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Newspaper

The Abilene Reflector

Location

Abilene, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Feb 25, 1886

Page

6

Various global items reported in Abilene reflector

Moscow police uncover a Nihilist circular targeting Russian nobles for death. A sixty year old woman blown ashore from the Shetland Islands in a fishing smack. Children near Winchester fatally poisoned by cake made with poisonous baking powder. Rail earnings dip in January. Utes seek to sell their Colorado reservation and move. Congress the right to endorse pension notices only. Yale professor's insane wife escapes and dies after a fall. Gladstone considers land expropriation in Ireland. home rule delayed. Joshua B. Lippincott estate valued at over 3.6 million with large railroad bonds. Turko Bulgarian talks flag potential conflict. Russia warns against Bulgarian army subordination to Turkey. A London dispatch notes Sir Claude De Crespigny aiding Hangman Berry. Leperstone's death by gas and suicide.

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News of the Week highlights Senate and House actions

Senate reports favor two Nebraska land districts, debates Education Bill, and considers telegraph and coinage measures. House passes fiscal and land bills, with adjournments and private calendar activity. Ongoing debates on Fitz John Porter, Indian lands, and a Grant monument appropriation noted amid personal and foreign news.

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Kansas Legislature News From The Senate And House

Senate debates probate judges compensation curbed by tax cuts shifting revenue. House fights county lines and apportionment, passes attorney general salary raise, routes local bills. Senate approves measures on public works and capitol east wing reforms, adjourns amid broad bills. Postings include indictments, postmasters, railroad bond talks, Meade Center case, and Rock Island expansion rumors.

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Senate Judiciary Committee on Removals and Papers

The Edmunds Report from Washington on February 19 details the Senate Judiciary Committee's condemnation of the Attorney General for withholding papers in the removal case of Dustin as United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. It argues the Senate's right to official documents and recalls longstanding practice demanding department heads to furnish papers. It analyzes constitutional powers, executive discretion, and the need for knowledge of office administration to judge removal and appointment candidates, noting Civil Service provisions.

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Horatio Seymour Cald to Unicn Exgovernor Laid in State Obitiary

The public viewed the late ex governor Horatio Seymour at the Conkling mansion. Tributes from Washington New York Albany and others adorned the casket. A memorial service followed at Trinity Church with Bishop Huntington presiding and prayers and hymns. The burial site was Forest Hill cemetery where a marble bust will be carved from a face cast. Governor IL and Conkling attended along with state officers and delegates.

Unicn Conkling Horatio Seymour Washington New York Albany Dr. Goodrich Calgary Church Trinity Church Ill Congressional Committee New York Exchange Committee Episcopal Church F. D. Huntington Chures C. H. Gardner Huntington H. Cox Muhlenberg Utica Citzen Foreat Chapel of Roses Congress Opera House Neledin Lil Mr. Seymour Ilon Fravers Kernan Ellis H. Roberts O. H. Beardsley KP. Flower

Tremperance Orator John B Gough Dies After Paralysis

John B. Gough a famed temperance lecturer died at 4 40 pm yesterday at Dr Bruce Burns residence in Frankford after suffering paralysis while preaching at the Frankford Presbyterian Church He was surrounded by family friends and two nieces His last words were uttered to a young man to keep his zeal clean The funeral will follow at Worcester Mass Born 1817 in Sandate England Gough came to America in 1829 and rose from poverty to become a celebrated orator and author of an autobiography and a volume of orations

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