Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
pFRsoyaI. AND PoI5rIcAI.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
The official canvass of the Presidential
vote of Indiana has been completed. The
total vote for the highest Elector on each
of the four tickets is 53s, 949, as follows:
| Highest Republican Eiector, 263, 261; high
est Democrat, 261 ,O13; Prohibition, 1851;
Labor, 1854. Republican plurality, 2,34S.
General HoEey's plurality for Governor
was 1920.
III. HERTENsTEIy, President of Switzer-
land, who underwent the amputation of
his right leg because of disease of the
arteries, is dead.
SURGEON SIMON, of the United States
steamer Boston, in quarantine at New
York, died ON the 9th of yellow fever.
The two other patients were steadily i'm
proving, and the restof the ships company
were in good health
HoE. MICHAEL HENRY HERBERT, Brit
ish charge d'affaires at Washington, was
married recently to Miss Belle Wilson, e
rich New York girl
A RECENT meeting of Democratic mem
bers of the G. A. r. was held at Indianap-
oils, Ind, when it was resolved to secede
from the organization and form a new one.
The alleged cause was that the order had
been used for political ends in the recent
general election.
HENRY GEORGE lectured in London on
the 9th. He said that the grasping for
land in America was rapidly making that
country similar to England. He wanted
to utterly abolish landlerdism.
COUNT BENoMAR, late Spanish Minister
to Germany, is to be called to strict ao-
count for his actions after his recall.
The wife of General w. T. Sherman died
at New York on the 18th.
MINISTER JACOB T. CHILD sailed from
San Francisco for Siam on the 2sth.
THE Italian Senate has rejected the bill
for the extension of political suffrage to
women.
THE bronze bust Of John Mccullough,
the dead tragedian, was unvailed at Mount
Moriah cemetery, Philadelphia, on the
18th in the presence of many noted actors
and others.
The Republican plurality for Governor
in Michigan was 1870. The pluralities
on the rest of the State ticket were from
9, $40 to %, 1887.
A FORMAL tender of the position of chief
marshal of the inaugural parade at Wash
ington on the 4th of March has been
made to Governor Beaver, of Pennsyl-
vania.
The British House of Commons has
passed the Ashbourne Extension act by a
vote of 2O2 to al.
AFTER a conference with Cardinal RAM
polla and the Russian envoy, the Pope
proposes to establish diplomatic relations
with Russia, a Russian Minister being
sent to the Vatican, but no Nuncio to st.
Petersburg.
THE President attended union services
at Assembly Church, Washington, Thanks
giving morning.
The Wisconsin official vote for President
was 354, 1854, an increase of "a, 776 over 1884.
Harrison's plurality was 21,271. gain of
6,591 over Blaine's. Governor Hoard's
plurality was 20,265, as against S,71s for
Rusk in 1886. The Prohibition vote was
1927, against 1866 in 1884. The Labor
vote was 1852, against Is, 51S in 1884.
THE Electoral vote of California, as an
nounced by the Secretary of State was as
follows: Harrison, 124,S09; Cleveland,
III, 729; Fisk, 8, 716; Curtis, 521.
THE canvass of the Oregon vote
shows the following as the official figures:
Harrison, 80, 293; Cleveland, 26, 524; Fisk,
!, 677; Streeter 1863; scattering, 81. Harri-
sons plurality was 769. while at the last
Presidential election Blaine's plurality
was 2,256.
THE official vote of Kentucky was:
Cleveland, 1S3.S00; Harrison, 155. 1874; Fisk,
8, 225; Labor, go; Belva Lockwood, 9