Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
OK the night of the 18th Jefferson
Davis suffered considerably from fever
but toward morning his condition be-
came normal. This was the first time
since his removal to New Orleans that
he had been absolutely free of fever.
THE President has appointed Alonzc
J. EdgeTtOn, of South Dakota, to be
Judge for the district of South Dakota:
Willis Sweet, of Idaho, to be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Territory of Idaho; William B. Ster-
ling, of South Dakota, to be Attorney
for the district of South Dakota.
BY common consent one of the
United States Senators was from the
east and one from the west division of
the State of Washington. On the bal
lot for the East Side Senator the vote
in the House stood: John b. Allen, 46;
George Turner, IA; T. II. Brents, 1;
Charles S. Voorhees,, s. In the Senate
the vote stood: Allen, 26; Turner, 6.
TIE annual banquet of the New
York Chamber of Commerce took place
on the 18th. Among the guests were
ex-President Cleveland and General
Sherman.
J. Z. ALLEN and W. c. Squire, Re
publicans, have been elected United
States Senators by joint ballot of the
Washington Legislature.
HENRY GEORGE will get the bequest
of S3O, 900 left by New Jersey farmer,
the Court of Appeals reversing de-
cisiOn of a lower court, Chief Justice
Beasley declaring that Mr.. George had
made valuable contributions to the
study of social and political economy,
and that his books were not contrary
to law, religion or morality.
THE commission appointed last JAN
uary to select the most desirable Ioca-
ton on the Gulf of Mexico for navy
yard and dry dock have reported at last
in favor of Algiers, La, opposite New
Orleans.
Ross GUFFIN has been appointed
Government surveyor at Kansas City,
Mo.
CAPTAIN WIssMANN telegraphs that
Henry NJ. Stanley and party arrived at
Mpwapwa on November 10.
THE Austrian Reichstag has been
called to meet in Vienna December 2.
THE Brazilian Consulate is on the
lookout for shipments of arms from
New York to Rio Janeiro. Consulate
officials say that if any fighting occurs
it shall not be with guns from New
York like there was during the Haytian
rebellion.
MRS. ELIZABETH CLEoIENTINE KIN
NEY, mother of the New York poet,
Edmund Clarence Stedman, died at
N. j., recently, aged seventy
nine.
ISAAC SCHUYLER, the noted coffin
of Amsterdam, n. Y, has
assigned with S75, 900 liabilities.
CAPTAIN WIssMANN, the German
East African leader, has been made a
Major III the German army in recogni-
ton of his services.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has
made new division, of which his son
will have charge.
THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
quested andreceived the resignation of
II. A. Phillips, chief of the middle
division of the Pension Office. He is
one of the re-rated pensioners whose
cases were recently overhauled by the
Secretary.
DIR. F. B. NOFSINGER has been ap-
pointed postmaster of Kansas City, Mo.
THE President has appointed Thomas
Clay Mcdowell, of Kentucky, to be
of internal revenue for the
Seventh district of Kentucky, vice
Cassius Goodloe, deceased. |
Mcdowell is the son-in-law of Mrs. |
IOOdlOe.