Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-14
The senate-Executive Session.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mr.. PARNELL has made pubic through
the press his thanks for the congratula-
tons from all parts of the world on the
COLLAPSE of the London Times case against
him.
THE Germans have occupied Bagmoya,
on the coast of Zanzibar. Several of the
natives were wounded.
THE French Government has forbidden
any further presentations of swords of
honor to General Boulanger.
THE death of the King of Holland was
expected at any moment on the 9th, as
blood poisoning had set in.
MRS. MARY L. BOOTH, editor of Harper's
Bazaar, died at New York on the 9Th. She
was born at Gaphank, L. L, in 1881.
SENATOR BECK, of Kentucky, who is still
at Fortress Monroe, is almost well again
and will return to Washington as soon as
the weather becomes settled.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND and family
left Washington on the 9th for their fu-
ture home in New York.
A BERLIN dispatch says that Herr Stue-
bel goes as a special commissioner to re-
store order in Samoan waters. He is re-
puted to be an able diplomat. The Ameri-
can account of the terms of the armistice
arranged by Herr Knappe and Mataafa
are not believed in Berlin.
KING MILAN abdicated the throne of
Servia on the 9th in favor of his son Alex
ander, aged thirteen. Regents will have
control during the Princes minority.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, has accepted
the new Cabinet formed by Premier
Crispi. 1t is a combination affair.
Ell TEMPO, a conservative journal of the
City of Mexico, says it sees in President
Harrison's inaugural address a menace to
the peace of the Spanish American Repub-
lies, especially Mexico. The same journal
also expresses a fear as to the policy
which Secretary of State Blaine may
adopt
BY vote of 50 to 80 the Minnesota House
| of Representatives refused to submit to
the people an amendment in favor of pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic.
GENERAL BoULANGER in q letter to an
Italian paper declares his earnest desire
for friendship between France and Italy.
AUSTIN CoRBIN, President of the Read
ing Railroad Company, is seriously i'll at
his home in New York city.
Dion BoUCICAULT and Louise E. Thorn
dyke were married on the 7th in Mr. Bou-
cicault's home, on Fifty-fifth street. New
York. The ceremony was performed by
Chief Justice McAdam.
THE Pennsylvania House Judiciary
Committee has reported back the Single
Tax bill unfavorab!y.
THE decree of exile against the Due
d'Aumale has been rescinded by the French
Cabinet.
IT is reported at Suakim that the
Abyssinians are besieging Kassala and
that Senousis' army is marching on Khar-
toum.
THE First Lord of the Admiralty has
submitted scheme to increase the English
navy by expanding Ell, SOC, 900.
SIMON CAMERON celebrated his ninetieth
birthday at Harrisburg, Pa, on the Sth.
PARNELL received an ovation at BAN
quet given by the Eighty Club to Lord
Spencer at London on the Sth.
BULGARIAN newspapers are of the opin-
ion that the abdication of King Milan was
the best thing he ever did.
CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON, the noted en-
gineer and inventor, died at New York on
the Sth. He was born July 81, 1903, in the
province of Wernland, Sweden.
REPRESENTATIVE TowNsHEND, of Illi-
nois, was reported lying critically ill with
pneumonia at the Riggs House, Washing
| ton on the Sth