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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1884
Page
6
The Abilene Reflector summarizes a week of congressional action, including amendments on pensions and land grants, court and tribunal appointments, and discussions on labor statistics. It notes related Western and Atlantic rail issues, militia, and local disasters, with various incidents across the nation and a stock market tension in New York.
A Kansas dispatch from Atchison details varied local affairs including a serious burn accident to Samay Hasty in Topeka from a gasoline stove incident, widespread fence-cutting by cattlemen, the death of notable Kansas Jayhawker C. R. Jexsison, and a string of local misfortunes. It also notes post office changes, immigration document shipments, the first state convention of women autists, a sick inmate Oliver Hawk at a Topeka asylum, new Santa Fe yard telegraph office near Turkey Creek, Wyandotte census results, and various local incidents from Topeka, Leavenworth, and surrounding counties.
Senate proposes amendment to the Army Appropriation bill to pay enlisted men extra duty as mechanics clerks laborers and teamsters at 50 35 cents daily widening labor pay and reducing frontier desertions. A 250000 allocation would fund future extra work and ease supply issues.
A Hillsboro area house owned by Lewis Kuckley burned Saturday night with suspected remains found in the ruins. Investigators believe an insurance scam staged a body, aided by his wife who held several life policies. Buckley, a 35 year old German from Ida Grove Iowa, had policies with New York Life and Mutual Temperance Union totaling $9,000. The wife testified of a dream of a shooting and admitted insurance holdings and deeds. Buckley had arrived in Oregon three months prior and was seen in Southern Oregon recently.
W O Donnell a Fifth Artillery private, once constable in Phoenix Park, wrote Interior of an American Soldier's Life. His tale sparked hostility among officers at Fort Omaha and in Dubuque where Major DeRnussey pressed for suppression. On return to Fort Omaha, his fate awaits official action as War Department consideration grows.
Fort Worth sees fevered pursuit after Dr Claude W Barradall a favored pharmacist is shot by Charles Herring who accused him and shot him in his drugstore Herring fled across the Trinity River as crowds demand swift punishment investigators describe the killer as dangerous with prior pistol encounters Barradall leaves a young wife daughter of a wealthy cattle king
A furious wind and rain storm struck Zanesville Ohio on June 26 causing floods and damage. An engineer at the pumping-house suffered a daughter knocked unconscious by a lightning strike and an elderly invalid man collapsed in his bed. This weather also brought hail and widespread disruption across the Seventh Ward as streets flooded and roofs were harmed.
A collection of brief items notes patents in Britain and the U S, a monument idea for Sam Patch, Benedict Arnold era sites, Chinese coins to the British Museum from the Tamba collection, etamine cloth imports from France, a band of young thieves in Sumter Georgia, a Western Union rule on exact message spelling, a gun shop anecdote about muzzle versus breech loading, and a petallizator seen at a Mississippi river yard with dog fear noted.
A Boston Courier tale describes a mother’s strong intuition compelling her to check on her sleeping baby. She rises just before the ceiling collapses over the cradle, saving the child from a deadly accident.
The analysis of Signal Service data shows Colorado offers a dry air with 4-10 percent saturation, far less than Jacksonville and Los Angeles. Annual rainfall is around fourteen inches, with Denver's elevation 5000 to 7000 feet promoting healthy lungs and a cool mean temperature. The article notes about 320 sunny days per year and compares indoor time in various cities.
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