Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
prRsoN.I. AND POLIrICAL.

PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL
TIE first council with the Sioux Indians
of Dakota was held at the Rosebud agency
on the Sd. Ex-Governor Foster spoke on
behalf of the commission The council
was expected to last long time
JUSTICE GRAY, of the United States
Supreme Court and Miss Jeanette Mat
thews, daughter OF the late Justice Mat
thews. were married at Washington on
the 4th. A large number of distinguished
guests witnessed the ceremony.
THE first election by ballot at Guthrie.
I. T.. occurred on the 4th. d. B. Dyer
was elected mayor over A. V. Alexander
| by about 400 majority. The number OF
votes registered was :, 346
JOHN A. REEVE has been appointed spe-
cial inspector of customs at the port Of
Chicago.
J, D. GAMBLE, of Knoxville, has been
elected grand master of the Iowa Masons.
Hon HAMILTON GRAY Supreme Justice
of British Columbia, is dead.
THE President has appointed Emma
CLAYTON, daughter of Colonel Clayton, as
sassinated in Arkansas last winter, post
mistress at Pine Bluff, Ark.
THE President is reported as saying that
while he was opposed to an extra session
he thought the sentiment OF the party
leaders was so strongly in its favor that
he might find it advisable to yield to that
opinion and call a session in October.
D. 81. GooDALL, Republican, has been
elected Governor of New Hampshire by
ths Joint assembly, no candidate having
received a majority in the popular elec-
ton.
THE resignation of John h Oberly,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, will take
effect July1.
THE gold medal prize in the Italian class
of the Chicago Musical College has been
awarded to Mrs. Nina Van Zandt, widow
of the Anarchist August Spies.
THE President has made the following
appointments: Charles Price, of South
Carolina, to be United States Attorney
for the Western district of North Carolina; {;
H. C. Niles, of Mississippi, to be United
States Attorney for.the Northern district
of Mississippi; John Vignau1, of Louis
lana, to be United States Marshal for the
Western district of Louisiana.
THE Commercial Advertiser says deal
| is being arranged between the County
Democrats and the Republicans with a
view of increasing the strength of the
Republicans in the Legislature and
ousting Tammany from control of New
York.
THE official text of the terms agreed
upon by the Samoan conference have
been announced at Berlin. The island is
to have an independent government,
Malietao is to be recognized as King, sub
iect to an election by the the people, and
the United States is ceded the right to es-
tablish port at Pago Pago.
The International Indian Council at
Purcell. L T., adjourned on the 9Th after a
four days. session. Considerable ind iffer- =
ence was manifested, the convention being
entirely ignored by the Seminoles, Choc-
taws and Chickasaws.
GERMANY threatens to restrict frontier
intercourse with Switzerland unless the
officials concerned in the affair of the
| German police inspector, Wohlgemuth,
are reproved
JAMES II. STONE, editor of the Detroit
Tribune, has been appointed internal rev.
enue collector for the first district of
Michigan. He was removed from the
place by President Cleveland.
MRS. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, mother
of Hon. Charles Francis Adams, president
of the Union Pacific, died at Quincy,
Mass. on the 7th, aged eighty-one.
The Governor of Connecticut has vetoed
| the bill providing for a secret ballot.
NEWS from Samoa to May % reported
| every thing quiet.