Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-02-24
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A FLIBUsTERING expedition com
posed of about 20 men left Tampa,
Fla, on the night of the 18th for Cuba.
ACTUATED by sense of honor and
strict idea of Justice the United States
state department has taken steps to
place in the hands of Senior Canalejas,
to whom the letter was addressed, the
epistle written by Senior Depuy de
LONE, which led to the resignation of
the minister.
1T was stated at the state depart
ment at Washington on the 18th that
matters regarding the De LONE
incident had assumed such a shape
that a satisfactory adjustment of the
affair between the United States and
Spain was confidently expected.
| Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD was re-
ported very sick in New York. suffer
ing from cancer of the stomach.
| THE bill to submit a woman suffrage
amendment was defeated in the upper
house of the Iowa general assembly by
| so to ~.
| ADDRESSES were issued from Wash
ington on the 18th on behalf of the
democratic, populist and silver re-
publican parties signed by Senator
James K. Jones for the democrats,
Senator Marion Butler for the popu-
lists, and Chairman Charles Towne and
ex-senator Dubois and others for the
silver republicans, appealing to all to
consolidate on the financial issue.
In the lower house of the Massachu-
sets legislature the woman suffrage
question came up the other day in the
| form of resolut ton for striking out
| ~ ID Al--
| tut ton It was almost unanimously
voted down.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has been in
formed by some of the republican sem
ators that it will be useless to press
| the Hawaiian annexation treaty to
vote until some attention has been
given to Cuba, as vote now would
| N can the rejection of the treaty.
REV. ALEXANDER KENT, pastor of the
Peoples church at Washington, has
made arrangements for the meetings
at the church Sunday evenings to be
addressed by congressman, who are to
| discuss social and financial problems.
The Kentucky house of representa-
tives passed resolution urging their
congressman and senator's to use all
possible efforts to secure the recogni-
ton of the Cuban patriots and the
| island as an independent and free re-
public.
Miss FRANCIS E. WILLARD, president
| of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union, died early on the morning of
| the 18th at New York. She had suf-
fered for some years from profound
| anemia and few weeks ago she was
much Frustrated and readily took the
grip, which attacked the stomach,
s~<1
| whelmed the nerve centers She was
born September %, 1889.
The resolu tions which were adopted
at the session of the National Woman
Suffrage association at Washington on
the nth demand for women citizens
| equality with males in the exercise of
| the elective franchise, ask for 10th
amendment to the constitution to
| bring this about, demand for mothers
equal custody and control of their
minor children and for wives and
| widows an equal use and Inheritance
of property, and ask for women repre-
sentation on boards of education, pub
| lie schools, etc.
ACCORDING to a declaration of the
state department at Washington on
the 18th Spain has officially disclaimed
in positive manner the reflections
contained il the De LONE letter, and
that incident is satisfactorily closed.
PEOPLE of every class in Madrid de-
| nounced in the strongest fashion the
| insinuation on the part of the Ameri-
| can press that the Spanish nation was
in any way responsible for the Maine
disaster at Havana, which was as
cribed by the majority to an accident,
and by some to the work of Cubans,
/
with Spain. Should the United States
government officially re-echo the
charges of the American press dec
laration of war, it was said, would fol-
low at once without waiting for further
action from America.
Col. EDWARD B. BROWNE, of Aspen.
Col, wired Gov. Adams offering, in
case of a war with Spain, to furnish a
dynamite battery composed of 100
miners, who have had long experience
in handling high explosives.
The United States government on
| the nth had settled down into wait
ing attitude to get the results of the
court of inquiry appointed by the navy
department to investigate the cause of
the disaster to the battleship Maine.
The dead seamen were buried in Cuba
and the wounded sent to Key West,
Fla The story that a torpedo hole
was discovered in the bottom of the
Maine was denied by the authorities
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has consented
to deliver an address at Iowa college,
| Grinnell, Ia, in June, on the occasion
of the semi-centennial of the institu-
ton.
SECRETARY Lone, of the navy depart
ment. made statement on the 18th
denying the warlike rumors floating
| round and stating that the disaster to
the battleship Maine would probably