The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSuNAI AND POLITICAL. TIE supreme council of the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial union met in annual convention at Raleigh, N. C., on the 5th. United States Senator,elect Marion Butler, president of the national alliance, called the council to order. Delegates are present from twenty states and more were expected. The convention passed a resolution denouncing the proposed issue of government bonds. LATE news from Colon, Colombia, stated that Gen. Reyes, with 5000 gov ernment troops, recently attacked the rebels at Honda and defeated them. Of the rebel forces, Gen. Aldano and ninety men were killed.
 SENATOR CAREY, of Wyoming, has presented to the senate, as an amend ment to the New Mexico admission bill, a clause for the admission of Oklahoma and Arizona.
 A RECONCILIATION, it is stated, be- tween the Prince and Princess Colonna was being arranged by Mrs. Maclay, the princess mother. In explanation it was said that the princess ex- chequer needed replenishing and that the princess would consent to a reun- ion for the sake of her children. EX.QUEEN LuIUoKALANI, it is report ed, has renounced all claims to Hawaii. The renuuciation document was pre- sented to President Cole and, accord ing to the wording, it was executed freely and voluntarily.
 TIE president has approved the bill creating the rank of lieutenant-gen- eral of the army and has nominated l Gen. Schofield for the place. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 9th an bounced his decision as arbitrator be- tween Brazil and Argentine in the boundary dispute between the two It was in favor of Brazil.
 THE president transmitted to the senate on the 7th a report from the secretary of state giving the corre- spondence with Germany and other European countries concerning the effect of the present tariff law on the commerce of the United States with those countries with reference to the duty on sugar.
 THE lower house of the Arkansas legislature, by vote of Fl to 20, passed bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes and cigarette matter.
 SENATOR CoCKRELL, from the com mittee on appropriations, has reported the Indian appropriation bill. The to- tn1 lo l,,; ,e . 700.
 TIE supreme council of the Farmers Alliance at Raleigh, N. C., declined to take action on the plan projected by the National Federation of Farmers for merging all the farmers organiza- tions into one great concern. The council indorsed the bill introduced in the national house of representatives providing for the appointment by the president of non-partisan commission to collect information and to consider and recommend legislation to meet problems presented by labor, agricul- turc and capital.
 TIE president entertained the mem- bers of the supreme court of the United States and of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia at dinner on the 7th.
 JOHN l.. STEVENS, ex-minister Co Hawaii died on the 7th at Augusta, Me, after brief illness of complica- tion of diseases. He was pupil in statecraft of the late James G. Blaine.
 A DISPATCH received from Chee Foo on the Sth said that the Japanese had carried all the forts at Wei Hai-Wei and had captured or sunk the whole of the Chinese northern fleet.
 TIE senate has confirmed Gen. Scho- field as lieutenant-general of the army.
 TIE president sent message to con gress on the Sth announcing that ar engagements had been concluded to iS- sue bonds of the United States, pay able in thirty years after date with I per cent. interest, amounting to S62,- 400, 900, for the purchase of gold coin to the amount of S65, 900, 900 to restore the gold reserve to S1O0, 100000. The government had the option for ten days to substitute bonds payable in gold bearing per cent. interest in stead of the coin bonds.
 TIE National Farmers Alliance, at Raleigh, N. C., elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: President, j.. F. Willets. Kansas; vice president, II. c. Snavely, Pennsylvania; secretary treasurer, D. P. Duncan, South Caro- lima. National executive committee Mann Page, of Virginia; II. L. Loucks, of South Dakota; l. E. Dean, of New York; II. c. Demming, of Pennsylvania; Marion Butler, of North Carolina.
 SENATOR LODGE by request has in troduced bill in the senate to provide for the issue of S1,25O, OOO, ,OOO worth of bonds payable in gold coin at 2K per cent. interest to run for from ten to twenty-five years.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 IN Birmingham, Ala, Eugene Byers