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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-04-29
Brandt.Lexo.

MOONLIGHT, April 2S. - Sunday
morning John Lexo and Miss Sarah
Brandt Of Moonlight were married by
Elder Samuel Zosk at his residence in
Buckeye. Mr.. Lexo Is one OF Moon
lights most worthy young men, hon
est and industrious, the son Of John
Lexo, ST., a wealthy farmer Of this
place. Miss Brandt is the daughter
Of Martin Brandt, also q leading
farmer Of Hayes. All the neighbors
unite in wishing the happy couple
much prosperity and Joy.
The evening times., 1897-07-17
PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN.

Mfr. Abner Mckinley has gone to New
York, and is stopping at the Windsor Hotel
Rev. Hugh Johnston, u. D., pastor Of the
Metropolitan NJ. f. Church, sails Tor
Europe today.
Miss Wilkinson, of Washington, is spend
Springer, OF Garrett Park.
Miss Mary Kfllian and Mr.. Jacob Scha IF
both of this city, are at the InglesiGe for
the balance OF the summer.
Secretary Gage will be the guest today
and tomorrow of Postmaster General Gar y
at his country home In CatonsvilIe, Nd.
Mr.. Eugene Lyddane, of West Wash
ington, is making a short visitto his brother,
Mr.. s. B. Lyddane, at his home in Rock
Vile.
Miss Lottie Collier, of Great Falls, " no
has been visiting relatives here, has re-
turned home, accompanied by her niece
Miss Edna Wood, of Washington.
Miss Florence Paul is visiting Mrs. Loren
MiIliken At her charming home in Kensing-
ton, Md. Miss Emma Morris, also of Wash
ington, Is the guest Of the Misses Mamma
kee, OF the same place.
Mr.. Charles Philips, Mr.. Edward Muth
end the Messrs. George r. and Willie
Linkins VIII leave. this afternoon for their
summer outing, going first to Martinsburg.
W. Va. end leaving there on Monday for
MoCoy's Ferry. where they will 20 into
ramp.
The evening times., 1897-07-17
REUNION OF THE BRADBURYS.
Mother-iE-Law More Effusive Than
the Giddy Wife.

Chicago, July 1.-THE romantic story
pf love and es rapgement. which has heen
agitating continent, was brought to a
climax last night at the Wellington Hotel.
in the reunion of the two principals In the
case of John Bradbury, the California
millionaire, and his runaway wife.
After waiting anxiouay all day, dis
tracted by contrary hopes and reports as
varying. Bradbury went to the Northwest
ern depot in the evening to meet the de-
la yed Overland Express ~ which he
hoped would bring back to him his missing
wife.
His hopes were not in vain. Mrs Brad
bury's mother had kept her promise and
brought back with her the daughter who
was foolhartly enoughtothrowo ovefa multi
millionaire for a passing Englishman
The meeting was not the most cordial
in the world. Mrs. Banning, the mother,
was demonstrative, and received her SON
in-.aw with open arms, offering him an
effusive kiss. What Mrs. Bradbury's emo
tions were are of course a secret only
known to herself
After her greeting Bradbury led che way
to the awaiting carriages. Mrs. bradbury
was driven, with her mother, 10 the Well
ington. He followed In a separate con-
veyauce At the hotel Mrs. Bradbury and
her mother were shown to suite a, and
when Mr. Bradbury arrived ne went at
once to his own rooms on the third floor
Later he rejoined thein, an d the tpors " ere
closed against all pryius inquirers
The evening times., 1897-07-17

Laughs at the RAWLINGS of the Brit
iSh Press.

The hysseria of the British press over
the letter OF Secretary Sherman regarding
the Bring Sea seal fishery has not dis
urt'ed the perfect equaninity OF the State
Department, and business was conducted
today in precisely the same manner that
preceded the wild outbursts of the London
papers
The charges that the most robust OF
the Englisi4 he @spapers make, that the
letter is without dignity and is ''undip-
lomatic, and that it was made public
with the connivance of the Jinyo Sena-
tors, who were under solemn obligations
TO treat IL as confidential, is simply
laughed At by the diplomats in the State
Department.
Sc, too, is the bloodthirsty declaration
OF the Daily Mail that "our Yankee friends
want little blood-letting TO bring them
t. sensible international policy"
1t was said today by gentleman well
known about the State Department that
these rahid outcries amount to nothing;
that they always follow when the tail OF
the British lion is stepped on and pinched
little. This country, he said, had nothing to
fear fIuin bloodlettiug by the British.
They had tried that operation in The past
and have never yet forgiven themselves
for such reckless action. There was not
thr slightest danger OF England ever ex-
pe rimenting i'm such a manner again.
"Shcrman's letter" said he, lis strong
diplomatic note, which the British will
find difficult to answer In, q suitable man.
ner. 1t is not undignfied, but is a plain
st..to,nent of fact and facts are things
that the Englis hmen admire in diplomatic
The assertion that the
note OF Secretary Sherman was made pub
lie with the connivance of lingo Senators
is as near the truth az English ne wspapers
ever come when referring to the United
States, for it is well known that the Sena-
toIs knew nothing of the contents of this
note until they read it in the newspapers''
The evening times., 1897-07-17
BRITISH PAPERS BLUSrER.
Indulge i'm Threats Because of Ber-
Ing Sea Dispatch.

New York July 1.-THE World pub
fishes the following London dispatch:
English papers make big affair oil
tie Sherman Bering Sea dispatch, and are
adding the Japanese-Sp Spanishthreats tsagainst
US They 10 not hesitate To predict the
ear.y do xnfall of the United States.
A correspondent had talk tonight
in the HUuse of Con mons lobby with sii
George Bo den Powell. NJ. L wfo is an
expert ON the Rering Sea dispute, having
acted as Joint commissioner at Washing
ton ou it il, 1891, and as adviser al The
Paris arbitfation. He said:
Il consider the United States Govern
meBu perfectly tight in demanding 'e-
vision OF the sealing regulations. / al
ways thought them ina dequate, and, though
j do not believe the present regulations
nnfevised would lead to the extinction
Of the fur seals. 90 think they viii
cuaduce to serious diminution.
These regulations We're adopted by
the Paris tribunal without expert ad-
VICE ara that is the reason they have
failed. TIE scientific commissioners sent
out recently Were Totally unnecessary, and
their reports told nothing that naturaiists,
who had made thorough studyOf the seal
life had not already written. Resides
that, these commissioners Were hot per
mitted to investigate Independently or
alone. They were taken 10 certain places,
according TO previous arrangement. still
their reports only bear out what other sci
entists hal written.'
DO you consider Secretary Sherman's
dispatch hostile in tone?"
II have only Skinned through the ne vs.
paper summary of it, ard would not eX-
press an opinion until have seen its full
text, for newspaper summaries of these
docume nts are often very misleading. But
7 cEnnot fer the life of me see where there
is anything to- quarrel about.
The United States is right in pressing
for q revision of these regulations, and
we In England have no ground for op
posing SUCH revision. We are interested,
on the contrary, in preventing an undue
diminution OF the fur seals as much
you are. II such men as Mr.. Foster
WHO is now here. or Mr.. MCGOWAN, or
any men who know the facts OF the
seal life had been cons ulted 10y the Paris
tribunal these regulations would never
have been adopted. They will expire by
like to see our government setting about
their revision this winter
Whitelaw Reid refused to receive news
paper men, but sent word emph aticaiiy
denying that he had revealed the state
Department secrets to the New York
rrihunp
The evening times., 1897-07-17
DEATH OF GEN. CONRAD.
Was a Gallant Soldier and Once
Saved Gen. Sheridan's Life.

Atlantic City, July 17.-Brevet Brig
Gen. Joseph Conrad, of st. Louis, Mo, died
yesterday at the Sanatorium, in this city,
Of inflammation of the brain. His death
was due to wound which Re received at
the battle OF Missionary Ridge. The bullet
which pierced iis head was intended for
gen. Phil Sheridan.
Gen. Conrad was four times breveted
for gallant and mcritorious conduct on
he field. lie matched with Sherman to-
the sea and was retired from active Ser
wee with the rank of colonel.
Gen. Conrad entered the volunteer ser
vice at tie breaking out of the rebellion
as a captain In the Fifteenth Missouri Eoi-
dnteers. His services Brought rapid pro
motion 10 the bicvet rank Of MAJOR, then
TO lieutenant colonel and colonel, and Fl
nally TO biigadier general OF there bre-
vets the fiist was for gallant conduct in
the Maryland campaign, the second at
the battle of Franklin, the third at the
battle OF Nashville and the fourth for
bravery displayed inthe A atlanta camr align.
In addition TO tie bullet fired into his
head at Missionary Ridge, Gen. Conrad
Carried &c his death a bullet in tie breast
received at the battle CT Franklin. He
was also wounded before Nashville.
The incident of his saving Gen. Sheri
dams life was not known until the latter
at meeting of the Loyal Legion many
years after the clcse of the war, pointed
to II picture of the battle of Missionary
Ridge and said:
That's where Conrad pulled ne off my
horse and got the bullet intended for me-
Later Sheridan referred to the service
rendered him iy Conrad in his me moiTs
The evening times., 1897-07-17

1t must be a strange and pleasmable
sensation for the Autocrat, for once ia
his life, to find any action of his approved
and indorsed hy the country. Ia this single
instance It is with him II heartily
epplauds his understood determination To
stand out all summer against the plot 20
pile the Pelioh of Senate sugar infamy
upon the ossa OF his own outrage in the
same line still we trust that this may
not infect him with any cerebral illusions
Heis liable TO catch them. He has been the
helpless rjcum of chronic macfocephalous
all his life ItexpOses him to every cugnate
disease. SO, il is as well 10 wan him
that in cheering him on Ina the good work
OF opposing the BHnna -Havemeyer sugar
pull, the American people are gladto tomake
use OF his usurped and obnoxious power.
while they do no. in theleast degree forgive
or condone his crimes against the Con-
of Representatives,, or against par.amen
tary law and dec-ncy. To Toe entirclyfrank
the light of it's being not a bad idea to get
@ mad dog TO bite d burglar The dog VIII
have to be killed anyway and the burglar
deservee hydrophobia
The evening times., 1897-07-17
TRUSTEES SALE or VALUABLE I'M
PROVED REAL ESTATE, No Il6
3 SIkkET NOKIHWEST.

BY virtue OF a certain deed OF trust dated
ApnII i sSZ, nlch has been dnl IecOrOed
IN nDer 1853, at folio z64, one OF the land
records or the District or Columbia, and
at the request or the party thereby secured.
the Undersigned trustees VIII offer for sale
MON DA the 18TH DAN OF JULY, A. D.
1897, at FIVE O'CLOCK Z. NJ, the for
lowing descriDed land and premises situate
In the city or Washington, In said District,
designated as part or original lot MUM
Dered z in square numbered 4lS, begin
ming Tor the same on street 40 feet east
from the northwest corner or said square,
ana running thence east on SAID street
20 rect, thence south 70 feet, thence
10 the place or beginning, together with
the improvements thereon, consisting OF
a tDTee-stOry brick dwelling, No. 716 )
street nOrthweS est
Terms OF sale: 10 be sold subject TO a
PRIOR IncuuDrdnce, the amount OF when
Will be announced at the time OF sale.
Ohe-tDiTd or the purchase money Tex
elusive OF SAID PRIOR 1ncunDranceI TO be
paId IN cash, anu the balance IN two equal
interest at . per cent per annuTu, payable
senil-an nuaHy from the date or sale, Sc
cured by deed OF trust on the property
sold, or all cash, az the option OF the pur
chaser. "A deposit or SlUO Will be re-
quITed at the time or sale All convey
ancIng Will be at the cost OF the pur-
Chaser. Terms to be complied with within
the ugnI 70 resell at the risk and cost Of
the purchaser In default.
FRANK L. CALHOUN,
JOHN l. BENTON,
trustees
Jyl3-eOdgxd ds
The evening times., 1897-07-17
In the Land of Ha rd Times. I.

From the palace of Ease my lady set out,
her carriage wheels shone in the light;
Her fields lay fertile and green about
And she wondered how any blind soul could
doubt
That God rules ever In might,
And she r,arveled greatly how sin and shame
To this fair world came.
There gazed from a window across the way
A creature pallid and gaunt;
Her cheeks were hollow, her face was gr W;
And hard deep lines by the hard mouth.ay
For she dwelt in the House of Want.
And look like curse came into her eve
As my lady rode by.
She hated the world that had used her i'll,
She was bitter with iiscontent;
She was weary of toll in the dsll recdmill
Where she wasted her life In the effort tofilI
The mouth Of that monster, Rent
She hated the owners of acres broad,
And she doubted God.
Oh! woman, weary OF toll and pain,
No wonder your heart is gall;
God gave his people wide domain.
He gave us IT, seasons. the sun and the rain,
And room and food for US all.
1t is man, author of selfish crimes,
Who brings hard times.
Obi lady fair in your Castle of Ease,
You are happy and well content,
Eut whatwould you do were you oneofthese
Who toll and suffer and stsrve and freeze
To fatten the monster, Rent?
Yet God rules ever, and right some day
Must have its own way.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The evening times., 1897-07-17

As generally happens when the war IN
the committee room i 5 over and the smoke
and the bottles have been cleared away,
we are likely to find that a whole lot of,
evil connuhiation has been going on under
cover of the sugar fog We ito not enter
tain much hope that the results will be
favorable to the shoes, clc.Ecs or board
shanties OF the poor The Autocrat seems
quite bent upon putting an extra $40 600,
600 into the pockets of the white pine com
bination, and hides, wool and some other
things will catch it. Equally he is minded
Go punish the South for being Democrats,
and its Republicans OF color for being Jriei-
nal Mckinley men, by taxing cotton tics
and bagging, while the Hannattes .,f tie
West still will have their binding twine
on the free list. Never mind; compara-
lively, as between an enDun bus aId only
a great crime, he is "a sound s. gar man.
As to some natures, 1t creauas more amaze
ment TO see one pariaiI good aston than
normal citizens would excite by stmburst
OF ell the virtues, graces and beatitudes
going off together.
The evening times., 1897-07-17
HIT AND MISS.

Progress has its drawbacksi When our
houses are Illuminated with electricity the
gaslight beauty must go.
Have you noticed that the cash girls AMI
bows W no used to swarm over all the large
stores have become extinct?
buy an oIgandie by all means, but don't
be tempted into selecting one that will
make you look like a perambulating wall
paper some do you know.
Nothing so brightens the tired-out faces
of the men and women rushing up and
down the Avenue as big, numbering hay
wagon, fresh from the country. Just yo1
follow. one and see.
If you catch yourself gTumbling because
you cannot get way from your work for
vacation, justthink ofthe people who would
hold il a blessing to have employment Ike
yours-it will make you feel more content
When THE Queen selected royal purple
for her jubilee color she evidently had no
pity for the thousands Of women who will
have To wear that trying shade not only
throughout the summer and fall, but per-
haps, oh, Venusl during the winter.
The evening times., 1897-07-17
SPEEDY TRIAL FOR FIFE.
No Doubt of the Identity OF the
AssaiIaut Of Two Women.

Richmond, Va, July 11.-Joe Fife, the
negro charged with attempt to commit
criminal assaults upon Mrs Mary u. MaISs
and Miss Nina Russell, will have speedy
trial, the speediest piobably ever known IN
Richmond. The grand Jury yesterday
promptly indicted tie accused in each OF
the cases and the indiea tions are That
within the next few days the trial VIII
have been terminated. Fife was before
the police court yesterday aud was fully
identified by 10th of the ladies whom he
attacked Wednesday.
When Fife was directed 10 stand up In
court and Mrs. Marks was asked II ne "as
the man, her reply was: That is the man.
there is not the slightest doubt in my rnlnd.' y
This lady testified as TO he manner in
Which she was assa aulted. The negro
selzed her by the tmoat, MIS-. Marks said
and threw her to the floor. He choked
her almost to lDsensibility. The witness
said at .irst she thought Fife wa there for
robbery. hut he made certain rer,arks
whicn indicated he did not enter the house
for that purpose.
The identification OF the prisoner by Miss
Russell as her assailant was equally positive
and complete. When asked to pick out the
accused the young lady promptly pointed
out Fife, who sat by the side OF his counsel.
The witness said that she Will be sixteen
years old today.
Fife was sent on TO the grand jury, W nich
was composed of the best citizens here
Inis body promptly returned true bills IN
both of these cases. When the prisoner
was brought before Jude Witt he SAID:
This case is of such "a character as 10
necessitate a speedy ending what does
your honor mean asked Col. Spottswood
counsel for Fife, 'by speedy ending?
II mean replied Judge Witt, "that d e.
lays in cases OF this kind mean possible
lawlessness and danger, not only to the
prisoner but to the community, and think
the case should be gone into not 'atei
"a an tomorrow" Judge Witt add .'l that
he did not think jury couhl be obtained
without sending elsew here for 1t. " Is
determined to begin the trial Of the case
today Under the law the prisoner, if con-
yicted ard sentenced to be hanged, can
not be executed under thirty days after
sentence is passed upon him. There Is 30
fear here OF an attempt to lynnh the
prisoner though there is great indignation
against him. Last night the police were
extremely watchful and took precautions
against any attempt to interfere with Fife.
The evening times., 1897-07-17

actually mixed up with his faithful fIock
on the floor. Acts of ooncescensiop IKE
this endear the great to TIE srIall, AMI do
much toward keeping the sheep n the
pasture Many of then. shed tears Mr..
Simpson, one Of the few componen's of
the body OF the masculine gender, OBJ
served, with much justi -, that the
Carnegies must have heen pletty mean
in connection with The raInpagn cuEd OF
1896, for theils was the oIly ,Iust that
did not have piece of roik Ia the tariff
hiil. We are sorry MI. Simpson made
that remark; il casions a cold shudder
Ii is tanta.nount TO accusing the Have
meyers, the Rockefellers and all such Of
being caunihals. Nevertheless, il was trGe,
ard the House seemed to take his view of
the armor-plate business. Although gal
liant efforts were made to raise the price,
at length, late in The sitting, the House
adopted the Senate armor-plate maximum
price of $500 a ton, and Pittsburg and
Bethlehem may take il or leave it.
The evening times., 1897-07-17

Reports of Cuban victories in the field
continue to arrive notwithstanding extreme
efforts Oh weSler's part 10 suppress in
formation. This morning we recorded
the CAPTURE and sack of the town of
CaIaiazar, In Santa Clara province, hy
the vanguard OF Gen. Gomez's army uEdcl
Gen. GARLIC. Also, the murder of
farmer, eighty wears old, his two married
daughters and nine children hy tie uldeIs
of Weyler. because they refused 10 march
TO starvation in Santa Clara CITY, The
fcIocious atIUcity of lhe Spanish hytna's
course increases. Every one If mis- generals
and other officers cHGght showing the
least mercy to Cutan pacifi"s Is displaced.
Recently, Gems. Fuente &pd Pavia went
home TO Spain in disgrace. iecause the!
refused TO butcher women ind r;'ildren.
But small things like these ,lo not disturb
the equanimity of the Hanna Weyler for
eign policy. In the sweet and acstefulat-
rnosphere of Lake Chdmplan 1T Will he
easy to forget the daily outrage, torture
and thToat-cutting of POOR Cuban women
and girls.
The evening times., 1897-07-17

A Kentucky Judge Justifies the
killing of q Seducer.

Lexington, KY, July 17.-City Judge
Gray Falconer yesterday afternoon acquit.
ted Jacob s. Harris, who killed his wife's
palamour, Thomas II. Merritt, pension at
tomey, in GratZ Park Friday night last.
Judge Falconer held that, while Harris was
technically guilty of murder under the
Kentucky statutes, under the unwritten
law, which gives man the right to protect
his home TO the extent of taking human life
If necessary, Harris had right to shoot
and kill the despoller of his home. The de-
cision was gIeeted with thunderous ap-
plausc.
Harris wife appeared in court for the
first time, and young Lancaster, clerk of
q GeOIgetown hotel. identified her as the
woman who spent the night of June 81 in
his hotel with Merritt. This Identification
was made in tie pfesence of Mrs. Harris
venerable father, Rev. f. s. Thompson,
or Princeton, Mo, who had Just entered
tile courtroom and met her for the first
time In eight years
The evening times., 1897-07-17
His Last Effort.

(From the Cincinnati Commercially
The late William 8. Groesbeck. of Gin
cinnati, never took another law case after
his defense of President Andrew johnson.
'rfe brilliant speech which won that case
proved the mans remarkable will and
intellectual powers. He had been so i'll
rs to BE confined to his bed, and on the
day OF the trial, and while lying in bed, he
10; ted down on a sheet OF foolscap paper the
main points of his defense He was driven
10 the tribnnalin a carriage unable to walk,
and spoke extenpore for four hours and a
half Al the close Article XI was voted
upon and The President acquitted withoI ut
the taking UP of any of the other articles
Since that time Mr.. Groesbeck had lived u
life of quiet and retirement. In 1872 he
built Elnhurst, a noble house, of superb
proportions. commanding a river view OF
unsurpassed beauty.
The evening times., 1897-07-17

Blessed be Marcus the Peacemak ker; III:
sleek and sic azy occupant ofthe Ohio politi-
,al cavity. He has consented TO tell his
"competent mer' that they shall "join in
a movement for amioable settlement Of
the coal STRIFE at Piusburg" This is
good actian, which will live in the annals
of industry, while King Coal retains merri
ment in hts psychos, and pipes and potsare
remembered of men. Note He does not
wire them to go at IL helter-skelter, the
proper rendering of which Is. "hilariter ct
celeriter;'' beca use It may be possible that
the big stock of coal, laid in on the strength
OF the advance straight tip, has not beea
unloaded yet But they are ordered to 90
IL, and being competent men, they
know their private instructions and how
and when to Join for amica bility and
pyrotechnic effect upon the campaign in
Ohio. Go to There is but one Hanna,
and anything portable is his Profit
The evening times., 1897-07-17

The New York State Bankers Associa-
tion in annual convention at Saratoga has
adopted resolutions of much interest.
They constitute the only platform upon
which the inoneyIending interest has or
ever had any idea OF tackling reform OF
the currency" They urge the organization
nent qualifications, to formulate plan
to he submitted to Congress-" agreeably
to the recommendation of the convention
which is, the retirement of all Govern
ment paper" and the substitution OF
"a safe hank circulation under Government
supervision The purpose of the New
York bankers to proceed at once for the
destruction of the greenbacks, Treasury
notes, and silver certificates, is frankly
expressed The administration OF Mr..
Hanna lis almost as frankly in favor Of
the scheme, which we are happy to be-
lieve, is quite an impossible one The
Senate is bimetallic by a good majority,
and before the complexion or that body
could change, even IL that We're probablc.
the gold element in the House OF Repre-
sentaliyes will disappear before the Con
gressional election gale OF 1898 1t is
a satisfaction, all the same, TO have the
bankers tell us exactly what they want
Then We know Just what TO deny them.