The Monticellonian., 1894-10-12
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NnrES

"AsHINGTON NOTES.
 REPORTS received by the directors of the mint show during the month of september the coinage of gold at the various hints amounted to $50, O33, ,692, and of silver, SS, 765, ,370, of which SG72,- 100 were standard silver dollars
 IN the United States supreme court on the 1st the famous strike injunction o1 Judge Jenkins, of Chicago, was rather severely handled. Justice liar Ian held that a body of men had right 10 quit irrespective of the discomfort which might result. They had how ever, no right to conspire to do damage or to embarrass. He did not agree with Judge Jenkins definition of a strike, that it was necessarily illegal, but held there was such thing as a legal strike.
 A TELEGRAM from Washington says the American Graphaphone Co. has di- fected that suits for infringements of patents, injunotions and aecountings be brought directly against the retail dealers in the Edison phonograph and supplies in the United States and Can ada. The patents'owned by the Amer acan Graphaphone Co, it is claimed, give them a monopoly of all practical talking machines and cylinders for records
 ACTING PosTMAsTER-GENERA JONES has sent a letter to Postmaster Hesing, of shicago, concerning the inspection of letter carriers in that city on Sun day. He says that owing to the work of the carriers and the interruption of business an inspection on week day IS imprActieable, but he says that as They must under the law be inspected. such inspection should be brief and en- tail as little labor on the carriers as possible and there should be no parade.
 D. NJ. BROWNING. the commissioner of Indian affairs. has submitted his an nual report for the year ended June 30 to the secretary of the interior. No zttenpt is made to theorize on the In- dian question. An educational awalx- ening is noted among the Navajos. The commissioner reports progress in the allotment of lands and also in con strueting systems of irrigation.
 4 WASHINGTON dispatch on the 4th said that the Columbian relics. loaned to this government for display at the Chicago fair by the pope. have com meneed their homeward journey by be- ing placed on the Norfolk steamboat. They will be delivered on board the Detroit at the Norfolk navy yard and will be delivered to Ambassador Mac Neagh at Rome for return to the pope, with aa autograph letter of thanks from President Cleveland.
 TIE comptroller of the currency has called for a report on the condition of national banks at the close of business on Tuesday. October %.
 COMMISSIONER LAMoBEArX, of the general land office, in his annual re- port to the secretary of the interior, recommends that the timber touched by the forest fires in Michigan. Mime sota and Wisconsin be cut by the set tiers on their lands where the timber is in such a condition that if not cut and disposed of in q short time it would be worm-eaten and worthless and thus deprive the land of great proportion of it's value to the settler. He there fore asks that congress be requested to give the necessary permission to allow the cutting. The commissioner also recommends that public lands be sur veYed only by the geological survey. His report shows that the total num- her of acres patented for the year ended June 30 to be 1888, 735.