Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
PERSONAL AND PoLIrICAI.


SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts,, has
been reelected.
SENATOR RANSOM has been nominated
for another term by the Democratic legis-
lators of North Carolina.
The North Carolina Electoral vote was
the first one handed in to the United States
Senate.
FRYE has been reelected Senator from
Maine
The Senate has confirmed the nomina-
ton Of Walter C. Newberry as postmaster
at Chicago.
BISMARCK received an ovation on leav-
ing the Reichstag after his speech on the
German colonial policy on the 18th.
THE majority Of the royalists have de-
cided to vote for General Boulanger in the
coming election in Paris.
A LETTER addressed by Henry N. STAN
ley to Tippoo lib has been received in
Brussels. 1t was dated August II last
The explorer had seen Emin Bey and was
in good health, the expedition having lost
only two men by drowning and one by de-
sertion.
GOVERNOR FLEMING, of Florida. has is
sued proclamation converting the Florida
Legislature in special session on February
next to pass bill providing for State
Board of Health. and also for county
boards of health in all counties where it
may be necessary.
The President on the 10Th vetoed three
pension bills and a bill to pay $4S to
Michael Pigott, postmaster at Quincy, Ill,
for the use of telephone.
LYMAN q HUMPHREY, the new Governor
of Kansas, sent his first message to the
T 81.
covered many subjects. Executive super
vision of State institutions was wanted,
Prohibition was advocated and changes
were desired in the death penalty. Rail-
roads, banks, alien ownership, public debts,
labor legislation, trusts, education, appor-
tionment, length of session and other
matters were also ventilated and improve
ments suggested.
THE Board of Indian Commissioners at
its recent annual meeting in Washington
passed resolutions urging the extension
of the civil-service system to the Indian
service and opposing the removal Of tribes
from reservations where they are doing
we'll
The President gave a reception to the
Diplomatic Corps at the White House on
the 18th.
GENERAL w. D. WAsHBURN has been
selected by the Republicans of Minnesota
to succeed Senator Sabin.
DR. FREDERIC has resigned the office of
Prussian Minister of Justice because of the
publication of the Geffecken Indictment.
The nomination of Walter Fl. Bragg to
succeed himself as Inter- State Commits
sioner has been favorably reported in the
Senate.
RETURNS from the English County Coun-
ell elections show a majority for the Lib
erals.
NINE. LIMA DI MURsKA, the singer. died
at Munich on the 18th in extreme poverty.
Her daughter, who was heart broken at
the loss of her mother, committed suicide
by taking poison.
ONE of the messengers sent from Suakim
to Khartoum early in November brings
back letter from a European which says
that Lupton Bey died on May s. 1t was
reported that the equatorial provinces had
yielded to the Mahdi Nothing was nown
of Emin Pasha- Slatin Bey and the other
Europeans were well.
PERRY S. WEsTFALL, editor and pro-
prietor OF the Saturday Evening Mail.
Terre Haute, Ind, died recently, aged
fifty-five.
HUGO GoLLMER, secretary of the execu.
tive committee of the North American
Turner Bund and one of the oldest mem
bers of that society, died in St Louis re-
Gently, aged ffty-nine.
THE majority of the Ford Committee on
immigration proposes five-dollar tax on
immigrants.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been NOM
mated as arbitrator between Nicaragua
and Costa Rica in dispute about the pro-
posed Nicaraguan canal
EDITOR SHUMAN. connected with the
Chicago Evening Journal for thirty three
years, has retired from his post on account
of ill-health.
THE Japanese Government has abolished
the export duty on drugs woven goods,
timber, timber cereals, spirits, beasts and
fuel.
TIE President vetoed three private PEN
sion bills on the 18th.
THOMAS A. STEVENS, who proposes to go
into Central Africa in search of Henry NJ
Stanley, left London for Zanzibar on the
18th.
THE elections for the new county
councils in London recently showed .
good majority for the Liberals and Rad
icals.
In the recent election for the Govau di-
vision Of Glasgow. Scotland, the Glad
stonian candidate defeated the Unionist
reversing the preceding election, when the
late Mr.. Pearce was elected