque
one, which, however, is obscured by
the war clouds overhanging Christen.
dom.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
Room Started for Cnmpbei,.

COLUMBUS, o., March 1.-THE demo.
cratic city convention adopted a reso.
luton indorsing ex-Gov. James Il.
Campbell for the democratic nomna.
ton for the presidency.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19

Charles MONTGOMERY. alias Trigger
Mont" a member OF the old Dalton
gang OF outlaws, was captured in the
Pawnee Indian country by fedei al ON
GERS A reward of $500 was ohersd
for Montgomery's capture.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
Plat Is Victorious in New York,

NEW YORK, March Metropolitan
primaries were held in each of l,39.
election districts of this city last night
and the results show victories for
Thomas c. Platt in most OF the dis.
tricts. The primaries were held for
the purpose of electing delegates to
assembly district conventions, where
the delegates to the St Louis national
convention will be chosen.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-03-19
a BIahop Charged with lmhex.lem.u,

CLEVELAND, O., March l7.-Bishop
W. B. Campbell, Of Toledo, O., head Of
the African Evangelical mission, a
colored denomination, is In Jail here
on the charge Of embezzling $500.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
4 noId Attemnt to 80

bold attempt az robbery IS being n.,-
petrated upon the people everywbere h,
the South, in the efforts Of unscrupuIo,s
persons 10 sell them an inferior article -
take the place Of Simmons Liver Rae,,f,
tor, the Red Z. It's worse than robba-,.
II takes the money OF the sick and sf-
fiicted. and gives in return prepararfo-.
as unlike Simmons Liver Regulator as b
the character OF such deceivers compares
10 the man OF honor and integrity. Fore
warned 3 foFearmed. Save your no,ay
and protect your health by taking nom
ing but Simmons Liver Regulator. -bs
Red Z. It's The Old Friend that for NOR
than sixty. years has blessed the homes
Of the land. and brought long Aifs 10
many a sufferer with liver troubles. You
can rely on its doing as much for you
Health and wealth comes TO him wbo
takes Simmons Liver Regulator. Look
for the Red z on the front Of the pack
age. that is the guarantee Of the proprie-
tors that the medicine is genuine
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10

The state school commissioner has sew
eral times called attention 20 the lack Of
public school buildings in the country dis
tricts. AID urged that some steps be taken
10 provide them At present schools are
held In church buildings. in private resi-
dences and in other unsuitable houses in
various counties. Tais is the case in
Clarke county. That county. however.
has adopted a plan under which the need
ed buildings viii be erected The county
has set aside a certain sum of money for
school buildings. and the plan IS 10 have
the county pay one-haf the cost OF the
buildings and the communities in which
they are erected the other half The
plan ought 10 work we'll The people do
not object to paying out money for
schools. and all that IS necessary TO get
them TO build school houses is to start
some feasible plan under which the cost
viii not be too heavy. II is 10 be expect
ed that other counties viii follow the ex-
ample Of Clarke.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
BRIGHT BITS.

They say he was clay in the potter's
hands" Not a bit Of it, He had too
much sand. detroit Tribune.
The rooster carries his own comb and
has brush with the first rooster he
meets New Orleans Picayune.
Summer Peace.-"say, Cornerstone,
don't you ever take rest?" YES, my
daughter always goes away in June to
musical convention. Record.
-Cumso-well. Johnny, how do you like
your new teacher?
Johnny-Not much; she don't know any
thing. To-day she asked me who dis
covered Enthusiastically Life.
Obvious Expedient-"If the truth gets
out, it will be fatal 10 the senator's polit-
ical prospects" Then why doesn't he
have an investigating committee appoint
ed 70 look into the matter"-Puck.
That Hopkins boy is horribly spoiled
he has his father and mother completely
under his thumb" Perhaps things will
be different after the Fourth: he prob
ably won't have any humbs."-Chicago
Record.
"A Word of Approval.-"I intended this
poem merely as a pot-boiler." said the
young man in lofty explanation. That's
a good idea. Take IT right home and let
your folks start the fire with it."-Wash-
ington Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
TIIIman and the south.

Senator Tillman does not represent the
south. Nobody knows that better than
he. 1t is not at all surprising therefore
that when he undertook to address the
convention yesterday in support OF a res
olution which he offered eondemning the
President and the administration he was
heard with impotence and many tndlca-
tions OF disapproval He was dsappoint-
ed and angry to find that he was not
regarded as a leader of the democracy
was not the sort of a man the newspa-
pers had pictured him showed that he
was anxious to hold better place in the
estimation OF the delegates than his recep-
ton indicated that he held, and was sat
isfactory evidence that he is not a rep
resentative of southern sentiment. He is
the political leader in South Carolina.
There is no doubt about that, but he
could net get a corporars guard Of demo-
Gratis in any other southern state to fol-
low him.
As a matter of fact he is much such a
man as Gov. Altgeld. Either of them
would go to any length to 90 the Presi-
dent an injury. Altgeld hates the Pres
ident because the latter used the United
states troops to check the great railroad
riot in Chicago in 1894 and thus inter-
fered with Altgeld's plans. and exhibited
him 10 the country as the friend of riot
ers and promoter of disorder. Tillman
hates the President because the latter
stands for law and order and all that is
decent in politics and best in democracy.
Both Gov. Tillman and Gov Altgeld are
revolutionary in their ideas and purposes.
In their own states they are repudlated
by large majority of the best ele-
ments of the people. They have come to
the front by means and methods that can
not be depended upon TO keep them prom
inent. 1t is not to be wondered at there
fore that in the Chicago papers southern
delegates are quoted as not being de-
sirous of being elassed as supporters and
admirers of either the South Carolina or
the Illinois governor. No. Gov. Tilman
is not a representative of southen senti-
mont
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
HOW Georse Put His Foot

why is IL. George began Mrs Mann.
according 10 the Boston Transcript. that
you never come home moons now Can
Il be that you are getting tired OF your
little wife,
.'Nonsenser' exclaimed 3Ir. Mann. with
e laugh
Then perhaps it is my cooking that
you object to- I do suppose they have
ever so much better things al the place
where you 90 down town
-Oh. u isn't that al all The fact is.
! have so much TO do now am 50 hur-
ried, you understand. that really can't
take he time 10 come home"
There is one thing 1 want 70 ask you,
wei. what is ite''
do they have girl walters where you
take your luucheon?''
'.Yes-that is. think so: why do you
ask"
"Oh. it doesn't matter If you never
took enough notice 10 find QUIT but they
tell me that in some OF the restaurants
they have girl walters and that the men
hirt with them awfully."
But, Of course, darling, you would not
think that Of me?"
mo. George don't think you would
fiirt with anybody"
"Of course not; but you did worry just
a little tiny bit about those pretty table
girls"
why, George, what are you saying?
You speak Of them as being pretty, and
me for certain whether there We're any
girls there at all Oh. what a laundering
fellow"
Il mean that I have heard the men
speak OF pretty table girls at places where
they lunched, and I suppose 1 got from
that the idea that all table girls are pref
ty."
Mrs. Mann (after a pause: George
do you think you would enjoy your meals
better at home If 1 should put on a white
SKIRT over my dress and put on a white
waist with d big broad collar around my
ueck2"
What in the world put that idea into
your head?"
Why, that is the way the waiter girls
dress, isn't it?''
And what of that2"
Nothing only, perhaps, IL looked like
one Of those waiter girls you would Just
as lief come home TO lunch as to go to
an eating house"
But, my dear, do you think you could
ever look like waiter girl, whatever you
had on2"
You mean by that, I suppose, that I
am pretty enough. II that is what you
think of your wife. George Mann, the
sooner we separate the better for both of
US. To think that I ever should be treated
IN such an outrageous manner as thatr
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
The silverite Argument.
II = q m Z u
From the Baltimore Herald Dem. )

The argument runs something like this:
%. Farm produce is selling for less than
the cost OF production; the farm is mort
gagged, and the farmer is plunging deep
er and deeper into debt. His situation
Is desperate. % The money-lender is en-
gagged in conspiracy to keep up the gold
standard so as to force the payment of
his loan in money of an appreciated value,
and TO enrich him by a process of accu-
mulated accretions to his capital. CD
Free silver will make money plentiful, and
with deprecated currency, equal, say,
to fifty cents on the dollar.
stripped of circumlocution, statistics
and meaningless paragon about the crime
of 1873, the ratio of sixteen to one and
the cornering of gold, the above is a fair
exposition of the case as expounded in
free-silver addresses and by the newspa-
pers which advocate the double standard.
But 1t does not appear to have dawned
upon the mind of the farmer that the
change in the currency proposed will have
a startling effect upon the money-lender
and the value of his securities.
II the argument means anything, II sig
miles thai the worth of his hOldingas we'll
as the revenue derived therefrom. will i'm
mediately and irrevocably be brought
down to the market price of silver, per
maps to nifty cents on the dollar. That Is
TO say, interest would be paid in such
money, and the mortgage would finally be
redeemed In silver.
Under such circumstances il would not
take the money-lender long to come to
the conclusion that he would sooner have
real estate for his mortgage than curren-
cy which is under suspicion. As conse-
quence. foreclosure proceedings would be
instituted, and the capitalist would own
the farm where he is now content to LET
u stand as security for his loan.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
A Grewsome Yueatan Cemetery.

"A NreWsome 1ucntan Cemetery.
Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Record.
Another excursion led US inland from
Merida to the village Of Tixkokob. The
town does not amount to much, but it has
a fine old church, back of which is the
qualntest cemetery 1 have ever seen. All
around its outer walls rows of skulls are
arranged; skull grim along the arms Of
every cross with which the interior space
is thtckly set, and several huge vases are
piled high with the same CHASTITY relics
In the middle is a promiscuous heap of
human bones several feet deep. Inside
the walls, dangling by cords fastened to
the top, are baskets and boxes and bun
dies, each containing a skeleton appropri-
ately labeled. Everywhere are fragments
or shrouds, shoes that have dropped from
heshless feet arms, legs, and trunks TO
which dried flesh still adheres, and scores
or skulls with hair clinging to them
some, the long, beautiful tresses of wo-
men. inside the church horrors do not
cease. The floor is a series of tran doors
each door covering a vault, filled to the
brim with former citizens of TiXkokob
Near the altar is glass case in which
repose the bones of a woman, bright and
clean as though newly polished. The arms
and legs are laid at the bottom, the ribs
disposed neatly in their natural order the
skull set exactly in. the middle. She was
the wife OF former alcalde, and we are
told that the good husband arranged and
polished her bones himself, and during his
lifetime seemed to derive much pleasure
from paying her remains these melancholy
~ attentions. In the choir of this church
and on all the window lodges are more
skulls, each labeled on the forehead. and
some of them bearing startling inscrip-
tons. one of them says: Soy Pedro
Moreno. In Ave Maria Paternoster.
brother, for Gods sake" Another saws:
4 ianguish in Purgatory; oh, pray for
me, brother" One small skull with a
name so small that II nearly covers it
Ricardo Jose de la Marced Truxeoue de
Armas-says: I am enjoying the king
dom of God forever" for having died
when child, after being duly baptised
into the church, there was no fear of
purgatory for little Richard Joseph. 1t
is not for any lack of respect of affection
for the dead that their bones are thus de-
MED the rest of the grave; doubtless the
idea is that when they are kept in sight.
with labels on them, they will not be SO
soon forgotten, but constantly remind the
living of their former existence in this
world and that uncertain state in the next
(for who knows but their souls NAV vet
be in tormenD, and as with voices from
the grave, appeal for prayer and masses.
ON All Souls day (NOv. p all these skulls
at least the skulls of those who have
living friends to attend to it-are placed
upon black draped dais, surrounded bv
high candles where mass is said and in
cense burned and holy water sprinkled
amid the prayers of the peoDle