Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERsoNAL AND PoLIrICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
AT Albany, n. Y, on the 18th Mayor
James H. Manning and the entire demo
cratic ticket were reelected by 5000
majority. The democrats carried seven
teen out of eighteen wards. Mr.. Man,
ming is the son of ex-Sccretary of the
Treasury Daniel Manning.
The king and queen Of Italy have ar.
ranged to visit the court at Berlin in
June, to remain a week.
THE city of Rio Janeiro was in state
of siege on the 18th. A number Cd
prominent military and naval officers
were placed under arrest for having par
ticipated in great public manifestation
in favor of ex-President Fonseca. The
prisoners will be tried by council Oh
war; The revolution was started in the
state of Malta Crosse. The legislature
has proclaimed its independence Of the
republic. a3
PENNSYLVANIA democrats met in con-
vention at Harrisburg on the 18th.
Resolutions in favor of tariff reform
and of the nomination of Grover Cleve-
land for president were adopted. The
four electors at large are: w. F. FL
lott, of Tioga; ]. C. Bullitt, of Phil
adelphia; Thomas A. Kennedy, OF
Franklin, and David L. Watson, of Al
legheny. Christian Heydrick, of Van
amigo, was nominated for judge of the
supreme court by reclamation. George
A. Allen, of Erie, and Mayor Thomas
P. Merritt, of Reading, were named as
the candidates at large for congress.
POLICE SUPERINTENDENT MURRAY. Of
New York, has retired on account of ILL
health and Thomas F. Byrnes has been
appointed in his place.
The Nebraska democrats refused
to instruct the delegates to the national
convention to vote for Grover Cleve-
land.
THE Michigan republican convention
adopted resolutions indorsing Gen.
Alger as a presidential candidate.
OWING to differences that arose at the
last three cabinet councils over the
measures to be submitted to parlia-
ment the whole Italian municipal min
istry rendered their designations to
King Humbert on the 14th and they
were accepted.
THE colored republicans of Maryland,
in mass meeting at Baltimore, demand
ed that they be given four of the six
teen delegates to the Minneapolis con-
vention.o
Mr.. JAMES r. YOUNG, execut tive clerk
of the United States senate, has been
officially notified by Hon. Arson Nc
Cook, its secretary, that his position has
been declared vacant by the senate.
THE New York assembly has passed
by vote of 20 to "a a bill giving women
the right to suffrage in all state cleo
tions.
MINISTER ALBERT G. PORTER, who has
been at Indianapolis, received tele-
gram on the 18th from Secretary of
State Blaine instructing him to return to
Rome. He expressed much satisfaction
at the settlement of the differences be-
tween this country and Italy.
A DISPATCH received from Rio Janeiro
states that twenty-eight radicals, who
are supposed to have taken part in the
recent disturbances that resulted in the
government declaring three days
state of siege, have been exiled to the
province q Amazonas. Eighteen other
radicals have been imprisoned at Rio
Janeiro.
FATHER CLEARY, of Kenosha, Wis,
has written letter stating that he is
in receipt of communication from
Archbishop Ireland in which the latter
states that there is no foundation, to the
report that he is to be made a cardinal.
THE election at Providence, R. l., on
the 18th showed a heavy falling off in
the total vote, it being 25 per cent. less
than week ago. The democrats have
elected their state senator, Richard B.
Comstock, by the small majority of 81,
he having 7,947 to the republicans 1876
and the prohibition candidates 232.
There was no election for the nine rep
reSentativeS.