The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND PoLIrICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
| NJ A. HANNA will contest in the Ohio
legislature next winter for the full
term in the United States senate. His
supporters have already organized his
campaign. The hope that Gov. Bush
nell may appoint Hanna to fill the I'M
expired term of Senator Sherman has
practically been abandoned.
| AFTER four hours debate, full of
feeling and often bitter with PERSONAL
tiles, the bill allowing the women the
right of suffrage went to vote in the
Oklahoma house on the 18th and was
defeated by vote of II to Is, the
majority of the populists fighting it
hard. =
nounced that he has accepted the pres
idency of the Washington and Lee uni
versity at Lexington, Va. He will as
sumo the duties on July 1.
| KYLE was reelected United States
senator at Pierre, S. D., on the 18th by
| the solid republican vote and few
/ populists who stayed by him.
| A RECENT dispatch to the Madrid I'm
parcial from Havana stated that the
opinion was prevalent in Cuba that the
proposed reforms in the island will
have absolutely no influence on the
war.
JAMES A. GARY, of Baltimore, Md,
had an interview with President-elect
Mckinley at Canton, o., on the 10Th
and then stated to an Associated press
reporter that Mr.. Mckinley had ten
dered him a portfolio in his cabinet,
| but which one had not been definitely
decided.
THE last evening reception of this
administration was given by President
and Mrs. Cleveland at the white house
on the 18th for the benefit of the gen.
| eral public. The crowd was a record
| breaker in point of attendance, it be-
| ing estimated that between 5, 900 and
6,0OO persons were in line during the
two hours.
SECRETARY OLNEY sounded the Brit
ish government about the amendments
which have been proposed to the arbi-
tration treaty in the senate. Ambassa-
dor Bayard stated that Lord Salisbury
cared little about the amendments
eliminating King Oscar of Norway and
Sweden and reaffirming the Monroe
doctrine, but the British were sur
prised at the objection raised in the
senate and attributed it to political
and personal motives rather than to
serious opposition to the general idea
of arbitration.
! THE squadrons of the united powers
bombarded Canea, the Cretan capital,
on the 21st to prevent Greece occupy
ing it.
REPUBLICANS, including Messrs. Nc
Kinley, Hanna and Carnegie, proposed
to raise fund of 100000 for the ben
eft of the family of Col. j. r. Fellows,
of New York, who recently died from
a cold caught while stumping the south
for the Palmer and Buckner ticket
Gov. BUSHNELL, of Ohio, has pub
lished a statement that when Senator
Sherman resigned to enter President
McKinley's cabinet Marcus A. Hanna
would be appointed as United States
senator in Sherman's place.
GILES Y. CRENsHAw, of Maysville.
Mo-, has been nominated by the presi-
dent successor to the late Gen. 10
Shelby as United States marshal for
the Western Missouri district.
A BABY girl was born to ex-President
and Mrs. Harrison at indianapolis,
Ind, on the 21st.
THE populist editors who believe in
fusion with the democracy and are OPP
posed to Paul Vandervoort, met at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the ed, A. Rozelle
calling the meeting to order.
THE annual meeting of the National
Reform Press association was called to
order at Memphis, Tenn. by President
Paul Vandervoort, of Nebraska. Nearly
every southern and western state was
represented.
THE Paris Gaulois stated on the ed
that the powers had entrusted to Italy
the authority to pacify and administer
the affairs of Crete pending the estab
lishment of constitutional autonomy
for the island.
REV. PETER WALLACE died at Chica-
go recently, aged "a. He was for over
40 years a noted Methodist preacher
and raised a company of soldiers in
1861 in Sangamon county, ILL.,, for the
Seventy-Third regiment, known as the
Preacher regiment" all of the officers
of which were clergymen.
THE congress of the Daughters of the
Revolution opened at Washington on
the ED. The president-general, Mrs.
Stevenson, wife of the vice president
of the United States, called the meet
ing to order and her address was re-
sponded to by Mrs. Elroy NJ. Avery,
state regent of Ohio.
A CHICAGO NEWS Washington special
on the 22d said that President McKin-
ley was likely to suspend or revoke the
sweeping civil service order of Presi.
dent Cleveland.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BICYCLE men of Butte and other