Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
RIGHT Rev. BISHOP SEYMOUR was mar
ried to Mrs. Harriet Atwood at Trinity
Church, New ork, on the 23d
MINISTER TERRELL, now at Brussels, ha,
recovered from the recent injury to hi:
knee.
LtGIrIME has appealed to Mr.. Thomp.
son, the American Minister in Hayti, tc
arbitrate his differences with Hippolyte
SECRETARY NOBLE has ordered an in.
vestigation of the recent rerating Of PEN
sions by Commissioner Tanner.
ELLIOT F. SHEPARD. in behalf Of the
American Sabbath Union, asked the
North Dakota Constitutional convention
recently that provisions encouraging Sab
bath observance be engrafted in the Con-
stituton. The one-house plan was de-
feated.
An order has been issued by the French
High Court of Justice depriving General
Boul anger and Count Dillon of their civil
and political rights and declaring them
ineligible for election to any Office.
The German Admiralty has uncovered
a perfect nest of corruption within the de.
partment, involving many high officials
A number of naval officers were arrested
at Berlin and at Kiel on the charge of
wholesale bribery. One of these on being
taken into custody shot himself dead.
NJ. DUPONT, Boulangist member of the
| Chamber of Deputies, recently attempted
to make a speech at Port Liable, Finis-
terre, but was attacked by a mob and
stoned. A number Of his teeth were
broken and he was driven away.
REV FATHER JAMES CURLY, the vener-
able director of the Georgetown ID. c.
College Observatory, died OF the 23d He
was born in Roscommon County, Ireland,
October %, 1886 and was at the time of his
death the oldest priest in America, per-
haps in the world. He was connected
with the Georgetown College for sixty
two years.
EX-KING MILAN arrived in Belgrade on
the oath. He was met at the station by
his son. King Alexander, the Regent, the
members of the Servian Cabinet and the
foreign representatives.
Mr. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE celebrated
their golden wedding on the 25th.
THE Executive Council of Massachusetts
is busy making preparations for a grand
reception to President Harrison on his
way to Bar Harbor, Me.
The Prohibitionists of Ohio held a mon
ster meeting recently at GAINESVILLE in
honor of the twentieth anniversary of the
formation of the party
BISHOP WALSH, of London. Ont, has
been selected for Archbishop of ToI onto
by the Pope.
The Idaho Constitutional convention
arrived at the decision to cut off all Nor
mons from the right of suffrage.
THE Parnell Commission has adjourned
to October 3
SECRETARIES WINDOW and Tracy have
returned to Washington from New York.
DAVID w, WEARE, of Missouri a chief
of division in the Pension Office, has re-
signed and an Indiana man has been APP
pointed his successor.
LABoUCHERE's amendment to the Royal
Grants bill was rejected by the British
House of Commons by 39S to 156.
LIE SoIR, of Paris, asserts that Bou-
LANCER, fearing he will be condemned, is
going to New York o avoid extradition.
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed So
Ion Norton, of Buffalo, n. Y, to be in
spector of customs in the Cleveland. O.,
district
THE Chippewa Indian Commission is
having great difficulty at White Earth.
Several stormy sessions have been held.
Up to recent date not a single signature
to the Nelson bill had been secured.
REV THOMAS G. STRONG, of Ithica, Ny,
has lost his reason and will be committed
to the Binghamton insane asylum. He
was formerly president OF Wells College
and has occupied prominent pulpits in the
Reformed Church.
EDITOR WEST, of the Chicago Times,
after protracted fight, has concluded to
retire from the management.
The wedding gift of Mrs. John W.
Mackay to Princess Louise was pair OF
earrings costing $1,000.
y two test cases the New Hampshire |
Supreme Court has decided that the law |
requiring licenses for the practice of med
icine and dentistry is unconstitutional
THERE was a report current that Mary |
Anderson, the actress, was really suffer- |
ing from mental disorder and was con- |
fined in private lunatic asylum in Eu-
rope.