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Newspaper

The Abilene Reflector

Location

Abilene, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Apr 07, 1887

Page

2

Various National Tidbits From State, Court, and Sea News

A survey of scattered items notes states voting on constitutional amendments every ten years in Rhode Island, a New Jersey pool tax bill becoming law after gubernatorial inaction, and Admiralty Court findings on a ship sinking. Also covered are Maine fish commission charges, North Carolina coal and forests, Alaska sealing lore, Barthol oldi statue lighting upgrades, Treasury secretaryship debut, an attempted Czar assassination report, a Kentucky appeal ruling on a cowhiding case, and US geological survey lead and zinc production forecasts.

St. Petersburg Gatsuhina Palace Chicago Texas State Rangers Memhill Connor United States Pennsylvania Whartom Cranks New York Pris el Paso Tex Rewauhaka Yacht Club Navy Department McCall Rustchuk Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company Corinth Miss Massachusetts Cattle Commission New Yor Vermont Savona Italy Charles Rourk West Shore Road Tuca WN. Y Suspension Bridge Creaco New Orleans Cotton Exchange Raleigh N. C

NEWS OF THE WEEK PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

Personal and political items across the nation note dissension in the extreme left over government alignment with Austria and Germany, a series of high-profile deaths and suicides, Irish policy debates, and political shifts abroad including Czarist threats, border tensions, and labor unrest.

Kansas State News Highlights Railroads and Officials

Articles filed for the Missouri Kansas & Nebraska railroad to span from southeast of Paola to the state’s north line, with capital of one million dollars. Reports note Crews building Rock Island extensions, state oil culture plans, and political shifts including a railroad commissioners appointment. Also covered are post office changes, G A R encampment logistics, a Kansas City extension rail line opening, and local election results favoring railroad projects.

Missour, Kansas & Nebraska Railroad Secretary of State Kansas Paola Lawrence Linn Miami Franklin Johnson, Douglas Jefferson Jackson Atchison, Brown and Nemaha Rock Island Nebraska Oil Culture Topeka J. 8. Codding J. Morse Santa Fe Road Tar Lic Peace A. R. Green Board of Railroad Commissioners L. L. Turner Downs and St. John Zenobia Scott County Hattie Merritt Brownlee Atchison County Clinton Douglas County Joseph W. Christian Missouri Pacific Railway W. W. Fagan Central Bratch Division New York Fagan Kansas City Springfield Memphis Department of Kansas St. Louis Department Lindell Hotel Washington Parkr Joux Senastias Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Road Kori Island St. Joseph Hebron Neb Denver Missouri Paail Indian Territory Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Tae Committee of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge Sovereign Lodge BR Burden W. A. Carmony H. Shafer G. A. Huron H. Kelsey Messrs Hurdett Shafer Brant Santa Fe Mississippi Colorado Cayse Rossville Emmerson Cannell Kansas State Emporia Washington Dispatch Hanback West Penstoxs James Douglass Junction City Orange D. Draper Wichita David Fife Cherryvale Alexander Stephens Peabody James H. Roch Kanapolis Henry L. Heckerson Kirwin Samuel Havemar Independence John 5. Wilson Downs Stillman Goodno Washington James Jameson Dodge City Peter Goodnight Wellington Horace C. Derr Arkansas City Young J. Powell Robinson Frantis M. Tracy Troy John G. White Pittsburg Abraham S. Newberger Museum William W. Jones Baxter Springs Cyrus 8. Knowles Dial Isaac N. Kinzie Salem Joseph A. Gurley Leroy Numrod H. Endsley Badger Creek Sativa Showalter Reform School Bloomington Chilooca Leaveswonta Tus Pleasantdale Rush County Lyon County Missouri, Kansas & Southwestern Railroad Emporia, Winfield & Fort Scott

Municipal Suffrage Query Clarifies Women Voting Limits

Attorney General Bradford states that in Kansas cities electing township officers separate from their township remain township for electing justices of the peace and constables. Women may vote only for municipal officers, not township offices. City governments may separate ballots to avoid confusion, defining polls for township and municipal elections.

Bradford Justices of ‘the Peace Roof Kansas Justices of the Peace Justice of the Peace Comedia B. Bravruim

Massive California Hotel Fire Destroys Large Hostelry

Fire at a major California hotel on a crowded night caused by an incendiary surge flames through the building. Guests escaped in nightclothes as water failed, gas mains burst, and the structure burned to the ground. Loss likely exceeds a million and a half. one guest injured. Hotel to be rebuilt.

Virginia Semmens Brooklyn Staynor-Tves Rice-Thomas New York Baltimore & Ohio Purchase Erie Road Tbe Baltimore & Ohio Commercial Cable Company St. Petersburg Smyrna Porte West Roxbury Mass Joseph Holland A. Ledgeman Thomas Glynn van Storck Delaware & Hudson Canal Company Scranton West Shore Road Utica Messenger Lake Albuquerque Nlm Defiance Tur Western Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association Pittsburgh Agnes Herndon Commissionen Starks General Land Office Public Land Division Ostman Beiter Erie New Yeur J. B. Bowis Cedarville Cal William Kissane Kissane California Parsipent Stooxe Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company Wabash Tutt and Humphreys Ist Jon. Chas Fairchild Manning Cleveland Wasutsotox White House Charles S Fairchild the Treasury Isaac Maybard Jordan Theodore Cook Cincinnati Charles Stebbins Fairchild Casenovia N. Y New York Central Railroad Democratic Party Tilden Patrchiid Europe Old World Washington New York City Fairchill Rites Ak Rosbery Wounas Roba Express Lake Albany Sharon Springs Clark Luke Delaware, Lackawauns & Western Crossing Montanxzr Grest Deiroad Company J. C. Marshall Philadelphia Leow Pirranngsa Smith's Blr Wylie Avenue Mira Hinehorn Osmond Rieu

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