Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-11
NEWS OF The WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
A DISPATCH received from Pretoria
said that DIR. Jameson, who invaded
the Transvaal republic and was de-
feated and taken prisoner, had been
set at liberty.
A. A. AGUIRRE, special Cuban COM
missioner, has arrived in Washington
to make an effort to have congress ac-
cord belligerent rights to his strug-
Cling contrymen. He stands ready to
show that a syndicate will contribute
$50, 900, 900 to the Cuban cause when
the United States grants the insur-
gents belligerent rights. Mr.. Aguirre
has offers from many Americans desir-
ing to join the insurgent army.
A SPECIAL to the New York Journal
from Havana, Cuba, on the 9th said
that the insurgents were within sight
of Havana and that hundreds of fami-
lies in the suburbs and city had aban-
doned their homes and were crowding
the quay watching, with blanched
faces, for steamers to take them from
the island, the steamers which had
cleared being crowded to their utmost
capacity.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE PECKHAM was
sworn in on the 9th and took his seat
as a mem Der of the supreme court of
the United States.
THE 9th was given over to rejoicing
by the people of Utah. The great
tabernacle at Salt Lake was filled by
a crowd of from IL. GOO to Is, 900 people
to witness the swearing in of Gov.
Wells. At 9 o'clock the special Ses-
- IL
opened. It is composed of 43 repu b.
licans and 20 democrats, and will elect
two United States senator's.
THE second step in the elaborate
ceremony of elevating Francis Satolli,
arch bishop of Lepanto and apostolic
delegate to the United States, to the
rank of cardinal took place in the
cathedral at Baltimore, Md, on the
5th. The ceremony consisted of con-
ferring the beretta. The preceding
steps have been the comforting of the
zuchette, or red skull cap, and the adj
ministering of the oath. The remain
ing step is the comforting of the red
hat, which must be done in Rome by
the pope himself.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the 4th
signed the proclamation admitting
Utah into the sisterhood of states.
THE Venezuelan commission held its
first meeting on the 4th, all the mem
bers being present except Mr.. White.
The other four called at the state de-
partment, received their commissions
from Secretary Olney, and after taking
the oath organized by selecting Justice
Brewer chairman.
A RUMoR was current about the stock
exchange at London on the Sd that DIR.
Jameson, who invaded the Transvaal
and was defeated, had been tried by
court martial and shot, It was also
rumored that the second body of men
belonging to the British chartered
company, numbering about 400, which,
it was said, had started out to rein
force DR.. Jameson's troops, had been
cut to pieces by the Beers.
MARTIAL law has been proclaimed in
the provinces of Havana and Pinar del
Rio in Cuba, owing to the near APP
proach of the insurgent general, Max
imo Gomez. The Spanish troops
seemed utterly unable to prevent the
advance of the insurgents, owing to the
skill and generalship of Gomez and his
pitched battle =---*..,-. -..--
w. ]. FL. TRAYNoR, the supreme pres
ident of the American Protective ASSOC
citation, has ISSUED to the councils of
the order throughout the country a
circular reviewing the progress of the
organization and the political situa-
ton. Mr.. Traynor stated in his cir
cular that large number of mem bers
of congress were members of the A. P.
A., pledged to certain measures, most
of which would be introduced into the
house during the present session.
ALFRED ELY BEACH, editor of the
Scientific American, died at his home
| in New York on the I'd of pneumonia.
Mr.. Beach was born in Springfield,
Mass, in 1926.
cratic national committee, has re-
ceived and placed on file at Logans-
port, Ind, the applications of five cities
which aspire to entertain the demo
cratic national convention. They are
Chicago, New York, st. Louis, San
Francisco and Cincinnati.
A DISPATCH from New York on the
I'd stated that Mrs. Alva S. Vanderbilt
had announced to her friends that she
was engaged to be married to Oliver
Belmont. Mrs. Willie X" as Mrs.
Vanderbilt is known in society. is the
divorced wife of William X. Wander
bilt She is the mother of the duchess
of Marlborough.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the