The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE secretary of war has appointed Cornelius Cadle, late adjutant-general of the army of the Tennessee; Don Car los Buell., late commanding general of the army of the Cumberland, and Rob- ert T. Looney, late a major in the con federate army, as commissioners to es- tablish a national military park at the battlefield of Shiloh, Tenn, under the act of December 27, 1894 at compen- sation of $250 per month.
 A PROMINENT official of the treasury department said recently should the supreme court decide the income tax unconstitutional, an extra session would be unavoidable.
 BY the terms of peace between China and Japan, as understood in official circles, the former country cedes to Japan the island of Formosa and agrees to pay an indemnity of $25O, 900, 900 in gold. Japan will also occupy Port Arthur and Wei-Hai-Wei, the two great naval stations, for term of years. Corea is to be independent and there will be no extension of Japanese terri tory on the mainland of Asia.
 CAPT. SHEPARD, chief of the United States revenue cutter service, died at Washington on the 14th.
 REPORTS received at Washington in- dicate that the health of Justice Jack son, of the supreme court, grows worse instead of better. His resignation was considered quite probable within a short time.
 SENATOR STEWART received the fol lowing dispatch on the l4th from the governor of Nevada: "Resolution of legislature indorsing Sibley and bi- metallic platform passed and approved this day"
 CAPT. G. SPENCER, of the steamship Amsterdam, Netherlands-Amer line, has been presented gold watch and chain by President Cleveland for his attempt to rescue the crew of the schooner Maggie E. Wells, January 14, 1894.
 AN official dispatch from Havana, Cuba, said that the rebel band near Guantanamo had dispersed. Fifty of the rebels were killed or wounded and
  the engagement.
 MYRON D. KING, the governors pri- vate secretary, who was injured in the riot at the Indiana house of repre- sentatives recently, was no better on the l4th. The authorities said that the men who were conspicuous in the riot are well known and are not likely to leave the state. It was understood that warrants would be issued.
 THE Violet, with the presidential party on board, left Norfolk, Va, on the 18th bound for Washington.
 A CONSTITUTIONAL convention of Cuban republicans was held at Los Negres and a provisional government founded. Gen. Maximus Gomez was appointed commander-in-chief of the insurgent army and Jose Marti deputy envoy to obtain from foreign powers recognition of the insurgents as bel ligerents. A declaration of independ- ence was also issued. In a recent bat tie the insurgents cut in two Span ish regiment and 800 Spaniards were killed.
 LESS than forty delegates were pres ent when the conference to outline the proposed new national party was re- sumed at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th. S D. Woods, the chairman, presided, and several addresses on the temper ance question were delivered. The second Tuesday in March, 1896, has been fixed as the time for another con- ference in Pittsburgh, at which ar engagements will be made to hold a convention the following June. At this convention it is proposed to launch the new party upon q platform and present a presidential candidate.
 CAPT. CROssMAN, of the Allianca, has made an affidavit of the circumstances of his ship being fired at by Spanish mEn-of-war and mailed it to Secretary Gresham at Washington.
 SECRETARY GRESHAM has sent in- structions to the United States minis. ter at Madrid to notify the Spanish government that our government will expect prompt disavowal of the unau- thorized act and due expression of re- gret on the part of Spain for firing on the United States mail steamship AL lianca, and that immediate and posi- tive orders must be given to Spanish naval commanders not to interfere with legitimate American commerce passing through the channel near Cuba.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 A PARAGRAPH in the legislative, ex-