Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-11
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The position of commissioner of pen
sions will be rendered to Gen. Daniel
E. Siclxles, according to information
from Canton to member of congress.
WASHINGTON gossip on the Sd said
that ex-Congressman Be1lamy Storer,
of Cincinnati, would be appointed first
assistant secretary of state under the
Mckinley administration.
The bureau of labor at Washington
has sent out blanks to state officers to
ascertain the extent to which munich
pal ownership of gas, electric light,
water works and other enterprises
have been carried in this country and
the information will be tabulated and
embodied in a special report to con-
gress.
GEN. Roy STONE, of the board of in
quiry of good roads of the agricu1
tural department, was named as per-
manent president of the National Good
Roads congress at Orlando, Fla.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved
the act relative to mortgages in the
Indian territory.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 4th
said the understanding among sena-
tors was that the general arbitration
treaty would not come to vote at
this session of congress. No one
doubts that it will be debated, but the
opposition makes no secret of its inten-
ton to consume so much time in dis
cussion that a vote cannot be reached.
SECRETARY COBURN, of the state
board of agriculture of Kansas, a
Was hington dispatch of the 4th said,
is to be assistant secretary of agri-
l.
rendered him very soon.
JUDGE R. w. LAMoREAUX, of Wiscon-
sin, commissioner of the general land
office, stated that he will, on March 4,
send in his resignation to President
Mckinley. He has already sent his
family all his personal effects to his
home in Wisconsin, and he expects to
follow them about March 10.
SECRETARY OLNEY has received from
President Eliot, of Harvard university,
an invitation to fill the chair of inter
national law at the institution after
the expiration of his term of Office in
the state department and the secretary
has taken the offer under considera-
ton.
A SPECIAL from Washington on the
18th stated that Maj. Mckinley has
found it necessary to reconstruct his
cabinet, owing to the exigencies of
Ohio politics and other reasons. John
Sherman and Gen. Alger will, under
the new arrangement, not be in the
cabinet. Hanna is to be assigned to
the post Office department. The state
portfolio will probably given to New
York man.
CoNsUL-GENERAL LEE telegraphed
the state department at Washington
from Havana on the 9th that Sylvester
Scovel, the New York Worlds CORE
spondent in Cuba, had been arrested
by the Spanish authorities.
Mrs. CLEVELAND, assisted by the wife
of Vice President Stevenson and the
wives of the members of the cabinet,
gave farewell reception at the white
house on the 9th.
THE president has signed, on the
recommendation of Secretary Francis,
ar order reducing the number of pen
sion agencies from IS to nine. The
agency at Topeka, Kan, will be dis
continued and Missouri and Kansas
pensioners will be paid from ST. Louis
The order goes into effect on Septem-
Der 1.
GENERAL NEWS.
Mrs. WHITING FELLOWS, of Leando,
Ia, was recently arrested for sending
Cancelled stamps through the mails.
JUSTICE RICHARDSON at Chicago on
the 5th held Wong Chin Foo, editor of
the Chinese Daily News and president
of the League of Americanized China
men, to the criminal court on the
charge of being the keeper of a gam
bling house.
DAN STUART, the promoter of the
orbett-Fitzsimmons fight, Left Deni-
son, Tex, for Nevada on the 9Th to ar
range for the battle, which he said
would either take place at Reno or Car
son City. He will erect an amphi-
theater to seat %. 900 people.
CONSTANTINE STEVENSON, farmer
near Jacksonville, Fla, was shot and
killed while in his field by hidden as
sassins, making the ninth victim in the
Tillet- Whidden feud. Stevenson was
recently tried for killing member of
the Whidden faction, but was acquit-
ted. The Whidden sympathizers be-
lieved him guilty, however. and swore
vengeance.