Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
CONGRESSMAN BABcocK, chairman of
the repu blican congressional commit
tee, who returned to Washington on the
Sd from a visit to Maj. Mckinley at Can
ton, said that there would be an extra
session of congress called to meet be-
fore the middle of March and that it
was Maj. McKinley's desire that the
new congress should go to work imme-
diately after organizing to frame a
tariff bill that will be a revenue pro-
ducer, SO adjusted as to afford ample
protection to American industries and
American labor, but drawn on conser-
vative lines.
Mr. JOHN w STARKE, of Richmond,
Va, who has been commissioned a lieu
tenant by the Cuban revolutionists,
was recently enlisting men for Cuba
upon the condition that congress rec
ognized the belligerency of the ins1r-
gents
II was discovered at Des Moines, Ia o,
that a large part of the original records
relating to the work of the state SEN
ate last winter, in the direction of re-
vising the code of the state, cannot be
found. Secretary of State Mcfarland,
who made the discovery, admitted that
the work of the senate during nearly
all of the last session had been sacri-
feed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued a
proclamation which suspendS the law
relieving German vessels from tonnage
dues and other charges in American
ports This action is retaliatory in its
nature.
THE official footing of the presiden-
tial vote in South Dakota had not been
made on the Sd, but the canvass on
he
cial vote was as follows: Mckinley,
Al ,O42; Bryan, Al. 224; lowering, $50.
Mr.. FRANCIS, the secretary of the in
terror, made public his report on the
4th- He shows the total mum Der of
acres disposed of in the public domain
up to June 80 last to be 946, 600, 600
acres, leaving still vacant about 6OO.-
OOO, 900 acres. The total amount of
pensions paid for the last 81 years was
s., 034, ST., 769. The present number of
pensioners is 970.67s. The secretary
for legislation for the reclamation and
disposal of lands within the arid re-
gions.
A LETTER has been sent to President
| Cleveland signed by committee ap-
| pointed at a mass meeting of Cuban
| sympathizers in St Louis urging him
| to interfere in the Cuban struggle in
the interest of humanity and of Ameri-
| can civilization.
A SPECIAL to the New York Herald
| from Guimaro Camaguey reported that
Maj. Dana Osgood. the noted Cornell
university half back football player,
| ing the recent siege of the town of
| Guimaro. was killed in battle.
| WASHINGTON has been selected as the
seat of the republican national head
quarters and III. III. Rand, of Chicago
who did special work during the late
| campaign at Chicago, will be placed in
charge of the work there.
| WILLIAM DRURY, of Mercer county,
Ill, a multimillionaire, and the largest
| land owner in the United States, died
at his home in New Boston, Ia, on the
18th.
| SECRETARY OLNEY has made a report
on the United States relations during
the past year with foreign govern
| ments. He reviews the Cuban strug-
gle and says there may soon be call
| for some decided change in the policy
| the United States has hitherto pur-
| sued
IT was reported in Minneapolis,
| Mimi, the 7th that Archbishop
Ireland had made an assignment of
his private property, but it was denied
1 oy LhOSc dcqudiuI leu Will the drcn-
bishops affairs.
| SECRETARY CARLISLE transmitted to
| the house on the 7th the estimates of
appropriations required for the gov
eminent for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1895, which amount to s421,-
1859
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 7th
said that Venezuela has accepted the
arbitration as agreed upon by Secre-
tary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote.
HENRY DUPONT will renew his con-
test for the place of United States SEN
ator from Delaware.
Col JOHN R. FELLOWS, district attor-
ney and ex-congressman, died at New
York on the 7th from gastritis and a
complication of diseases
MARK HANNA told republican sena-
tor at Washington that an extra ses-
sion of congress would be called tc
meet the 18th or 10th of March,
MISCELLANEOUS.
HEAD-END collision between two
through freights on the Southern Pa
cific road near Waelder, Tex, on the
9th resulted in the death of two en-
gineers, two fremen and a brakeman.
The crew of the eastbound freight
went to sleep while waiting on a blind
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