The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-11

CHE lola REGISTER.
rublshed> Every Friday.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
DECREASE of the public debt during
October, $1S, 321 45S.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR went to Ne"
York on the Sd, to remain until after lne
State election.
The Executive Committee of the Mis-
souri, River Improvement Association pave
called Convention to be held at 81. 1osepn
on the Goth of November.
IMMEDIATELY following the adjourn
ment of the Senate the President appointed
Stratham Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va' III
place of Wilson, suspended.
ENGLAND has been visited by Sc
we're snow-storm, which was accompanied DS
a rather brisk gale. In some OF tne lnio'
land counties the snow fell to depth o.
two feet.
THE late Governor Wilt, OF Loulsl
ana. left his widow and five children in pow
erty and committee Of leading cltlzens hSs
appealed to the people Of the State 10 pro-
vide fund for them.
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark, has been de
clared by Governor Churchill city OF tn
first-class. This grade has been reacneo II
two wears and three months from the aat
of the erection of the first cabin.
THE State of Guatemala sent specla
envoy to Washington to personally convey
our people and Government the sympa'h
and coincidence of that Government upo
the death Of President Garfield.
-U
AN order has been issued by tn
. President, directing that the Pensio
Agency at St. Louis be removed on the i
of January to Topeka, HANS, and Nathanl
Adams, of Manhattan, HANS, has been az
pointed Agent, vice Rufus Campion, VINO:
term has expired.
CHARLES J. FoLGER, the newly-al
pointed Secretary of the Treasury, w
born in Massachusetts, in 1913. HIS III
Office was Judge of Ontario County, Ne
York. He served eight years in the sta
Senate, was Sub-Treasurer OF New 1or
and now holds the position of.Chlef-Justl
of the Court of Appeals.
The London Times in its finance
article says that purchases OF Confedera
bonds are believed to be entirely due to t
action of clique prepared to run up
price of any rubbish if they think there
the faintest chance of alluring the public
to joining in the venture. There mas De
decline in the prices offered.
MIR. BRADY assumes to be so confide
of establishing his innocence OF any co
plicity i'm the alleged Star-route frauds, Il
he is said to be preparing to bring suits
libel against Postmaster-Ge General James a
Attorney General MacVeagh, whom
charges with giving out much OF the
famatory matter that has been published
garding him.
THE police at St. Petersburg have
rested man and woman who were prep
ing dangerous explosives. Socialist PAM
lets were found in the rooms. The man
student in the School of Mines. Nihi
proclamations have been distributed alb
the city and several copies thrown into
barracks of the Imperial Guard. The c
has lately received many threatening n
sives.
THE argument on the motion to
aside the criminal Information in the s.
route cases began in the District Coul
Washington on the Sd. The Governn
was represented by District Attorney CO
hill: Brewster, of Philadelphia; Bliss
New York, and Cook, of Washington;
defense by Totten, Wilson, Shellabar
Robert G. Ingersoll, Sypher, and Jeffe
Chandler, OF st. Louis.
LATER developments regarding
failure of the Mechanics National I
of Newark, N. j., confirm the report
the institution is hopelessly wrecked. St
holders will be called upon to pay dolla
dollar for the full amount of stock he'll
them. Depositors will get about fifty
on the dollar. 1t has been ascertained
Baldwin. the Cashier, speculated son
Wall Street, but it is not known that he
with any serious losses there. The FIR
Nugent & Co. protest against being
the scapegoat for Baldwin's defici'
They claim that Baldwin was their