The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-01-19
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
pERsoNaI AND PoLiTiICAI..

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The widow of William Makepeace
Thackeray, the noted author, died in
England recently. She had been in
sane for over forty years
THOMAS II. CARTER has resigned as
chairman of the executive committee
of the republican national committee,
and Joseph H. Manley has been elected
to the vacancy. This does not, of
course, displace Mr.. Carter as chairman
of the national committee.
PRIVATE kilograms from New Ro-
chelle, n. Y. Announce the very dam
gereWs Illness of Augustus Thomas, the
playwright, author of Alabama" I'm
Mizzoura" and other dramas.
NJ. DUPUY has keen elected president
of the French chamber of deputies by
a vote of 29O to 81.
PROF. OSWALD SEIDENsTICKER, of the
University of Pennsylvania, one OF the
highest authorities in history of the
Germans in America, is dead -----..v-..-
hfRs. CAROLINE TALBOT, the Quaker
ess who has preached all over the
United States and England during the
last twenty-five years, died recently at
Mount Pleasant, o.
THE first of the series of three grand
receptions that are given each year at
the White house took place on the mig ht
of the 11th, when President and Mrs.
Cleveland entertained the diplomat tie
corps
CARDINAL GIBBONS has received ca
blegram announcing the appointment of
Rev. j. 2. Donahue, rector Of the CATH
edral, baltimore, as bishop of Wheel
ing, w. Va
JOHN CARROLL HOVER, fop twenty
years custodian of the Lincoln monu-
ment at Springfield, ILL.,, died suddenly
recently.
Gov. HUGHEs, of Arizona, is in trou-
BILE. Indications are that he will be
called on to retire in the near future.
r. E. PREsTeN has been confirmed
director Of the mint
THE president on the 18th sent more
of the Hawaiian correspondence to con-
gress The principal documents were
the demand of Minister Willis that the
provisional government should vacate
and President Dole's reply, in which
the matter is argued under interna-
tional and American law.
WILLIAM HENRY WADDINGToN, the
distinguished French statesman and
diplomatist, who had been seriously i'll
with diabetes, died at Paris on the
14th.
SECRETARY MORTON has been not a
little vexed by reports that he had used
the official frank of the government in
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of addresses which he delivered in Chi
cago. Mr.. Morton's secretary says if
any publications of this kind were sent
out under the secretary's frank, it was
through some subordinate unwarrant-
ed, as Mr.. Morton had given explicit
instructions that stamps should be
used.
THE German reichstag has finally
adopted the provisional commercial
agreement with Spain.
EFFORTS to adjourn the extra session
of the Colorado Legislature have failed.
THE Vossiche Zeitung (Berlin) says
Gen. Gourko, of Russia, will probabl
recover from his present illness.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has disa1lowed
the claim of Miss Phoebe Cousins of
So, 600 for pay as secretary Of the board
of lady managers at the worlds fair.
Col. FRANK A. BURR, one of the most
widely known newspaper correspond
ents in the country, died in Camden, n.
j.. recently of cirrhosis of the liver.
A PLAN has been formulated for unit
ing the Clark and Hogg factions in
Texas
HENRY NJ. RICE, one of the first sen
ators of Minnesota, died at San An
tonic. Tex, aged rs years
PoPULIsTs in meeting at Bonham,
Tex, condemned the administration
and severely scored the congressman
from their district.
THE senate in executive session re-
fused to confirm the nomination of
Judge Horn blower for the supreme
bench. The decision was considered a
victory for Senator Hill.
H. G. FULLER, of Faulkton, judge of
the Sixth circuit, has been appointed
to the supreme bench of South Dakota,
vice j. F. Bennett deceased. L. F.
Gaffey, of Pierre, succeeds Fuller as
circuit judge.