Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-20
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of tho Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
A DISPATCH from Washington on the
10th said that it was no longer posi-
BILE to conceal the fact that the contri-
buttons in aid of Cuba were practically
nothing. Secretary Sherman said: II
am sorry to say that up to date it looks
as If the people of the United States
were not, after all, SO very much in
terested in Cuba"
A DISPATCH from Washington on the
10th stated that the board of ordnance
and fortihcation had recommended the
immediate building of government
powder factory as, after the warships
of Uncle Sam had fired away all their
powder, which they would do in a ten
hours battle, there would not be
enough in the country to supply them
for Commute combat, and it would
take year, with the present facilities,
to produce enough for another ten
hour battle.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAVIS rem
dered pension decision in the case Of
John p. Brown, late of the United
States navy, rejected by the bureau.
The action of the bureau is overruled
and the claim allowed. 1t is for n
sailors pension under the act of June
81, 1890. Secretary Davis finds that
the claimant had served 60 days when
his services were terminated by the
ending of the war.
WILLIAM E. STERNE, of Topeka,
Kan, was confirmed by the senate at
Washington as United States marshal
for the district of Kansas,
The largest fleet of warships ever
assembled under the American flag
will be within six hours easy steaming
of Cuba by the lst of February. The
president has no intention of provoke
ing war with Spain, but he will be
found in forward state of prepara-
ton should Spain insist upon HOSTILE
ties. If intervention comes it will be
with strong arm.
A PETITION has been fled with the
president by Mrs. Chapman Weed, of
Muscatine, IT,, for consulship either
in Germany or Switzerland. Mrs.
Weed is reported to be fine linguist
and woman of executive ability.
UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL LEE
reported to the state department that
according to his advices no less than
200, 900 people in Cuba were in the last
stages of restitution and wholly de-
pendent upon charity. In the opinion
of Gen. Lee 20 per cent of these poor
people were doomed to death from
starvation and disease.
THE monetary commission was re-
Gently given hearing by the house
committee on banking and currency
on the commissions bill proposing
comprehensive revision of the cur
rency. The hearing attracted much
interest, a number of the members of
the house and Secretary Gage being
present.
MIR. ROBERT S: TAYLOR. of Indiana,
n member of the monetary commission,
was before the house banking and cur
rency committee at Washington on the
14th and spoke of the inadequacy of
the banking facilities in the south and
west.
AS the result of conferences held Mt
Washington between the silver lead
ers of various parties, Chairman Jones,
of the democratic national committees;
Chairman Butler, of the populist ma
tiOnal committee, and Chairman Town,
of the silver national republican COM
mittee, will issue a joint manifesto,
with view to securing common ac-
tion by the three organizations in the
political contest of 1898.
The agricultural department at
Washington on the 14th issued Farm
ers' Bulletin No 6S," which treats of
the black rot of the cabbage 1t de-
scribes the nature of the disease and
gives practical suggestions for its pre-
Vention.
THE senate committee on Indian af-
fairs recently rejected the nominations
of four appointees to Indian agencies
because they were non-residents of the
states and territories to which they
were assigned to duty. Among the
quartet rejected was Ed Goldberg, of
Wichita, Kan, who was appointed
agent at the Quapaw agency in the In
dian territory.