The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


 SENATOR PEPPER has written letter toJ. D. Holden, of Emporia, Kan, in which he comes out strongly in favor of currency based upon land values alone. He has discarded silver and the sub-treasury plan and wrote that he believed the chief trouble with the country was interest and its twin evil rent.
 THE executive committee of the Ma tlonal Republican league met at Chi cago on the 14th and discussed plans for the fall campaign. Much dissatis- faction with Chicago as league head quarters was expressed. but the mat ter was left over until the regular Oc- tober session. The meeting was pre- sided over by Gen. McAlpin, of New York, the newly-elected league presi- dent.
 LEADING democrats in favor of the free coinage of silver met at Washing ton on the l4th to exchange views on the best policy to be pursued to attain their ends. Representatives from twenty-two states were present, includ- ing fourteen delegates from Missouri. The committee on resolutions was ap- pointed but had not reported. The address will be brief and declare un- equivocally in favor of free coinage at the ratio of l6 to 1.
 Ar Asbury Park, N. J., on the 18th, James J. Corbett, the pugilist, was married to Miss Jessie Taylor, of Omaha, Neb. The bride was known by the name of Vera Stanwood and was named as correspondent in the recent divorce case of Mrs. Corbett against her husband.
 A LETTER has been received at the state departments at Washington from Ambassador Eustis to the effect that the French government still refused to allow him to see John l.. Waller or to give him copy of the evidence upon which Waller was convicted. CHIEF MOORE, of the weather bureau at Washington, has issued instructions calling for reports aon the conditions and qualification of all subordinate employees, and stating that in order to improve the present standard of the service rigid inspection as to morals as we'll as the official character of em- ployes Is imperative.
 TIE queens speech was read to the I lords and commons on the 18th by the lord chancellor. It was very brief and said that no international complica- tions threatened the peace of Europe; that representations had been made to the Chinese government concerning the recent massacre of missionaries in that country and the perpetrators would be punished; that the atrocities committed in Armenia had been viewed with horror and certain reforms had been suggested to the sultan and were being considered.
 THE Maryland republican state con- vention assembled at Cambridge on the 18th and nominated Lloyd Lowndes for governor, Harry NJ. Clabaugh for attorney-general and L. E. P. Dennis for comptroller. The platform has twelve blanks, the two principal ones favoring a protective tariff and op. posing any legislation to create diff fereut standard than that of the gold dollar. The other blanks were on state issues.
 TIE international conference on peace arbitration at Brussels on the l6th adopted resolution declaring that when a state had proclaimed per. maHent neutrality such neutrality should be recognized by the powers. The conference also adopted a resolu- tion authorizing the president of the conference to ascertain whether two or more governments were prepared to take the initiative in the tablishment of an international court for the set clement of disputes by pacific methods. The conference then adjourned tc meet next year at Buda Pesth.