Abilene Reflectos and World News Roundup
A digest of foreign expulsions from Courland to a Charlotte painter commission in Vienna and a Boston editor shift. Highlights include a Bulgarian prince portrait commission, arrests in New York, socialist protests in Amsterdam, a Glastonbury author’s obituary and Bible translation praise, a mad dog scare in Bravronp England, a Portland divorce remarriage, a Kentucky convict camp scare, a Treasury debt report, and a panorama controversy at Bull Run with a clash between pension officials and a lecturer.
Senate and House actions fill news of the week
The week covers Senate actions on petitions for the Hennepin canal, a Missouri Pacific bridge across the Mississippi at Alton, and removals reports, with deaths announced. House debates Indian appropriations, pensions for Mexican soldiers, and Civil Service repeal, plus a seven member committee to accompany Miller’s remains to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional
Senate
Hennepin Canal
Plumb
Bowen
Miller
Caliweed
House
Mississippi River
Alton
Judiciary Committee
Edmunds
Pugh
United States
Logan
Riddieberger
Ugh
Tone
Albany
Matthews
Committee On Military Affairs
Fitz John Porter
Wilegon
California
Iowa
Kenna
Californi
Kansas State News School Lands and Arbor Day Proclamations
A Kansas State News roundup reports on a special board of Agriculture study of government and school lands as of January 3 1886 with counties unsold land and appraisal estimates. It covers proclamations for Arbor Day April 1 1886 and notes county land settlement statuses and local government actions, including Masons and other society officers, plus assorted regional updates and incidents across Topeka Leavenworth and Newton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Sims
State Board of Agriculture
Kansas
Organized Counties
Pee
Pra
Pera
Allens
Marion
GEC
Anders
Marshall
Atehisom
Mn Ob
Barber
Miami
Bartoo
Mitenell
Bourton
Brown
Morris
Bartle
Chases
Decatur
Pratt
Dickins
Rawlins
Doniph
Douglas. Edwards
Jackson
Jefferson Jewell
Gin Johnson
Wilson
Kingman
Woodson Labette
Gove
Lincol Linnt
Lyon
Allen, Barber, Butler and Linn
St.John
Wallace
Trego County
Great Train Robbery near Morris shocks Illinois
A bold late night express robbery on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific line between Were and Morris ends in a brutal murder. Baggage man N J Watt recalls robbers boarding at the coal chute, forcing entry with revolvers, and killing messenger Keliggy Nichols with an iron poker after a fierce struggle. The robbers escape with safe contents estimated from 25000 to 100000 while checks and valuables are scattered. Authorities pursue a large posse toward Morris with public anger mounting. the dead messenger from Chicago had a decade of service with United States Express Company.
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Jules Verne
Amiens
Banta Fe
Kansas City
Pacific
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Chicago
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Des Moines
Iowa
Vicectory
N. Y
Consolidated Street Railroad Company
Toledo
Ohio
Lebanon Pa
New York Post
Western Union Telegraph Company
Hot Springs
Ark
Middle and Western States Freight Association
Louisville
Dime Savings Bank of
New Brunswick
N. J
Arthur &. Oglesby
Tur Mareh
Department of Agriculture
Constantinople
Alexander
Bulgaria
Roumelia
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
Little Rock
Sullivan
Buenos Ayres
Catalinas
Portland
K Forp
John Murphy
New Orleans
A. H. Murphy
Belladonna
United States
Canada
Ike Bonham
Vicksburg
Miss
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Express
Morris
Joliet
Ill
Webster
C. T
Congress
Sisseton Indian Reservation
Lyons
Green County
Ind
Washington
Prof
Bell
London
Paris
Jane Scharren
Maurice Vignaux
New York
Schaefer
Vignaus
Tue Clearing House
Miller
Senate Chamber
California
Cunard
Oregon
Fire Island
Fulda
Atlantic
Galion Line
Cincinnati
Northwest Territory
Drennan
Cincinnnati
Cutcaco
Tollet
Illinois
Villians
Keliiggy Nichols
Here
Ottawa
Reitz
Murray
Wink
Mortis
Messenger
United States Express Company
Kuobal
Rock Island
Nichols
Chicaze
Minooka
N. J. Watt
Heart
Morris Hat
House
Tarim
Wasarsoros
Ander
Sees
Kansas
House Committee On
Western Pacific
Anderson
Land Grant
Western Union Company
Tenninus
D.H. Bates
Baltimore& Ohio Telegraph Company
Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company
Bates
Labor Movements Across North America Stir Unrest
Pittsburgh miners in the Amalgamated Association fourth district press a 12 cent per ton wage advance and aim to adopt the eight hour day with possible strikes if refused. In Canada strikes loom for street railway workers and presses in Chicago report strike ripple effects uncertain. In Windsor, Ontario, rail workers clash with disturbances. in Worcester, mass, arbitration averts a 2000 worker strike at James Skinner & Co.
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Pittsburgh
Knights
Canada
Chicago
Pittsrune
Amalgamated Association of the Fourth District
Dubois
Meyersdale
Cumberland
Irwick
Clearfield
Hentington
Tonoxto
Ont
Knights of Labor
West Market Street
Chicaco
Wieke
Chicago Freight Bureau
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
Ilinois Central
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Mass
James Skinner & Co
ANOTHER KANSAS TRAGEDY AND FRAUD CASES
A Kansas tragedy report details a farmer John Hogan beating his wife to death near Eve, Fatts and Morehead, with six children left in danger. Police and coroner the next day found the wife buried beneath a house. other items cover Shaeffer’s fraud case, a tramp printer in Michigan, Texas Capitol moves, and a Chattanooga jewelry heist aftermath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eve Fatts
Salt Creek
John Hogan
New York
Hogan
Morehead
Esene
Kansas City
Samuel C. Shaeder
Centropolis Hotel
John J. Blair
New Jersey
Independence
Caplas
Schaeffer
Centropolis
Tuggles
Moore
Ike Jackson
County Poor House
Jackson
Mich
John Gaunt
Philadelphia Age
Michigan
Canola
Philadelphia
Singular phenomenon on Mount Ida shocks Ulster County
A mass of ice and water rode a wind whirlwind two hundred feet from Mount Ida, forming a miniature waterspout that glittered in sunlit air as it moved along the slope. The odd event near Mount Ida’s side left trees undisturbed and was regarded as a rare local wind freak by residents and the elder inhabitants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Tia
Humtaxo
Ulster County
Mount Tila
New Paris
Mount Isa
Mount Ida
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Abilene Reflectos
Strother & Litt
Courland
Victoria
Prof. von Angeli
Prince Alexander
Jonx W. Ortrex
Order of Sons of Temperance
Yonkers
Bexsawrxs Harris Brewster
Brewster
House Education Committee
New York City
Amsterdam
Holland
Julia Evetinas Sati Parker
Glastonbury
Wartford
Conn
Amos A. Parker
New Hampshire
Bravronp
Eng
Ore
Greenwood Mines
Pulaski County
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of the Interior
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company
Dakota Territory
Northern Pacific Fox Company
Manassas
Silas Colgrove
Indiana
Colgrove
News OF the
Telegraph and Mail
Otus
Horatio Seymour
Roscoe Conkling
Utica
Quisa
Awistarch
Rome
Arch- Tashereau
Quebec
Archbish Gibbons
Baltimore
Jerome B. Cnarren
Colorado
Ulysses S. Grant
Japan
Sexaton Minter
Pope
Cambridge University
England
Galbraith
Trinity College
Dublin
Nebraska
Covone
J. Pusuiiis
Srcnetary
Globe Mutual Life and Assessment Association
Bridgeport
W. H. Barnum
Democratic National Committee
Saint of
Hancock
Tae Brunswick Cotton
Moseley
St . Louis
Kerrigan
Monte Carlo
Mentone
Italy
Troy
Cobens
Labrador
Malleable Iron Works
Chicazo
John
Kansas State News
Rhor
State
Dep'r. Toron
Shenstone
T. John A. Martin
Topeka
Jon A. Morris
E. DB. Aut
A. Lock
Fort Scott
H. Mayre
Newton
S. F. Burdette
Leavenworth
James Geary
Gran Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star of Kansas
Emma W. Post
Beloit
Grant
J. J. Brown
Lawrence
Girand
B. E. Chesney
B. E. Stevenson
Olathe
Jennie Eaton
Clyde
Gand
Myra Mottram
Kate B. Thomas
Carbondale
Georgiana Secoy
Nickerson
Iss
Joax Bocas
Elk Falls
Harker
Kanopolis
Ellsworth County
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Missouri River
W. W. Manspeaker
Gilges
E. H. Wersesnencen
Tenry M. Stanley
Congo
Tur
J. F. Lewis
Howard
State Board of Health
McHiexer
Pierce
Jackson County
Martix
N. A. Adams
Manhattan
United States Pension
Board of State House Commissioners
Supreme Court
Pratt County
Iuka
Junction Ty
Fort Riley
Messenger Nichols
Coney Island
N. F. Tritone
Wheeler
Dakota
Texas Capitol
Restix
Tex
Capitol Board
Attorney General
FE. E Myers
Detroit
Colonel Taylor
Capitol Syndicate
Capitol
Dayton
Tenn
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Obl & Co
Cinciinnati Southern
Telegraphic Monopoly
Bewther
John Devlin
United’ States
City Works Department of
Brooklyn
Daniel Devtin
Time S
Avevasta
C. P. Huntington
Louisiana
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