Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1896-06-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


GEN. WEyLER has promulgated IN
edict In Cuba suspending for one year
all civil processes against planters and
creditors will not be able to secure
payment Of interest or forcclose any
mortgages they may hold. The au-
thoritics at Washington were going to
protest against the edict which will in
juriously affect American interests In
the Island.
THE republican senators held Gnu
Gus on the Goth and decided upon the
order in which bills on the calendar
should be taken up rs follows: The
filled cheese, alcohol In the arts, fruit
brandy, immigration, five per cent
bond bill, labor commission, election
Of senators by tho people, bankruptcy,
contempt Of courts, courts In Indian
territory, reorganization OF the North
ern Pacific Railway Co., Alabama cleo
ton investigation, animal industry
and New Hampshire war claims
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent mes
sage to the house on tho Goth vetoing
the rivers and harbors appropriation
bills, stating among other things, that
the bill was extravagant and especially
unsuited to these times Of depressed
business and resulting disappointment
in government revenue and also that
many OF the objects for which money
was appropriated in tho bill were pal
pably for the benefit Of limited locali-
ties or In aid OF individual interests.
The bill for submitting n woman
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton which passed the Rhode Island
senate was killed in the house and the
legislature adjourned until September.
CONGRESSMAN W. l. LINTON was re-
nominated by the republicans ut Sagi.
nav, Mich.
THE president approved the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill on the Goth.
CHAIRMAN HARRITY, Of tho dem
ocratic national committee, has written
to Senator-elcct Money, OF Mississippi,
denying the statement that the M.
tional committee would keep out Of
the Chicago convention every contest.
ing delegate who would not pledge
himself in advance to abide by the ac-
ton OF the committee making up the
temporary roll of the convention.
"BMcK" PoMEIoY, the noted journal
list and author, died Mt his Brooklyn
home on the 5oth from dropsy.
]. J. Morn, chairman of the national
silver party, has issued an address from
Washington. urging all friends OF the
party to push the work of organization
with all possible vigor, the purpose
being to unite for action all believers
In the restoration OF "frce silver and
prosperity"
A CABLE message has been received
ut Chicago that Miss Kate Field died
ut Honolulu OF pneumonia. She was
in the Sandwich islands rs the special
correspondent OF the Chicago Times
Herald.
TIE bolt OF the free silver prohibi-
tionists from the regular national con-
vention at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, is
now claimed to be the first move OF
silver men to bolt all the political con-
ventions.
A MEETING Is called ut Des Moines,
H., for tho purpose Of completing the
of the Iowa Timetable
Those in charge OF the
state that the object OF the
association Is not to form q new party,
but to unite all the free silver men OF
Iowa, without regard to party afiilia-
lions, In one organization.
Miss JULIA STEVENSON, daughter OF
the vice president, was married ut
on the I'd to Rev. Martin
Hardin, son Of Gen. p Watt Hardin,
of Kentucky.
The body of the lato James e. Blaine
will be taken from Oak Hill cemetery,
and rcinterrcd at Angus
Ia, Me. Mrs. Blaine has purchased
three acres on the front of the hill for
the purpose.
IT was announced at Des Moines, H.,
on the I'd that Senator Allison had Sc
lec.ed John n. Baldwin, OF Council
Bluffs, delegate from the Ninth dis
trict, TO present his name TO the con-
vention ut St Louis.
CHAIRMAN HARRIrY, Of the demo.
cratic national committee has pre-
pared an estimate of how the Chicago
will stand on the money
question. He gives the silver men 497
the gold men ss7 and puts
92 in the doubtful column.
Gov. BRADLEY. OF Kentucky, has
his name MS presidential