The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-20
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FROM WASHINGTON.


FROM WASHINGTON.
The National Board of Health is informed
that there have been 1900 cases Of yellow
fever and 113 deaths in Pensacola up to the
10th inst. The fever has increased, and the in
efficiency of funds makes the situation alarm
ing.
In order to facilitate the issue Of new gold
certificates, Acting Secretary of the Treasury
New gave orders for printing certificates of
the denominatiyns Of $40, $50 and 500, with
engraved signatures like legal tender
notes. These will be styled Depart
ment Series and win be issued from
The Treasury at Washington. All the higher
denominations of these certificates will be is
sued as at present, bearing the signature of
the Assistant Treasurer of New York, and
viii be issued from the sub Treasury there.
The total amount of per cent bonds issued
TO date is S259, $40, 500. The total saving in
annual interest by the exchange of 81 per
cents into 8 per cents is s12, 96S, $50.
VIM. F. Salter and Wilmot II. Ward have
been arrested in Washington at the instance
of the Secretary of the Treasury, and commit
ted to Jail upon the charge Of being engaged
In conspiracy to steal bonds and plates from
the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing and
attempting to bride the employees of that
Bureau to assist them therein. 1t Is stated
that the theft of the bonds and plates was for
the purpose of using them as evidence OF
the loose manner in which Col. Irish, Chief OF
The Bureau of Printing and Engraving, con-
Quoted his office, and as a means of procuring
bis removal. Salter represented to the en-
ployes he attempted to bride that he acted in
the interest of Benjamin L. Berry, of Penn
sylyania, who wanted Col. Irish's place, when
Salter would be his Chief Assistant, and he
would reward with promotions the men who
brought about the removal of Irish. Ward
was discharged employee Of the Department.
Additional Treasury certificates, amounting
to SO, COS, 600 were lately sent to New York
for the signature Of the Assistant Treasurer,
making total sent of S125, 000, 900. The
Treasury Department is in receipt of applca-
tions for these certificates from all sections OF
the country.
The Federation of Labor Unions of Wash
sngton City, recently adopted resolutions to
organize State Industrial clubs composed
mainly of workingmen residing now at the
capital from thirty-eight States of the Union.
The Secretaries of the clubs will Immediately
proceed to correspond with their respective
States, urging the appointment of Congress
sional district representatives to the Central
Committee on National labor legislation.
Wilmot II. Ward, who was arrested in
Washington on a charge of conspiring to steal
Government bonds and plates from the Blu
reau of Engraving and Printing, was released
on bail. Slater is still in Jail.
The President has accepted fifty miles of the
Northern Pacific Railroad beginning in Idaho
and ending in Montana, which was lately ex-
amined and reported on by Commissioners
Blackstone, Fry and Reed.
Secretary Folger, it Is declared, has not
rendered his resignation, and will not before
the last OF December, and only at that time in
the event Of his election as Governor of New
York.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office, in his annual report, states that the
lands now embraced within the limits of the
public domain amount to 800 00O, 900 acres, in
Guiding Alaska He recommends that thu
Presumption laws be abolished, as the Home
stead laws cover all the cases now arising.
ID. w. Stevens, for nine years Secretary O
abe United States Legation in Japan, will re
turn to America, it is reported, to assume tn,
position of American Secretary of the Japan
csc Legation at Washington.
THE EAST.
Ex-Vice President Wheeler has been ten
dered, but declines, the nomination for Con
gressman-at Large in New York.
New Jersey Prohibitionists will hold Con
vention to consider the question of bringing
about submission of an amendment to thu
State Constitution prohibiting the liquor
traffic.
Theodore and William Huske, aged respect
lively twenty-three and twenty-six, stopped a
a Brooklyn On. " hotel, and upon retirins
blew out the gas. The next morning boti
were found dead from suffocation.
A barrel containing $1,000 breech loading
demolishing the building in which they wer.
stored.
The Packer Colliery No. 9, of the Lehigi
Valley Coal Company, Of Pennsylvania, ha.
burned. The colliery shipped about 100 car
of coal per day, and employed between fou
and five hundred hands.
The New York and Brooklyn Association O
Congregational Churches passed resolutions
expressing regret. at Beecher's withdrawal
and affirming the belief that the divergence o.
his views on theological and doctrinal point!
from the views of the Association was not suf
fciently serious to demand such q course
and expressing hope that he would see hi
way clear to Withdrawing his resignation.
Howard Carroll has been nominated fo
Congressman-at-Largeb by the Republican Stat,
Committee of New York, in place of Hepburn
declined.
By the fall of the platform at the soldiers
monument at Beverley, Mass, q large number
of spectators were thrown to the ground and
five seriously injured.
THE WEST.
A crazy Frenchman created q stampede Oh
Fourteenth street, New York, one afternoon
lately by dashing through the street when Il
was crowded, and witha pair of sharp-pointed
carpenters eompasses commenced stabbins
women right and left His victims were Mrs
Stolzenback, Miss Louisa Checker, Miss NJ. l.
King, Miss Pauline Fielder, Mrs. Thoma.
Worth and Mrs. Mary Hanley. The latter viii
probably die. The lunstic was finally arrested
by officer Hanley, the husband of one of his
victims
! Recently, while an engine pushing an empty
Nat car was going down steep grade on the
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