The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-11-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE,
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
PENSION COMMISSIONERS EVANS will
create in the near future a special
division of pensions for the considers
Spanish war. Large numbers of these
claims are being fled, and it is esti-
mated that already fully 10000 soldiers
have legitimate basis for pension
allowance.
The navy department at Washington
wired Capt McCalla at Cat island on
the 10th as follows: IF you are salts
fed that the Teresa cannot be saved
you are authorized to abandon the
wreck"
The report of Gen. Lieber, Judge
advocate general, for the year ended
August 81, shows that there was a
total of 1,1SO court-martials during the
year. OF these three were officers of
the volunteers. OF the enlisted men
there were convicted 1,14S regulars:
acquitted, "a; convicted volunteers,
a97; acquitted, 1876.
SECRETARY ALGER has denied en-
phatically the report that if senator
Mcmillan is appointed ambassador to
Great Britain he will be appoin ted his
successor in the senate. ''There is
nothing in it whatever, so far as 1 am
concerned" he said. The secretary in
timated that if Gov. Pingree had any
such inten tions he probably would
nave been advised of it.
The court of claims at Washington
on the 18th rendered judgment Of
ST.. 500, 400 in favor of the New York In
dams who entered suit against the
United States to recover the value of
certain lands donated to them in Kan
sas and subsequently, disposed of by
the United States.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY VANDERBILT
left Washington on the 18th for Porto
Rico to familiarize himself with the
financial conditions of the island, its
possibilities Of revenue and it's require
most difficult problems which presents
itself for solution in connection with
the change in sovereignty is that of
the currency.
INSURGENTS in some of the Philip
pine islands were reported on the 18Th
as being very active by Admiral
Dewey. It caused considerable con-
Germ to the authorities at Washington,
as the United States forces, by the
rules of war, were. unable to move
from their positions.
The forthcoming annual report of
the attorney general embraces re-
view of the operations of the national
bankruptcy law of July l. 1898. AL
though the act has been in force only
a little over three months over LOO
petitions of voluntary bankruptcy
have been fled. OF this number Kan
sas furnished IS and Missouri "a.
SURGEON GENERAL STERNBERG made
his report to the secretary of war. 1t
relates mainly to the work of the med
ical corps during the war.
ARCHIE L. MILLER, a civil engineer,
who had recently returned from
Nicaragua, died in Washington of vel.
low fever Great precautions were
taken by the marine hospital service
to prevent the spread of the disease.
SECRETARY BLISS received a dispatch
from Indian Inspector Wright in the
Indian territory announcing the rejec-
ton of the Dawes commission treaty
by the Creek Indian nation.
} GEN. JAMES LoNGsTREET, the COM
missioner of railroads. in his annual
report. made public on the 2ist, calls
attention to the general prosperity of
railroads and recommends the govern
ment construction and operation of a
first-class double track railway from
Kansas City, Mo-, 90 San Diego, Cal.
by air line route. This would open
the shortest line, measured by the
map. from Boston, New. York and
Philadelphia to the Pacific coast aud
make the most direct line from our
great commercial centers to the Sand.
witch islands and the Philippines.