The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-12-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE,
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SOaTy OU t0o 00Ay NoWA
WASHINGTON NOTES.
A WASHINGTON special to the Chicago
Post on the 23d said that the president
had completed his message and it was
in type with the plate locked up at the
government printing Office and proofs
locked up at the white house. The
message contains about 10000 words,
which is above the average. being, in
fact, fully twice as long as usual
SEcRETARY BLISS. of the interior de-
his annual report reviewing in detail
pension, Indian land, patent, educa-
tional and territorial affairs. The In
dams are declared to have made sub
stantial progress during the past year.
The workings of the Curtis act in the
Indian territory are praised. The Sec
rotary reports 637, 900 pension claims
pending and recommends commission
to revise pension laws. Early legisla-
tive enactment for taking the twelfth
census is urged.
The first assistant postmaster gen.
eral in his annual report says the busi-
ness of the department shows an in
crease Of 100000 during the fiscal
year. There were 81. 79S, O7S domestic
money orders issued for the year,
amounting to SOL. 354, 121. Mr.. Heath
recommends that post Office clerks be
classified and placed upon a fixed scale
of salaries; that small post Offices be
consolidated; that clerk hire appro.
priation be made to apply to third
class post offices; that another form of
money order be issued. and that $780,
900 be set aside for extending rural
free delivery.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
II of the principal peanut concerns in
the country have agreed to combine
or consolidation. There are about 90
cleaning houses for peanuts. These
handle a crop which is valued at about
So. 600, 900 a year. They represent an
investment of 5000. 900. It is through
the combination of the cleaning houses
that the attempt will be made to
handle the crop hereafter, maintain
prices and prevent ruinous competi-
ton.
The annual report of the secre tary
of the navy was made public on the
25th. 1t says that our navy is unex-
celled, tells the story of Dewey's VIC
tory at Manila and the blockade of
Santiago de Cuba, awards high praise
to the marines and makes many rec
concentrations for lettering the serv-
ice.
The postmaster general makes an
interesting report on his department
in establishing post Offices in our new
territorial acquisitions and calls at
'tention to the amazing growth of the
postal business in all its branches.
SENATOR COCKRELL does not look for
any sweeping legislation in congress
this winter. He does not think that
any special financial or tariff legisla-
ton will be attempted. The senator
from Missouri thinks we ought to as
sist the Filipinos to establish repub-
lie and help them to maintain it.
NAVAL officials at Washington dis
cussed seriously the reported com bina-
ton among American shipbuilders to
divide the construction of vessels for
the navy which congress is expected
to authorize in order to secure large
profits. A entative pool was said to
have been formed by the shipbuilders
to pool bids
ADvICEs were received by President
Mckinley on the 9th from Judge Day,
president of the American peace COM
mission at Paris, stating positively
that the Spanish commissioners would
accept the United States terms of
peace and that treaty would be
signed in few days
DIR. A. c. TRUE, director of the office
of experiment stations. in his report
says that the agricultural experiment
stations are, as rule, working more
thoroughly and efficiently for the ben
eft of American agriculture than ever
before.
THE United States supreme court on
the 2Sth announced the new bank
ruptcy rules which it.was authorized
to frame and promulgate under the
national bankruptcy act of July 1,
1895
GENERAL NEWS
JAMES HoLsTEIN and Martha Elkins
were indicted in Hamlin, w. Va, by
the grand jury for murder. 1t is al
legged that they cremated their natural
child alive.
The isthmus of Panama celebrated
on the 9sth the eighty-seventh ami
versary of the declaration of its indie
pendence of Spain.
R L. COOPER, Wesley Wainwright
and John p. Jones went to negroes
house at Butler. Ga, with q warrant