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Newspaper

The Abilene Reflector

Location

Abilene, Kansas, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1885

Page

2

Washington Notes from Abilene Reflector Weekly

News of the week includes President appoints Stuart Taylor naval officer of customs at San Francisco and William D.N. Hunter collector of internal revenue for Indiana's Sixth District. Postmaster Palmer’s removal cited for offensive partisanship. Various diplomatic and domestic items, fires, trials, and disasters across the U.S. and abroad.

Washington Stuart Taylor San Francisco William D.N. Hunter Indiana Cormas Tax State Department Keiley Vienna Post Office Department Palamer Chicago Palmer Willixer John Roach The Sound B. Hasnerth Treasury Department Manning Customs George Lothrop Michigan United States Russia Boyd Winchester Kentucky Switzerland A. F E. W. Thompson New York Haiti Georgia Atlanta

Temperance lecture in Leavenworth ends in arrest

A Reverend Krohn lecturing in Leavenworth urged temperance against saloon keepers. He was blocked at the exit, then assaulted by Julius Haug who was fined 25 dollars. Krohn fled to the sidewalk as Police Judge Stinson intervened. A Baptist Church meeting planned for that evening was postponed.

Pailor Krowsy Atchison Leavenworth Krohn Julius Haug Stinson Haug Dr. Krohn Baptist Church L. J. Eatherly John Messmore Elk Falls Eatherby Clayton Pleasant Hill Road DeSoto Clark County G. W. Epperle D. Burker A. F. Harmer J. 8. Myers Ashland Santa Fe Road Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific War Department A.W. Savissery Topeka State Board of Agriculture Lc, Wasson Ottawa Intely Supreme Court Patritox Rabivat County Clark Z. F. Bell Yates Center Hand D. Bronson Jewall Civivator L. C Warner R. E. Nickels A. Doud B. Reed Howe Lawrence Board of Censors C. Thurman Altoona Alats Street Everest

Chicago Lumber District Fire Devours 45 Million Feet

A spark from a passing locomotive ignites the pine lumber belt along the Chicago River. Fire whirls through Bridgeport and Union Stock Yards as wooden sheds burn, winds drive flames, and water streams fail to stop the blaze. By seven, the fire is under control after heavy rainfall. 45,000,000 feet of lumber valued at about 700,000 dollars burned, with extensive losses and insurance claims enumerated for several companies and mills.

Dakota Wisconsin Kansas General Fire Insurance Managers Chicago Ohio Himber Jos Pollock Lemont Hos. Auten Portes Congress Kalamazoo, Mich Cuiiaco Inn Great Pine Chicago River Bridgeport Union Stock Yards Chicago Luunber Company Biglow Bros Adams, Hastings & Co J. W. Henckley

Frightful dynamite explosion at Cornelius iron ore bank

In Lebanon Pa on May S a premature dynamite blast at the middle hill of the Cornell iron ore bank badly mangled six men who were blasting ore. Several lifters were hurled by rocks and three may die today.

Lebanon Cornell Iron Ore Phymoutic Fryer Plymouth

Panic in the Eleanor District Over Batoche Reports

Rumors of Middleton's engagement with insurgents at Batoche caused panic in the Eleanor district. Advices say the Northcote steamer is reinforced to strike Batoche from the river. Indigenous resistance, burned homesteads, and hostilities affect settlers as patrols push toward Demont's Crossing.

Canadian Northwest Eleanor Wissives Max Middleton Batoche Gabriel Clark Northcote Evimoriton Battleford War Point John Walkenshaw Albert Harkneas Ontario Big Bear Swortheast Otter Poundfunker Little Chill Steele Eslawerton Boulton Demont Dement Uri Ashet Swift Current Midland Battalion

Seventeen Year Old Choctaw Boy Executed for Murder

A seventeen year old Choctaw Indian named Mitchell Andersen was executed at Choctaw Euston Fort Sorin Ank for the murder of a boy named Winchester last summer. He was convicted in Marshalatubber district court and sentenced in February. Andersen denied the killing until recently and died by firing squad after a banket was placed over his heart. The report also notes fever cases rising in Plymouth and political notices from Toledo and remarks on the Army of the Potomac reunion in Baltimore with General Grant referenced.

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