Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-29
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY left Washing
ton on the 2lst for North Adams, Mass
LIEUT.. Moss, who commanded the
bicycle corps which made the journey
from Fort Missoula. Mont, to st. Louis
during the summer, has made his re-
port to the war department. He favors
the bicycle for army use, and the re-
port contains much interesting infor-
nation TO bicyclists who contemplate
making long trips'on a wheel.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL MCKENNA an
nounced his opinion in the matter of
section % of the new tariff law at the
cabinet meeting on the est. He holds
that goods coming directly into the
United States from foreign countries
through Canadian ports are not sub
ject to the discriminating duty of ten
per cent, and also holds that foreign
goods shipped from countries other
than British possessions in British
vessels are not subject TO discriminate
ing duty.
NJ. ID. RATCHFoRD, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, gave
out statement at Washington con-
cerning the miners strike He said.
r,
trades unions and organized bodies
have supplied the necessaries, without
which the miners could not possibly
have succeeded, and so it was victory
for organized labor and not for any
particular trade.
The necessity of increasing the per-
sonnel of the navy will be presented
to congress in the forthcoming reports
of the bureau chief of the navy depart
ment. Both officers and men are need
ed to man the large number of ships
now in commission. Z
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor met at Wash
inRton on the 22d to discuss the mining
situation. Several officers of miners
associations were also present. An ad-
dress was issued calling on trades
unions to still contribute money to
help the miners until they were able
to take care of themselves and advis-
ing unions not to send delegates to the
Chicago meeting on the 37th, as condi-
tions had changed since the call for il
was made.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
ROOSEVELT recently held a conference
with some of the commanders of the
naval militia, whom he had summoned
20 Washington to learn all about the
state of their commands. The secre-
tary made the significant remark that
this country is on the verge of a war
with Spain" and cautioned the com
manders not TO underestimate the
gravity of the situation.
l,o a., 80, 81
retary of agriculture, at Washington,
that infected cattle are being shipped
from Tennessee, and he has been asked
to quarantine the entire country
against that state.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has commuted
to imprisonment for life the death sen
tence imposed upon C. l.. Addington in
western Texas for murder
The interstate commerce commission
has requested all the railroads to re-
port by the first of next month as tc
the number of cars equipped with au
tomato couplers and air brakes.
AT the session of the executive coun
ell of the American Federation of La
Dor on the Esd at Washington it was
determined that measures in the inter
est of labor should be formulated anC
sent to President Mckinley with 6
view of having him incorporate then
in his next message to congress.
IT was reported at Washington thai
the sugar trust would have powerful
lobby to fight the annexation O
Hawaii. The ground upon which tn,
treaty will be fought will be that i
would commit the United States to ,
policy of colonial government and tha
such a departure would necessitate tn,
establishment of a great navy