The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-01-04
N OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

kEhSONAIs AND POLITICALs
SECRETARY CARLISLE has written an
answer to letter from a friend in
Louisville. KY, declining to allow the
use of his name as candidate either
for governor or United States senator.
ACsTRO-HUNGARY is expected to res
taliate upon the United States if con-
cessions are not made to that country on
sugar duties.
FRANCES IL, at one time king of
Naples, died at Arcol, in the Austrian
Tyrol, on the 27th, aged SO.
IN Memphis, Tenn, the Woman's
council and the Nineteenth Century
club, embracing membership of 1000
women, passed resolution to boycott
Congressman w. c. p. Breckenridge
when he appeared in that city to lee
ture.
JOHN w. FOSTER, ex-secretary of
state, has been requested by the Chi
nese government to go to Japan and
meet the plenipotentiaries of the
former government, to aid them in
their negotiations for peace. He has
accepted the invitation and expected
to leave Washington in few days.
A RECENT dispatch said that Moham-
medan inhabitants of Turfan, Kashgar,
were in open rebellion, desiring to
shake off the yoke of China and found
an independent government under Rus
sian suzerainty.l
EX-SENATOR JAMES G. FAIR died sud-
denly at the Lick house at San Fran
cisco on the Goth.
SENATOR MARTIN, of Kansas, visited
the white house On the 27th with two
actresses, whom he presented to the
president. Mr.. Cleveland gave each of
his visitors rose, photograph Of
himself and his autograph.
Mrs AMELIA BLooMER, from whom
the Bloomer costume, one of the first
efforts towards dress reform, was
named, died at her home in Council
Bluffs, Ia, on the goth.
MISS EMILY L. GERRY, daughter of
Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of
the Declaration of independence and
later vice president of the United
States, died at her home in New Haven,
Conn.,, on the Goth, aged 90 years.
ABOUT thirty-five delegates to the
national council of the peoples party
at st. Louis have organized National
Initiative and Referendum league.
James II. Lathrop, of Topeka, Kan.
was elected president and an executive
committee and national organizers
were chosen. 1t was proposed to push
at once the organization throughout
the country of clubs to promote the
scheme of the Swiss system of initiative
and referendum. Thirteen states were
represented at the organization.
THE conference of the peoples party
leaders at st. Louis has resulted in an
address being issued, which declared
the money question must be met at
once; the invasion of states by the fed
eral troops without the request of the
state executives was denounced; the
Omaha platform was adhered to in it's
integrity and the restoration of the
coinage of gold and silver as it existed
prior to 1873 was demanded, regardless
of the action of any other nation; the
further issue of bonds was objected to,
the pooling bill denounced and an edu-
cational campaign by populist commit
tees was recommends d. The election
in Alabama was also denounced.
A TELEGRAM from Constantinople on
the 3Oth reported that Ismail Pasha,
ex-khedive of Egypt, was dying. He
was born at Cairo in 1880, and succeed
ed his brother, Said Pasha, January Is,
1868.