The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1895-12-19
NEWS Of. !, THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

FEhSONAL AND FOLlIlCALs
ADvIcEs from Madagascar stated
that mob of 5000 Hovas had attacked
and destroyed the Christian mission at
Ramainandro. but that Missionary
MacMahon and his family, occupying
the mission, had succeeded in escaping
unframed. A force of GOO French
troops was dispatched to the scene to
quell the disturbance and all Euro.
peans were ordered to the capital as q
measure of safety.
Col. HUBBARD and Capt. Finks, rep.
resenting the intruders in the Chero'
kee nation, were ut Washington work.
ing to secure the passage of joint
resolution directing the secretary OF
the interior not to enforce the law to
remove the intruders from the nation
on the first day of the approaching
year, according to the legislation that
passed last congress.
AT lockwood hall, the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Rockefeller,
near Tarrytown, N. Y, Miss Emma
Rockefeller, their daughter, and Dr. d.
Hunter McAlpine, Jr., of New York
city, were united in marriage on the
18th. There were about 500 guests
EX-SENATOR ALLEN G. THURMAN died
at Columbus. O., on the 12th. The
'Old Roman" as he was affectionately
called, was SO years old on Novem Der
49,
In was reported at Washington that
the silver men were we'll pleased with
the situation in the senate. They cal
culated that they would have control
of the finance committee and that a
free silver bill would be reported from
the committee within two or three
weeks after the reorganization.
SPEAKER REED will announce con-
gressional committees, it was reported,
on the 10th.
THE United States embassy at Lon
don was beseiged on the 18th by news
paper reporters anxious to obtain the
views of Ambassador Bayard upon the
demand for his impeachment made in
the house OF representatives ut Wash
ington by Congressman William Z.
Barrett on the ground that he had in
suited the people he represented in
speeches delivered in Great Britain,
bat all attempt to induce Mr.. Bayard
or his staff to discuss the matter failed.
Ar the meeting of the democratic
state central committee at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, on the 18th, Gov. Matthews
was formally Endorsed by the demo-
Gratis of Indiana for president.
THE executive committee of the pro-
hibition party met at Chicago on the
18th and Pittsburgh. Pa, was selected
as the place for holding the national
convention. the date being set for May
81, 1896. The national executive COM
mittee of the Junior Prohibition league
decided to hold its national meeting at
the same time and place.
The conference of the bimetallic
leagues of Great Britain, France and
Germany opened at Paris on the 10th.
The object Of the conference was to
draft a resolution regarding bimetal-
lism. which will be submitted to the
parliaments Of the three countries.
PLATr men carried the republican
primaries in New York city on the
10th.
ST. LOUIS was chosen as the place
for the republican national convention
of 1896, and June Is was unanimously
named as the date
WILLIAM O'CONNELL BRADLEY was
sworn in as governor of Kentucky at
Frankfort on the 10th, being the first
republican governor ever elected in
that state. There was an immense
crowd to witness the inaugural cere-
monies.