Personal And Political

1i:iv--m' i IIaiirison has nonainated Henry i. ISrnwn. oí Michigan, ti be Associate .Jnstice oí the United States Supremc ('onr) to lili the vacancy i'iiiM'il by thi' deaih f Jnstfce Samuel E. Mil Ier. IM:KsiiiKr has nominated Col onc I ('1i:ii-Ií's Sut herí and to be Surgeon Gi'iu'inl. with tlio raak f Brigadier (ioncral. viee .). lí. Baxter, dcceased. I'koho Antonio López, oged 115 years, iIí.mI ;ii iiis homo D6ar Santa V'o, N. M. Ai Ivit I. vino. Conn., .ímlt" Hall deoided that a "paster" put on n blank upaoe on ;i ticket made the ballot llogal onder the State law. If sustainedtha decisión wonld Invalídate :;.."oo Prohibition ballots and elect .Morris (Dem) Govemor. Tin: Bntt l.i'L'islatiii.' of OUIahomaadjourned after passing a complete code of lawfj -8 (.'omposition of the I):ikii1;i, Indiana. Kcbranka and Illinoisstatutes. Hon'. U'. 1). Simi'son. ('liief .Justiee of the South Carolina Siiprcine Court, dicd at his home in Colunibia of heart diseasf). Mrs. Ei.i.kn Gibbons, aged 80 yoars, was burned to deatli at SaratOga, N. Y. Mus. Siiixkv AN' Wii.iiiiK (colored) died at Sedalia. Mo., ageá 106 years. She weighed ;.") pounds and had been totallv blind for several yoars. Mr. and Mus. .1. W. Srüo.Nf!, of Ottawa, Kan., had on Christmas bidden puosts to celébrate the Hfty-h'rst anniversary of their maiiiafe, hut in the mornins' Mr. Strong expired suddenly, and a few hours later liis wife passed away in a similar manner.