The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-25
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
SOME passengers who arrived at Re,
West, Fla, on the 10th from Havan
reported that Antonio Maceo was aliv
and we'll and was in the province O
Mantanzas. The passengers said tina
Ill of the festivities that were going OF
n Havana to celebrate his death hat
oeen ordered stopped since it has be
come known that he was alive.
PRESIDENT GoMPERs, of the A. r. O
e., was exonerated at Cincinnati OF
ihe 18th of the charges brought agains
linn by some republican delegates thai
ae had prostituted his Office by being
ictive in Mr.. Bryan's behalf in the re
cent campaign.
| Gov. HoLCoMB. of Nebraska, has de
clared himself in favor of granting
belligerent rights to the Cuban insur
gents.
| ALEXANDER HERMANN, the famous
magician, died on the 18th in his pri.
vate car near Salamanca, n. Y, while
on his way to Bradford. Death was
caused by heart disease. He was born
in 1874.
EX-CoNGREssMAN ROSWELL H. HoRR
died at Plainfield, N. j., on the 18th of
bronchitis and Bright's disease, aged &c.
THE American Federation of La Dor
cast the entire vote of the convention
at Cincinnati on the 1sth-2, 447-for
Samuel Gompers for president. Nc
CURE, of Philadelphia, was reelected
vice president; Frank Morrison, of Chi.
cago, was chosen secretary. and John
B. Lennon, of Bloomington, ILL.,, was
reelected treasurer. Nashville, Tenn.
was chosen for the next convention. A
resolution indorsing the free and un.
limited coinage of silver at sixteen to
one was passed by vote of !, 935 to
500.
A LOUISVILLE dispatch stated that
the repu blicians would contest the
election of Kentucky's single Bryan
elector.
PRESIDENT ETHAN ALLEN, of the Gu.
ban league, has issued an address from
New York to the people of the United
States, asking 'for such aid and com.
fort as may be found in the open eX.
rial support" for the cause of Cuba.
BOOKER 7. WASHINGTON, the negro
principal of the industrial college for
negroes at Tuskegee, Ala, is being
vigorously pushed by negro friends for
a place in the Mckinley cabinet.
The explicit announcement was
made at Madrid that Senior Depuy de
LONE, the Spanish minister at Wash.
ington, had telegraphed his govern.
ment that Secretary Olney had assured
him that Spain might rest tranquil
until March, at least, since. despite the
attitude of congress, President Cleve
land would not recognize the indie.
pendence of Cuba.
A MEETING in memo ry of Gen.
Antonio Maceo was held at New York
on the 10th Nnder the auspices of the
Is Cuban societies of that city. The
greatest excite ment prevailed and
when the collection boxes were passed
women, who composed half the audi.
ence. took off their rings and other
jewelry and threw them in.
THE demonstration in favor of the
Cuban insurgents at New York on the
21st under the auspices of the Society
bf American Friends of Cuba was re-
markable one. Four thousand men
marched to Cooper Union, led by Frank
Meyer, a survivor of the Virg:nius
massacre. The parade was divided
into ten columns.
A RECENT Washington dispatch said
that no department of the government
was more alive 70 the Cuban situation
than the United States navy depart
ment, and not the slightest feeling of
apprehension existed among the au-
thorities as to the result of campaign
with Spain. 1t would, they said, be
naval war and would be over in so DAYS.
Mr.. QUEsADA, the Gu ban representa-
tive at Washington, said that the junta
was not responsi BILE for the en- listments
for the Cuban cause that were said to
be going on throughout the United
States. He stated that men were not
wanted, as the insurgents had 10000
men they could not arm. The Cuba
needed arms and ammunition.
A SPECIAL from Du buque. Ia, on the
s1st stated that Senator Allison had
been offered the secretary of states
portfolio by Maj. Mckinley.
The annual report of the secretary
of the treasury was transmitted to con-
gress on the 21st 1t deals extensively
and in detail with the financial situa-
ton. Mr.. Carlisle summarizes the con-
dition of the treasury and reviews his
former recommendation for early and
effective legislation to provide for the
retirement of treasury notes.