Urgent notes from the Abilene Reflector period
MM De Lessers denies attempting to obtain the cession of Panama to France. Ten million hares and rabbits are killed yearly in Great Britain valued at 1.1 million dollars. A Kit Carson memorial monument was erected at Santa Fe. A deer escaped in Ware Massachusetts stirs local hunters. Meat prices rise in French towns, wages buoyed but insufficient. China coast wall project from Shahhai Kwan to Taku forts underway. Bismarck proposes German labor trade committees to balance labor. West Africa cannibalism tales persist with 1859 market sale of human flesh. Earl of Durham rumored to seek judicial separation from wife amid tales of jewelry. Philadelphia pipes use coal tar pitch and hooded bower bariff to prevent obstructions. Fur trade highlights house cats and skunks as valuable furs. Calcutta to be sanitized amid cholera fears. Death of renowned animal dealer Bernhart Kohn in Kassala. future of imported animals in danger amid Mehdist siege.
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Cora
Formosa
Ne “Mors
Chamber of Meeanics
Lhfe
Alice Fowler
Vincennes
Ind
Court of Claims
The
Treasury
Avummat Pevnox
Marine
Tsere
Harre
New York
Trurty
Lehigh & Susquehanna
Perryville
Coanexee Wines
Haverly
Michael Stragoff
Des Moines
Tue Friends of the
Hennepin Canal Project
Finn
Patterson
Juniata County
G. W. Wilson
W. W. Copeland
Joseph Pennell
J. B. M. Todd
Samuel Strayer
W. M. Hanlin
Soudan
General Gordon
Anderman
Khartoum
White Nile
Lake Mistis-shiny
Northwest Territory
British America
Quebec
Lake Superior
Hudson Bay Company
Pittsburgh
Branford Conn
J. Stanexen & Sox
Canton
Mis
Paris
Minnesota
Blaine
Cleveland
St. John
Butler
White
Wakefield
Strait
Gilfillan
Nelson
Lake Erie Road
American Humane Association
Monongahela House
Union
Edwin Lee Brown
John G. Shortall
Chicago
Mary L. Douglas
Washington, D. C
Samuel J. Levick
Philadelphia
John E. Snni
Wheeling
Henry Bergh
Joseph G. Walters
Pittsburg
Brown
Shortail
Illinois Association
North
Wannes Jones
North Topeka
Lee Foo
Toreka
Dr. Ward
George Merritt
Frank Merritt
Dr.Thompson
Roxey
Cleve Jane
Fannie Randolph
Wyandotte
Carpenter
Tie
Topeka
Louisa C. Lantex
Emporia
Larrick
E. C. Neddan
Rossville
Alexander Fowler
Prince Phillips
Tokeka
Soldier Creek
Young Phillips
Independence & Verdigris Valley Railroad Company
G. W. Donaldson
E. Otis
A. C. Stich
F. McFarland
J. M. Anderson
Charles Jockheck
Jockheck
Sehwoertz
Kansas
Samuel W. Peterso
Fred Hani
Charles A. Billington
Moerill
Marcus Hardenbrook
Maryville
George H. Herrington
Martty Hellar
Wichita
A. F. Pack
Edwin French
John O. West
Fulton
Relief Association of the Grand Army of the Republic
Fredonia
Wilson County
Benjamin Derublaser
Charles J. Butin
William M. Oakford
Allen W. Howe
Alexander Hunt
J. D. Quis
Chas
E. Bachellor
Silver Lake
World at Large Personal and Political News Highlights
Queen Victoria honored Sir John A. Macdonald with Grand Cross of Bath for public service. Obituaries note Sir Grose Laurence’s death amid Afghan War fame. Report covers New York canvass results, crime notes, ship and railway incidents, and North American political moves affecting tariffs, treaties, and post office expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McDonald
Grand Cross of
Bath
Groaet Sr
Patrice Lawrence
K. C
L.C.B
Idia
New York
Kansas State News Vote Totals and Local Incidents
Kansas State News reports election results by congressional district with Morrill, Funston, Perkins, Ryan, Anderson, Hanback, Peters leading in their districts and margins. It also covers arrests, suicides, fires, rail charters, and temperance union proceedings in Topeka and statewide notices, including a Chinaman shot in North Topeka, horse theft cases, and railway charter filings.
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E. N. Morrill
Thomas TP. Fenton
Morrill
Fenton
E. H. Funston
W. J. Nicholson
Funston
Nicholson
B. W. Perkins
G. W. Gabriel
Tipton
Perkins
Gabriel
Thomas Ryan
SN. Wood
John Melvin
Ryan
Wood
Melvin
John A. Anderson
A. A. Carnahan
M. D. Tenney
Anderson
Carnahan
Lewis Hanback
L.C. Uhl
Hanback
Samuel R. Peters
H. M. Bickell
Peters
Bickell
Spreckels Son Shoots Chronicle Owner in San Francisco
Adolph Spreckels shot M. H. De Young proprietor of the Chronicle in his office, wounding him in the left clavicle and arm pit. Clerks restrained the gunman as De Young’s condition was reported critical. Authorities link the attack to exposure of the Mawalian Commercial Company’s stock manipulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fele
Claus Spreckels
Hanily
San Prancisco
Cat
M. H. de Young
The
Chronicle
Adolph Spreckels
Sandwich Islands
de Young
Hin
de Vous
Spreckies
Smi
Chesley
Emerson
Streckels
DeYourg
Chrunich
Mawalian Commercial Company
Spreckles
Plaim
Independent Republicans Support Cleveland Letters
A New York speech to Grover Cleveland by the Independent Republican National Committee, approved by Carl Schurz and state committees, urges continued civil service reform and opposition to political terrorism. It warns against alliances with movers who would abandon principals, and supports selecting advisers who share reform aims. Archbishop Purcell creditors seek relief from Archdiocese Elder amid multi‑million debt claims.
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Governor Stone
Colorado
Judge Carroll
Texas
Ed, Russell
Western Kansas Association
Kansas
Congress
Norman J. Celemar
Missouri
Lunar World
I Granville Stuart
M. Curtis
New York
Cleveland
Marsie
Maintaii
Pugeet
Cixcnsgatt
Purcell
Archbishope Elder
Baltimore
Patrick Sawyer
Henry Meyer
Archbishop Elder
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Strother Bros
MM. de Lessers
Panama
France
Great Britain
Santa Fe
Kit Carson
Ware
Mass
Germany
Italy
England
Shah-hai Kwan
Taku Forts
Taku End
Taku
Bismarck
West Africa
Duketown
Old Calabar
Brass
Imamy
Bonny
Earl of Durham
Ohio
Catcutta
Jonabagan
Bernhart Kohn
Kassala
Kohn
Europe
Nubia
Kasasia
Mehdi
Mr. Kohn
Taka
Daily News
Seligman Brothers
London
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
St. Louis
Bostox
Alert
Shanghai
Pernambuco
Haverhill
Shipman
United States Circuit Court
Lamar
Thomas C. McCantoon
Nashville
Tenn
Oliver & Co
Orange D. Douglass
John E. Stearns
Harrison
William Clingen
Harrison Street
Frank A. Owens
Union League Club
United States
Tuthill
Douglass
Center Avenue
Douglas
Stearns
Clingen
Owens
Baltimore & Ohio Lines
Pittsburgh & Southern Road
Washington
Baltimore & Ohio
Garrett
National Cattlemen’s Convention
Chicago Live Stock Convention
National Live Stock Association of America
Red River
J. McKean
Goise
Idaho
Brannaman
McKean
Cattlemen's Convention
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Belcher Sugar Refining Company
Heanty
Trades Assembly of
Cincinnati
Pinkerton
Hocking Valley
Congressman Tucker
Garfield
South Canodna
Palmetto
Taronte
Ani
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
Minois
Dakota
Massachusetts
Maryland
South Carolina
Kansas State News
State Union
State Temperance Union
Campbell
Committee On
Fife
Senate
House
Rey Lode
Supreme Court
A. B. Campbell
Prohibitionists
Contocratic Party of
Republican Party of
Kane
Howe
Kesabeel
Putle
Drumshop
Republican Party
Bosh
Fremont
Gol
Mie
Prohibition Party
Think
Saming
B. Ketler
Winfield
Joab Molvane
P. L Bonebrake
J. A. Troutman
G. W. £. Griffth
Lawrence
W. B. Slosson
Leavenworth
KL Wake
Abilene
Albert Griff
Manhattan
Philip Krohn
Atchison
J. J. Buck
W. H. Stout
Fort Scott
IL. W. Lewis
Jurrensos City
Charles Smith
Greene County
Grand Arceny
Thomas Tudor
St. Lotis
Omanaa
Nea
Stubendorf
Eleventh
Douglas Streets
Canfield Manufacturing Company
Tessuer
St Louis
Routt
Chicago Live Stock Association Committee
N. M. Curtis
J. W. Hamilton
New Jersey
A.O. Hadley
J. M. Coburn
R. D. Hunter
James B. Brisbin
J.M. Lusk
Iowa
J. A. Cooper
Joseph Carroll
ST. Luis Victorions
National Cattle Association
Cas FF
W.J. Crain
Southwest Texas Care Exchange
Carroll
Rontt
Curtis
W. J. Llewelltyn
I’. Vorter
Porter
Hrishin
Minho
William J. Pollock
Osage
Bharnstows
FE. Swear
Pager
Democratic Dram Corps
Mesers
Swear
Pilger
Board of Education
William Cullen Bryant
Lowstellow
Whittier
Bryant
Asan Franciscu
Tesy
Tennessee
Lixcununs
Buck- Penan
Wire
Dickinson
Dad
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