The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

IN a recent interview Grand Master
Workman Sovereign, of the Knights OF
Labor, said that R z. Bland would not
get the united support of labor men
Tor president
The republican state convention
aeld at Stanton, Va. on the 23d elect
ID delegates to the national conven'
ion at st. Louis, instructing them by
.trong resolutions to support Mckin.
ey.
The Pennsylvania republicans met
n state convention at Harrisburg on
the 23d and formally launched the
Doom of United States Senator Mat
thew S. Quay for the presidential nom
nation.
THE republicans of the United States
senate in caucus on the Esd decided in
favor of an early adjournment after
the appropriation bills are passed.
The Bourgeois cabinet resigned at
Paris on the 23d.
THE conference for international
arbitration at Washington closed on
the 23d with a mass meeting at Aliens
opera house. in the course of which
President Eliot, of Harvard, severely
arraigned the policy of President
Cleveland. Carl Schurz stated if the
United States wanted to be great sea
power she must establish a navy twice
Resolutions were adopted for a per-
manent system of arbitration and urg-
ing President Cleveland to take such
steps as will best conduce to that end.
THE United States government has
called Spain to account for the outrage
committed on DR.. Jose Manuel Del
gado, an American citizen, on March
4, in Cuba.
THE congress of bimetallists at Brus-
sells closed by adopting NJ. Beernaert's
proposal that the congress should be
declared permanent until the question
Of bimetallism had been solved.
AT a meeting in NJ. A. Hanna's Office
at Cleveland, O.. the official Mckinley
badge to be worn by supporters of the
presidential candidate at the St Louis
convention was adopted. 1t is a bright
red satin ribbon, four inches in length.
In the center of the ribbon a photo
graph of Mckinley will appear, and in
golden letters above and below it will
be the words: Patriotism, Protection,
Prosperity. William Mckinley, the
Peoples Choice"
A DISPATCH from Waterloo, Ia,
stated the gold standard people won a
victory in Boies' home county on the
25th. They outnumbered the silver
Boies men three to two. At the out
set the Cleveland men captured the
convention. Just as the organization
-
central committee, entered the hall,
ignored the proceedings and called
another convention. Thus the two
conventions proceeded in the same hall
simultaneously, each bowling the other
down.
IT was stated at Washington that
the national advisory board of the A.
P. A. would soon meet again to pass
upon the religious records of the men
whose names have been mentioned for
the democratic presidential nomina-
ton. The records of Cleveland, Car
Isle, Russell, Pattison. Olney, Bland,
Boies, Tillman, Matthews, Campbell
and others will be gone over and the
order will be notified which of these
men are Objectionable and which can
pass over.
REPUBLICANS at Boston, New York,
Pittsburgh, Rochester and other
places commemorated Grants birth
day on the eth by banquets and eulo-
gies of the dead general.
E. A. NEARsHEIMER, of New York, has
been elected president and treasurer
of the Theosophical society in America.
THOUSANDS of citizens met at Galena,
ILL.,. on the 9th to do honor to the
memory of her most renowned citizen,
Gen. Grant. Gen. John c. Black de-
livered the principal address,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Roy WITcHER, a ten-year-old boy,
fling over Witcher's hat, at Perry, Ok.
Fox attempted to tie the little boy
with a rope when Witcher stabbed him
over the heart with a penknife. The
doctors do not think Fox can live and
young Witcher is in Jail.
EUGENE CAMBURN, at Upton, Mich.
objected to Henry Luce, aged II, keep
ing company with his daughter, when
Luce stepped outside the house and
fred shot at Camburn through a
window, infiicting probably a fatal
wound. Luce then put bullet into
his own brains.
THE Lowell lumber yards and plan
ing mills at Butte, Mont, were de.
stroyed by fire on the eth. The fire
was supposed to have been started by
q tramp who slept in the place.
A CYCLONE did heavy damage in
Faulkner county, Ark. A cloud burst oc
Cured near Conway and at other places
hail covered the ground to a depth Of
from three inches to five feet in drifts
A church and cotton gin were blown
half mile, many farm houses, barns
and other buildings were totally de-
molished and stock killed. An entire
flock of sheep was blown away.
AT Sing Sing. N. Y. Louis Herman
and Charles Pustalka, both wife muir
| derers, were killed in the electric chair
THE bronze equestrian statue Of
Gen. q. S. Grant, erected by the Union
League club, was unveiled at Brooklyn
on the 25th. There was a splendid
military pageant, United State.
| soldiers and sailors and the state
militia and G. A. R veterans paradine
to the number of 10000 q. s. Grant
the generals grandson, uncovered the
statue amid cheers from the multi
tude. Gen. Horace Porter delivered
| the Grafton.
NEARLY 100 Moplah fanatics, who
had risen in rebellion, were caught by
the rajah's militia in temple at Man
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