Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-10
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
wAsHINaroN NorEs.

Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
ORDERS have been issued by the Navy
Department directing Commodore Walker.
at present Chief of the Bureau of Naviga-
ton, to take command OF the new cruiser
Chicago as flagship Of the squadron OF
evolution composed of the cruisers Chi
cago, Atlanta. Yorktown and Boston. As
soon as the squadron is shipped for sea
duty they will go on the European station
under the command Of Commodore Walker
as Acting Admiral.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has decided to
take no further steps at present towards
the removal of Geronimo and his band OF
Apaches from Mount Vernon barracks to
a tract of land in North Carolina, which
the Indian Right Association agreed to
purchase for the purpose. The opposition
Of Governor Fowle, of North Carolina, to
this project led the Secretary to take this
action.
The Acting Commissioner Of Pensions
has designated James Sheakley, United
States Commissioner at Fort Wrangell,
Alaska, a pension notary to take the
proper legal steps necessary in the cases
OF applications for pensions. This is the
first appointment Of the kind in that Ter
ritory.
MEssRs. BRIrToN and Gray, attorneys
OF Washington, recently submitted an in.
teresting argument before the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office in the
case Of Blanchard and Cook VS.. White, be-
ing an appeal of all parties from the de-
cision Of the local land officers recon-
mending the cancellation of Whites
homestead entry of Oklahoma lands and
that Blanchard and Cook be denied tn
Iryhf To
wolves the question whether White,
through and by assistance of deputy
United States marshals, made fraudulent
entry because he entered upon and occu-
pied the land prior to twelve O'Clock noon
OF April o. 1889. in violation of law and
the Presidents proclamation.
SECRETARY BLAINE addressed the dele
gates to the Pan-American congress on
the I'd. Resolutions were afterwards
passed naming him as president of the
congress. The delegates were then pre-
son.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD has been officially
designated by the President to act as
Secretary of War during the absence of
Secretary Proctor.
The Department of State has received a
telegram from General Franklin, United
States Commissioners General to the Paris
Exposition, saying that the United States
exhibit has been awarded fifty three
grand prizes, 1919 gold medals, 2n silver
medals, 21S bronze medals and 220 honor
able mentions.
The President has made the following
appointments to be collectors of internal
revenue: Henry W. Ryington for the
Fourth district of California, Samuel NJ.
Friday for the Ninth district of Pennsyl-
vania, James NJ Freeman for the district
OF Colorado.
GOVERNOR LARRABEK, of Iowa, has writ.
ten to President Harrison protesting
against recent remarks of Horace A. Tay-
Tor, National Commissioner of Railroads,
concerning railroad legislation, ETC., in
his State. Larrabee says Iowa is abun.
dainty able to manage its own railroad
affairs without Tay To-, 3 assistance.
THE EAST.
EDWIN BOOTH and Helen M6dieska
opened their season at New York on the
night of the 3Oth before large audience.
1t was their first appearance together.
A MEETING of sixty or seventy Demo-
Gratis was held at the Sherman House,
Boston, in the interest of John L. Sulli-
vans candidacy for Congress in that dis
trict.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the national board of steam navigators
began at Pittsburgh on the 1st
The annual meeting of the National
Civil-Service Reform League was held at
Philadelphia on the 1st A committee
was appointed to draw mp resolutions to
be presented to the meeting next day and
an executive committee elected, after
which the delegates sat down to an in
formal banquet In the evening George
William Curtis, the president delivered
his annual address, in which he arraigned
the President and the Republican party
for promises broken.
THE newly appointed Minister to Hayti
Hon. Frederick Douglass, and party sailed
for that place on the United States
steamer Kearsarge from the Brooklyn
navy yard on the 1st The customary
salute of fifteen guns was fred in honor
Of the Min lister.
AS the result of the indictments by the
New York grand jury recently warrants
were served on Sheriff Flack, William A.
Flack, Judge Mcneil, Referee Meeks, Mrs.
Raymond and George E. Hart
FREDERICK BosTwICK, OF Pine Planes,
N. Y, has been appointed examiner of
National banks.
A DISPATCH from Buffalo N. Y, says
that the two masted schooner George
wheat from Toledo, encountered a water
spout while of Port Colborne recently
which damaged her considerably.
THE tin plate mill at the Exposition at
Pittsburgh, Pa, was put in operation the
other day under the supervision Of w. c.
Cronnemeyer, secretary of the American
Tin Plate Association, and it was demon.
strated that tin plates could be made in
this country as we'll as in England.
A HowLING mob recently surrounded the
Office at Johnstown, Pa, where the work
men Of the State were to be paid and had
it not been for q detail of militia with
fixed bayonets there would have been
trouble. The men had waited around in
the cold for nearly two days for their
pay.
The general convention Of the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church of America was
opened on the I'd at New York.
THE annual meeting Of the National As
ISOLATION of Wool Manufacturers was
held at New York on the I'd with closed
doors. The resolutions adopted urge
upon Congress the necessity Of q revision
Of the tariff, and especially the tariff on
raw material and manufactured wooden
goods in such a manner that both indus.
tries should be properly protected
THE friends of Ex-Governor Alonxo B.