Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


The Vossische Zeitung, of Berlin, say
that the American Commissioners to thu
Samoan conference are instructed by
their Government to demand the neutral
ity of the islands and the administration
of Samoan affairs by Samoans, and K
urge the right to establish q coaling sta
ton at Pago-Pago.
AT the annual meeting of the Nationa
Liberal Club Mr.. Parnell was elected life
member by large majority.
CHAUEcEY NJ DEPEw has been examined
by the Senate Committee regarding the
working of the Interstate law. HI
agreed on many points with Commissioner
Fink and President King.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says he intends
to fast 100 days.
The President has made the following
appointments: Theodore Roosevelt of New
York, and Hugh s. Thompson, of South
Carolina, to be Civil-Service Commits
sioners and Frank W. Palmer, of Chicago
to be Public Printer.
The pallium was conferred upon Arch.
bishop Janssens by Cardinal Gibbons IL
the cathedral at New Orleans on the Sth
The Count Tolstoi, Russian Minister Of
the Interior, who died recently, was G
brother of the celebrated author.
The Scotch Irish Congress opened al
Columbia, Tenn, on the Sth. The exer.
cises were opened with a mastery GRAFTON
by Proctor Knott, Ex-Governor of Ken
lucky. He was followed by short speeches
from DIR. John Hall. the eminent New
York divine; Hon. James F. Johnson, OF
Alabama, and Judge Scott, Of Illinois.
D.; ~ n
rejected the Deceased Wife's Sister bill.
The Prince of Wales voted with the minor.
ity. The vote was 147 to 10
FATHER DAMIEN, the famous leper
priest of the Sandwich islands. died April
10. He gave up all to Christianize the
lepers.
REPRESENTATIVE LAIRD, of Nebraska,
who has been seriously i'll for some
months at Washington, has almost re-
covered.
GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARVEY died at
Orlando, Fla, on the 9th in his eighty
ninth year. He was the oldest West Point
graduate.
Ex-SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY
was presented in the British House of
Lords recently on invitation of the Earl
of Dunraven. Ex-Mayor Hewitt of New
York, is a guest at Blenheim Palace, the
seat of the Duke of Marlborough.
THE President has appointed Asa Mat
thews, of Illinois, to be First Comptroller
of the Treasury vice Durham, resigned.
He is the present Speaker of the Illinois
House of Representatives, which office he
has held for several terms. He was
Colonel of an Illinois regiment during the
war and subsequently held the Office OF
collector of internal revenue for the
Peoria district.
MISS HELEN TRENHOLM, a niece Of ex-
Comptroller Trenholm, of South Carolina,
eloped re cently with Wilson W. Brenne-
man, clerk in a real estate Office at Wash
ington. The couple went to Philadelphia.
Miss Trenholm was eighteen years of age.
and one of the bellies of West Washington.
THE President has appointed Ebert E.
Kimball United States attorney for the
Western district of Missouri. and George
E. Reynolds attorney for the Eastern dis
trict
JOHN P. SALISBURY, Secretary of State
of Delaware, died on the 10Th at his home
in Dover. He had been ill since his re-
turn from the New York centennial cele-
bration. He was the eldest son of Chan
cellor Willard Salisbury, who was United
States Senator from Delaware during the
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