The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-01-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

ASA S. BUSHNELL was inaugurated
governor of Ohio at Columbus on the
18th, to succeed Maj. William McKin-
ley. After the outgoing governor had
made some appropriate remarks Gov.
Bushnell made his inaugural speech.
which was somewhat lengthy. A num-
Der of recommendations in regard to
the affairs of the state were suggested.
THE Cuban insurgents attacked the
town of Aguacate on the 18th and an.
other band on the same day burned the
village of Gabriel in the province of
Pinar del Rio.
A DISPATCH from London stated
upon good authority that Lord Sails.
bury was endeavoring through neu.
trail power to come to direct negotia-
tions with Venezuela about the ap-
pointment of a joint commission to
delimit the disputed frontier.
MRS. ALvA E. VANDERBILT, the d.
vorced wife of William K. Vanderbilt,
was married to Oliver Hazard Perry
Belmont by Mayor Strong at New
York on the 18th, only few personal
friends being present.
The republicans held a caucus at
Frankfort, KY, on the 18th to nomi-
nate a candidate for United States SEN
ator and DIR. Hunter was chosen by ac-
clamation. As the death of Represent
alive Isaac Wilson breaks the tie in
the legislature, DR.. Hunter will prob
ably be elected.
THE strained relations between En-
gland and Germany over the Trans
vaal incident were reported on the 18th
as disappearing and there was less ap-
prehension of war over the matter.
AN engagement between Spanish
troops and band of 500 insurgents at
Managua, IL miles southwest of Ha-
vana. was reported on the 18th. Go
mez was south of the town of Guara
and near Melena, moving eastward
through the burned cane fields and
passing Providencia and Guinez- At
Banes the insurgents had plundered
and burned the great stores. Three
clerks were burned and the mayor was
killed.
The authorities at Havana, Cuba,
have discovered evidence of a conspir-
acy to cause an uprising in that city
and to hand the place over to the in
surgents. The conspiracy was believed
to be widely ramifed and its discovery
caused great uneasiness and suspicious
that the disaffection was much more
widely disseminated than had been ad-
mitted. Thirty persons had been ar
rested for completely in the plot, and
Aquilino Selano, police inspector for
the port of Havana, had been relieved
from duty.
The democratic members of the
Kentucky legislature held a joint eau
Gus at Frankfort to nominate United
States senator. The final result of the
ballot was: Blackburn, 81; McCreary,
IS; Brown, 6.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
on the 10th printed the first of series
of articles from supporters of the re-
publican presidential candidates. It
was from Senator Chandler, of New
Hampshire, the manager of Reed. He
said that New England was solid for
Reed, and that he was New York's
second choice.
D. SNoDGRAss. chief justice of the
supreme court of Tennessee, has been
indicted on two counts by the grand
jury at Chattanooga-oue for carrying
concealed weapons and the other for
felonious assault upon John R Beas-
ley.
SENATOR WoLcoTr, Of Colorado, who
has recently returned from Europe,
said that Americans had little idea of
the unselfish and important efforts
made throughout England and the
continent in.favor of the recognition
of silver. At meeting in Paris plan
for an identical resolution on the i'm.
portance of international agreement,
to be introduced in the English parlia-
ment, the French assembly and the
German reichstag, was agreed upon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Turkish government has an
nounced that it will not permit any
distribution among the Armenians by
any foreign society of money collected
abroad. The announcement created
considerable discussion in Washing.
ton, but Miss Clara Barton, the presi-
dent of the Red Cross society, who was
about to start to Turkey on relief ex.
petition, refused to make any state
ment on the subject.
POLICE OFFICER GIBBONS, of Chicago,
received a letter on the 18th from Peter
Houggard, of Englewood, informing
him that by the time it was received
the writer would be dead. An officer
was sent to Houggard's house, where
he found the dead bodies of Houggard
| his wife and five children who had been
asphyxiated by gas. No motive for the
| crime was known.
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