The Republican National convention, which was held at Philadelphia last week, nominated William McKinley for President and Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York for Vice-President.
The New York state convention of the Democratic party was held June 5 and elected 72 delegates to the Kansas City convention instructed to work and vote for the nomination of Mr.
United States Judge Hook in a case tried before him at Wichita, recently declared the Kansas prohibition law unconstitutional, inasmuch as it involved interference with the freedom of interstate commerce.
Speaking of the future of the American navy, Rear Admiral Hitchborn, chief of the construction bureau, recently said: "The American navy will rank six years from now the fourth of the world.
By a vote of 33 to 32, the United States Senate, on April 24, denied a seat in its body to Matthew Stanley Quay, who was appointed to the Senate by the Governor of Pennsylvania.
