The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation had heated debate at their
convention in Des Moines, Ia, on the
2Sth about a proposition for plan of
work. At the afternoon session the
following officers were reelected:
President, Susan B. Anthony; vice
president-at-large, Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw, Philadelphia; corresponding Sec
rotary, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Phil
adelphia.
HENRY HEITFELD, was on the 2sth
elected United States senator at Boise,
vote stood: Heitfeld, SO; Dubois, 80; T.
F. Nelson, 1. Heitfeld was born in st.
Louis and lived at Seneca, Kan, from
1870 to 1882. ...
COMPTROLLER EcKELs, of the treasury
department, on the 2sth gave his views
upon the financial condition of the
country to the house committee on
banking and currency, several bills
introduced by members of the house
having been referred to him for his
judgment.
LYMAN j. GAGE, of Chicago, visited
Maj. Mckinley at Canton, o., on the
2Sth. Mr.. Gage was rendered the port
folio of the treasury department at
Washington and accepted it.
THE semi-centennial of the New York
Academy of Medicine was celebrated
on the goth, President Cleveland max
ing the principal address.
A DISPATCH to the New York Sun on
the Goth stated that the Cuban insur-
gents were fighting near Havana, an
engagement having taken place few
days ago at Managua in which they de-
feated the Spanish troops and captured
a great quantity of guns and ammuni-
ton.
GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER visited Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley at Canton, O., on
the Goth and was formally offered the
secretaryship of war in the incoming
administration and he accepted it.
A LONDON dispatch of the 31st said
that in spite of special denials it was
becoming generally known that the
condition of the cars health was crit
ical and that a regency was probable.
GEN. A. j. SMITH died at st. Louis on
the 30th. He was famous as a COM
mander who was never defeated. He
drove Gen. Price out of Missouri and
was instrumental in destroying Hoods
army and encompassed the surrender
of Mobile.
The recently published letter pro-
testing against the expenditure of $50,
900 for the inaugural ball at Washing
ton and asking that the money be de-
voted to charity, purporting to have
been written by Maj. Mckinley, has
been denounced as forgery.
IT was said to be understood among
Massachusetts, republicans in congress
that John D. Long, of the old Bay
state, had been rendered and had ac
cepted the office of secretary of the
navy in the incoming administration.
A CHICAGO News Washington special
On the 1st said that special session of
the senate to meet March or 5, imme-
diately on the inauguration of the new
president, was now on the cards, but
the house, it was believed, would not
meet until March Is.
CHARLES G. DAWES, of Evanston, ILL.,,
said on the 1st that the press report
that he had been rendered and had
accepted the appointment of comptrol-
Ter of the currency was true.
EX-CoNGREssMAN JAMES WILSON, of
Iowa, has confirmed the report that he
had been rendered the office of secre-
tary of agriculture in the next admin
istration and that he had accepted.