Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
UNSATISFACTORY NOTES.

NJ ESQ
MISS BLANCHE BERARD has sent In
her resignation as postmaster of West
Point, n. Y. She has held the posi-
ton since 1858.
THE regular cabinet session at the
white house on the 10th was princi-
pally taken up by two photographers
in getting a group picture of the pres
ident and his advisers.
1T was said at Washington on the
10th that news direct from Madrid,
though not official, was to the effect
that the Spanish ministry acknowl-
edges SPANS defeat in Cuba and that
negotiations would be proposed short
~ to the government of the United
States looking to an end of the war.
THE United States court of appeals
has affirmed the verdict of a lower
court awarding the government SO, SAT
against Francis M. Rhodes, of Hanni-
bal, Mo. The government, it is alleged,
had been induced to pay him this sum
as pension for a disease of the eyes
thought to have been contracted in the
army, when he really suffered from
the disease before he entered the serv-
ice. Rhodes was a private in company
K, Forty-Second Missouri volunteer in
fantry.
CONGRESSMAN OvERsTREET called on
President Mckinley and entered a pro-
test made by the international Typo
graphical union against the appoint
ment of Harrison G. Otis as first assist
ant secretary of war because he en-
ployes non-union printers on his paper,
the Los Angeles Times.
SENATOR WILSON, of Washington, is
trying to get the order Of President
Cleveland setting apart forest reserva-
lions in certain states nullifed.
THE Washington Times on the nth
stated that Judge Lamoreaux may
make reply to the structures passed
upon his action in the Chicago lake
front cases.
THE president has accepted the resig-
nation of Silas w. Lamoreux as com
missioner of the general land Office.
THE interior department has rem
dered a decision granting to the state
of Kansas 1000 acres of agricultural
college lands in lieu of that number of
acres of double minimum lands, and
the governor of the state will shortly
be authorized to make the selection.
Fl. CLAY EVANS, of Tennessee, has
notified the president by letter of his
acceptance of the place Of commissioner
of pensions.
Col. J. III. BRIGHAM, the new assist
ant secretary of the agricultural de-
partment, expressed the opinion on
the goth that the agricultural outlook
was very hopeful and that the presi-
dent, congress and the department
would thoroughly cooperate in the in
terests of the farmers.
ARGENT Washington dispatch stated
that Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, may
presently formally communicate to the
senate and the country the conclusions
derived by him from the European trip
he recently made in the interest of an
international conference.
THE senate committee on Indian af
fairs has under consideration bill ap-
propriating $50, 900 ''for improving the
grounds of the battlefield at Licking
ton, Mo-, providing that the ground
itself shall be purchased and paid for
by the citizens of Missouri
A PROTEST has been sent to congress
against the removal from the free list
of books, educational apparatus, etc.
1t is signed by President Dwight and
all the members of the faculty Of Y ale
university at New Haven, Conn.