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The Abilene Reflector

Location

Abilene, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Mar 10, 1887

Page

10

Border Troubles and Cross-Border Shootout Report

Mexican soldiers invade Arizona and fire on Americans in Nocatis. Deputy Sheriff Speed and officers confront Mexicans at the United States boundary, a brief exchange ensues, and gunfire drives the Mexicans back into Mexico. US authorities demand action, while troops and local arms moves are organized. Separate Iowa item notes a Kansas couple and a wife accusing the husband after he allegedly took a girl and the children.

Arizona Nocatis Ariz James Speed Lieutennes Seala bin United Henry Littlepage Dr. Purdy United States Counter Littlepage Kean Sheriff Speed Litepage Jene Z International Line Mexico Arviza Groseclose Guitleres Jones Miles Tucson Home Guard Crittenden Kansas Des Moines Iowa Miller House George W. Reynolds Maryville North- Western

Next U S Senate Could Stay Republican Regardless of Indiana Seat

The text analyzes Senate party balance with Turpie and Riddleberger involved. If Indiana’s seat favors Harrison, Republicans hold a majority. if Turpie is seated and Riddleberger aligns with Democrats, a GOP majority remains likely. Indiana matter unsettled, Senate organization favors one Republican majority.

Senate Turpie Wasnixetox New Jersey Indiana Riddleberger Harrison Riddieberger Committee On Privileges and Elections Laxa F. Clark Ober Hartwick Seminary Perstown N. Y Eeshitsa

Fearful Fatalities on Tombigbee and Other Disasters

A large steamboat W. & Gardner burned on the Tombigbee near Gainesville Alabama with extensive loss of life among white and Black passengers, owners and crew. Also reports Beaubien mine explosion at St Etienne with hundreds feared dead and several rescued, plus wrecks of Gaelic and Valparaiso vessels. A diplomatic note mentions a card sharp expelled from social circles as a blackleg.

Tombigbee River Move Ala W. &. Gardner Mobile C. Blackman Jule Rembert W. T. Rembert Theodore L. Graham G. Bates John Bryant Steward Green Jenkins Henry Ford Hayward Hutchinson L. Lindsay Virgil Jones Amos Harris Rembert Tombigbee Gardner F. 8. Stone 8. C. Coleman Fearpul Paris Beaubien St. Etienne

Vast land claim sparks Mexico grant inquiry in New Mexico

Santa Fe reports reveal a 79,000,000 acre Mexican concession in present day New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and No-Man's Land, issued March 14, 1591 to Beales and Roquella. Beales heirs later conveyed to successors. boundaries fixed by natural monuments. grant anticipated by Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty.

Kansas City New Mexico Texas Colorado Santa Fe N. M Interstate Land Company Guadalupe-Hidalgo City Mexico Saltillo Guadalupe-Hidaizo United States

Weathered miscellany notes mix politics and daily curios

The clippings mention Davitt’s home rule, Florida weather horoscopes, James Brown Potter’s alleged coffee-fueled fortune, a Wyoming sheep fire tragedy, a humor about a mule’s transformation, a ban on nickel plated vessels in Lower Austria, medical regime tips for biliousness, a festive Christmas edition quip from the Gazette of Heppner, and a potato derived substance rivaling ivory used in French pipes.

Michael Davitt Albany Journal Florida Richmond Dispatch James Brown Y. Herald Tie Siding Wy. T Prescott A T Lower Austria Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Gazette of Heppner Ore the Gazette France

Market Reports From Chicago St Louis and Kansas City

Market notes show firm to higher wheat prices and steady corn and barley. Livestock demand remains strong with higher cattle and hog quotes, while Provisions and butter remain steady. Regional figures include St Louis Chicago Kansas City pricing across grains livestock and dairy items with widespread bid activity and varied month contracts.

St. Louis Myahige Hbosyc Sige CaTe Minnesota Chicago Fiourk New York Fiona Elgin’ Creamery Western Steam City Steam CaTrLe Kansas City Sitge Butchers WES Shippers

A Cautionary Tale Of A Cures All And Public Belief

A fragmented excerpt discusses a prominent man who nearly died, credits a patent cure, and then gives away fortune to science. It notes broad public belief in the remedy for kidney health and disease, cites insurance interest, and mixes quotes from various period publications, jokes, and self-help ad rhetoric.

United Warner Port Jervis N. Y

Red Star Cough Cure and St Jacobs Oil Endorsements

A. C. Wurtz writes from Ohio that Red Star Cough Cure relieves bronchitis after the first dose and costs twenty five cents in July 1881. Thomas P. Gloster of Holyoke Massachusetts reports St Jacobs Oil cured an arm abscess in three days in October 1886, at a price of fifty cents. Also mentions a great American dessert pie and Texas Siftings.

A. C. Wurtz Agt T. R . Zenis Ohio Thos. P. Gloster Holyoke Mass St Jacobs

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