Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.


THE prohibition convention at Pitts
burgh, Pa, nominated Joshua P. Lev
ering, of Maryland, for president, and
Hale johnson, of Illinois, for vice
president The free silver plank was
rejected and a narrow gauge platform,
embodying merely the principle of
prohibition and emitting woman suf-
frage. was adopted. The broad gaugers
and women suffragists bolted and re-
solved to organize a new party, to be
called the national party. its motto to
be Home Protection"
GEN. WEYLER has promulgated an
edict in Cuba suspending for one year
all civil processes against planters and
creditors will not be able to secure
payment of interest or foreclose any
mortgages they may hold. The au-
thorities at Washington were going to
protest against the edict which will in
juriously affect American interests in
the island
THE repu blican senators held eau
Gus on the goth and decided upon the
order in which bills on the calendar
should be taken up as follows: The
filled cheese, alcohol in the arts, fruit
brandy, immigration, five per cent
bond bill, labor commission, election
of senators by the people, bankruptcy,
contempt of courts, courts in Indian
territory, reorganization of the North
ern Pacific Railway Co., Alabama cleo
ton investigation, animal industry
and New Hampshire war claims
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent a mes
sage to the house on the Goth vetoing
the rivers and harbors appropriation
bills, stating among other things, that
the bill was extravagant and especially
unsuited to these times of depressed
business and resulting disappointment
in government revenue and also that
many of the objects for which money
was appropria ted in the bill were pal
pably for the benefit of limited locali-
ties or in aid of individual Interests.
The bill for submitting a woman
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton which passed the Rhode Island
senate was killed in the house and the
legislature adjourned until Septem Der.
CONGRESSMAN w. l. LINTON was re-
nominated by the republicans at Sagi-
nav, Mich.
THE president approved the legisla-
tive, exc cutive and judicial appropria-
ton bill on the goth.
CHAIRMAN HARRITY, of the dem
ocratic national committee, has written
to Senator-elect Money, of Mississippi,
denying the statement that the ma
tional committee would keep out of
the Chicago convention every contest
ing delegate who would not pledge
himself in advance to abide by the ac-
ton of the committee making up the
temporary roll of the convention.
brick PoMERoY, the noted journal
list and author, died at his Brooklyn
home on the 50th from dropsy.
J. ]. Mort, chairman of the national
silver party, has issued an address from
Washington, urging all friends of the
party to push the work of organizat
being to unite for action all believers
! in the restoration of free silver and
prosperity"
A CABLE message has been received
at Chicago that Miss Kate Field died
at Honolulu of pneumonia She was
| in the Sandwich islands as the special
correspondent of the Chicago Times
Herald.
THE bolt of the free silver prohibit
tionists from the regular national con-
vention at Pittsburgh. Pa, recently, is
| now claimed to be the first move of
silver men to bolt all the political con-
ventions-
| A MEETING is called at Des Moines,
Ia, for the purpose of completing the
organization of the Iowa Bimetallic
movement state that the object of the
association is not to form a new party,
but to unite all the free silver men of
Iowa, without regard to party affiiia-
tons, in one organization.