The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
pERsoNAL AND poLIrrcAL..


GOVERNMENT officials have emphat.
ically denied that there was any truth
in the statements that the state depart
ment had decided that ex-Consul Wal
Ter had no case or that the department
finds that his trial was fair and holds
that the United States has no sub stan
tial grounds on which to base q de.
mand for indemnity.
FRANCIS H. HATCH, the new Hawaiian
minister, the authorities say, does not
go to Washington to ask for q pro-
tectorate. This statement was made
to refute a we'll defined rumor. Mr..
Hatch will use his best endeavors to
bring the annexation question before
the next congress and high officials
state that nothing else will satisfy the
Hawaiian government.
EUeENEV. DEBs spoke to an immense
audience at Chicago on the ed. Eight
car loads of Debs' friends went down
to Woodstock to greet him on his re-
lease from Jail, and several thousand
men were at the station of the North
western road when his train arrived.
The reception given to the president
Of the A. R. U. as he stepped from the
train bordered on the frantic. Finally
he was placed on the shoulders of four
men and, followed by a dense throng
that never for an instant stopped its
shouts and cheers. he was escorted to
the Central Music hall.
THE New York Sun said on the 2lst:
The court martial proceedings of ex-
Consul Walters trial at Madagascar
has been received at the state depart
ment at Washington and examined
closely by Secretary Olney, who has
decided that the trial was fair in every
way to the ex-consul on the face of the
evidence as forwarded from Paris and
that this government has no substan-
tial ground upon which to base de-
mand for indemnity. ..
THg most outspoken expressions of
sympathy for Cuba were heard at
meeting at Philadelphia on the 2lst
The speakers were Gov Matthews, of
Indiana; Gen. Gonzalio de Quesada.
secretary of the revolutionary party in
the United States, and Capt. w. w.
Kerr, owner of the steamer Laurada.
Capt. Kerr said: Vessels will leave
this country every day and land arms,
and men on Cuba's shores
until she is free, and if Spain will wait
ten days she will hear Of another ex-
petition being landed"
CHINESE papers received at Vancou-
YER, b. c., recently were bitter in their
attack on the Japanese authorities in
Corea, whom they blame for the MUIR
der of the queen. They asserted that
the queen was hanged by her hair and
tied hand and foot, soaked in oil and
burned. According to Chinese reports,
there were fifteen women OF title in
the court, the queen, her mother, and
1870 ladies in waiting. They were
nearly all soaked in oil and burned,
while the mems throats were cut.
TELEsRAMs received by the American
board at Boston on the 10th stated that
the mission loss at Kharput was $780,
BOO. Raiders, protected by soldiers,
fred on mission houses and Joined in
the plumber. Special malice was
shown missionaries. The missionaries
are now protected.
The annual banquet of the New
York chamber of commerce was held
ut Delmonico's on the 10th. Secretary
Carlisle being the principal speaker
He spoke on 'Our Currency System"
and said the fundamental vice in the
system was the legal tender note re-
ieemable in coin and reasonable and
that no changes would afford relief
unless they provided for the retire
nent of the legal tenders. The secre-
tary also said that much of our finan-
,ial trouble was caused by doubt as to
The policies of our political parties.