The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-09-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE convention of the Illinois Fed.
Grafton of Labor at Bloomington on
the 18th incorporated in its platform q
resolution favoring the free coinage OF
silver at sixteen to one; also resolu
tons 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-
tenn.
THE ambassadors of the powers at
Constantinople have arrived at an IN
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 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-
tenango 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
1,50O 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
President Diaz at the City of Mexico
on the 18th, was taken out of Jail by a
mob at night and lynched. About go
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 ac-
| count of pensions. He estimated the
total payments would be S147, 800. 600
and the appropriation was Sal, 1868, 500.
The duchess of Marlborough, for
| merly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, be-
came the mother of son at London
on the 18th.
THE treasury department has decid-
ed to resume the coinage of silver dol
lars and fully 100000 will be coined
| this month and the output doubled
next month.
GEN. CALIXTO GARCIA has been ap-
pointed to succeed Gomez as command
er-in-chief of the Cuban insurgent
troops. Gomez becomes minister OF
war of the Cuban republic.
GEN. J. p. S. GOBLIN, of Lebanon
commander-in-chief of the G. A. r.
has appointed Thomas J. Stewart, OF
Pennsylvania, adjutant-general, and
Charles Burrowes, of New Jersey, quar-
termaster-general. Headquarters have
been established at Independence
hall, Philadelphia
SECRETARY GAGE has decided to es
tablish what he calls an honorary
service rolf by transferring all clerks
who have served so years in the civil
service and have attained the age of 7(
years and pensioning them off.
DIFFERENCE of opinion was report
ed as existing in the cabinet over sec
ton % of the tariff bill, relating to the
discriminating duty upon goods i'm
ported into the United States by for
eign vessels. The president wants i
sustained and Acknowledgement Nc
Kenna wants it knocked out on &C
count of ambiguity.