Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE Russian Government has completed
all its arrangements for army transporta-
tion in case of war.
THEODORE STEINwAY. one of the famous
New York piano makers, died at Bruns-
wick, Germany, recently.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN and his family
expect to make a long trip in Europe as
soon as the Senate adjourns.
JOHN R NEAL, member Of the Fiftieth
Congress, Third Tennessee district died
at his home, Rhea Springs, ON the Goth.
MARY ANDERSON, the actress, was able
to take long ride in Philadelphia on the
9th.
THE President entertained Whitelaw
Reid and Mrs. Reid at dinner the other
evening at the White House. Secretary
Blaine and John F. Plummer, of New York,
were also present
COUNT HoYoS. the trusted friend of the
late Crown Prince Rudolph, is said to have
fought duel and shot Count Baltizza the
uncle of the late Baroness Vetsera, whose
death was associated with that of the
Crown Prince.
THE Duke of Buckingham died on the
9th.
RIGHT Hon. JOHN BRIGHT, the we'll
known English statesman, died on the 9th.
He was born near Rochdale November 16,
1911.
THE Saxton Election Reform bill (Aus-
tralian ballot system) and the Excise Com
mission High License bill, amended, have
both been ordered to third reading in the
New York Assembly, the Republicans
voting yea and the Democrats nay.
EX-CONGRESsMAN PETER PAUL Ma
HONEY, of Brooklyn, died at the Arlington
HOTEL Washington, on the 9th.
JOHN HICKS, who has been nominated
for Minister to Peru, is the proprietor of
the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper and
president of the Wisconsin Editors and
Publishers Association. He is bright
man, about forty five years of age, and
has been in poor health. 1t is believed
that a trip to Peru and a residence there
will be beneficial to him.
LORD FRAZIER, Judge of the Scotch
Court of Sessions, is dead.
DIR. JOHN SwINBURNE, the eminent sur
geon of Albany, N. Y, died recently.
FERDINAND VANDERTAELEN, a merchant
prince of Antwerp, committed suicide the
other day. The act was due to the failure
of several allied firms whose liabilities
will probably reach a colossal sum, Mr.
'ohNCA toClOH was ucIuDcT Ol
the Liberal party and had been dubbed
the John Bright OF Belgium.
THE Ex-President Cleveland party ar
rived in Florida from Cuba on the 18th.
The young tragedian, Creston Clarke, a
nephew of Edwin Booth, was reported
lying dangerously i'll in Milwaukee. He was
suffering from tonsilitis and infiamma-
tion of the bowels His company was
disbanded.
THE Anti-Jesuit resolution was defeated
in the Canadian House of Commons on the
18th.
The French Cabinet on the 29th resolved
to arrest and prosecute General Bou-
lauger.
ALDAcE F. WALKER, Interstate Com
merce Commissioners, sent his resignation
to the President on the 29th. He will
leave Washington to assume his new
duties as chairman of the executive board
of the Interstate Commerce Railway
Association.
THE widow of Stonewall jackson has
been offered the appointment of post
mistress of Lexington, Va, which she was
impelled to decline because of the feeble
ness of her father in his great age (ninety-
one years., which required her constant
attention.
GLADSTONE delivered his eulogy on
John Bright in the British House of Com
mons on the 29th.