Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERsONAL AND POLrTICAI..

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from Constantinople said that the
opinion prevailed in diplomatic circles
that European conference was indis-
pensable for the settlement of the
Turkish question, for although the
powers have agreed this agreement
could not be changed into action for
fear of drawing Europe into a danger
Gus eastern situation.
A RECENT dispatch to the London
Standard from Shanghai said that the
rebels had defeated the Chinese army
at Haian. and the rebels were masters
of half the province of Kan Su.
GOVERNMENT officials have emphat-
ically denied that there was any truth
in the statements that the state depart
ment had decided that ex-Consul Wal
Ter had no case or that the department
finds that his trial was fair and holds
that the United States has no substan-
tial grounds on which to base a de-
mand for indemnity.
FRANCIS H. HATCH, the new Hawaiian
minister, the authorities say. does not
go to Washington to ask for a pro-
tectorate. This statement was made
to refute a we'll defined rumor. Mr..
Hatch will use his best endeavors to
bring the annexation question before
the next congress and high officials
state that nothing else will satisfy the
Hawaiian government.
EUGENEV DEBs spoke to an immense
audience at Chicago on the 22d. Eight
car loads of Debs' friends went down
to Woodstock to greet him on his re-
lease from Jail, and several thousand
men were at the station of the North
western road when his train arrived.
The reception given to the president
of the A. r. u. as he stepped from the
train bordered on the frantic. Finally
he was placed on the shoulders of four
men and, followed by dense throng
that never for an instant stopped it's
shouts and cheers, he was escorted to
the Central Music hall.
REPRESENTATIVE OTEY, a Virginia
congressman, has announced his pur
pose to introduce bill to appropriate
S27, 900, 900 for the benefit of ex-confed-
crate soldiers, conditional upon an
equal amount being appropriated by
the states in which the confederate
veterans live. His proposition is
founded on the plea that the $27, OO0,
900 represents the proceeds of captured
property turned into the federal treas
ury during the war and that the people
of the south have moral claim for
the money.
The New York Sun said on the 21st:
The court martial proceedings of ex-
Consul Walters trial at Madagascar
has been received at the state depart
ment at Washington and examined
closely by Secretary Ofney, who has
decided that the trial was fair in every
way to the ex-consul on the face of the
evidence as forwarded from Paris and
that this government has no substan-
tial ground upon which to base de-
mand for indemnity.
THE most outspoken expressions of
sympathy for Cuba were heard at a
meeting at Philadelphia on the 21st.
The speakers were Gov. Matthews, of
Indiana; Gen. Gonzalio de Quesada,
secretary of the revolutionary party in
the United States, and Capt w. w.
Kerr, owner of the steamer Laurada.
Capt. Kerr said: Vessels will leave
this country every day and land arms,
ammunition and men on Cuba's shores
ten days she will hear of another ex-
petition being landed"
CHINESE papers received at Vancou-
yer, B. c., recently were bitter in their
attack on the Japanese authorities in
Corea, whom they blame for the muir
der of the queen. They asserted that
the queen was hanged by her hair and
tied hand and foot, soaked in oil and
burned. According to Chinese reports,
there were fifteen women of title in
the court, the queen, her mother, and
$50 ladies in waiting. They were
nearly all soaked in oil and burned,
while the mems threats were cut.
A New YORK Herald special from
Cuba said that the rebels were using
dynamite with murderous effect in
every engagement. Great terror eX-
listed among the Spanish troops and
the government was endeavoring to
suppress the news in order that the
new arrivals from Spain may not be
panic stricken in advance.
THE New York World on the 25th
published a cablegram from Cuba,
signed by Gen. Martinez de Campos,
giving reasons why the United States
SnouAo HoC HcCOBhAZC INC insurgents dS
belligerents. Gen. Campos said that
the insurgents held no seaport nor any
interior town and it was for that very
reason that Gen. Grant refused to
recognize them, which created a prece-
dent and therefore the Spanish gov
eminent did not anticipate any overt
acts of unfriendliness on the part of
the United States.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ALVIN THOMAS, IL years old, killed
his brother, two years younger, and
committed suicide at English, Ind
The murder was caused by the brother