The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-01

THE lola REGISTER.
Publishsd Every Friday.
lola. KANSAS
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important EvsntA
THE National Temperance Convention
Of the Methodist Church met ut Saratoga,
N. T., on the 21st. a5a
The House OF, Commons, by vote of
It's tos9, has rejected bill for the abolition
Of capital punishment.
A BERLIN dispatch says Count Won
Stolberg. Weriengerode, Vice-President OF
the Ministry of State, has rendered bis res
ignation. ~ ssi
A MEETING of the Cabinet was held
1t Long Branch ON the 22d, all the members
being present. The object of the meeting
has not transpired. t.or
THE Republican State Central Com
mittee at Richmond, Va, on the 2lst, de-
cided, by only one dissenting vote, to call
Convention on August "a.
TIE Mississippi River Improvement
Convention met at Council Bluffs on the 21st,
about $50 delegates being in attendance. The
usual resolutions were adopted.
Ex-GovERNoR NELSON DINGLEY,
Jr., has received the Republican nomination
for Congress in the Second Maine District,
in place of Fry, chosen United States Sena-
tor.
UPTON, Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury, has been sent on Government
mission to Europe. Prior to his departure
he placed his resignation in the hands Of
Secretary Window.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD and family
have gone to Long Branch. The President
will stay but few days, but Mrs. Garfield
will remain for some time should she con-
tinue to improve in health.
ADDITIONAL removals of Post-ottice
Department officials include Capt. w. H.
Turner, in charge Of the celebrated Stal
routes, and VIM. Sickles, also in the Contrac
Office. Turner is known to have been cog
INFANT of the frauds committed in his de-
partment, II not pdrticeps crinainis.
SENATOR SrRAHAN testified before
the Legislative Committee at Albany thai
John I. Davenport came on from Washing
ton and rendered him an important Fedora
Office, coupled with the condition that III
should withdraw his support from Senato
Conkling. He declined to accept the ofic'
on these terms.
JACOBS, one of the Democratic candi
dates for United States Senator in New
York, has withdrawn his name, on accoun
of doubts regarding his eligibility, he bein.
member of the Legislature. Clarkson B
Potter, formerly Representative in Congress
from the Westchester District, has beel
substituted in his stead.
The Treasury investigation, it is, re
ported, has been summarily discontinued
The damaging evidence disclosed agains
Pitney, Upton, Power, Lamphere and othe
prominent officials has been partially give
to the public, but much, it is alleged, still re
mains untold regarding the inside working
Of the Department.
FRENCH, Commissioner Of Railroads
Is to be investigated for placing an import
ant official report affecting the interests Q
the Central Pacific Railroad in the hands 9
officers of that corporation before putting
on record in the Department. It is allege
that big stock speculation was successful
put through on the strength of the informa
ton thus surreptitiously obtained.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD, interviewed
Long Branch on the 21st, in reference to til
Marshalship of New York, is reported
have said: s'H any one has promised an
Office in New York or elsewhere, 1t has bee
done without consultation with me and will
out my knowledge. Imay have spoken abol
the filling of the Office with new incun
bent, but as for making any promise Of tt
post it is absurd"
GENERAL BRADY, through counse
made an application in the Washingto
Criminal Court, on the 23d, for an immed
ate investigation of the public charges mac
against him in connection with the star-rou
frauds. Col. Cook, Special Assistant Alto
ney-Gene1al, opposed the motion. on Il
ground that the Government had not y
prepared its case, and would not be read
before the September term. The Court d
MED the motion. =.
JOHN I. DAVENPORT testified befol
the Investigating Committee at Albany,
Y, on the 23d. He corroborated substal
TALLY the statement of Senator Strahan as
the tender of the Office of U. S. Marshal
the latter, on condition that he should vO
against Conkling, but said he had no autho