Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-23
| NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERsoNAL AND POI1rrCAL.

with Mr. Stevens at Honolulu, APPROX
ing his action in the Hawaiian contro-
versy.
MR.. CLEVELAND has officially an
nounced the names of four of his cab
met through the Associated press They
are: Walter @. Gresham, of Illinois,
secretary of state; John G. Carlisle, of
Kentucky, secretary of finance; Daniel
S. Lamont, of New York, secretary of
war; Wilson S. Bissell, of Buffalo, post
master-generaL
THE silver question in the United
States is causing no little anxiety in
Canada. Merchants fear an influx of
American currency.
THE president has approved the act
in relation to testimony before the in
ter-state commerce commission and the
joint resolution authorizing the loan
for exhi bition at the worlds fair of the.
picture called ''The Recall of Column
bus
JOHN CHARLES THOMPSON came with
in one vote of being elected senator
from Wyoming.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has sent to the
senate the treaty with Hawaii, as agreed
upon by Secretary Foster and the COM
miSSiOnerS.
PRESIDENT HARRIsON's preparations
for leaving the White house are all
made and he can vacate in a few hours.
Mr.. CLEVELAND has announced that
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, has been Sc
lected for secretary of the interior.
CONGRESSMAN MANsUR has given it
out that he is candidate for commits
sioner of the general land office under
Cleveland.
PRESIDENT-ELECT CLEVELAND has APP
pointed Hon. Holze Smith. of the At
lanta Journal, to be his secretary of the
interior in the cabinet.
A MINISTERIAL crisis is impending in
Japan.
GLADSTONE home rule bill is gener-
ally Endorsed by Canadian Irishmen.
j. STERLING MORTON, of Nebraska, is
suggested for secretary of agriculture
THE populists in the South Carolina
legislature were paralyzed by the &C
ton of the democrats. who repealed the
charter of the state Farmers Alliance.
CHARLES f. DWIGHT, the well known
Chicago board of trade operator, died
recently of apoplexy.
POPULIsT congressman have intro
duced bill in the house for the pay
ment of all pensions in legal tender
greenbacks.
THE synopsis of the treaty agreed
upon between Secretary Foster and the
Hawaiian commissioners has been made
public.
GEN. BRINKERHoFF, of Mansfield, o.,
it is stated, will succeed the late Ruther-
ford B. Hayes as president of the Ma
tional Prisoners Aid association.
PREsIDENT-ELECT CLEVELAND has
announced that he had selected j.
Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, for sec
rotary of agriculture.
The Cherokee council has announced
| emphatically that it will not ratify any
changes made by congress in the pres
| ent treaty.
THE deposed Queen Liliuokalani has
| forwarded to President Harrison a
formal protest against the upholding
of the provisional government
| HON. L. j. MORGAN, commissioner of
| Indian affairs, has offered his resigna-
! ton, to take effect March 4, and it has
been accepted.
THE young son of Mrs. Maria Nevins-
| Blaine has been ill with scarlet fever in
| New York.
| JOSEPHINE FELICITE AUGUSTINE BRO
HAN is dead She was a well known
| French actress, and daughter Of Angus
tine Suzanne Brohan, and sister OF
| Emile Madeline Brohan, both actresses
| In the house of commons resolution
| prevailed citing the editor of the Lon
! don Times to appear and apologize fol-
| misstatements concerning Irish mem
| bers.
| THERE is new plan on foot to get a
vote on the suspension of the silver
purchases. 1t consists in obtaining a
| special order from the committee or
rules for the consideration of the Stew.
art free-coinage bill, which passed the
senate last summer, and then moving {
| substitute suspending further purchase
of bullion under the Sherman law unit
the bullion now in the treasury can bt
coined.
GEN. ABRAM DAILY, a last survivor o.
the war of 1912, who always hoistet
| the American flag over the old block
| house in Central park on evacuation
day, died at New York recently.
THE Wyoming legislature strongly
indorses women suffrage, which, i
| says, is success.
SIGNOR GRIMALDI, Italian minister O.
finance, says that the monetary con
ference probably will not reassembl,
next May as European governments are
convinced that nothing would com,
of it.
UNITED IRELAND the Dublin Parnell
ties organ, expresses the opinion tina
the new home rule bill is inferior tt
that of 1886.
FRANK E. TRAINoR, deputy Unitet
States consul-general at the City o
Mexico, and formerly of Williamsport
Pa, has died of typhoid fever.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TARsNEY introduced bill in congress
granting the right-of-way through thu
Indian territory to the Kansas City
Pittsburgh 6 Gulf railway.
BY an explosion of coal dust in
mine at Ottumwa, Ia, one man wa
killed and several injured.
SERIOUS floods are threatened in Cen
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