Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-11-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of tho Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

VI blb ibhl AhhA eAha N'''HA''
ing .:~Hr: the naval service Chaplain
Mcintyre, of the Oregon, for remarks
made In lecture ut Denver Col, re-
Gecting on Admiral Sampson and
others.
THE executive council of the Amer
ican Federation Of Labor recently held
a two.days session at Washington, the
eight-hour day being the principal
subject discussed. Ii was decided u
appoint a legislative committee to be
In attendance on congress immediate
ly upon its opening, so that the meas
ure may be enacted into law at the
earliest possible moment
PRESIDENT Mckinney and four mem
bers OF his cabinet informally discussed
on the night Of the 25th the informa'
ton received from the American peace
commissioners at Paris, which was said
to be of disquieting nature, although
there was reason to expect the negotia'
tions would not be broken off, but
would proceed to a successful issue.
GEN. A. w. GREELY's report Of the
operation of the Signal Service corps
during the war was submitted to the
secre tary OF war on the 25th, He laid
much stress upon the part played by
his corps in locating Cervera's fleet in
the hnrbor of Santiago and claimed
credit for first definitely locating the
Spanish squadron.
THE Episcopal TrienniNl Council at
Washington adjourned on the 18th.
THE treasury department at Wash
ington has practically completed the
issue of the S2OO,OOO,0OO OF three per
cent. bonds authorized at the last ses-
sion of congress. The highest allot-
ment 10 any one subscriber will be
"a, 4S0. Subscribers for $4,000 will
receive $1,000 each and possibly few
hundred dollars in addition.
THE commissioner of Indian affairs
who has been for a week investigating
the Indian trouble in Minnesota, made
q verbal report to Secretary Bliss at
Washington on his work. He attrib-
uted the recent outbreak to methods
of the whites who take gross advan-
tages OF the Indians, many of the red
skins being dragged 100 miles from
their agency as witnesses in trivial
caAes in order to swell deputies fees.
The Indians are then turned adrift,
without any means, to get home as
best they can, They are also wronged
in regard to timber sales on their
lands.
OFFICIALS at Washington were ex-
ercised on the Goth over n warning
from the Canadian authorities that
several people with pronounced cases
of leprosy had successfully eluded the
American immigration inspectors and
had crossed the line into the United
States.
SECRETARY HAY sent q message by
his private secretary to President Nc
Kinley at Philadelphia on the Goth
which caused the latter to hold an im-
prOmptu cabinet meeting with those
members who were present at the
jubilee. The message was something
important it was evident The meet.
ing lasted nearly an hour and the pri
vate secretary left Immediately for
Washington in special car.
COMPTROLLER DAWES, who Is treas
urer of the Lafayette monument fund,
is deluged with contributions from the
school children of the country. He
has opened a special Office at 1907 L
street, Washington, and ex-Congress-
man Walter Butler, of Iowa, is in
charge, with an assistant. The on
tribution of each school is entered in
the name of the teacher, to whom the
receipt is sent.
The award of the chief justice Of
Canada, to whose arbitration was su b,
mitted the claim of Victor II. McCord
an American citizen, against the gov
eminent of Peru for damages sus'
tanned by reason Of Imprisonment dur
ing one of the revolutionary outbreaks
there, has been received at the state
department at Washington. McCord
is awarded $40, 900.
ADMIRAL DEWEY cabled the navy de
partment at Washington on the 2Stl
that everything was quiet at PekiI
aud that American interests in Chini
were not in danger
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY issued proc
lamation on the 2Sth setting apar
Thursday, November "a, as day of ma
tional thanksgiving for the blessing
received during the past year.
SECRETARY OF STATE HAY stated or
the 2Sth that he believed the peace
commissioners at Paris would ge
through their labors by December l.
Y GENERAL NEWS.
THE girls strike at the American
Cereal ,company's plant at Ceda
Rapids, Ia, has ended, the manage
ment agreeing to the demands of tn,
strikers for IS cents per 200 for label
ing and wrapping packages and ais,
to discontinue the regulation fininl
the girls for wrappers torn in handling
Over 800 girls returned to work.
The cruiser Brooklyn has been or
dered to sail for Manila by way of tn
Suez canal with recruits, ammunition
and supplies forAdmiral Dewey's aeet
The corps surgeon at Savannah, Ga.
reported on the 3sth that Col william
j. Bryan was suffering from ligh
form of typhoid fever
MRS EUNICE Russ DAVIS, who enjoy
the unique distinction of being tn
Oldest abolitionist in the United States
and the only surviving member of tht
Boston Woman's Anti-Slavery board