The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-10
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| SENATOR HILL has introduced a bill in the
Senate making the impeding or obstruct-
ing of railroads, except by legal process, a
crime punishable by fine and Imprisonment.
REV. KENLoCH WILSON, of Alexandria,
Va, has been elected Bishop.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was married to
Miss Frances Folsom on the evening of the
I'd. Rev. DR.. Sunderland performed the
| ceremony. Queen Victoria sent her con
gratulations.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has is<ued an or
der suspending entries under the pra-emp-
ton, timber culture and desert land laws.
in view of the impending repeal of said
laws by Congress.
THE NOyOe I'reblSd, of st. Petersburg
states that the Shan of Persia refuses the
proposal from Turkey to join in a universal
Mussulman alliance. The paper further
declares that in the text of his refusal the
Shah uses the following language: MY
friend, Russia, will not allow anybody to
attack me-"
THE committee of the French Chamber
of Deputies, having the Governments Ex-
Pulsion bill in charge, has decided by a
vote of to that the measure be compul-
sorry and not permissive; secondly, that it
be applied TO all members of all families
which at any time reigned in France:
thirdly, that the decree of Punishment be
provided by the Legislature and not by
the executive.
The President has approved the act
amending the act granting the right of
way for railroad and Telegraph line
through the lands of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Nations of Indians to the St.
Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
SENATOR VEST has reported favorably the
bill to authorize the st. Louis Merchants
Bridge Company to build bridge across
the Mississippi river above the present
bridge.
SECRETARY BAYARD has been notified that
American merchant vessels are not pro-
hibited to purchase fish in Canada
THE German Reichstag Committee on the
Spirit Tax bill has rejected the first para
graph of the bill, thus making it abortive.
SECRETARY MANNING, of the National
Treasury, recently sent his resignation to
President Cleveland, on the ground of i'm
paired health. The President requested
him to accept q leave of absence until Oc-
tober. when the resignation could be acted
upon or otherwise. Manning agreed to the
request.
ARTHUR ORION, the Roger Tichborne"
claimant, was in New York recently ar
ranging lecture tour.
THE House Committee on the Judiciary
has decided to report favorably on a bill
providing that a judgment in the Circuit
Court of the United States upon an inter
est coupon of bond of municipal corpo-
ration shall not be conclusive in questions
respecting the bonds themselves when the
amounts involved are sufficient to give
jurisdiction to the Supreme Court on ap-
peal.
A DISPATCH from Washington of the 4th
says: During the present session there
have been introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives 9,215 bills and LIS joint resolu-
tions, or a total of 9,3O3. The bills that
have passed the House number $50, includ-
ing al private and 101 public measures,
and of these bills 2s4 private and ~ public
bills have passed the Senate. The Senate
has passed and sent to the House $50 bills,
of which the House has passed Sc public
and 81 private bills.
THE International Copyright bill has been
read a third time in the British House of