Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-04-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE secretary of agriculture has re-
ceived a number of messages from cat
tlemen in Kansas and Texas, protest
ing against the order allowing cattle
to be brought into this country from
Mexico, stating that they stocked up
last year expecting an advance, but
they had not considered that, in the
event that prices went up, they would
be forced to compete with cattle from
Mexico.
A DECISION has been rendered by the
secretary of the interior involving the
right to pension on claims fled by
persons after attaining their 10th year
for or on account of whom no claim
has been made during the period of
their pensionable minority as children
of a soldier who had died from causes
originating in the line of duty. The
secretary holds that the claim is not
forfeited by neglect to file application
during the period of pensionable
minority.
THE secret service officials have dis.
covered a new counterfeit SIS national
bank note. It is on the Blackstone
Canal national bank of Providence, R.
l., check letter 3, series of 1882, A. ..
Wyman, treasurer; 3. X. Bruce, regis
ter; charter No. 1131, bank No. 1S2,
treasury No. E 12027099. portrait of
Garfield. The errors committed IN the
production of the note are many and
glaring.
THERE has been much complaint of
the abuse of Americans in Guatemala,
officers of American ships being forced
into the military service and American
workmen being imprisoned and sub
jected to the indignity of lashings up
on the bare backs. The department of
state has called for explanations from
the Guatema1an government and di-
rected Investigations through consular
officers upon which to base demands
for indemnity.
R. Fl. MCLEAN, an ex-United States
naval officer, has been appointed to
command the army at Hawaii with the
rank, pay and allowances of a colonel
an the United States army. He gradu-
ated from the naval academy in 1872
and honorably resigned after an excel
lent record in 1888 to go into business
with his brother in Paris.
THE state department has checked
in its inception an attempt made by
the Haytien government to impose
discrimination tax upon American citi-
zens and other foreigners residing in
Hayti.
DR.. SALMON, the chief of the bureau
of animal industry, has presented to
Secretary Morton brief statement as
to the prices in the Chicago market of
dressed beef and shipping steers since
January /. He winds up by saying
that the rise in the price of dressed
beef was unwarranted and should be
only in proportion to the rise for beef
on foot.
THE interior department was await
sng Gov. Renfrow's argument in sup
port of the right of Oklahoma to select
indemnity school lands in the Kickapoo
Indian reservation and no steps looking
20 the opening of that land will be
taken pending its receipt.
WASHINGTON has entered the field as
an active competitor for the location
bf both repu blican and democratic ma
tional conventions in 1896. The board
of trade will take the lead in the mat
ter, and much stress is laid on the ar
gument that there had never been a
national convention held at the capital
of the nation.
THE board OF managers of soldiers
homes at Washington discussed the
situation at the Leavenworth home,
the strained relations between the
governor and the secretary-treasurer,
and almost decided to ask for the resig-
nation of both officials, but on the
statement by friends of the two Off
Gals that the trouble would blow over
the matter was laid by.
THE report has reached Washi ngton
that the French authorities in NADIA
gascar have sent eX-United States Con-
sui Waller to France, and that he is
now in Marseilles He is under sem
tence of twenty years imprisonment
on a charge of being a spy for the
Hovas in Madagascar. The state de-
partnent at Washington has instructed
United States Minister Eustis to make
a thorough examination into the mat
ter.
ARGENT Washington dispatch stated
that boom for Senator Dubois for
vice president had been set out by re-
publican politicians. It was argued
that his nomination would hold the
silver west to republican allegiance
and that it would favorably affect
young men the country over.
GENERAL NEWS.
THE wrestling match for the worlds
championship at Chicago between
Evans Lewis and Martin, known as
Farmer" Burns, was won by Burns
Lewis won the first fall in Is minutes
but lost the second in % and the third
in % minutes seconds.
EX- CHAMPION JOHN =. SULLIVAN
heard a woman scream in the rear of