The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
| ARMENgANs attacked several Moham-
medan villages near Zeitoun and fired
the houses In the village of Kurbel
one Mohammedan was burned alive,
the place being entirely destroyed, as
was also the town of Tchoukourhissar.
Several other places were also sacked.
The sultan has sent orders that order
must be promptly restored and both
Christians and Mohammedans cquit-
ably treated.
THE executive committee of the
American Bimetallic league on the
18th unanimously adopted a resolution
accepting the invitation of the nation
al silver committee, of Chicago, in call
ing conference of those who believe
in the free coinage of gold and silver
at l6 to /, independently of other coun-
tries, to meet at Washington, January
%, 1896, for the purpose of arranging
for a national convention.
A PROMINENT Spaniard at Mexico
City, in close touch with the Spanish
government. stated that before Spain
would concede Cuban independence or
permit the island to go under the pro-
lection of the United States she would
give England possession of it until
that country had collected the adj
vances she had made to carry on the
war with Cuba.
AT Q o'clock on the 18th, at St.
Petersburg, daughter was born to
the car and czarina. The baby has
been named Olga.
In the contest of Wood (rep.) for the
seat in the Kentucky legislature Of
Kaufman (dem.) a discovery has been
made which beyond doubt gives
Wood the seat and will thereby give
the republicans a clear majority on
joint ballot in the legislature. 1t has
been discovered that Kaufman's cleo
ton, while holding office as a city
councilman, was contrary to the stat
ute, and Wood will be seated without
further protest.
A CLAIM for $500, 900 against the Span
ish government was to be filed in Wash
ington in behalf of John Repko, an
Italian by birth but a naturalized
American citizen, who was the propri-
etor of the Rome Grand Continental
hotel in Havana. Repko claims that
one night in the summer he and his
family were driven from the hotel by
Spanish soldiers and it was confiscated
on the ground that he was sympa-
thizer with the Cuban revolutiouists.
SENATOR HARRIS, the chairman Of
the executive committee of six APP
pointed at the Washington conference
of last August to organize for the cam
paign of 1896 the free silver democrats
of the country, has sent letter to his
colleagues stating that he had no hope
of democratic success in 1896 unless
they could succeed in so organizing
the bimetallic democrats as to secure
in the national convention a plain dec
laration in favor of the free and I'M
limited coinage of both silver and
gold, without regard to the financial
policies of any country.
REV. DR. SAMUEL ASHTON KEAN, a
noted evangelist and religious writer,
died at Delaware, o., on The 18th of
heart trouble, aged SO years.
The Georgia house of Representatives
dooptCu u ECSOluIlOu ou
the 18th inviting Secretary Hoke Smith
to address the assembly on the issues
of the day on such date as he might
find convenient
BY special invitation, conveyed by
joint resolution of both houses, ex.
Speaker Crisp addressed the Georgia |
legislature on the 18th on the political |
issues of the day. Mr.. Crisp confined |
himself almost exclusively to the |
financial question and in the course of
his remarks he declared himself un-
in favor of the free, un.
limited and independent coinage of |
silver at ratio of 10 toll.
SENATOR-ELECT p. j. BENNETT. of |
Carroll county, Md, died suddenly on
the 18th. He was elected as demo.
crat. Gov. Brown will be called upon
to order special election for Carroll
county, and upon the result of that
election depends the political COM
plcxion of the next senate of Maryland.
A RECENT New York dispatch said
that an important step had been taken
to bring about a union of reform forces
for the campaign of 1896. A letter,
signed by about 100 men and women
of one or the other of the minor par
ties. was sent to the national commit
tecmen of the populist, prohibition
and socialist parties, asking that a sub
of three be appointed to
confer with reference to a joint ma
tional conference.
MISS PAULINE PAYNE WHITNEY,
daughter of ex-Secretary Whitney, was
married to Mr.. Almeric Paget at st.
Thomas church, New York. The we'd
ding was a notable event, President
Cleveland and many other dis
tinguished persons being present at the
ceremony. I
MISCELLANEOUS. !,
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