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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1886
Page
6
Reports from Washington note the Senate discussed the Pension Appropriation bill and Post Office bill with a conference on amendments. Debates spanned executive sessions, and actions included adjourning and advancing sundry civil and agricultural measures while House proceedings highlighted tariff and telephony investigations.
Kansas farmers report better wheat conditions with higher yields and quality. Oats improve after rains, hay ample with fair quality, and corn acreage at historic highs with strong prospects. Chinch bugs cause some damage. reports include railway commission ruling against discrimination and assorted local incidents and accidents across the state.
The hand behind the Haymarket bomb is alleged as Rheirhold Kroeger, fatally shot by Officer Madden after a May 4 incident. Oscar Neche and state officials link Kroeger to radical anarchist circles, with traces of dynamite manufacture and a secret West Lake Street meeting. Two trunks moved after Kroeger’s death allegedly hid thirty loaded bombs near Robey Street, though police kept evidence undisclosed.
The relatives of Mise Frances Whipple of Adrian, Mich, read a Botilo dispatch claiming a woman joined a boat at Suspension Bridge to view the whirlpool and disappeared. A Detroit telegraph said she might be detained, later reports claimed a woman drowned at Niuzara, identified as Miss Whipple, leaving the motive and travel details unexplained.
A destructive hailstorm swept Walsh and Grand Forks counties in Dakota, injuring crops across a two mile wide swath for over twenty miles and four miles at Inkster. A Norwegian church was destroyed and hailstones the size of nuts were recovered. damage estimated at 50000 dollars, with many farmers left destitute. Further reports awaited.
At Avator Texas a westbound Sunset route train halted at Cline when Deputy Sheriffs Baylor and Nimmo boarded and ordered two masked Mexicans to surrender. A fierce shootout ensued injuring both officers and killing one robber while the other fled. both suspects were described as young and well dressed. The attackers had been part of a regional band active along the Rio Grande.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions refused to pass over the President's veto on Andrew J. Wilson's pension bill and also reported C. M. Tiller's pension bill with a veto override recommendation. It cites Wilson's prior disability and the denial by the Pension Bureau, while noting a petition supporting Daniel T. Schenek’s widow. A deadly explosion at Atlantic giant powder works Morristown NJ kills ten, injures ten or twelve, with debris scattered up to five hundred feet and widespread destruction.
Heavy rain across Virginia causes high water and submerged wharves in Rocketts. James River rises ten feet above high water in Richmond with lower Main Street flooded. Rail lines washed out suspend travel on several routes and North Anna flooding halts trains on major lines. Richmond and Danville washouts stop traffic on the line. Richmond area rainfall totals 2.75 inches in 48 hours. Temperance events and mission news follow with reports of missionary murders in East Africa and massacres in Annam and Saigon refugees.
A president rejected granting a pension to William Beene after reviewing a 1962 parade accident in Aurora Ll. He found no link to military service and questioned extending relief to others injured that day, citing prudent use of public funds and sympathy without automatic payouts.
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