Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-05
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

THE President was formally notified or
the och of his denomination to the Chic
Maglstracy.
THE motion of censure of the Salisbury
Government for its action under the Crime:
act in Ireland was defeated in the British
House of Commons on the Goth by 366 Il
273
THE President has nominated Oscar E.
Rea, of Dakota, TO be register Of the land
office at Bismarck, d. T.; William ID. My
ers, of Missouri, to be agent for the Indians
of the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita
agency, in the Indian Territory.
NINE Government officials Of Seoul,
Corea, have been beneaded in the streets
by the populace. Foreigners have taken
refuge at the Consulates. The outbreak is
attributed to Chinese instigation.
THE recent Presidential election in Mex.
leo exhibited no opposition worth men,
tioning to the present incumbent General
Diaz.
CONGRESSMAN CIRCUIT has been unani
mously renominated by the Republicans OF
the Second Vermont district.
The New York Prohibitionists' meeting
at Syracuse adopted platform and nomi-
mated a State ticket, headed by w. Martin
Jones, Of Rochester. for Governor.
THE President has allowed the act to
allow the Paris, Choctaw & Little Rock
railroad to 60 through the Indian Terri.
tory to become law without his sigEa
ture.
A CHICAGO dispatch saying that General
Harrison had selected Colonel Dudley as
his personal representative on the Repub
lican National Executive Committee is de-
MED by the General
REPUBLICAN Senators have expressed an
opinion that the vetolng power so exten.
sively used by the President is danger
Gus abuse of his prerogative.
The contemplated removal Of General
Sheridan from Washington was postponed
temporarily because of rain.
The Democrats of the Second Kansas
district have nominated John T. Burris, OF
Olathe, to run against Funston.
TIE Democratic committee of notifica-
ton wal ed upon Judge Thurman at Co
lumbus, O., on the 2Sth. In his reply the
Judge highly praised the administration
of President Cleveland.
A MASS meeting was held in the Acad-
envy of Music, New York, on the 2Sth, to
ratify the denomination of President Cleve-
land. Hon. John 6. Carlisle was the prin
cipal speaker.
THE State convention Of the Iowa Union
Labor party recently chose Presidential
electors and nom mated the following State
officers: Secretary OF State, j. b. Vincent;
Auditor, E. NJ. Farnsworth; Treas
urer, James Rice; Attorney-General.J j. NJ.
Williamson. Congressman Weaver and An
derson were Endorsed as candidates for re-
election.
The Republicans OF the Twentieth Hi
nois district have nominated G. W. Smith
to succeed George r. Thomas.
STATE SENATOR d. s. HALL has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of
the Third Minnesota district
WILLIAM II. BARNUM, of Connecticut
has been reelected chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee.
THE official canvass of the vote of the
Oregon Congressional election resulted as
follows: Hermann, Republican, 81 $50:
John n. Geary. Democrat, p Alb; George
NJ. Miller. Prohibition, 1874. Hermaun's
plurality, 7,407.
THE Secretary of State has officially
called the attention of the British Minister
to the case of the American ship Bridge
water unlawfully seized by the customs
officials of the Dominion of Canada a year
ago and detained for eightY-one days at
Shelburne.
THE second meeting of the Republican
campaign was held in the Metropolitan
Opera House at New York on the 29th
The National ticket was ratified. Roswell
G. Horr, of Michigan, and Robert G. Inger-
soil were the principal speakers.
THE President has accepted the resigna-
ton of Lieutenant Emery b. Taunt, of the
navy, who was convicted by court martial
in November, 1887, of absence from duty
without leave, and OF disobedIence Of Or
ders, and sentenced to dismissal.