Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

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The senate on the Esd confirmed the
nomination OF Peter S. Grosscup, of
Chicago, to be United States judge for
the Seventh judicial circuit
The Indian agent NJ the Fox and Sac
agency. Oklahoma, was directed by
the interior department at Washing.
ton to take charge of and give proper
attention to the epidemic of smallpox
which broke out near Hillabee post
office, in the Creek nation, and prevent
its spreading, as it was feared 1t would
cause great fatality among the In
dians If permitted to spread.
THE secretary of the interior has
made requisition on the federal
treasury for So, 800 OOO for the quarter
ly pension allowances at Topeka, Kan.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GRIGGs has rec
commended to congress that $3.50, 900 be
appropriated in the sundry civil bill
for United States penitentiary at At
lanta, Ga.
THE news which reached Washing
ton on the gath from Manila was far
from reassuring Gen. Otis reported
that he expected the insurgents were
about to force an issue and that the
result could not be foreseen.
The court.martial to try Commissary
General Eagan for conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and a gentleman, for his
vituperative language concerning Gen.
Miles in his testimony before the war
investigating committee, met Mt Wash
ington on the 25th. Gen. Eagan
pleaded not guilty to the charges but
qualified his plea by admitting that
the specifications set forth correctly
part of the language he used,
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY gave recep-
ton at the white house on the 25th to
the officers of the army and navy and
the marine corps. 1t was brilliant
affair.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, has been i'll in
Washington with the grip.
INFORMATION has been received at
Washington that 500 friars held as
prisoners by the Filipinos are COM
PEELED to undergo all sorts of mental
labor, such as attending to the horses
of Filipino officers, paving the streets
of towns and so forth
AUGUSTUS II. GARLAND, attorney
general of the United States under
President Cleveland's first admins.
tration, was stricken with apoplexy
on the goth while addressing the
United States supreme court and died
within ten minutes He was 81 years
old.
SECRETARY ALGER appeared before
the war investigation commission at
Washington on the Goth. He denied
positively that he had ever, directly OF
indirectly, been interested in any army
camp or any supplies furnished the
government during the Spanish war,
All complaints, he said, had been in
vestigated, and while there were de-
fects they were only those inseparable
from suddenly creating great army.
REPORTS of 60 officers, representing
more than a dozen regiments, scores
of companies and thousands OF sol
diers, were laid before the special in.
vestigating commission at Washing.
ton, showing that the beef furnished
the soldiers was bad. Corned beef es
capes without censure, but canned
roast beef and the so'called fresh beet
with which the soldiers were served
are denounced without exception.
THE court-martial upon Commissary
General Eagan at Washington for his
recent virulent attack upon Gen. Miles
ended on the 9th and within As min.
utes afterwards the court arrived at O
verdict of guilty and sentenced him to
dismissal from the military service oil
the United States, without any recon-
mendation for clemency.