Abilene Reflector Current Comments Review
Abilene Reflector reports on 1839 Navy enlistment and ten years on retired list with a world tour, local boycott cases in Cincinnati, a soda bottle accident injuring Charles Rasch in Sprague, a large donation to London from the National League, amnesty prospects for Stony Mountain penitentiary inmates, and various military and political notes including War of the Rebellion publications, Yaqui war updates, and the Cheapeake and Delaware Canal fraud investigation details.
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Apchmat Surreldt
Navy
Tuerne
Washington
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Secretary of War
Army and Navy
Equimitioe
War Department
News of the Week Congress and political turmoil
The narrative covers Senate and House activity withDeficiency bills, river and harbor policy debates, veto messages on railroad routes through Indian reservations, pension bill fights, and executive sessions. It notes a Georgia governor race, demographic shifts, and assorted overseas and domestic political developments.
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Senate
House
Cockrell
Army
Navy
Ingalls
Committee On Indian Affairs
Hartor
Montana
Compton
Whch
William H. Cole
Maryland
Call
Mexico
United
United States
Kansas State News and Miscellany Update
Kansas Board of Railway Commissioners limits checkmen on trains amid rival lines conflict. Crop reports show winter wheat and corn prospects. Scott County jail and officials named. Local tragedies include a man mauled by a train and a suicide. Fire damages Santa Fe depot. Pratt County girl dies from erysipelas. Pension actions, post office changes, and state agricultural totals noted.
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Board of Railway Commissioners
J. A. McKibbin
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Southern Kansas Railway
The Postal Clerks Reply to Vilas Statements
The Postmaster General faced a reply from C C Meade and R E Robb of the Brotherhood of Postal Clerks. They claim removals were expected with the incoming administration but insist no removals should occur without cause or political motive. They accuse Vilas of signaling protections yet report widespread, unexplained removals and increased duties, urging public proof of any cited cause.
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Vilas
Ixpranaponts
Ind
C. C . Meade
R. E. Robb
The
Brotherhood of Postal Clerks
Whieley
Postal Service
Threatened Race War Sparks Arkansas Tension
A Little Rock dispatch reports a renewed plan by striking Black laborers aided by sympathetic farmworkers, swelling to about 1000 armed individuals. They target Sheriff Worthen, then farmers, burning crops and homes, while militia hesitation grows. deputies are sworn in as tensions rise.
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Arkansas
St. Louis
Little Rock
Worthen
Tate Plantation
WANTS THE EARTH Salary Disputes at Treasury Office
Accountants and the Attorney General clash over seventy four days of fees for Bliss, the St. Louis district attorney. Bliss refuses affidavit proof of attendance, bills for 83 days in New York and New Orleans at 34 a day, then cut to 28. Political favors and possible resignation loom as judges question, with a Deming town fire and Canadian fisheries debate following.
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the Treasury
Wasuketon
Senihay
Bliss
St. Louis
Eenurt
Department of Justice
Homer
Garland
Bely
Demin
N. M
Deming
Beecher Faces Pulpit Debate At City Temple Dinner
The British public spat over Beecher as he preached from a platform stage at City Temple. He recalled facing a mob in Liverpool and urged reverence for preaching. Beecher will dine at the Metropolitan hotel with prominent guests, while the Prince of Wales regrets a scheduling conflict.
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Benny Ward Beecher
City Temple
Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Parker
Plymouth
Liverpool
Daniel Webster
Metropolitan Hotel
Distishermet
Phelps
Waller
Russell
Savage
Belfast
Dundee
Birmingham
Prince of Wales
Buckingham Palace
William A. Bascom
Hydrophobia patient dies after grim treatment in Kansas City
Milton Evans, hydrophobia patient subjected to a marshstone at the Central police station Thursday night, died at City Hospital at 2 PM yesterday after a night of convulsions and delirium. He endured taunts from bystanders while restrained and suffered violent seizures until death. Funeral arrangements depend on reception of telegrams to St James relatives.
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Kansas City
Milton Evans
Central Police
City Hospital
Mr. Dickson
Dickson
Evans
F. Buckley
St. James
Charges Against Hatch Delays on Extermination Bill
The Breeders Gazette reports charges that Williams Hatch, chaired House Agriculture Committee, blocked passage and delayed action on a bill authorizing the Bureau of Animal Industry to exterminate vesicular disease. D W Smith argues Washington efforts failed due to committee policy of delay, while the Gazette notes cattlemen’s disappointment over lack of authority for compulsory inspection across states and for eradication measures.
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Breeders Gazette Charcee Hiow
Cuicano
Congress
Bureau of Animal Industry
Breeters
Williams IL Hateb
Mittes
Agnetiltur
D W. Smith
National Cattle Growers’ Association
Horse and Cattle Growers’ Association of America
Washington
House Committee On Agriculeau
Geeette
Missouri Republicans call convention at Sedalia
The Republican State central committee issues a call for a state convention at Woods County House in Sedalia on September 1 at twelve m to select candidates for judge of the supreme court railroad commissioner and superintendent of public instruction. Delegates apportioned by county per votes for James G. Proctor. If no call, counties may hold county meetings on August 28 to choose delegates.
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Fitz John Porter
Fifteenth Infantry
Georgia
Gordon
Govenor
Atlanta
Cotoxe
Gronor B. Corkum
Guitean
Mount Pleasant
Iowa
Hasittox
Marine Hospital Service
Chicago Polyclinic
Sm. Chances Drake
Gladstoniay
Chelsea
Whitmore
Sir Charles
Comte de Paris
Duc de Chartres
Tunbridge
Eng
Par
A. Harge
Augusta
Tur
Senate
Montana
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company
Missouri
Arkansas
Pacific Coast
Canorxan Grinexy
Paris
Kernesestative Cour
Maryland
Washington
Bright
Topeka
John W. Martin
A. P. Riddle
E. B. Allen
James Hamilton
T. McCarthy
S. B. Bradford
J. H. Lawhead
D. M. Valentine
Tae English
Gladstonians
Dayton
John Goode
Virginia
New York
Henry B. Payne
M. Halstead
Cincinnati
Payne
United States Senate
Switzerland
Baste
Antform
Offeer
St. Louis
Central Committee
Repubicane
James G. Bator
Mrsident
Sand County
Saint
Acquittal for Captain Overton and Convicted Accuser
Reports from Fort Bayard New Mexico state Captain G E Overton was acquitted of cowardly conduct in abandoning a trail. Lieutenant J D Glass was found guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline and sentenced to one year’s suspension and reprimand by General Miles. Also recounts a Turkish camp atrocity and Atlanta liquor licensing upheaval with public reaction, and the execution of Sam Archer in Indiana described with graphic detail.
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Overton
Convie— Tioe
Wasuksetos
G. E. Overton
J. D. Glass
Sixth Cavalry
Fort Bayard
N. M
Giasa
Glass
Miles
Yornastins
Jackson
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Strother & Litts
Grand Jury
Charles Rasch
Sprague, WW. T
O'Reily
National League
Parliamentary Fund
London
League
Stony Mountain
Sewers
Grand
Republic
Kove Orm
Bavaria
Kurstenried
Munich
Otto
Catesse
Geonor W. Davis
Tifantry
Washington Monument
Clarence E. Dutton
Ordnance Corps
Crater Lake
Ore
Cascade Range
Davis
Sanguink
Tombstone
Cajane
Sonora
Theodore Schwan
Eleventh Infantry
Benjamin
Hamilton Fish
Greely
Gill
Cheepeake & Delaware Canal Company
Philadelphia
Mewrs
Lesley
Wilson
News OF the
Gladstone
Key West
Fla
Havana
Sea Gull
Cuba
England
Bowre
University of Brossele
English Board of Trade
Maxwell
Preller
State Supreme Court
W. H. Beede
New York Cotton Exchange
Mooxenovsr & Co
Cers
Charles A. Brown & Co
Pittsburgh
William C. Brickel
Tax Common Pleas Court
Clinton County
Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad
Armour Gine
Chicago
Desaxo
R. Farnsworth
Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Lawrence
New York Supreme Court
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Suh
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Seaboard
Cartary Ackenny
Kenilworth
Port Antonio
Jamaica
Sun
Brindisi
Tontara
Latiano
San Vito
Venice
Codigoro
Bologna
Padua
Vicenza
London Standard
Khamiab
Ancner
Shoals
Cuantes Mansn
Jit
Jordan & Co
Boston
Marsh
Cona Peart
Demimondaine
Emma Crouch
Union Pacific Railway
Omaha
French Chamber of Deputies
Accompixa
New York Financial
Chronicle
Lesley and
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company
Brazil
James Gordon Bennett
Vienna
Bulgaria
Russia
Prince Alexander
Alexander
North
Minneapoke
Minn
Longfell Tow
Haverhill
Mass
Baltimore
South
Delaware & Hudson Coal Company
Mme Caracos
Maria Williams
Ans
Tat
Panama Canal Company
Germany
Pilot Grove
Tex
Graham
Niagara
Twin Mountain House
N. H
Pennnsylvania
Ways and Means Committee
Randall Tariff
Daniel Letzinger
Alliance
Canada
Bexsaurs Pace
Harlem
GW. M Bxep
Shelbyville
Tenn
Kansas State News
State Board of Agriculture
Scott County
Charles
Reed County
Eugene M Daniels
Marion Cunningham
A. H. Kilpatrick
Scott City
James Starks
Cramer
Neodsha
Max Schmelzen
Schmelzer & Son
Leavenworth
Santa Fe
Moutrr Moour
James T. Moore
Pratt County
Senator Plumb
John A. Fullerton
Greeley
Perkins
Susana Starker
Mulberry Grove
Congressman Funston
John J. Fullerton
Samuel Dragoo
Wise
Helen A. Herriman
Garnett
Bangor
Coffey County
Tof Ley
M. A. Fessinger
Turrr
Teresa
Forriers
Nashville
Memphis
Independent Order of Immaculates
Shawnee County
Tomnka
Atrouser Gexraat Brannoxp
Crrr
Hatseax
N.S
Chamber of Commerce
Frye
Hatch
Thin County
Kimbell House Company
Kimball
Suears
Sam Archer
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