The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-16
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

lS his annual report QuartermaSter-
General Batchelder earnestly recon.
mends increased appropriations for
barracks and quarters. and says the
present apprc priations are insufficient
TO carry ont the act providing for the
location and preservation of the lines
of battles at Antietam. Nd, the gov
ernment must acquire 500 acres of land,
necessitating an additional appropria-
ton of s50009: at Gettysburg, Pa. the
purchase of land for monument sites
had been completed, and the sites OF
commands had been marked on the
tablets and guns.
A SHORT cablegram received by Sec
retary Gresham recently from United
States Minister DENLY at Pekin. chron-
icles another important forward move
ment by the japanese. reading as fol
lows: Japanese have taken Foo Chow
in the gulf of Liastuno. approaching
Shan Kai Kuan. Two campaigns
against Moukden and Tien Tsin.''
A scAFFoLD on which four men were
working at Washington broke and two
of the men. w. J. Thacker and James
A. O'Brien. fell 40 feet to the sidewalk.
Thacler who is 26 years old, died in
fifteen minutes from fracture of the
skull. O'Brien. So years old and mar
ried, cannot live. The others escaped
by climbing on the roof.
PARDoNs have been denied by Presi-
dent Cleveland in the cases of J. NJ.
Greenwood. sentenced in Missouri to
two years imprisonment for passing
counterfeit money, and Jacob Pecor,
sentenced in Kansas to ten years i'm
prisonment for manslaughter.
THE statistician of the United States
department of agriculture recently
stated that owing to the comparatively
small number of returns as yet re-
ceived in answer to the special circular
in regard to the feeding of wheat to
stock. the department would not make
a statement as to the same until more
extensive returns had been received.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will probably
accompany Mrs. Cleveland on the 18th
to Philadelphia where she will christen
the new ocean steamer st. Louis. All
the members of the cabinet, with ladies
of their families. and private Secretary
Thurber are expected to be of the par
ty. which will be accommodated on a
special train running directly to the
ship yards.
MAI.-GEN. OLIVER 0TIs HOWARD.
1.-THE Christian hero" has been placed
on the retired list of the United States
army, having reached the statutory
limit of age.
AGRICULTURAL department officials
are watching the the progress of nego-
tiations between Germany and the
United States over the question of eX-
cluding American cattle and incline to
the belief that Germany has prepared
for clever stroke of diplomacy. The
announcement is made that the Ger
man government had agreed to leave
the point of dispute-whether or not
Texas fever could be communicated to
other cattle by the importation OF
American stock-to the preponSerance
of expert opinion.
ADM BANCROFT GHERAEDI was placed
on the retired list at noon on the 10th.
His total active service amounted tC
fcrty-years and five months.
II was reported at Washington on
the 9th that the resignation of c. Ii. ].
Taylor, the negro politician of Kansas
and recorder of deeds for the District
of Columbia, was in the hands of the
president
c. II. j. TAYLOR. recorder of the Dis
trict of Columbia. has denied that he
has any intention of resigning.
THE first assistant postmaster-gen-
eral has made his annual report to the
postmaster-general.
ACCORDING to returns received at The
department of agriculture at Washing
ton the indications are that the aver
age yield per acre for the entire cottor
belt is 1917 pounds. distributed by
states as follows: North Carolina. 2lO
South Carolina. los: Georgia. 155; Flor
ida. l1O: Alabama. iG0: Mississippi, 195
Louisiana. go; Texas. 235: Arkansas
2o3: Tennessee. 157: all other state.
and territories, 200.
II was reported from Washington or
the l1th that there was no longer an!
doGbt about an issue of new londs and
that the new securities would be upor
the market within the next thirty
days. 1t was the presidents conclusion
that the order had better be made nov
in order that the benefits to be derived
might be no longer delayed. and tn,
final decision was made and agreed t,
by all of the cabinet officers at then
last meeting.
ATroRNEY-C,i: i:,;..l.AL 0LNEY has tele
graphed to the Boston Globe that ther,
is no truth in the rumor that he il
about to retire from the cabinet.
RRIG.-GEN. Mcdowell MCCooK ha
been appointed major-general of th'
United States army, vice Gen. Howard
retired. and Col. James w. Forsyth, o
the Seventh cavalry, has been promoted
TO brigadier-general to succeed Nc
Cook.