Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICALs
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has received q report from Malachi Krebs,
a special agent of the Interior Depart
ment to aIlot lands in severalty to the In
dams upon the DEVILS lake reservation in
Northern Dakota, announcing the refusal
of the Indians to receive the allotments
as CONTEMPLATED in the General Allotment
act of 1887.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of St Louis, re-
Gently denied emphatically that he went
| to New York for the purpose of selling
the Merchants bridge to Jay Gould.
The President has designated General
McFeely to act as Secretary of War dur
! ing the absence of Secretary Proctor.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD has directed the
commander of the division of the Pacific
to take such action as may be necessary
to protect settlers near Calispeld, Wash
| ington Territory, from the Indian out
break threatened there.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania,
has honored the requisition of the Gov
ernor of South Carolina for Rev. z. +.
Flemon, the colored preacher accused Of a
murder in 1884.
SULLIVAN, the pugilist, was arrested at
! New York on the 31st on a requisition
from the Governor of Mississippi, APP
proved by the Governor Of New York
SECRETARY TRACY has cabled Admiral
Gherardi at ST. Nicholas Mole, Hayti, to
rescue three American sailors left on an
uninhabited guano island called Arenas
Key.
CAPTAIN l. DUvARGE, who shot Con.
sular Agent V. F. N. Stanwood at Ana
kade, Madagascar, last November, has
been found guilty of manslaughter and
sentenced to ten years. Imprisonment
THE remains of General Lazare Carnot,
grandfather OF the President Of the
French Republic, have been exhumed at
Magdeburg, Germany, where they were
buried. They will be reinterred in the
Paris Pantheon. The body was found in
a wonderful state of preservation.
THE United States Senate Committee on
Irrigation of Arid Lands in the West
commenced its labors at st. Paul, Mimi,
on the 1st Those present were Senators
Stewart, of Nevada, and Reagan, of
Texas; Colonel Hinton, of the geological
survey, and Major Powell.
EvARIsTo CARAzo, President of Mica
ragua, is dead.
THE island of Crete is reported to be in
a state of anarchy as the result Of the
present uprising.
THE Emperor of Germany arrived at
Dover, England, on the 1st.
LIEUTENANT TAPPENBEcK, the African
explorer has fallen a victim to fever.
IN the Washington Territory Constitu-
tional convention the clause forbidding
counties to grant subsidies for any pur-
pose whatever was adopted.
The Shah of Persia visited Buffalo BilPs
Wild West show in Paris and was much
interested in the performance.
COLONEL CANADAY, sergeant-at-arms of
the United States Senate, who had been
in Alaska with Senate committee, is ly-
ing quite i'll in Montana
THE President returned to Washington
On the 1st.
The Puyallup Indians. of Washington
Territory, a tribe we'll advanced in educa-
tion and intelligence, have senta memorial
to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
asking Tor severalty,
In ukase the Gear of Russia has ap-
proved the late Count Tolstoi's reform
policy.
ENGLAND has annexed the Union and
Phoenix groups of islands in the Pacific
ocean.