Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-31
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WAsHINGroN NOTES.

SECRETARY BLISS has issued instruc-
lions to the general land office which
will in substance limit the right of
bond-aided railroads to patents for
lands to those lands sold by the com
pany to bona fde purchasers prior to
the date of default by such companies
on the payment of their bonds or in
terest thereon.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will leave
Washington on the 2sth for his sum-
mer vacation on Lake Champlain, n.
Y, providing congress adjourns in
time to permit it. 1t is the intention
of the president to have all official an
nouncements of executive action taken
while on his vacation made through
the regular machinery at Washington,
his purpose being to secure relief from
the cares of business as far as posi- BILE.
NEARLY every congressman who
represents district in which beer is
brewed has been requested to explain
what effect the new tariff law will
have upon the tax on beer. In answer
to inquiries submitted to him Chair
man Dingley responded: 1.-THE mo-
ment the president signs the new
tariff bill the tax on beer will be fixed
at 81 per barrel In other words, the
discount of ~ per cent, which has
been allowed for many years, will
cease"
THE treasury officials have made
preparations to put the tariff act into
operation Immediately upon its receiv-
ing the signature of the president,
copies of the bill having been sent to
customs officers throughout the coun-
try
SECRETARY SHERMAN's illness has
taken a serious, though not necessarily
dangerous, turn, but his doctor said
fl,,% h, - H. %,1-
of him and that he could not return to
the state department, but must have
change of air and scene.
REV. I. DEWITT TALMAGE has denied
the report that he will quit Washing
ton and go to Chicago. He said he had
no idea of leaving his church in the
nations capital; that everything was
satisfactory and harmonious, and that
he expected to live and die in Wash
ington.
SPAIN, it was reported at Washing
ton, will soon release the Americans
confined in Cuban jails-
SENATORS CANON, of Utah, and Petit
grew, of South Dakota, and ex-Sena-
tor Dubois, of Idaho, have started for
China and Japan to make careful in
vestigation of the monetary situation
in both countries as affected by the
free use of silver.
On the afternoon of the gath a fire
was discovered in the general store
house of the navy yard at Washington.
A detachment of marines soon put it
out. 1t was thought to have been in
cendiary.
CONGRESS adjourned sine die on the
oath.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY signed the
tariff bill soon after four o'clock on
the oath and it at once became law.
IT was rumored at Washington on
the Goth that Secretary Sherman would
not long remain at the head of the
state department, and Whitelaw Reid's
name was very generally mentioned as
being Mr.. Sherman's successor.
THAT Japan will continue to oppose
the Hawaiian annexation treaty is con-
clusively shown by the latest protest
of the Japanese government, which
was made public at Washington on the
Goth.
THE comptroller of the currency has
issued a call on national banks for
report on their condition at the close
of business on July %.
THE secretary of the treasury holds
that the tariff act was in effect at the
beginning of the day on which the
president signed it and therefore be-
came operative at midnight on July %.
GENERAL NEWS.
SEX distinction was wiped out in the
court of police by Magistrate Tim
mons. of Danville, Ill, on the Goth, by
his sentencing Maggie Sellers, a dis
orderly woman, to the rock pile for so
days.
SPECIAL train of IA cars loaded
with French Canadian Roman Catho-
lies passed through Saratoga, n. Y,
early on the Goth on the annual pill
grimage to the shrine of St Anne de
Beaupre in Canada
The British government has again
declined to interfere in the execution
of the sentence of Mrs Florence May
brick, an American sentenced to life
Imprisonment for numbering her hus-
band, on the ground that there is no
reason for a change of Judgment in the
matter.
JIM SELLER, co1ored, was taken from
the Jail at Pittsboro, Calhoun county,
Miss, the other night by a mob and
shot to death
LIEUT.. Moss and his 20 colored sol
t1ierS of the Twenty-Fifth United