Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
QUEEN OLGA, of Wurtemburg, was
reported suffering from an attack OF
| influenza.
THE Senate Committee on Canadian
Relations held a session in New York
City on the 30th and listened to state
mentS of a Gloucester, Mass, usher
man who advocated retaliation. Eras-
tus Wiman consumed the rest OF the
day with a plea for reciprocity with
Canada.
REAR ADMIRAL KIMBERLY has been
ordered home from the command OF the
Pacific station January %. Commo-
dore George Brown will succeed him.
Dom PEDRO continues utterly pros
trated. The doctors have advised that
efforts be made to rouse him by con-
versation, but he does not respond to
any ones questions.
A BANQUET was given Associate
Justice Brewer at LeavenwOrth, Kan,
on the 30th. The Justice spoke glow
ingly of the future of Kansas.
MRS. ADDIE MARQUIS, wife OF
Lieutenant-G nt-Governor-elect Marquis, of
Ohio, died at BellefOntaine on the 3Oth.
Mrs. Marquis was formerly a resident
of Cincinnati.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, a grandson
of the first Secretary of the Treasury.
died at Irvington, n. Y, recently, aged
seventy-eight years.
THE Massachusetts, Tariff Reform
League had banquet at Boston on
the 3lSt. Roger Q. Mills and Edward
Atkinson were the main speakers.
LORD SALISBURY was one of the vic
tins of Ia grippe.
GOVERNMENT troops claim a COM
plete victory over the rebels i'll Sal
Yador.
THE remains of the poet Browning
have been laid to rest in Westminster
Abbey.
ANOTHER plot against the life of
the Car is reported to have been dis
covered in st. Petersburg.
A RUMOR was current in Washing
ton on the 3lSt that Mr.. Randall's con-
dition was much worse. Inquiry at his
house was answered by an emphatic
denial from his family. Mr.. Randall
was much better and was out of bed
and attending to his correspondence.
ABOUT six thousand of the general
public attended President Harrison's
reception New Years day, in addition
to the Diplomatic Corps, the Judiciary,
Army and Navy, etc.
FATHER DAMIEN, of Creighton Col
lege, Omaha, Neb., is dead.
KING CARLOS of Portugal opened
the Cortes on the 1st, but the Chamber
of Deputies will not be organized until
the end of the month. Questions to
be submitted by the opposition con-
corning the internal and colonial policy
of the Government will be discussed
early in February.
ELIPHALET KIMBALL, a veteran of
the Texan army of independence, died
at Hartford, Conn, recently, in the
ninetieth year of his age.
CHANCELLOR HENRY r. PIERsoN, of
the New York State Board of Regents,
died suddenly of Russian influenza.
He was prominent Republican until
the Cleveland-Blaine campaign, when
he came out for Cleveland.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY left Zanzibar on
the I'd for Egypt. He was decorated
by the Sultan.
Hon. GEORGE II. BOXER, eX-MiniS-
ter to Turkey and Russia, better known
as dramatic author and poet, died at
Philadelphia recently. He was born
October, 1923.
ROBERT G. BLAINE, brother of the
of State, and who for the
past eight years has been curator i'll
the Agricultural Department. has re-
ceived the appointment as deputy frs,
auditor of the Treasury Department.
JOHN ELLIOTT BOWEN, author,
traveller and one of the editors of the
New York Independent, died recently
aged thirty-two. He was the son of Hen
ry c. Bowen, Beecher'S warm, personal
friend.