The leader., 1897-09-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mall.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

CoNsUL-GENERAL LEE, in a recent In
terview with Secretary sherman re-
garding the situation in Cuba, is re-
ported to have said: "The war will
never be concluded by the present
methods of Spain"
GUsrAvE PABsr, a son of the MIL
waukee brewer, was married on the
14th to Miss Hilda Lemp, daughter of
the St Louis brewer. The ceremony
tcok place at Ventor, Isle of Wright.
The bridegroom was previously mar
ried to Margaret Mather, the actress,
from whom he was recently divorced.
THE convention of the Illinois Fed.
GRAFTON of Labor at Bloomington on
the 18th Incorporated in its platform a
resolution favoring the free coinage of
silver at sixteen to one; also resolu-
tions favoring government ownership
of railroads, telegraphs and tele-
phones; the municipal ownership of
street railways, water works, gas and
electric light plants; the restriction of
immigration and the establishment
of the initiative and referendum sys-
TEN.
THE ambassadors of the powers at
Constantinople have arrived at an un-
Outstanding in regard to the terms OF
peace between Turkey and Greece upon
the basis of Lord Salisbury's proposals,
which are substantially that an inter
national commission of one from each
of the powers is to control the Greek
revenues, in order to meet the indem-
nifty, and the Turkish troops are to
evacuate Thessaly.
A BILL is to be introduced at the
next session of congress for creating a
national department of public health
and providing for a secretary with a
seat in the cabinet. Senator Mallory,
of Florida, will introduce the measure
A SPECIAL to the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch from the City of Mexico said that
an attempt to assassinate President
Diaz was made on the 10th.
PRIVATE advices received at San
Francisco convey the information that,
after two days of hard fighting, the
garrison of Barrios' soldiers at Quezal-
tenalgo succumbed to superior num-
bers, and the revolutionists are mas
tiers of the situation in Guatemala.
This is understood as the equivalent
to the end of the career of Barrios as
dictator of the Central American re-
public.
GEN. LUQUE reported to Gen. Weyler
| recently at Havana that his column of
5000 soldiers had utterly destroyed
l 500 farms in the province OF Santiago
de Cuba. The country people on the
farms were obliged to march with the
soldiers and afterward were herded
around Manzanillo as concentrates.
| Officially only 100 were reported as ar
irving at Manzanillo The others,
numbering over 1000, are not men
toned in Gen. Luque's dispatch. News
from Cuban sources said that they
were shot by the column.
FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENER-
AL HEATH has received letter from
Senator Wolcott, in which the senator,
who is in Europe and is at the head of
the international monetary commits
sion, speaks very encouragingly of the
outlook for securing an international
understanding in behalf of silver
ARRAYO, the man who assaulted
lColuCHI blaH az ehS wy VI -hSAlCo
on the nth, was taken out of Jail by
mob at night and lynched. About 20
of the lynchers were arrested.
COMMISSIONER EVANS, of the pension
bureau, stated on the 18th that it would
be necessary this year to ask congress
for deficiency appropriation on &C
count of pensions. He estimated the
total payments would be S147, 800, 900
and the appropriation was Sal 263, 800