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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
ACME

Geo. Lenhert and family visited
friends at Hope on Sunday.
+. S. Engle and j. Z. Landes are
filling their silas with ensilage.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ste
vens, a daughter.
Miss Martha Hoffman OF Donegal
visited friends in this vicinity Sun
day.
J. G. Kaufman lost one Of his fin
est young horses last week, death
caused by lockjaw.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. W, A. Betz, q
son.
j. H. Kaufman has rented the old
Forney farm on Turkey creek and
will move on the same the coming
week.
j. L. Eyer Of Abilene was an Acme
visitor Monday.
Farmers are beginning to cut up
their corn.
Campers are getting entirely too
bold in this vicinity and need to be
called down. On Saturday some par
ties entered the cellars Of j. r. Kauff-
man and Will Hartman while they
we're in Abilene and cleared them Of
bread. canned fruit, lard, butter, etc.
Miss Carrie Rugh Of Abilene visit
ed at G. W. Minick's Sunday.
A pleasant party OF young folks
met at the home Of Israel Stark on
Saturday evening. All report a de-
lightful time.
Jacob Musser and family Of Enter
terprise visited friends in this vicini-
ty Sunday.
Messrs. Fry and Mead have traded
their blacksmith shop to Frank Phil
ips and will leave Acme in the near
future.
Chas. Cooper Of Westmoreland
visited friends in this vicinity last
week.
Miss Anna Herr came up from
Hillsboro last week to attend the
campmeeting at Moonlight and spend
a short time here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. j. R. Herr.
Mr.. Farmer Of Illinois is visiting
with his uncle James Sexton.
Henry Eba and Mr.. Nisley Of Lam
caster, Pennsylvania, are visiting
friends in this vicinity.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
SOLOMON.

Mrs. Jas. Baer was called to Tes'
colt Friday by the severe illness o.
her sister, Mrs. Champion.
Miss Ozetta Marshall arrived Thurs
day from Denver to get ready fol
commencement Of school.
Mrs. Griffith and Laura Beverly
left Saturday evening for a pleasure
trip through California.
Miss Alice Wall left Saturday fol-
her home in Kansas City after an ex.
tended visit with relatives.
Mrs. j. L. Beverly, of North To-
peka, is here visiting her brother in
law, Z. j. Griffith.
Minnie Riordan is visiting in Del
phos THIS week.
Miss Irwin, of Chapman, is visiting
Miss Nora Riordan.
Mrs. Martindale and Miss Benedict,
who were visiting the Misses Field,
returned to their homes in Lawrence
Sunday.
Lucy Shaver arrived home Friday
from her eastern trip. Ross Mahan,
son Of Clark Mahan, OF Brooklyn, N.
Y, came with her.
lack CARLY is laid up this week as
result Of cutting both limbs quite
badly with a corn knife.
Mrs. Potter, wife of B. F. Potter,
and mother OF Mrs. j. l.. Galbreath,
died last Monday after lingering i'll
ness. Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 1890. Inter-
ment in Prairie Mound cemetery.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
CHEEVER.

Chas. Smiley joined his father in
business the beginning Of the week.
An entertainment was given by a
blind man at Pleasant Valley school
house Tuesday evening.
Jennie Moore will attend the Nor
NAL at Salina this year.
Peter Bert and wife OF Moonlight
were in this vicinity Sunday.
A thief relieved VIM. Stambaugh OF
a good suit Of clothes.
Rev. Samuel Zook will leave for
Oklahoma to hold revivals at differ
ent points there.
Most OF the sick of this community
are able to be around again.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
CRUSHED BY AN ENGINE.
Will Kuhns of Detroit Meets With
Serious Accident,

On yesterday afternoon William
Knhns Of Detroit while running a
traction engine met with a serious &C.
cident. He was backing the engine
to attach it to the separator when in
some way he lost control Of the en-.
CINE and could not stop it. 1t con-
tinued moving backward and caught
Mr.. Kuhns between the engine and
separator, crushing him fearfully
about the abdomen and partially dis.
emboweling him. DR.. Riddell was
called but the injured man is in q
precarious condition. He is aged
about 50 years and has family.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
RHINEHART.

}. M. Murphy and family were in
Abilene Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Reed of Woodbine
were visiting at W. II. Hollinger's
Sunday.
A new roof has been put on the
Rhinehart school house.
George Dewey, youngest child Of 5.
M, Hassler, died Sunday at 5 p. m.
Funeral services were held at the M.
f. church Monday.
The German M. Il. campmeeting
closed last Friday.
Miss Lulu Baughey, W, J. Com
mels and Fred Gaede were on the
sick list last week.
Miss Sarah Martin of Delevan is
visiting at T. Hofman's.
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DETROIT.

Mrs. Charles Kessinger Of Salina
and Mrs. Rummel Of Chapman were
visitors at John Wagner's Thursday.
Miss Nina Nichols returned home
to Abilene Tuesday after visit Of
several days with relatives here.
Some OF our sick are better.
Esther and Jake Line are sick with
fever.
Mrs. G. G. Tilton left Saturday for
Ellis for few days visit with her
daughter, Mrs. W. H. Petersen.
Miss Pearl Wagner is visiting in
Abilene.
L. E. Stiegleman is on the sick
list.
A large number from here attended
the campmeeting at Moonlight Sun
day.
I. Gay has bought the Geo. Kelly
property and will soon take posses
sion.
Word has just been received here
that G. B. Smith died at Junction
City and was buried Monday. Our
sympathy is extended to the relatives
Of the deceased, who for many years
had been resident Of this place.
Mrs. John Pike made trip to Col
orado last week.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
Advertised Letters.

The following is the list OF I'M
claimed letters remaining in the Abb
lene postoflice for the week ending
Aug 20, 1899. Have your mail ad,
dressed to your box number and it
will be promptly delivered.
GENTLEMES's LIST.
Hadsel. Albert Parker, FA
Rose, Sc Young, BH
LADIES LIST.
Brown, Mrs Mary Percy, MrsAs
White, Mrs SC
One cent will be charged for all ad.
vertised letters.
Persons calling for the above will
please say advertised" giving date.
RICHARD WARING, P. M.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss Bertha Lesher left for a visit
with relatives in Nebraska.
JOS Underhill was in from Buck.
eye and called at REFLECTOR head
quarters.
County Attorney 5. S. Smith and
family came in this afternoon from q
summers visit in Pennsylvania.
o. G. Troxel left at noon for West
Point academy to continue his train
ing as a soldier. He will get no more
furloughs during his school period.
He graduates in June 1901.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
CHAPMAN.

G. II. Louden lost one Of his horses
Saturday by its being overcome with
heat.
Earl McShea came home Tuesday
from Wichita where he was very sick
with typhoid fever.
Miss Lille Baker and little sister
Ncttie left Monday for Columbus, o.,
where Nettie will remain and 90 to
school.
o. l.. Thisler made a business trip
to Lindsborg on Wednesday.
Mrs. l.. Loupee who has been very
sick for some time is improving fast.
Quite a number of students are
looking for rooms and making prep
aration for the opening Of the high
school.
VIM. Chamberlain was awarded the
contract for the erection OF the new
residence for 0. l.. Tbis!er. He has
a force Of carpenters at work this
week.
Walter Boles won the gold medal
at the W. C. 7. U. convention held at
Enterprise. He was one Of the six
contestants in the declamatory con-
test.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
An Old Rumor Laid to Rest.

At last all controversy relating to
the discontinuance OF the Santa Fe
railroad track between Salina and
Abilene and the Santa Fe using the
Rock Island track has been put at
rest. The Santa Fe has commenced
repairing its tracks, putting in new
ties, repairing the bridges, ETC., and
will continue the use Of the track as
heretofore.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24

DILLON.

H. Springer went to Abilene Satur-
day.
Quite number Of the Dillonites
attended the dance at Carlton We'd
nesday given by the M. W. A.
Miss Ida Bohannon gave pleasant
party Wednesday night.
Most of the farmers in this vicinity
have finished blowing.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
COUNTY REFLECTIONS
BY SPECIAL REFLECTOR CORRESPONDENTS
sUrPHEN.

The sick people are getting along
nicely.
Fannie Loader returned to her
home in Clay county after pleasant
visit with relatives.
DR.. Hewitt Of Wakefield was calling
on friends in this vicinity.
Mr.. Chamberlain is completing the
Bolan residence in Chapman. He
will soon begin work on the Thisler
house.
F. Slime will build large barn
this fall.
Several from here expect to attend
the campmeeting at Brechbill's Sun.
day.
S. F. Wood made = business trip to
junction Tuesday.
T. j. Lyon is having trouble with
his wheat which is heating.
Mrs. Bertha Phipps and son are
visiting with the formers mother,
Mrs. Lou Fox.
The Priscilla Art club Of Chapman
met with Miss Blanche Scherer south
Of the mill Thursday. The ladies
drove out from Chapman early in the
afternoon and after a few hours spent
on their beauti ful work dainty
lunch was served. In the cool Of the
evening they returned home having
thoroughly enjoyed their outing.
Those present we're Mesdames Hoag,
Louden, Carroll and Neptune; Misses
Erwin, Seaman, Josie and Alice lsler
and Wood. Miss Blanche was assist
ed in entertaining by Mrs. Herb
Scherer.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Scherer visited
friends north Of the mill Sunday.
Mrs. Dora McNeal Of Chapman
spent Sunday with E. E. Eaglan and
wife.
Charlie Lowe of St. Mary's is home
on a vacation.
Miss Blanche Scherer is on the sick
list.
VIM. Ashcraft OF Manchester visited
friends in this vicinity Sunday
Miss Laura Smith who has been
vising at Hope returned home last
week.
Mrs. Eva Lowe visited in Wakefield
this week.
There will be another dance at
Anderson's next Saturday evening.
These dances are becoming very pop
ular and are always attended by large
crowd.
C. Scherer lost fine horse Satur-
day.
Iva Wood went to Chapman Mon
day.
Mrs. Volsted is quit i'll at her home
south of the mill.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24

Lost, Tuesday, between Kump &
Brilhart's store and fair grounds,
lady's black cashmere shawl. Reward
for return to this office. 982t&c
Call on M. P. Jolley & Son, for
Excursion Rates, and information in
regard to the SSrd Encampment G.
A. R. at Philadelphia, Penn. Tickets
on sale Sept. |, 2, 8 and 4. 6ca2t
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
Seed Wheat Wanted.

800 bushels nice clean wheat for
seed, hard Russian preferred, mast
be free from rye. will pay over reg
ular market price. Address and send
sample. R. H. THAYER,
84.6t&2c* Carlton, Kas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-24
Local Markets.

BUTTER MARKET
Prices tor creamery butter at points nam
cd for week ending today. Dickinson county
price " cents less than New York; IL cents
less than Chicago.l
KANSAS CIry-Fancy separator 100, dairy
fancy lbc,
CHICAGO Creamery 10 @ 20, dairy 10 o
nc, steady.
NEW Y0RK-Western creamery II to q
steady.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25
PUBLIC EATING HOUSES


Public eating houses are established
in a number of German cities to pro-
vide meals for workingmen at cheap
prices so as to do away with the evil
effect of the dinner pail. Those in
Chemnitz during 1898 sold $4,000; re-
ceipts were $1,000, and expenditures,
$4,000. The city of Grenoble. France,
also maintains a municipal restaurant
at which about 200 meals day are
served At the outset the enterprise
needed municipal aid, but 1t Is now
self-supporting. The municipality
owns the property USED, for which it
receives nominal rent, and the ac-
counts are reported in the books Of the
municipality. Any surplus Is depos-
tied in the city treasury, as reserve
to draw from when prices of provisions
are high. There are also other in
stances throughout France of similar
institutions without municipal aid. sew
eral establishments being in operation
at Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux. Some
what akin to such institutions are mu-
niciral bakeries, which are 70 be found
at Rome and at Kovno, ir Russia
Stockholm owns municipal liquor
stores for the working classes, who
cannot obtain drink without ordering
food Municipal Affairs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25

barrel of the gun alongside this, where
a space showed between my shi-i.-
sleeve and the bears tongue. (Lar-"
mark of the rifle barrel upon it,
And, showing my weapon as far down
the brute's throat as my failing
strength would lalow of, fired.
The bear was undoubtedly already
dead, but only slight relaxation OF
its jaws followde the second shot. I
could not free my arm. The hold Of
the claw on my boot, however, re-
Taxed. Witch this advantage gained ]
dropped to my knees, and, using the
rifle barrel as pry, forced the ami
mails jaws open. God only knows the
awful agony | endured during that pry-
ing operation, but at last | managed
to fire myself. With my rleief my grit
gave out and l tainted. The next I
knew my wife and a neighboring
rancher were beside me in the pit, en-
deavoring to staunch the bleding from
my arm. Myw ife had become alarmed
at my long absence, nd, knowing my
errand when | left in the morning,
had made her way to the bera deadfall.
Unable, on account of her feeble
strength, to raise me from the pit, she
had walked three miles to the next
cabin adjoining ours to procure the1
neighbours assistance.
Il was taken to Fairhaven and
thence to Victoria. Everything has
been done that the surgeons of the
northwest are capable of, and that is
probably all that medical science can
attain, for | have had good doctors.
The crunched bone Of my arm will not
knit or form again. 1t continues to
work out in small pieces. Every time
one of these fragments of bone comes
to the skin it forms an ulcer or boil
in its efforts to free itself. The re-
suit is my arm is mass of useless
flesh. The pain comes from it con-
stantly. | had decided to undergo an
amputation when a friend told me of
surgeon in San Francisco who had
performed several difficult operations
in cutting away and piecing out of dis
eased bone matter, and | am going to
him as a last hope. If he cannot
help me the arm must come off, for l
cannot stand this awful, constantp ain
much longer"
News reporter secured one of the
tushes that was sunk into Larseh's
Looking at the vicious, deadly fang,
it is not hard to imagine what the
woodsman endured while in his life
and death grapple with the hear Ia
coma News
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25
DOMESTIC.

Harvard defeated Yale in athletic
games,
Ex-lleut. Gov Dale of Winona
failed.
Gov. scoheld's son Paul died at
Madison.
The strike OF grain shovclcrs at Buff
falo ended.
The Austin, Mimi, cement works
were burned.
More Duluth street cars were de-
rallied by strikers.
rhe two national associations of
musicians consolidated.
Or, Charles A. Briggs was duly or
dained an Episcopal priest,
Compressed air was successfully
tested on II Chicago street railway.
June 26-29 Is fixed for the national
trust-diseussing conference in Chicago.
An equestrian statue of General
Hartranft was unveiled at Harrisburg,
A schooner foundercd in Lake Su-
pCrior and nine persons We're drowned
Harvard defeated Yale rhetorically.
Crop conditions are most favorable
Unfoundcd reports of the death of
,w-frosident Cleveland were cireulat-
cd.
Former slaves are swnded. being
made to believe that they will be pen
stoned.
A Michigan young man killed three
relatives and mortally wounded two
others.
Minor officials in Wisconsin resign
because they can no longer ride ON
passes.
A full-length portrait of President
Mckinley is being painted by Artist
Whipple.
The death of cx-Gov. Flower caused
heavy break in his specialtles in
Wall street
Ager may be compelled by political
complications in Michigan to leave
the cabinet.
Eighty millions is the capital of the
new bicycle trust Incorporated al
Trenton, N. j.
Bank robbers at Webster City, Iowa
secured S3.6S5; they took all but the
small change.
Professor Langley made the first
test of his new flying machine. 1t was
not satisfactory
Donald McLeon. prominent rail
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25

that the pending trouble with England
will be peacefully settled.
President Loubet has cashiered Ma
jor Cuignet of the French war office for
divulging Dreyfus letters.
The church discipline bill, which was
held to be favorable to ritualism, was
defeated in the house of commons.
The miners strike in Belgium has
ended, the strikers agreeing to resume
work at per cent. increase in wages.
Capt. Alfred 7. Mahan and President
Seth Low of Columbia university, peace
delegates to The Hague, arrived in
London.
King Malietoa Tanu of Samoa has
made claim to be paid $3.50 month,
which Chief Justice Chambers has
granted.
The death is announced Of Gen. Wis
count Karakami, chief of the head
quarters staff of the imperial army of
Japan.
A battle royal for the British liberal
leadership is on between LORD Rose
berry and Sir William Vernon Har-
court.
There is a movement in South Amer
lean countries to send official dele
gates to the commercial congress in
Philadelphia.
Prayers for rain were said in every
town and village of Roumania. The
drought has been long continued ana
the heat is merciless.
Canadian police have been stationed
along the United States border to en-
force the law prohibiting shipment Of
unsawed logs over the line.
Populations including some of the
most prominent men of England petit
toned the government to pass laws
against seven-day newspapers
NJ. De Giers, Russian minister to
China, demanded the right to build a
railway connecting the Manchurian
system with Pekin. China refused.
Word comes from London that the
joint high commission to settle dis
putes between the United States and
Canada will resume it's sittings Aug. g
Ambassador White and Baron Won
Buelow discussed in Berlin the basis of
the proposed new commercial treaty
between the United States and Ger
many.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to con-
tribute $250,000 to the University Of
Birmingham, England, provided the
scientific school be made it's principal
department.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25
THERE WILL BE LARGE CROPS.

A dispatch from Americas, Ga,
says: Despite the lateness of the
season and unfavorabe weather this
spring, farming operations in this sec
ton are we'll advanced and the out
look is encouraging. About the usual
acreage is planted in corn and cotton,
and there will be large crops of both
these staples. Four-cent cotton has
few terrors, however, as the farmers
here are generally well fixed in the
way of supplies. Not in thirty years
has more home-raised corn, hay and
meat been brought in by farmers and
sold to local merchants, as in every
grocery store here can be founI pyra-
mids of country raised hams and ba-
cons representing portion of the
surplus above what is needed for home
consumption. Very little western
corn is shipped to Americas, as is
shown by railway receipts, and thou
sands of bushels could easily be spared
and sold by the prosperous farmers of
Sumter county.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25
FIRST GAME OF DOMINOES.

Two monks, who had been COM
mitted to a lengthy seclusion, contriv-
ed a beguile the dreary hours of their
confinement, without breaking the
rule of silence which had been i'm
posed on them, by showing each other
small fiat stones marked With black
dots. BY a preconcerted arrange
ment the winner would inform the
other player of his victory by repeat
ing in an undertone the first line of
the vesper prayer. In process of time
the two monks managed to complete
the set of stones and to perfect the
rules of the game, so that when the
term of incarceration had expired the
game was so interesting it was gen
orally adopted by all inmates of the
monastery as a lawful pastime. 1t
very soon spread from town to town
and became popular throughout
Italy, and the first line of the vespers
was reduced to the single word domi-
no, by which name the game has ever
since been known.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25
FIGHT WITH A WOUNDED BEAR
Washington Farmer is Badly Injured
Before Dispatching the Brute.

1t is doubtful if more vicious me-
mentos were ever carried in the pock-
ct of a man than those in the posses
sion of Ambrose Larsen of Sehome,
Wash, now on his way to San Francis
co to secure surgical treatment for a
fearfully mangled arm. The memen-
tos are four tushes taken from the
head of brown bear, the amman
which inflicted the injury to the arm.
Larsen's narrative of the incidents
leading up to his wounding by the
bear is thrilling in the awful agony
endured by the man and his cool intre-
pidity under the sufferings. He was
met yesterday afternoon at the Grand
Central hotel and said:
II have preempted on quarter sec
ton of land lying about eight miles
back of Sehome. There | have been
living with my family for the last six
years, improving the place, raising
some stock and cutting shingle bolts.
In the latter part of last September
two of my pigs were killed by bears.
| hunted and waited up of nights for
the bears, but could not meet them.
Then | built deadfall, placing it di-
rectly in the only trail the marauders
could reach the pigpen by. September
2S, on visiting the trap, found an i'm
mense brown bear in it, the largest
| have ever seen during a lifetime
spent in the woods. The log of the
trap had fallen across it's launches and
broken it's back The animal was alive,
however, nd full of fight. | put two
bullets from my Winchester into its
head and the bear turned over as II
dead
Il then climbed down into the pit
to see the best means Of getting to
work at SHINING the animal. In do
ing this it was necessary for me to
pass my light arm under the bears
head. No sooner had my hand
touched his head than, with a SNAP
there was no avoiding, he raised and
caught me by the right rm just above
the elbow, sinking his tushes deep to
the bone. At the same time he sent
his claws into the leg OF my right boot
Fortunately had brought my Win
chester into the pit with me and had
leaned it against the side, as 1t hap
pened, within reach of my left hand.
The bear had me securely pinioned and
| could feel his tushes crunching on
the bone of my arm; | cnanot describe
it. Getting the rifle stock between my
knees, managed to work the loading
lever with my left hand, and, placing
the muzzle OF the gun fairly in the
bears right eye, fired. The shot sent
the big brute into its dying throes.
Like a wise its jaws settled down on
my already crushed arm, until It
seemed that flesh and bone must sun
der, and the weight of the bears head
and shoulders would tear the arm
away.
However. endurance could not
stand up under strain long. Getting
another cartridge into the rife by the
same tactics as before, | rammed the