Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of tho Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GARY sent to
congress request for an appropria-
ton OF SlGS,OO0 to meet probable de-
ficiency in the free delivery service for
the current fiscal year.
r. e. PRESTON, director of the mint,
has resigned aud George Il. Robinson,
uf Fort Dodge, Ia, has been nomi'
mated TO succeedhim.
JUSTICE BRowN, of the United States
supreme court, is in danger Of losing
his eyesight. Several weeks ago the
Justice was attacked with an affection
OF the optic nerve. 1t has become so
serious that he has been obliged to put
himself under the care of specialist
ON diseases of the eye.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAVIS, OF the
interior department, has decided that
there is no law providing a pension for
the widows of soldiers who die of dis
case contracted in the service in time
of peace prior to March 4, 1861.
SECRETARY BLISS, in statement sent
to congress of the disbursements to
agricultural colleges, showed that Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Arkansas, mississippi
Texas and Oklahoma each received
$4,000 during the past year and will
he entitled to 1913, 900 the coming year.
JOsEpH MCKENNA took his seat on
the bench of the supreme court OF the
United States on the Goth as an asso-
,ciate justice. The official ceremony
inducting him into office consumed
less than four minutes and was very
simple.
"A STATEMENT is being prepared for
congress at the state department in
which the necessity for an appropria-
ton of $1,0O0,00O for a proper repre-
,sentation Of the United States ut the
Paris exposition in 1900 will be urged.
SECRETARY OF WAR ALGER was re-
ported as being dangerously sick at
Washington on the Goth, He had
typhoid fever and the conditions were
alarming.
In recent letter to the state depart
ment at Washington Consul General
Lee expressed his conviction in AN UNI
reserved manner of the hopelessness of
the Spanish cause in Cuba and showed
that peace and good government can
only be restored in the island by some
outside power.
STATEHOOD legislation at this session
has been killed by the house commit
tee on territories rejecting the Ari-
iona, New Mexico and Oklahoma bills
by vote of eight to three.
SECRETARY BLISS told Gov, Barnes,
of Oklahoma, that the department OF
the interior will not remove the land
Office from Perry to Guthrie, and con-
sOlidate them.
THE senate committee on pensions
recently adopted a set of rules to gov
ern its consideration of pension mat
tiers which are of great interest to
people concerned in pensions.
THE gold reserve in the federal treas
ury on the 97th reached Si63, Gao, 060,
the highest point in about seven years.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has recently issued two
farmers bulletins, one on forestry and
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for forage. The latter bulletin also
treats on stock, melons, starch and po-
tatoes, crimson clover, geese for profit,
cross pollination and germ fertilizer.
THE senate recently passed resolu-
ton calling on the commissioner OF
pensions for information as to his au-
thority for ordering that no rejected
application for increase will be recon
sidered within year. The statement
of the commissioner has satisfied the
senate committee that his order il
sound and lawful.