The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-04-22
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the naily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON NOTES.
 SECRETARY WILSON, of the agricul- tural department, has given instruc- tions 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 fish noted on the product. The secre- tary believes Americans can find n good market in London for butter if they know just what is wanted over there.
 TIE 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- troduction 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 14.4 per cent, against 12.s per cent. in the April report for 1898. The hogs Janu- ary were reported as 40,600,00O and 14.4 per cent of that number would mean a loss by disease of 5,s46, 900 hogs.
 DEMOCRATIC leaders celebrated the 18th anniversary of Jetferson's birth day at Washington on the 18th by 8 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- tion 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.
 CoNaREssMAN SHArTUcK, of Ohio, on the 14th 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 a 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 large amount of beet sugar seed with 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 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- tion 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.