Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-01-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
w. II. RUSSELL, commander-in-chie
IT the Sons OF Veterans of America
has issued an address calling upon tn,
young men Of the nation to enrol
themselves as mem bers Of the order
He also urges the observance Of Uniol
Defenders day, February l2, which 4
also the s7th anniversary Of Abraham
Lincoln's birth.
The legislature OF Iowa proceeded t.
the election OF United States senator
on the 2lst In the senate Allison re
ceived ~ votes and Babb G. In the
house the vote was: Allison, 70; Babb
10; Stuart, l.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated thai
the republican leaders In the house
were striving for IN early adjourn
ment, and unless the senate held them
back expected to wind up the business
Of the session In the early part Of May.
THE executive committee Of the pop.
ulist national committee was unex.
pcctedly called together on the night
Of the 18th at St Louis, after the ad-
iournment OF the main committee, To
consider some new proposition from
the St Louis business Mems league,
and, after discussion, the committee
decided to hold the convent ion In St
Louis on July 2e. II was also stated
that there would also be convention
Of free silverites throughout America
at the same time and place.
IT was said that Melville E. Ingalls,,
president Of the Big Four railroad,
would be 0hio's candidate for the DEM
ocratic nomination for president
THE Spanish cabinet has decided to
supersedc Gen. Martinez de Campos
and his lieutenant, Gen. Arderius, ow-
ing to differences which exist between
them and the political parties in Cuba.
Gen. Polavieja, II was understood,
would be appointed commander-in-
chief in Cuba.
THE Indiana Liquor league will op-
pose the Matthews presidential boom,
because the governor signed the Mich
olson bill.
IT was officially stated ut Pretoria,
Africa, that DR.. Jameson and the
others who are in prison with him will
be relased Internationally by the
Trausvaal government
THE disagreement between the CO.
pastors of the First Presbyterian church
at Washington, Rev. DIR. T. Dewitt
Talmagc and Adolos Allen, has been
settled by the church session calling
for Mr.. Aliens resignation.
CHICAGO democrats think that the
location of the democratic convention
ut Chicago has vastly improved the
chances of Col William r. Morrison as
4 presidential possibility, and unless
radical change in the local sentiment
occurs Morrison will have the Illinois
delegation instructed for him. The
same claim was made in behalf of
Vice President Stevenson.
Ex-PREsIDEST HARRISON, at New
York, made the formal announcement
that he and Mrs. Dimmick were en-
gagged TO be married, but that the we'd
ling would not take place until after
Lent
THE balloting in the legislatures OF
and Mississippi for United
States senators still continued on the
10th with no apparent prospect Of
breaking the deadlocks
THE citizens OF Havana, Cuba, were
aid to be clamoring for the resigna-
lion Of Capt-Gen. Campos. The out
,reak Of popular feeling was said to be
If sort that could not be silenced
Ind there was every indication that II
,ut IN end TO Campos' power for use.
ILLNESS in the Spanish Gauss.
A DISPATCH from Key West, Fla, on
he 10th said that there was q great
lenl Of friction between the two In
'urgent generals, Gomez and Maceo,
he latter being the leader Of the ne
Iroes and the former the leader Of the
whites. Race troubles were at the bot.
ON, the negroes learning that the
whites had stated that the negroes
would not be allowed to participate in
he direction OF public affairs.
MISCELLANEOUS.
nteunp II Aynnnn NJ tho r. church