Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-03-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

CONSUL GENERAL LEE notified the
Htate department at Washington on
the 14th of the death at Sagua la
Grande, Cuba, of the wife of Senator
Thurston, OF Nebraska, on board the
yacht Anita. Mrs. Thurston was in
excellent health when she left Wash
ington a short time ago for the trip to
Cuba.
SPAIN has practically given notice
to the United States that she will dis
pute the verdict from the court of in
uuiry if it is to the effect that the
Maine was destroyed by an outside eX-
plosion and that an international board
of inquiry will be demanded.
LEADERS in congress are working for
an early adjournment and May | has
been fixed when it will probably take
place.
NOTHING Of special Importance was
developed at the cabinet meeting at
Washington on the 18th. A large part
of the time was consumed in the gem
cral discussion of the measures being
taken to place the navy on proper
footing for defense in case of trouble.
AT both war and navy departments
news censorship is taking on war time
rigor. No employe is allowed to dis
cuss even routine orders, and Chief
Crowninshield, of the bureau of navi-
cation, asked Secretary Long for an
order denying all newspaper corre-
spondents entrance to state, war and
navy departments.
The news was current in Washing
ton on the 10th that the report of the
naval board of inquiry into the Maine
disaster was expected to reach that
city within day or two,
THE agricultural department at
Washington has just issued bulletin
on the San Jose scale in 1867, pre-
pared by Entomologist l., o. Howard.
The conditions in over 80 states and
territories are given.
SPAIN has intimated in a friendly
way to the state department at Wash
ington that the presence of Il large
fleet at Key West, Fla, and the war
preparations all over the United States
is seriously prejudicial to the policy of
autonomy, approved by both govern
ments and an indirect encouragement
to the Cuban insurgents. The repre-
sensations contained no reference to
the Maine disaster
News has been received that the sec
rotary of the interior has decided the
contest case of Henry Linn in favor
of the townsite settlers of Perry, Linn
had filed on the land, which was adj
jacent to Perry, Ok, as homestead
property Settlers overlooked on to the
100 acres and built what is now the
most substantial part of the town.
Linn sought to enforce his homestead
rights.
SENATOR THURsToN arrived in Wash
ington on the 18th with the body of
Mrs Thurston, who recently died in
Cuba. The body will DO forwarded to
Omaha, Neb., where interment will
take place
A POLL of congress was made the
other day on the question: Are you
in favor of adjournment before the re-
port of the Maine disaster is received
and before settlement of the Cuban
question is made?" with the following
result: Nays, house and senate, 2O7;
yeas, house and senate, s; non-commit-
tai, house and senate, 49,
An air of suspense pervaded the navy
department at Washington on the
18th, due to the approach of the time
for the report on the Maine disaster
A cabinet officer expressed the belief
that the report would require careful
consideration by the president and his
cabinet before being made public.
AT the cabinet meeting at Washing
ton on the 18th almost the entire ses-
sion was consumed in the discussion
of the Cuban situation, but no plan of
action was definitely decided on pend
ing the arrival of the report of the
Maine investigation.
The post office department, a New
York dispatch of the 18th stated,
claims that postal cards having print
ed matter on the backs of blank forms
for orders, and on the face the address
and business of the firm, constitute
an advertisement and is a violation OF
law.