The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and NAH.
PERsoNAL AND PoLrrIcAI.

A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
the republican leaders in the house
were striving for an 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-
pectedly called together on the night
of the 18th at St Louis, after the adj
journment of the main committee, to
consider some new proposition from
the St Louis Business Mems league,
and, after a discussion, the committee
decided to hold the CONVEX ton in St
Louis on July 90. 1t 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 Ohio's candidate for the dem
ocratic nomination for president
BISHOP HAYGooD. of the M. E church
south, died at his home in Oxford, Ga,
on the 10th, of paralysis, aged 81.
THE Spanish ca binet has decided to
supersede 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, it 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 at Pretoria,
Africa, that DR.. Jameson and the
others who are in prison with him will
be released uncondition ally by the
Trausvaal government
THE disagreement between the CO.
pastors of the First Presbyterian church
at Washington, Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt
Talmage 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
at Chicago has vastly improved the
chances of Col William R Morrison as
presidential possibility, and unless a
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-PREsIDENT HARRISON, at New
York, made the formal announcement
that he and Mrs. Dimmick were en-.
gagged to be married, but that the we'd
ding would not take place until after
Lent.
JAMES 81. ECKELs. the comptroller OF
tho Sro1o of Chioa nn tho
10th on Our Currency System" He
criticised it severely, especially the
greenback element in it, and said the
legal tenders ought to be retired.
IT was reported at Washington on
the 10th that the Venezuelan boundary
commission would probably not have
the honor to settle the question, there
being good reasons for supposing that
the matter will be terminated in q
manner satisfactory to all concerned.
1t was believed that the basis of it
would be arbitration. as proposed orig.
inally by the United States. but With
a Limitation that would suffice to save
British pride and appear to maintain
British consistency.
The democratic national committee
has chosen Chicago as the place and
July as the date for holding the ma
tional convention.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle said that the pope,
through Cardinal Satolli, has made
semi-o fficial proposal to President
Cleveland to arbitrate the Venezuelan
question. The pope was much hurt by
England's refusal last year, when Ven.
ezuela proposed the pope as an arbi.
traitor.
THE balloting in the legislatures OF
Maryland 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
said to be clamoring for the resigna-
ton of Capt-Gen. Campos. The out
break of popular feeling was said to be
of sort that could not be silenced
and there was every indication that it
put an end to Campos' power for use.
fulness in the Spanish Gauss
A DISPATCH from Key West, Fla, on
the 18th said that there was a great
deal of friction between the two in
surgent generals, Gomez and Maceo,
the latter being the leader of the ne.
groes and the former the leader of the
whites. Race troubles were at the bot.
tom, the negroes learning that the
whites had stated that the negroes
would not be allowed to participate in
the direction of public affairs.
MisCELLANEoUs.
By the explosion of gasoline tank
at Cincinnati on the goth, Jacob Bruhl,
q barber, his wife Rosa, and 12-year.
old son were probably fatally burned.
The house in which they lived was en-
tirely consumed, entailing q loss OF
$4,000.
The subcommittee to secure options
for national park on the 1000 acres
ST land surrounding Vicksburg, occu
supied by Gen. Grant and Gen. Penn
bertou during the siege, have complet.
ed their work and returned to Wash
ngton. They will recommend the
purchase of the 4, 600 acres at S112, 600
Gov. RENFRow, Of Oklahoma, has Of
tered a reward of 5000 for the arrest of
the assassin who shot down William
Wyancke in his own yard at Guthrie.
SHARON FULLER and George Holt,
:olored, were fatally shot, and Frank
Stewart, white, dangerously injured in
\ quarrel over cards at Dingess, w.
Va.
IT was recently reported At Wash.
.ngton that a proclamation ON the Gu
oan cause had been drafted by the
president and Secretary Olney and
might be looked for at any time. 1t