Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

OVER 1000 applications had been Alec
in the state department up to the &c
for consular positions and the number
of such appointments at the dispose
of the president is in the neighborhooe
of 40.
CAPT. W. u. SMITH, OF the Cubar
army, spent considerable time on the
9Th with the senate committee on for
eign relations In a brief interview
with representative of the Associated
press he said that NIL talk about au
tonomy and Spanish reforms for Cubs
was so much breath wasted. There
was not man in the Cuban army who
would agree to accept anything short
of absolute independence.
COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY
BOWLER has rendered his resignation
to Secretary Gage, to take effect before
July |. on which date Mr.. Bowler ex-
poets to leave with his family for Eu-
rope.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY signed the sun.
dry civil bill on the 18th.
1.-THE democratic party will not force
national issues in the various state
campaigns, and, while reputation OF
the Chicago platform will not be al
lowed, il will not be brought forward
us an issue paramount to anything
else" That is the statement of Ma
tional Committeeman Frank Campbell,
of Bath, n. Y.
TIE empress of Germany was report
ed us being i'll from the nervous shock
received when number Of angry men
Mt Berlin threw petition into the
royal carriage which struck her in the
face.
THE queen regent OF Spain has con-
firmed Senior Canovas, the premier, in
his ministerial powers and the old cab
met will remain in power with the old
policy unchanged.
THERE was great excitement ut vi
emma over the news that Emperor
Francis Joseph had had an apoplectic
fit, caused by nervousness at the recent
riots in the national Legislature.
TIE Endorsements Of Maj. 7. J. An
derson for the Office of pension agent
ut Topeka, Kan, were presented to
President Mckinley on the 5th by Con-
gresham Curtis, of Kansas. The in
dorsemcnts are marvel. 1t was said
that 90 per cent. of the old soldiers of
the state had Endorsed Anderson.
REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL =. LEE, re-
tired, the last of the commanders of
great squadrons during the civil war,
died at his home near Washington on
the 5th from paralysis.
IT was rumored in San Francisco
that Prof. Dychc, of the Kansas uni
versity, will head polar expedition to
be fitted out on the Pacific coast this
summer.
SECRETARY GAGE is preparing finan-
cial measure 10 be submitted to con-
gress next winter. In pursuance OF
this plan he has sent out letters to
leading bankers and merchants invit-
ing suggestions for reforming the cur
rency.
at the meeting of the provisional COM
mittee of the national silver republican
party at Chicago on the sth. Aplan of
organization was mapped out. The
resolutions declared that the restora-
tion of silver rs money was the para
mount issue. Charles A. Towne, OF
was elected chairman Of
the national committee.
W. ]. CALHOUN, the special commits
sioner sent to Cuba, arrived ut WASH
ington on the Sth and made verbal
report to the president, describing the
in the war-ridden island and
the conclusions reached by him. Mr..
Calhoun was to have another interview
with the president.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
the president will send to congress n
dealing with currency reform
on or about June 81.