The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-07-25
PERSONAL AND POLIrICAL.

CHAIRMAN CANNON, of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, denies that
the appropriations for the current fiscal
year will exceed tho revenues. He
claims that the revenues, even with the
Mckinley reductions. will be S57, 497, 900
above all but the new pension law needs
CONGRESSMAN HALL. of the Third
Minnesota district has been renomi-
mated by reclamation by the Repub-
licans.
THE President has nominated Allured
b. Nettleton, of Minnesota, to be AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury;
James Russell Solely, of Massachusetts,,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has decided that it will issue an
order making a reduction in grain rates
from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri,, to St Louis and the Mississippi
river and to Chicago. Food product
rates east of the Mississippi, and not
involved in other suits before the Com
mission are not found to be excessive.
LIEUTENANT DONALDSON of the army,
was drowned with Miss Lottie Spur
geon recently at Santa Ana, Cal The
Lieutenant had rescued two persons
carried out by the current but persisted
with the third.
WILLIAM HASTINGS. a delegate to the
Democratic State convention at Nash
vile. Tenn, from White County, walked
off the second story of the State Capitol,
falling about thirty feet He was al
most instantly killed.
WARREN ) LURTY, United States
marshal for Oklahoma, rendered his
resignation at Washington on the 18th
and 1t was promptly accepted.
RICHARD CROKER, Tammany's chief
sachem, has sailed for Europe with his
family.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN and Private Sec
rotary Halford left Washington on the
18th for Cape May for few days.
In the school board election in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the Liberals elected
seven members and the Mormons three.
ADMIRAL HoLTHAM has arrived at
Esquimault, b. C. lie says he has re-
ceived no orders of the warlike nature
in press dispatches.
EUGENE SCHUYLER. the American
Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt is
dead.
THE Alliance and Labor parties OF
Minnesota have united on a State
ticket with S. NJ. Owens, editor of the
Farmers Stock and Home, OF Mime.
apolis, for Governor
TIE Department. of State has received
a dispatch from the American Minister
at The Hague, stating that the Neither
lands Government has abolished the
tolls on the North sea canal.
HoS. JOHN p. BUCHANAN has beer
nominated for Governor by the Tennes
see Farmers Alliance.
THE House Committee on Election.
has decided two more contested cases il
favor of the Republican contestants
They were the Florida case OF Goodrich
vs. Bullock, decision in favor of Good
rich, and the West Virginia case of Nc
Ginnis VS.. Anderson, decision in favor o
McGinnis
PRoF. NORMAN DUSsHEE, of Drak,
University. died suddenly recently a
Des Moines, Iowa, from heart disease
He was Garfield's Latin and Greel
, teacher at Hiram College.
Miss LILLIAN BLANCHE FEARING, tn
r only lady in this years graduating elias
of Union College of law in Chicago.
entirely blind.
7 JUDGE POWERS, of the Vermont Su
\ preme Court retires from the bench t
accept nomination to Congress
The proposition to revive the grad
r Of Northumberland does not NEE
with favor in any but military circles.
4 COLONEL t. G. MORROW. editor of tn
Washington Sunday Gazette, is dead.
5 LYDIA BECKER, leader of the woma
suffrage movement in England, died il
Geneva recently of diphtheria-
D DIR. CHRISTIAN HENRY FREDERIc
n PETERS, the famous astronomer, wa
found dead in his bed at Clinton. N. Y.
I recently. He was born in Germany
a September 10, 1913, and was graduate
n at the University of Berlin