Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-05
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
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PERsONAL AND POLITICAL


The resignation of the ruler of Cash
mere has been accepted by the Viceroy oi
India and the country has been placed
under a native council.
The King of Siam has presented the
American Presbyterian mission with the
use of one of the royal palaces and the
grounds adjoining.
/ A HUGE Boulangist meeting was held in
| Paris on the 9th to protest against the
! Governments action against General Bou-
| LANCER. The crowd consisted chiefly ol
workingmen. The proceedings were care
| fully watched By the troops and police.
| THE Montana Democratic State conven-
ton nominated J. K. Toole for Governor,
H Conrad, of Billings, for Lieutenant
! Governor, and Martin Maginnis for Con-
| gress-
| ALL the Democratic officers IN the GUS
toms department Of Vermont have been
asked to resign by g. q. Benedict, the
new collector for the State.
! The Globe. of Durham n. C., learns OF
the death of Granny" Boston. She was
one hundred and twenty one years old, a
pensioner, and remembered the battle OF
Kings Mountain. Her corpse weighed
| only fifty pounds.
THE denial by the President of the re-
port that he had stated that an extra ses-
sion of Congress would be called has
dampened the enthusiasm of the candi-
dates for offices of the House and the
newspaper correspondents. who were the
chief supporters of the extra session the
ory.
president CARNoT, of France, has
signed decree fixing the general elec-
tions for September %.
The Ohio Democratic convention at
DAYTON on the 2Sth nominated Jeme1 E.
Campbell, OF Butler County, for Governor.
The Chicago papers recently said that
ex-Commander-in-C Chief Warner had been
offered and accepted the editorship of the
Republic, q New York monthly magazine
devoted to the Grand Army. Major
Warmers son says his father was offered
the place but declined it
GENERAL RUSSELL A. ALGER was elected
by acclamation Commander in Chief of
the G. A. R.
NJ. THESE. Boulangist member of the
Chamber of Deputies has been ar
rested for resisting the police at a Bou-
giSt meeting.
JAMES S. MCGEE, of Kansas, a clerk in
the office of the superintendent of the free
delivery service, Post office Department
has been appointed post-Office inspector
on free delivery service.
The Brazilian Government has nego-
tiated with the banks of Rio de Janeiro a
loan of $4,000, 900 at per cent per an
mum.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has ex-
pressed his willingness to act with the
Worlds Fair committee of New York.
THE charter was defeated at the election
at Oklahoma City, Ok, by an overwhelm-
ing vote.
The Government of Paraguay has ac-
cepted the invitation of the United States
to attend the congress of American States
in Washington in October.
GEORGE FACETT Rowe, the actor and
dramatist, died of Bright's disease at New
York on the 29th.
DIR. NATHANIEL EMMoNs, formerly of
Delaware, O., who had for twenty years
been a leading dentist of Valparaiso,
Chill, died there June 20. He was a Grand
Army veteran and his last request was
for Grand Army headstone for his grave.
GOVERNOR MELLETTE, of North Dakota,
has called an election for State and coun-
ty officers the first Tuesday in October
next
MISS ANNIE JoSFs, who had been an in
valid for seventy years and confined to
her bed for sixty, died recently at Liver
more Falls, Me-, aged eighty-seven.
THE British Parliament has been pro-
rogued to November 16
EXCITEMENT was reported prevailing
among Americans resident in China be-
cause of the influence brought to bear up
on the Emperor to have all Americans ex-
PEELED in retaliation for the Scott Exclu-
sion bill.
ADvICEs received from Tishomingo,
Chickasaw Nation, say that the official
returns from the election for members of
the lower house of the Chickasaw Legisla-
ture show a decisive majority for the
Progressive party.