Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-25
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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 discussion, the committee
decided to hold the convention in St.
Louis on July %. 1t was also stated
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 NJ 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 OPP
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 Presby terian church
at Washington, Rev. DIR. 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
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gagged to be married, but that the we'd
ding would not take place until after
Lent.
JAMES 81. EcKELs, the comptroller of
the currency, spoke at Chicago on the
10th on Our Currency System" He
criticised it severely, especially the
green back 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 a
manner satisfactory to all concerned.
It was believed that the basis of it
would be arbitration. as proposed orig
inally by the United States. but with
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 a
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 a 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 10Th said that there was 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.
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