Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-01
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WAsHmGroN NoTm.

WA6HhAtsTO& &SOEEx9.
SzcHBrATY HcKE SAIra on the 23d
requested the secretary of war to send
troops to the Indian territory to sup
press the 2awiess bands which have
been opera ting there and in the ada
cent country.
ATTORNEY GENERAL otNEY has decid-
ed that the issuance by counties of
small denomination bonds to be use ID as
currency is not 3 violation of the ma
tioual banking law. The danger to the
currency, however, is SO great that
treaSHry officials are not content with
the safeguards to to be found in the
national laws Of credit, and Mr.. Car
lisle win demand q tax OF 10 per cent
upon avery dollar in bonds county
may Issue.
The Indian agent of Muskogee, I. T.,
has .telerra Pied to Washington for
troops. He said affairs were in des-
perate condition, that the Cook gang
of outlaws was encamped close by and
that another holdup, he believed, was
in contemplation, and that the state of
siege must be broken and something
done.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has notified
Pension Agent Click, of Topeka, Kan,
that S3.5OO,O0O has been placed to his
credit for the payment of November
pensions in his district. AS the 4th of
Novenber9 falls ON Sunday, Agent
Click has given notice that vouchers
are not to be dated or forwarded to
him prior to Novem Der 5.
Col. GAREICK MALLORY, [. S A, re-
tired, died at Washington, aged 63
years. He was in charge of the signal
service bureau from 1870 to 1876.
scare on the a5th and it was estimated
that over 5000 people were vaccinated
on that day. An order has been issued
by the interior department closing all
the rooms in which the persons affiict-
ed with smallpox worked. and all per-
sons engaged ia the rooms have been
given leave of absence and ordered to
stay away from the department.
CHIEF HAZEN, of the secret service at
Washington, has received from Roches-
ter, y. Y, new counterfeit SIS treas
ury note. with the Thomas head. The
bill was very poorly executed etched
plate. .The features of Thomas were
blurred and the lettering and lathe
work very poor. The panel containing
the treasury number of the bill had
parallel lines in the counterfeit, and in
the genuine they are .oblique.
The war department has issued a
general order fixing the annual allot-
ment per soldier for ammunition for
target practice at Sc for cavalry and
40 for infantry. The empty shells
will be shipped for reloading. These
changes were made necessary by the
new smokeless powder and small
caliber rife.
SECRETARY HOKE SMITH has complet-
ed his estimates of appropriations
needed in the interior department for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1896.
Mrs. CLEVELAND has consented to
christen the steamship st. Louis, of
the Intern ationa1 Navigation Co.,
which will be launched from Cramps
shipyard November IL.
THE president held his first cabinet
meeting on the Goth since the first
week in September. All of the mem
bers were present except Secretary
Morton, who was absent from Wash
ington.
y LAW clerk in the interior depart
ment at Washington was stricken with
smallpox on the 26th and when the
clerks came back from their noon lunch
a state of panic prevailed. DIR. Wood
ward, the health officer, made an urgent
appeal to Secretary Smith to close the
entire interior department in the inter-
est of public health, and an order was
issued closing every bureau until the
Goth.
OCTOBER returns to the department
of agriculture at Washington make the
general condition of corn 642 against
63.4 last month. The postponement of
frosts had been favorable to the ripen-
ing of areas ordinarily late in matur-
ing.
The agricultural department at
Washington will thoroughly investi-
gate the cases of alleged Texas fever
on which the German government has
seen fit to prohibit the importation OF
American cattle and fresh beef.
IN view of the crusade for cheaper
bread inaugurated in a number of
cities, the agricultural department has
given out bulletin of the cost of
bread from the Forthcoming report OF
Prof Atwater
UNITED STATES TREASURER More AN
has given out for publication circular
just issued by him of special interest to
banks on the subject of the issue and
redemption of the currency.
ANOTHER case of smallpox was dis
covered on the 2Sth in the interior de.
partment at Washington, the victim
being Charles E. Williams, a colored
messenger. Williams is the third mes
senger in the departmentw who has been
attacked with the disease.