Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-01
COUNTERFEITERS.
An Important Capture Of Three
Members Of q Noted Gang.
4 PLAGUE OF FLIES IN ARKANSAS.
New York TallOrs Locked Out-Plan to Get
. Census Of Tramps-secret Anti
Trust MOvement-E. v. Deba'
Scheme Denounced.

United States marshals attached Il
the Fort Smith court have captured
three men whose arrest, it is believed
has effectually broken up the ono,
famous band of counterfeiters known
to secret service operators all over thu
United States as the bullfrog valley
gang. The gang was one Of the
shrewdest and most dangerous band'
of counterfeiters that has operated il
the United States in recent years
Their headquarters. or mint" was
situated in Pope county, Ark. The
gang had branches for the purpose Of
floating their bogus money in nearly
all the principal cities in the country
and even, so the secret service men
say, in Toronto, Can, and the City Of
Mexico. Some of the most noted
counterfeiters and confidence men in
the country were members and agents
Of the gang.
A PLAGUE OF FLIES IN ARKANSAS.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, June 2s.-Co'
lumbia county, Ark, is undergoing an
epidemic Of flies, and many Of the citi-
zens Of the county are said to be fee
ing to other parts Of the state to escape
the plague. The editor Of the Mag
nolia Banner, the oldest paper pub
lished in southeast Arkansas, had to
suspend publication last week, and has
taken his family, together with sew
eral others, and gone to Saline county.
The epidemic is described as being ter
rible. The pests literally cover the
face of the earth and are hourly in
creasing in numbers. 1t is doubted
that any OF the other papers in the
county were issued last week, as none
of them have reached here. The flies
seem to cover the entire county Of Go.
lumbia, but as yet no complaint has
come from any of the adjoining terri.
tory.
TAILORS LOCKED OUT.
New YORK, June 2S.-A large mum.
Der of contractors who had entered
into settlement with the Brotherhood
of Tailors last week have, according to
members prominent in the Clothing
Contractors association, ignored the
new agreement, closed their shops and
turned their employees adrift. The
number of contractors who are said to
have thus acted is set down at 400, en-
ploying between 1000 and $500 oper-
atives. Leader Schoenfeld character
lied the statement as a lie made out OF
whole CLOTH In face Of this denial, al
huge force of idle tailors was found
congregated at the tailors' headquar-
tiers. Many of them said they had
been locked out and made no conceal
ment of the fear entertained by them
that they were face to face with an
other period of idleness
CENSUS OF TRAMPS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 2S.-Sta-
tistician Connor has determined to Sc
cure census of the number of tramps
in Indiana. He will correspond with
the chiefs of other state bureaus with
a view of having the census taken in
all the states at the same time. His
plan is to have the data gathered by
police officers town marshals and other
officials on a certain day or night and
returns made to him and tabulated by
cities and towns in his office, giving
the summaries in his report He be-
lieves the total number of idle men in
the United States could be arrived at
in that way and no other
SECRET ANTITRUST MOVEMENT.
CLINTON, Ia, June ga representa-
tive of secret antitrust organization
was in this city Saturday, interesting
citizens in the movement, the principal
force of which is to be aimed first at
the proposed union of the wire and
nail manufacturers. The organization
is already of huge dimensions, embrace
ing % states and taking in merchants,
farmers and builders. The claim is
made that the best legal talent of the
country has been secured to fight the
trust. The origin Of this movement
appears to have been in Wisconsin,
DEBs' SCHEME. DENOUNCED.
DETROIT, Mich, June 2S.-About 200
Detroit socialists met yesterday after
noon and denounced Eugene V. Debs'
movement for an independent commu-
nitv in Washington The scheme was
by all the speakers as
the old communistic theory and impos-
sible of achievement.