Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-22
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
wAsHNGToN NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the agricul-
tural department., has given lnstruc-
tons to agents to purchase some good
American butter, have it put up in diff
ferent ways and shipped to the London
market and the comments of the Eng
ish noted on the product. The secre-
tary believes Americans can ind a
good market in London for butter If
they know just what is wanted over
there.
THE first meeting of the executive
committee of the National Association
of Democratic clubs took place at Wash
ington on the 18th. An address to the
democratic voters of the country to
carry the election of 1900 was adopted.
A MEETING of the advisory board of
the American Federation of Labor was
recently held at Washington for the
purpose of agitating the universal in
PRODUCTION of the eight-hour day. Re-
quests will be made to all workers
throughout the country to hold mass
meetings on May 1, next, to declare
their determination to enforce the
eight-hour day as soon as practicable
before, but certainly on, May 1, 1898.
The government report for April on
hogs makes the loss by disease IA. per
cent, against 1913 per cent. in the
April report for 1896. The hogs Janu-
airy 1 were reported as 10000. 600, and
IA per cent of that number would
mean a loss by disease of 5,S46, 600 hogs
DEMOCRATIC leaders celebrated the
154th anniversary of Jefferson's birth
day at Washington on the 18th by
dinner. The toasts were briefly re-
sponded to, except in the case Of Will
liam j. Bryan, of Nebraska, who spoke
at length to the toast, Thomas Jeffer-
son." Richard P. Bland, of Missouri,
answered to the toast Equal and exact
justice to all men,"
THE agricultural department has
taken steps looking to the eXtermina-
ton of hog cholera and, as an initia-
tive, has sought the cooperation OF
the states of Tennessee and Iowa in an
experiment to determine how ecOnom-
ically the malady, which is devastat-
ing the swine interests, can be stamped
out.
CONGRESSMAN SHATTUCK. of Ohio, on
the 18th nominated d. j. Bundy, a
colored lad of Cincinnati, to a cadet
ship at Annapolis. He has been urged
to withdraw his name, but says he
will stand by the appointment. There
have been threats from the students of
the naval academy of resigning.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY sent special
message to congress on the 14th urg-
ing it to make suitable provision for
the adequate representation of the
United States at the Paris exposition
in 1900
The department of agriculture has
sent out to farmers and to experiment.
al stations a large amount of beet
sugar seed with a view to determine
the feasibility of growing the seed in
certain sections of the country. Bulle-
tins will be prepared from time to time
and the people kept informed regard
ing the matter.
CONGRESSMAN w. S. HOLMAN. of In
diana, was lying critically i'll at his
home in Washington on the 18th He
had bad fall about ten days ago and
his condition was the result of the
shock.
UNITED STATES CONSUL LITTLE tele-
graphed from Tegucigalpa, the capital
OF Honduras, on the 18th that revolu-
ton had broken out and that the re-
public was under martial law
IT was current gossip at Washington
on the 18th that Alan Arthur. son of
the late ex-President Chester A. Arthur,
will soon be appointed minister to Hol
land.