Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-11-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

18th from Constantinople, stating that
massacres were proceeding almost
everywhere in Asia Minor and that
over 100, 900 persons were dying of
starvation there. and imploring them
to urge the British government to put
a stop TO the awful events.
DIR. SAMUEL T.. SMITH. the author of
my country tits of thee" died sud
denly at Boston on the 10th of heart
disease, aged 81 years.
ARMENIANs 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 Tchoul1ourhissar.
Several other places were also sacked.
The sultan has sent orders that order
must be promptly restored and botn
Christians and Mohammedans equit-
ably treated.
THE executive committee of the
American Bimetallic league on the
18th unanimously adopted resolution
accepting the invitation of the nation
al silver committee, of Chicago, in call
ing a conference of those who believe
in the free coinage of gold and silver
at 16 to 1, Independently of other coTn-
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 o'clock on the 18th, at ST.
Petersburg, daughter was born to
the ear and czarina. The baby has
been named Olga.
IN the contest of Wood (rep.) for the
seat in the kentucky legislature of
Kaufman (dem.) discovery has been
made which beyond a doubt gives
Wood the seat and will thereby give
the republicans clear majority on
Joint ballot in the legislature. 1t has
been discovered that Kaufman's cleo
ton, while holding office as 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 a sympa-
thizer with the Cuban revolutionistS.
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 a letter to his
colleagues stating that he had no hope
of democratic success in 1896 unless
they could succeed in so organizing
the bime tallic democrats as to secure
in the national convention plain dec
laration in favor of the free and un-
limited coinage of both silver and
gold, without regard to the financial
policies of any country.
| 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 I'M
equivocally in favor of the free, un-
limited and independent coinage of
silver at ratio of 16 to /.
! SENATOR ELECT ?. 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
plexion of the next senate of Maryland.