Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CLARA DoTY- BATES, the well known
authoress and writer of children's
stories, died at Chicago on the 14th.
A DISPATCH stated that the queen of
Corea, the minister of the household
and three women had been murdered
in the queens palace at Seoul and the
bodies taken outside and burned by
Corean troops.
A DISPATCH from Washington stated
that although it has been the general
understanding that no specific tariff
legislation would be attempted at the
ensuing session. of congress the tariff
was likely to become the leading fea-
ture of legislation in view of the in
creased public debt by bond issues and
the deficiency of revenue to meet gov
eminent expenditures and payment of
interest on outstanding obligations, it
becoming imperative to derive more
revenue either from customs duties or
internal taxation.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, it was said,
would soon begin the erection of a
house at Pocantico Hills, n. Y, which
would rival that of George Wander
bits in North Carolina, and be the
finest country establishment in North
America.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, at the Massa-
chusetts Reform club dinner at Boston
on the 18th, spoke on the fna ncial
trouble. He advocated the retirement
of United States notes as speedily as a
safe and sound currency could be pro-
vided to take their place and said there
could be no financial repose as long as
these notes constituted part of our
currency.
THE Farmers national congress at
Atlanta, Ga, adopted resolution ia
voring reciprocity between the United
States and the South American and
Central American countries. Officers
were elected as follows: President, B.
T. Clayton, of Iowa; general vice presi-
dent, G. NJ. Ryads, of Georgia; secre-
tary, John M. Stahl; treasurer, Henry
Hayden, of Iowa.
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.
Schofeld, 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. Schofeld as being tyran-
meal and unjust.
A REPORT obtained wide circulation
through the country at an early hour
on the morning of the 18th that Presi-
dent Cleveland had been assassinated
at his home at Gray Gables, near Buzz
Yards bay. It 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
it was thought that the story arose
from a woman being murdered in the
neigh borhood and the police passing
near Gray Gables while searching for
the murderer.
SECRETARY OLNEY was said to be
seriously considering the wisdom of
sending 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 Cubans as
belligerents, or, if not, what course we
should pursue toward Spain and Cuba.
Mrs. SARAH EMERY, the we'll known
lecturer on woman suffrage and author
OF ''Seven Financial Conspiracies," died
at Lansing, Mich, on the 10th of can
Ger.
THERE was unusual activity in the
Spanish government docbyards at the
different ports, reftting cruisers and
gun boats. 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