The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE executive committee of the ma
tional reform party has issued a call
for a state conference at Harrisburg,
Pa, on June 3, 1897, for the purpose of
uniting all reformers and preparing
plans for the calling of a national con-
ference in 1898. Reformers from all
parts of the United States are invited
to be present and participate in the
conference or send communications.
MARION, the youngest of the three
daughters of President and Mrs. Cleve-
land, was christened at the white house
on the 18th. DR.. Byron S. Sunderland,
church, oficiated.
THE board of trustees of Washington
and Lee university at Lexington, Va,
on the 18th unanimously elected Post
master-General Wilson president in
place of G. w. C. Lee, who recently re-
signed. 1t was understood that Mr.
Wilson will accept the position and
enter upon the duties of his office on
July 1 next.
A COMPLETE canvass of the Ohio as
sembly was made by Joe Smith, the
confidential secretary of the president
elect. The result was that the sup
porters of National Chairman Hanna
were convinced that if a special session
of the assembly is called to elect a sue
cessor to Senator Sherman Hanna will
be elected by alarge majority.
LINCoLN's birthday on the 18th was
celebrated by republicans with ban
quets at GAINESVILLE, o., Chicago, In
dianapolis, Ind, Grand Rapids, Mich,
st. Paul, Mimi, and many other places
throughout the country.
A DISPATCH from Canton, O., stated
that Chauncey NJ. Depew, the noted
New Yorker, had been practically de-
cided upon as ambassador to Great
Britain.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland gave
their annual reception to the army and
navy and marine corps at the white
house on the night of the 18th. 1t
was the final state reception of the Of
fetal term of Mr.. Cleveland.
GEN. 10 o. SHELBY, the noted ex-con-
federate general, died at Adrian, Mo-,
on the 18th, aged sc years.
A WASHINGTON special on the 18th
said that the retinue of ex-Queen Liliu-
okalani were greatly alarmed by warn
ings that an effort would be made to
assassinate the eX-queen, because as
long as she lives she is an obstacle to
the cause of the anneXationists in the
Hawaiian islands.
j. r. SOVEREIGN, grand master X. of
L., has written letter declaring that
secret revolutionary societies, known
as the Iron Brotherhood and Industrial
Army, are being organized in every
part of the country, with their mem
bers leagued together to resort to civil
war as means of obtaining remedies
for the populace which they cannot Sc
cure by the ballot.
IT was semi-officially announced at
Paris on the 18th that all the powers
will firmly persist in the agreement to
maintain peace and the attempts of
Greece to disturb it cannot, therefore,
prevail. The joint forces of the foreign
warships have occupied the town of
Canea, Crete.
CUBAN sympathizers at Tacoma,
WASH, recently denounced the Span
ish premier and trailed the Spanish
flag in the mud and then burned it.
WILLIAM p. ST. JOHN, one of the
champions in the east of free silver
and treasurer of the democratic ma
tional committee, died at New York on
the 14th of a complication of kidney
and stomach trouble.