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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1885
Page
6
A mixed dispatch lists France sending a Madagascar battalion, Goethe diary discovery in Berlin, Treasury wormhole leak rules, Central Pacific cost cuts, and U.S. cabinet talk on Santon's citizenship. Legal actions in New York and Virginia, skirmishes in Kentucky, an autonomous flag story, a sensational family scheme on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, and a self-sacrificing youth endure in a perilous train-trap tale.
A wide array of late 19th century world notes recounting political appointments, deaths, elections, and accidents. Reports include Gladstone offered an earldom, Banox Von Manreer FEL’s death, Henri W. Bar elected senator, Ex-Senator Nesaire’s death, and potential governorships in Virginia and the Indian Territory. Also covered are a fatal railway accident in Cleveland, a pleuro-pneumonia outbreak in Kentucky, and international items from Liberia to India, plus rail and legal notices and a bad ship accident in New York.
A mixed Kansas State report covers the arrest of Mource Johns in Georgia for murder, wheat weevil damage in Shawnee County, a near arson at the Free Library in Topeka, and the discovery of an Italian murder victim in Wichita. Also noted are thefts, budget audits from the Price Raid, bank robberies, a sane verdict for a pastor in Martinsdale, and railway and insurance regulatory updates.
A detailed account from San Francisco dated June 16 describes the steamship City of Sydney arriving from the Australian colonies with the arrest of T. C. D'Angier alias Walter H. Lennox Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer of C. Arthur Preller. Maxwell, posing as a French army colonel, was seized aboard near Auckland after witnesses noted his nervous disorder, eccentric conduct, and unusual baggage. Evidence in his trunk included bloodstained items and cuff marks. authorities indicate extradition papers were to follow via the Zelandia.
June 17 report from Sanatoga New York describes General Grant arriving by train, resting in a cane chair, and ascending to the Grant Cottage on Mount MacGregor. The article portrays his frail yet steady movement, the cottage’s simple furnishings, and the quiet overseeing officers ensuring privacy and respect during his stay.
Reports from outlying districts describe a tornado sweeping Plymouth and Cherokee Counties with many fatalities and injuries. The storm, arriving at Sioux City and Le Mars, damaged multiple counties with losses totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and many residents left untreated due to rising floodwaters.
The Treasury seeks uniform appraisements across New York Boston Philadelphia and Baltimore by requiring seizing appraisers to daily forward samples of all textile goods not yet examined. Each sample carries a label with manufacture export, shipper importer vessel and invoicing details to aid value, duties, and classification comparisons. A meeting of the General Appraisers is planned after sufficient samples are gathered to align values and correct irregularities.
The beard reports on the Dolphin built for Secretary Whitney, finding it unseaworthy after trials on Long Island Sound. The board names structural weaknesses and speed failures, recommending demolition of the ship and its social hall aboard.
Washington June 17 People are moving out of Washington as outgoing trains fill up by July 1. The Steamer Dispatch once used as a royal yacht will not be used privately again, though a navy secretary study says it can serve South American stations and river work at home due to light draft.
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