The Holly chieftain., 1899-02-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
FEn.OxAL ANp roLIrIcAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
TIE cou-l-mar'il. - try Commissary
Genera Eagaa for conduct unbecJm-
ing an Oa.--r and q gentleman, for his
y.tup uprral.ve language before the war
eating committee, metat Wash
iagtou on the -sth Gen. Ea.gan
pleaded not gu.lty 10 the charges, bu'
qualified his plea by admitting that
The specIGcat.Ons set forth correctly
part %. the language ne used.
THE ,srr. .t0rial statehood convention
a. Guthrie, Ok, resolved for consti.
tUt.ona. convention in June and state
election u October on a proposition to
go 10 compress and demand admission
IN DeCem ber.
SEcEETsE sEY ALGEE appeared before
the war investigation commission at
Wash urtOu on the 10Th. He denied
positively tina, he had ever, directly
J- Indirectly. been Interested In any
army camps or supplies furnished the
government during The Spanish war.
Al. complaints. be said. had been in.
rcs,lva.-I. and wh..e there were de
f-cts ,u..y were on = those iuscp parable
from suddenly cree ing great army.
TIE seat Of y. l. Scott, the new re.
publican senator from West Virginia.
will BE- contested by his opponent
John 7. Mrhraw. .u the ground that
two OF the men who voted for Scott
were ineligible because they held
commissions the United States vol
unieer army.
AUGU-Tu- II. GAEIASo, attorney gen
~ l .v.rs g.
dent Cleve.aud's first administration.
was stricken with apopIeEy on the 26lh
while addressing the United States
supreme court and died within ten
minutes H. was ~ years old.
The lower house Of the Nebraska
Legislature has gone on record a. up-
posed to the seating Of brigham II.
Roberts. cougrrssnau-elect from Utah.
THE court-maruaI upon Commissary
Genera. EaCan at Washington for his
recent vlruleHt attack upon Gen. NJ es
ended on the -7gA and within - n
utes atter'eards the court arrived at
verdict Of guilty and sentenced him to
dismissal from the military serTicc Of
the United States. without any recon.
mcniat.on for c.cmcncy.
SINUS POK AGoS. the last chief Of the
Pottawatomir indians, died at Benton
llarbor, Mich, on the 9Th, aged 50
years
While the Porto Ricans do not offer
the least resistance TO the military ad-
ministratiOu by Americans they make
no secret OF the fact that they do no,
desire its continuance. but earnestly
wish for civil government in some
form.
BRIO. GES. THApDEUs II. STANTON.
known as the Fighting Paymaster,7 50
was retired from active service on
reaching the age limit on the 3Oth.
THE National Farmers party was or
ganized in Warren county. Ill
THE president nominated william
C. Hook, Of Leavenworth, Kan. to be
United States judge for the district of
kansas TO succeed Judge Cassius G.
Foster
REV MYRoS w. REED, pastor Of the
broadway temple at Denver, Col, and
n well-know.l politician, died at St
Joseph's hospital in that city on the
@Oth after protracted illness due to a
general breaking down of the system.
LOUIS A. LAMBEEr, president OF the
Bank of Grand Avenue at Kansas Citv.
Mo, and the man who built the frs
steam ferry boat that ever crossed the
Missouri river, died on the 3Oth of
pneumonia, aged 81.
JosEPH V. QuARLEs, of Milwaukee.
was nominated by the republican
Legislative caucus at Madison, Wis, to
succeed John l. Mitchell as United
States senator. lie was elected in
joint session on the 3lst