The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-10-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail

Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Private
Secretary Thurber left Buzzard's bay,
Mass, on the 18th on the Oneida, Com.
modore E. c. Benedict's steam yacht,
for Washington.
| THE French war Office received dis
patch stating that Antananarivo, the
capital of Madagascar, was taken by
the French troops and that the queen
of Madagascar had made peace with
the French.
JUDGE BRADY, of the district supreme
court at Washington, on the 10th or.
dered the discharge from custody of
Capt. George A. Armes, who was ar
rested on the order of Lieut.. Gen.
Schofield, just prior to the latter's re-
tirement from the command of the
army, for having written him an in
sulting letter. The judge scored the
action of Gen. Schofield as being tyran-
meal and unjust
A REPORT obtained wide circulation
through the country at IN early hour
on the morning of the 18th that Presi-
dent Cleveland had been assassinated
at his home at Gray Gables, near Buz.
Yards bay. 1t was impossible to verify
the rumor at the time, owing to the
telegraph offices in the vicinity of Gray
Gables being closed for the night, but
1t was thought that the story arose
from woman being murdered in the
neighborhood and the police passing
near Gray Gables while searching for
the murderer.
SECRETARY OLNEY was said to be
seriously considering the wisdom of
sending a special agent to Cuba to re-
port the actual situation there in Or
der that the administration may intel
ligently determine whether this gov
eminent should recognize the Gu bans rs
belligerents, or, if not, what course we
should pursue toward Spain and Cuba.
Mrs. SARAH EMERY, the we'll known
Of "Seven Financial Conspiracies, died
1T Lansing, Mich, on the 10th of can.
GER.
THERE was unusual activity in the
Spanish government dockyards at the
different ports, refitting cruisers and
gunboats. 1t was believed that these
preparations were due to the belief
that there was possibility that the
United States might recognize the
Cuban insurgents as belligerents
The discovery has been made at the
treasury department at Washington
that there is mbine among certain
consular agents over the world that
has worked against the tariff receipts,
and this may to some extent explain
the lack of funds received from the
new tariff bill. The matter is to be
investigated.
A REVOLUTION was said to have
broken out in tho interior Of Venezu-
ella.
WHEN congress meets again there
will be sent at once to the senate for
confirmation list of 200 postmasters
appointed during the congressional re-
cess, composed principally of offices
which have entered the presidential
class since congress adjourned.
REV. 7. DEWITT TALMAGE was for
mally declared a member of the Wash
ington presbytery on the sth and will
soon enter upon his duties as co-pastor
of the First Presbyterian church in the
capital.
The executive committee OF the So
ciety Tor Liberal Sunday Laws at New
York at meeting held on the 9th
Endorsed the Tammany political nom
nations. The society represents the
united saloon interests of the city and
its action was regarded as very inn
portant.
THE United States North Atlantic
squadron is to be greatly strengthened
by nearly all the best vessels in the
navy, and instead of ceasing their
squadron drill they will continue it in
southern waters and cruise in the vi
cinity of Venezuela and Cuba. This
show of force was regarded as mean
ing that the administration proposed
to enforce the Monroe doctrine and to
have the power ready to enforce it.
GEN. WILLIAM MALONE, ex-United
States senator from Virginia, died at
on the sth from paralysis.
The London Times on the sth an
nounced that William w. Story, the
American sculptor, died at Vallom-
brosa at the residence of his daughter,
the Marchesa Peruzzi. He was born
at Salem, Mass, February 12, 1919, and
was the son of Joseph Story, associate
Justice of the supreme court of the
United States.