The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-02-24
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

AS>Se>See>>~eS
WASHINGTON NOTES.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY was the guest
# the Home Market club in a banquet
N his honor at Boston on the 10Th.
The presidents address was about the
Philippines. He said the islands were
Entrusted to our hands by the war and
their future is now in the hands of the
American people.
THE war department has honorably
discharged Maj. Gems. Butler and Sum-
ner and Brig. Gems. King, Mckee,
Wiley, Lincoln and Comba, all of the
volunteer army:
The secretary of the interior has ap-
pointed John d. Benedict, of Danville,
ILL.,, to be superintendent of schools in
the Indian territory at s.. 500 per an.
mum, under the Curtis law.
The state department at Washing
ton cabled the coincidence of the presi-
dent of the United States to the family
Of M. Faure at Paris on the death of
the president of the French repu bile.
ADvICEs received by the state de.
partment of agriculture, at Austin.
Tex, indicate that the earlier reports
of losses of live stock by the recent
cold weather in Texas were consider
ably exaggerated Estimates of a
number of the most prominent cattle
men of the panhandle country place
the cattle losses there at Eve per cent
COMMISSIONER WILSON, of the inter
nal revenue bureau, said on the 18th the
receipts during the present fiscal year
were, in round numbers $1O7, SOC. 900.
which, If the average per day kept up
for the balance of the year, will amount
TO a total for the fiscal year of the war
tax of $269. 942. 600.
The settlement of the obligations of
the Central Pacific Railroad company
to the government was completed on
the 18th when United States Treasurer
Roberts was given the notes of the
company for $50. Sl2,715. The notes
are 90 in number, payable semi-an-
nually. and are each for $3.50. 635,
bearing three per cent. interest
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY granted par
don to John r. Jacobs, Choctaw In
dian, convicted of killing James Mori-
allio in the Choctaw nation in 1883 and
given life sentence in the peniten-
tiary. Jacobs was only 10 years old
when the crime was committed.
IT was announced at the navy de-
partment on the 18th that an arrange
ment was being made for extending
American, authority throughout the
Philippine islands by sending gun.
GOATS TO different ports and having
troops or marines land and hoist the
.tars and stripes and make a military
demonstration to impress the inhabit-
ants
THE German ambassador at Wash
ngton has notified the state depart
nent that an intern national veterinary
congress will be held at Baladen August
ala, 1899. The subjects to be discussed
include the treatment for and proven
ton of various disease in animals.
AN opinion was handed down in the
United States supreme court in the
:ase of C. c. Calhoun VS.. Oscar Violet,
involving the right of "sooners' in
Oklahoma when that territory was
opened to settlement Calhoun
claimed especial privileges because he
was an ex-union soldier. The court
failed to recognize his right and de-
cided against him.
THE Observation-Disclosures commission
met at Washington on the goth and
then adjourned to meet at Quebec.
Can, on August 9, unless the chairmen
of the respective commissions agree
upon another date. 1t appeared that
there were serious differences regard.
ing the delimitation of the Alaskan
boundary.
THE court of inquiry into the beet
charges made by Gen. Miles got down
to work at Washington on the Goth,
the commanding general being the
first witness before them.
The war department on the goth is
sued an order formally mastering out
ell volunteer troops now in the United
States.
Ex.Gov. THOMAS c. FLETCHER, of
Missouri. suffered q stroke of apoplexv
In Washington on the 20th and was in
q serious condition at the Emergency
hospital on account of his age. having
celebrated his seventy-first birthday
January 81 last The chances for his
recovery were regarded as small.
Mr.. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK took
the prescribed oath on the 2Oth at
Washington and entered upon his
duties as secretary of the interior.
GENERAL NEWS
The milk trust is trying to freeze
out the small dealers in Austin, Ill. i.
and if the experiment is successful it
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