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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1883
Page
2
The Abilene Reflector notes Internal Revenue fell by 6 004 009 during July and August. It also reports various items including a diseased Canadian cattle shipment to Liverpool and other mixed newspaper notices from the period.
The 28th passed without sickness at Pensacola while Navy Yard reports three new fever cases, including Surgeon Owen’s daughter. Mrs. Owen deceased. A Mount Clemens theft nabbed a wagon-load of goods. Quebec saw frosts on the 27th and the Five Underwriters convention opened in Chicago on the 29th. A John Bowen steamer incident near Massachusetts Bay carried 700 passengers with no loss of life. Chester quarantines 75,000 dollars’ worth of cattle and other livestock landed from Hull on the 20th. Royalty and officials travel from Niagara Falls to Salt Lake City as Europe and Asia news cascade. Authorities debate electric lighting safety at Underwriters’ meeting. a Paris-Saigon cable plan and Tonquin honors surface amid global events. The Philadelphia & Atlantic Express accident injures thirty, with multiple other incidents and arrests reported, including a murder conspiracy in Limerick and a boy killed by a passing train. The era closes with crime trials, volcano reports, and political moves across nations.
August public debt showed cash in Treasury at 951.5 million with debtless cash 1.54 billion, down 6.07 million from July 1883. Egypt reports 27,318 cholera deaths by Sept 1 and 140 among British troops. Massachusetts Democrats set Sept 26 Springfield convention. General Butler expected to seek reelection. Iowa’s E M Cotts dies in Oscaloosa. State’s Attorney Loueck in Peoria allegedly misappropriated 10,000 with bogus mortgages. arrest. Port Townsend notifies Chinaman smuggling. Budd watchman Jonn PoxyElLy commits suicide. Louisville & Nashville caps Cincinnati-St Louis first-class fares at 1.50. Wa bash train kills Mrs Allen and daughter near Pattonsburg. Frank James trial ends. Crescent City wreck kills two and injures four. threshing engine explosion kills four near Frankfort D T.
Governor Crawford argues misapplied land grants to the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, detailing unsold branch lands and withheld odd sections. Oklahoma lands injunction denied. court preserves status pending final decree. Also rail commission actions on overloading, through rates, and miscellaneous local notices.
A Burlington Hawkeye item recalls a milkman who moved to Egg Harbor River near a tidal stream. Customers mobbed him, accused salt in milk, and attacked him. he doubly watered cans and ordered no more salt for two months. Telegraph troubles prevent full seance account. the man faces a mystery that will age him.
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