Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — THEY WILL NOT FUSE. [ARTICLE]

THEY WILL NOT FUSE.

THREE TICKETS THIS YEAR IN KANSAS. ' i Democrat* and Populate Will Fly Separate Bonner* Awful Lou of Life In a Weloh Colliery Hip caion—Chaplain "Pray* for Armenia. . - j No Fniion in Kama*. There has b4n a good deal of newspaper tails lately about fusion between the Democrats and HopiiliSts in Kansas this year, with George W. Gliefc as the candidate for Governor. While such a' combination is possible, it is not probable, says a Topeka dispatch. Many of the Democratic leaders are opposed to any kind of a coalition with the Populists, claiming that it would result disastrously to their organization, as did the arrangement of 1892. The Populist leaders also ■re opposed to fusion. Those who are outspoken lor fusion are Democrats and Populists who prefer anything to Republicanism. This faction is greatly ill the minority, but it is growing. However, if is the opinion of conservative Democrats and Populists that there will Tiot be any fusion on State officers this year, and . that- there yvill be three straight - tickets lit the field as in 1894. Invokes Divine Aid.’ Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the House, prayed eloquently for bleeding Armenia Monday. "Hear the ery of our agony.’.’ he prayed, “in behalf of the people of Armenia, despoiled. tortured, their homes in ashes, their,men and women and children slain at the edge of the sword, their women Arouse and unite the j»owers of Christendom, the cineen, the czar, the kaiser, kings and princes, their ministers and people, that the sultan shall be forced to sheathe his bloody sword and stay the frenzied rage of his fanatical soldiery and subjec ts.” Sublime Porte Will Pay, •Uncle Sam, has brought the sultan to time, and there is now little likelihood that any of the American cruisers will have war practice in the Levant, with Mohammedan towns as targets. During the Armenian debate Monday in -the House, Mr. Hitt of Illinois, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Turkish Government had admitted the justice of claims for indemnity In the Kharput and Marsh outrages, and would pay the’sums demanded by Secretary Olney. These sums amounted tv ■bout $200,000. Death in a Welsh Colliery. A terrible explosion Las taken place in ■ colliery ut Tylorstown, near Cardiff. Wales. The shafts were shattered and the whole town'was shaken by the tremendous concussion, causing a scene of wild excitement. Fifty-four tinners were below the surface wiien the explosion took place. Twelve bodies were recovered from the colliery and twelve men arc still missing. Rescue parties jvere hurried to the scene, but their work was vecy dangerous, owing to the fact that the pit is on fire.