The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10

THE lola REGISTER
FsbllsAsd Evsry Ttadav.
lola. KANSAS.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
TIE President has nominated Charles
baylor, Of Indiana, Consul General for the
United States at Berlin, Prussia.
TIE first shipment Of Georgia peach
es arrived in New York on the LIST. The crop
IN the State for this season is estimated at
10000 baskets.
THE journeymen brewers of st. Louis
entered upon general strike on the LIST, to
enforce their demands for shorter hours and
Increased pay.
Ex-Gov. ANDERSON, of Maine, aged
%, and Gen. Thos. d. Hoxey, Greenback
candidate for Governor of New Jersey in
1850, are dead.
TIE Mexican Congress has adjourned.
It's action on the tariff increases the revenue
81 200 900. The Executive will use his
authorization to contract for the construc-
ton Of railroads.
The American horse Iroquois, owned
BY Mr.. Lorillard, won the great Derby race
st EPSON on the LIST. Peregrine, the favor
he, came in second. This il the first time
tho Derby was ever won by An American.
EX-SENATOR CONKLING, at Albany,
20 Senator Malone, at Richmond: Your
every effort for the true advancement Of the
South, and to make elections real and fair,
has my whole heart and deserves the CO.
operation of Republicans everywhere"
UPON invitation of Secretary Win
dom, McGrew, Sixth Auditor of the Treas
ury, and his deputy, Lilley, have rendered
their designations. The action of Secretary
Window was taken, 1t is said, at the request
Of the Postmaster General and the Attorney
General.
The public debt statement of June
shows decrease in the debt during May of
I'll, $50, 72l. Cash in Treasury, $s36, 496, 0ss;
gold and silver certificates, $56, $685. $50; GER
tificates Of deposit outstanding, SO, S6O, 900;
legal tenders, $346, 741, 646; fractional cur
rency, $7,109, 1O2.
The Democratic Legislative Caucus
ct Albany, N. Y, nominated John C. Jacobs
and Francis C. Herman for United States
Senators. to fill the vacancies caused by the
resignations of Conkling and Plat. The Re
publicans held no formal caucus, the Conk-
ling men being finally unable to secure q
majority Of the Republican members to sign
. call for that purpose.
THE New Hampshire Legislature met
on the LIST, under the provisions of the
amended Constitution, to elect . United
whose term expires in 1888. Mr.. Rollins is
SBuuluACc 1OT Tc.clccClOu, Suu ulb principal
competitor Is William e. Chandler, recently
rejected by the United States Senate as So
Gcitor- General of the Treasury.
GOVERNOR LEW WALLACE has left
New Mexico for his home in Indiana, turn
ing over his Office to Acting Governor Pitcho,
pending the arrival Of Governor Sheldon.
Although confirmed, Governor Wallace has
not fully decided whether or not to accept
the Turkish mission, on account of his ex-
tensive mining interests in the Territories
claiming his personal supervision.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the LIST
says: The star route investigations have
reached point now, 1t is said, when the
legal machinery will very soon be put in
motion. To-day Col. VIM. A. Cook was
commissioned Special Assistant Attorney
General to take exclusive charge under the
Attorney General of the prosecution of these
cases in the courts. The new Grand Jury