The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-15
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News from Everywhere.


News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
TIE Supreme Court of Utah has de-
cided that the female-suffrage law in that
Territory IN constitutional, and that under It
women are entitled to vote at all elections.
Judge Foreman dissented from this opinion.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused in political circles by the publication
of an alleged interview between Gen. Grant
and the Rev. c. II. Fowler, in which Gen.
Grant speaks somewhat disparagingly Of
Gen. Hancock. The latter, in an interview
with q newspaper correspondent, said he
could not believe Gen. Grant to be guilty Of
the discourtesy to brother officer attrib-
uted to him in the publication referred to,
but in case he should be assured that the
statements referred to were the utterances
of Gen. Grant, he should not long neglect to
give the public his side of the questions at
issue.
GEMS. GRANT and Logan attended
the reunion of the survivors of the Twenty
first Illinois Regiment at Decatur on the 9Th.
Gen. Grant was the first Colonel of this regi-
ment.
THE Georgia State election, which
took place on the 9Th, resulted in the re-elec-
ton Of Governor Colquitt, the regular Dom
ocratic nominee, by majority of some 40, :
600.
d. p. DEVICES, the Greenback candi-
date for Judge of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, in q published letter, with
draws from the canvass, for the reason, he
states, that Gen. Weaver is using his influ-
ence as the head of the National ticket, in
favor Of the Republican candidates.
ACCORDING to returns on file in the
Secretary Of States Office, the Constitutional
amendment voted for at the recent election
in Arkansas, favoring scaling.down of the
State debt, was rejected by majority of $50.
PROF. JACOB BALL, a well known
naturalist and geologist, died recently in
camp in Willeberger County, Tex, wherehe
JACQUES OFFENBACH, the favorite
opera-bouffe composer, has just died in
Paris.
PROF. BENJAMIN PIERCE, mathema-
tician and Professor at Harvard College, is
dead.
The Mexican House of Represents
tives, by resolution, have declared Gen. Con-
zales duly elected President of the Repub-
lie, his term to begin on the LIST of Deem
Der.
Col. r. T. VAN HORN was unani-
mously nominated for Congressman on the
first ballot by the Republican Convention of
the Eighth Missouri District.
JAMES NJ. STRIKER, Postmaster of
the United States House of Representatives
since 1876, died at his home in Alexandra,
Va, on the It'll, aged 81.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
AT the end of the fiscal year, June 80,
there were 104 postal Offices from which the
mail was delivered by 1913 carriers. The
number of pieces of mail handled at these
Offices during the year was 932, 121 ,843, being
an increase of IL, 267,71S pieces over the
number handled the previous year. The
total cost Of the delivery including the salar-
les Of Special Agents, was 81. $685. 93.
THE st. Louis Fair opened on the 4th
with fine display in nearly every depart
ment and large attendance. The annual
pageant Of the Yelled Prophets, which came
of on the night Of the 9Th, was magnificent
affair and was witnessed by hundreds Of
thousands of spectators.
PROF. RILEY says he has reached a
stage in the management of the cotton worm
vxy1,o fhovr 30 fop ;kc
ravages, and that the caterpillar and the boil
worm will cease to be cause of anxiety to
intelligent and enterprising planters.
A STRIKE of negro laborers, compress
men and longshoremen, at Houston, Tex,
begun on the 4th and threatened to assume
serious proportions.
BIZ threatening strike all along the
line, the employees of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way have secured an advance in wages.
THE International Exposition at Mel
bourne is open.
DURING the past fiscal year 7,240, 537
postal money-orders for $10O, 49,, 1913 have
been issued, against SIS, "a 81 the previous
fiscal year. Fees.and premiums received by
Postmasters during the fiscal year, $917, 091,
Commissions paid Postmasters, and expenses
Of clerk hire, ETC., $659. SIG, which. deducted
from gross receipts derived from fees and
premiums, leaves $257 $40 as the gross reve-
nue. Of the bureau for the year. Other ex-
penses leave $17,675 - net revenue Of the
money-0rder bureau.
The Government has convened con-
ference Of Russian cotton manufacturers ut
Moscow to discuss the threatened crisis In
the industry. At many Of the Moscow mills
many Of the operatives have been reduced
Is per cent The recentreduction Of 10 per
cent 1t Kbludefps great mill at Smolsk pro-