The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-03-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 10th
said that Secretary Carlisle was a can
didate for the presidential nomination
at Chicago and a pm bile announcement
to that effect will soon be made by one
of the secretary's close friends in the
senate. He will 60 before the conven-
ton as the representative of the sound
money views of the administration.
CONVENTIONS have been held by two
thirds of the counties OF Wisconsin,
and all but five delegates were in
structed for Mckinley. There was
thought to be no doubt that Wisconsin
would send an instructed Mckinley
delegation to St Louis.
ACCORDING to the figures of the Reed
managers at Washington, of the 176
delegates already elected to the ma
tioual republican convention McKin-
ley has SO. Reed 80, Quay 16, Cullom
10, Gov. Morton 6, Allison 5 and the
titles of 20 are contested. While this
distribution apparently gives McKin.
ley long lead, it is contended by
Reeds friends that it is not as great as
It looks. as out of 63 20 are from his
own state, Ohio, while in Reeds col,
dmn not a single New England dele.
gate is included.
The New York World on the 10th
said that it had made poll of nearly
every state in the union and as result
predicted the nomination of William
Mckinley by the St Louis convention.
A TELEGRAM received at LoEdon Oh
the 18th said that Mark Twain, the
American humorist, was seriously i'll
at Jeypoor, India
''the free silver democratic party OF
Michigan" was organized at Lansing
on the 18th at conference of some 2.
free silver democrats representing
various sections of the state.
AT the session Of the national con
ference called by the committee of loo
in the interest of united national re
form at Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 18th il
was decided to name the new party
the National Reform Party" and "a
national convention was called to meet
in Pittsburgh on May IS.
THE republican state convention at
Columbus, o., Endorsed Mckinley
unanimously for president. The plat
form made the strongest declaration
possible for protection and Endorsed
reciprocity. The financial plank IA
vored the use of both gold and silver
as standard money under restrictions
that would maintain the parity of the
two metals.
The convention of the republicans
of Iowa at Des Moines on the 18th was
from beginning to end an Allison con-
vention. The resolutions adopted were
simply recital of the senator quail
fications for president and said, among
other things, that ''he has at all times
labored to maintain an abundant cur
rency of gold, silver and paper, made
interconvertible and equal to the best
currency of the commercial world"
MISCELLANEOUS.
Two Italians named Tadeo, father
and son, section hands on the Lake
Shore railroad, were burned to death
near Geneva, o., recently. The little
house in which they lived caught fire
and they had not time to escape before
the building was destroyed.
RECENTLY Cuban rebels attacked a
plantation west of the city of Havana
and burned it. Spanish troops rushed
to the place and threw up entrench-
ments. expecting an attack from the
rebels. A second lot of Spanish troops
arrived on the scene and on being
challenged by the first Spaniards on
the scene answered, "San Quentin bat
TALON" which was mistaken for Quin-
tin Bandera, a Cuban commander, and
the two bodies of Spanish troops
opened fire on each other and "A were
killed before the mistake was dis
covered.
THREE Spanish cruisers were re-
ported on the 10th to be lowering off
the Florida coast watching out for the
and Commodore at Key West, Fla,
supposed to be fitting out flibustering
expeditions to Cuba. 1t was reported
that Uncle Sam was not going to be so
strict about interfering with vessels
carrying arms to Cuba, having decided
to let the Spaniards do their own
Watching.
II. SCHULTZ, a farmer, and his wife,
of Millersville, Md, left their three
little children in their house and went
to work in field and the eldest child
"a three-year-old-got hold Of some
matches and the house was burned
down. The two youngest children
were roasted alive and the other will
die of his injuries. 1t was thought the
mother would also die from the shock
over the calamity.
The British steamer Matadi, which
sailed from Sierra Leone, Africa, re-
Gently, has been totally destroyed at
Bona by an explosion of gunpowder.
Twenty-Five of tho crew, two passen-
gers aud l6 native laborers were killed.
The victims were asleep at the time of
the accident The Matadi had on
board ten tons of powder. Sixteen of
the crew escaped without serious in.
jury.
THE bill introduced in the house by
| Congressman Curtis, of Kansas. in
creasing the powers of the interstate
commerce commission in adjusting
railroad tariffs, has received the in.
dorsement of the Kansas state board
| of railroad commissioners.
The president has issued a proclama-
ton withdrawing from disposition
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