Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

An International convention has beer
called to meet in Madrid, April. 1899, L
devise means for the protection of in.
dustrial interests. The object is to amend
the international law relating to trade
marks and affording greater protection t.
manufa cturers.
The Navy Department has been notified
that Admiral Kimberly commander OF
the United States feet which was de-
stroyed at Samoa last spring. has left
Samoa for home and will arrive at San
Francisco in September on a steamer from
Honolulu.
THE Emperor Of Austria visited the EN-
peror of Germany on the 18th.
DR.. ALEXANDER BROWN Mort, a noted
! American surgeon, a son of the famous
surgeon, Valentine Mott, died at his coun-
| try seat near Yonkers, y. Y, on the 18th
| of pneumonia
THREE more judges have declared the
Minnesota Dressed Beef law to be uncon-
stitutional.
The vote by which General Boulanger
was found guilty of conspiracy was 2C6 to
6. The High Court also found him guilty
of high treason by vote of 19s to 10.
The condition of the King of Bavaria
grows continually worse. All nourish-
ment is administered to him artificially.
FRAU SCHULZ, the popular actress of the
Fuerst Theater, Vienna, shot herself the
other night on the stage Immediately after
the fall Of the curtain. An unhappy love
affair was supposed to be the cause of the
suicide.
THE North Dakota Constitutional con-
vention adopted the report of the commit
faa baa fyin ba ca1a IF
State officers.
The French High Court has sentenced
General Boulanger Count Dillon and
Henri Rochefort to BE- deported TO forth
fed place.
THE Mexican Government has refused
point blank to grant concessions for negro
immigration.
REV. DR.. BAYLIss, editor of the Cincin-
natl Christian Advocate, died at Bayview,
Mich, recently.
REV. Mr.. CRosETT, an independent mis-
sionary in China, whose life work was
grand in self-sacriices, died recently in
that country.
A RECEPTION and banquet was given to
Henry George recently at Philadelphia by
the Henry George Club, Gs a welcome
after the tour abroad, where his single tax
theory has been adopted by Liberal clubs.
ELIAS LOOMS, LID, Munson professor
of natural philosophy and astronomy at
Yale. died at the New Haven Conn
Hospital on the 18th.
j. 6. HUTCHINSON has been nominated
by the Republicans for Governor of Iowa
VIRGINIA Democrats have nominated P.
W. Mckinney, of Petersburg, for Cover
nor.
IT is alleged that II. Waddington,
French Ambassador to England, has been
instructed to sound the English Govern
ment on the question of extraditing
Count Dillon and Rochefort.
PRESIDENT HARRISON returned to
Washington from his Bar Harbor trip on
the 10th.
The British Government has withdrawn
the Tithes bill.
A MANIFESTO signed by General Bou- |
LANCER, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort |
is published. 1t calls the action of the |
Senate court an orgie of arbitrary rules, |
and mendacity, and declares |
that in spite of fresh coups d'etat prepar- |
ng in the dark the signers have continued |
confidence in the electorate of France.
QUITE a stir has been caused in the PEN |
sion Office by the discovery that the |
amount of the appropriation for clerks at |
he pension agencies is $50, 900 less than |
asst year. 1t is feared that the amount is
lot sufficient to keep them running until |
Congress meets.