Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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The Ohio Republican State convention
| assembled at Columbus on the 25th.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, one of the
American Comm .ssioners to the Samoan
conference, arrived at Washington on the
/ 18th. He called upon Secretary Blaine
and had long consultation. He brought
! the Samoan treaty with him.
! The wife of ex-President Hayes died al
! Fremont, o., on the 25-h. She was born
at Chillicothe, O., August %, 1881, and her
! eventful life was one OF great usefulness.
SECRETARY TRACY authorizes an en-
phatic denial of the story that his recent
visit to the New York navy yard was
connected with or attended by the whole
sale discharge of Democratic employees
FRANCE has decided TO refuse to agree
to the scheme for the conversion of the
Egyptian preferred debt unless England
will give a guarantee that she will evacu-
ate Egypt
GOVERNOR FORAKER has been renoml-
Ma ted by the Republicans of Ohio
THE story that Mgr. Persico, in his re-
port to the Pope on the result of his inves-
tigation of Irish affairs, had asserted that
the Irish Nationalists had formed plot
to kill him if he returned to Ireland is
pTOuOuuCeu purely iuldS SlHdl V
MR. CHAMBERLAIN has written a letter
to a member of the Baptist Church, in
which he says that neither party can gain
profit o. honor by a bargain with Mr..
Gladstone, binding him to advocate the
Establishment of the church in Wales
in return for Nonconformist support of
his home rule scheme.
HERR REICHHoLZ, German Consul at
Newcastle, England, has committed sui
eide
The lower house of the Michigan Legis-
lature has passed the Holbrook Antitrust
bill by vote of 55 to S.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, the well
known statesman, whose life extended
over ninety years, died at Lancaster, Pa,
on the Goth.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, of New Jer-
sey, has been appointed Minister to Ger
many.
THE War Department is in receipt of
dispal ches confirming the press reports of
trouble with the Flathead Indians neaI
Missoula, Mont.
4 SWEEPING general order has been is
sued by Secretary Tracy, requesting an
entire reorganization of the business
methods of the Navy Department.
j. H. HOLLENDER, who was recently ex-
PEELED from Guatemala by the Govern
ment Of that country, has laid grievances
before Mr.. Blaine.
A HANDSOME monument to Captain John
Mason, who ended the Pequot war in Con-
necticut in 1887, was unvailed at Mystic,
Conn, tly.
GEORGE LORING BROWN, once a noted
painter of this country, died at Maiden,
Mass. recently. aged seventyfive.
PRINCESS LOUISE, aged twenty-five
years, daughter of the Prince of Wales,
has been betrothed to the Earl of File.
her fathers bosom friend and the Queens
at Balmoral Castle. The Earl is
past forty years of age.
COLONEL A. NJ SAXTON, one of the orig
inal settlers of St Joseph, No., died on
the 9th. He was born in Ohio, February
y. 1921.
COMMODORE GREER, now on his way
home from Europe, has been appointed
president of a board to revise the organ
ization, tactics and drill of the navy.
QUEEN CHRISTINA assembled 100 feet in an
air balloon at Madrid on the 2S b. 1t was
her first ascent. The balloon was chris
tened Maria Christina"
MURRAY's MAGAZINE announces that |
Prince Albert Victor, oldest son of the |
Prince of Wales, has been affianced to
Princess Victoria, of Prussia, sister of
the Emperor of Germany.
MARIA MITCHELL, the noted astronomer |
Of Lynn, Mass, is dead. She was born in |
Mass, August l, 1918.
FRED DOUGLASS has been appoin ted Min
ster to Hayti.
CARLoTTA PATTI. sister of Adelina, died |
On the 2Sth. She was singer of consid- |
erabe repute
The funeral of the wife of ex-President |
Hayes took place at Fremont O., on the |
18th.