The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
FROM WARRINGTON.

FROM WARRINGTON.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Joslyn hal
rendered q decision Of the utmost importanc,
10 a large class Of applicants for pensions. Ii,
holds in effect that seven years. absence maj
be taken as proof presumptive of soldier
death, and such proof shall warrant the issue
Of a pension to his family If the other require
ments have been complied with. This decision
Is a direct reversal of the practice that has
hitherto prevailed in the Pension Bureau
Positive proof of q soldiers death was required
which in many cases was impossible to pro
duce.
Postoffice Inspector Sharp recommends to
the Department that Marriage and Birthday
Insurance Associations be prohibited from
using the mails on the ground that the organ
izations are frauds.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury French
decides that Cinnamon having tickets from
New York to any place in the United States
having passed through Canada on the Grand
Trunk Railroad are entitled to admission into
the United States without further evidence OF
right than such ticket.
Forty-eight employees of the Census Bureau
are recommended for promotion. Geo. W.
Richards, of Cincinnati, is recommended fol-
aChief Clerkship.
The President has accepted another twenty
five miles of the Northern Pacific Railroad in
Montana coming Eastward.
At the instance of the Department of JUS
tice, warrants were issued for the arrest of
Frederick Ii. Fail, late an employe of the De
partment, Arthur Payne and Thomas r.
Foote, go-betweens in the attempt to bride
Juror Brown, and Frederick Shaw, one of the
original panel in the Star Route case, charged
with corruptly approaching Juror Doniphan.
The Committee of Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives will meet in Wash
ington November Goth, to assign to the sub
committees all subjects having reference to
tariff. 1t is expected by that time the Tariff
Commission will have submitted partial re-
port.
The President has recommended Thursday,
November Both, as day of general thanks
giving.
Promotions in the army, consequent upon
the retirement of Maj. Gen. Irwin Mcdowell
have been announced by the President, as fol-
lows: Brig. Gen. John A. Pope to be Major
General, and Col. Reinold S. Mackenzie of the
Fourth Cavalry, to be Brigadier General.
Both promotions take effect Immediately.
The President has appointed VIM. S. Smith,
of New York, Edward Kinsley, of Massachu-
sets, and Dwight X. Trip, of Rhode Island,
Commission to examine and report upon go
miles of road constructed by the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad Company in the Indian Terri
tory and Arizona.
A. B. Mullett, at one time Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, but whose connec-
ton with that department has not been re-
cognized since 1877, formally rendered his
resignation few days ago as Superintendent
of Construction for Public Buildings in st.
Louis and other cities. His actionis regarded
as a preliminary step in asserting claim COM
pensation from 1877 to the date of his formal
resignation.
DR.. George, NJ. Beard of New York, one
of the signers of the petition for a stay
of proceedings in the Guiteau case, which was
presented to the President in June last, short
ly before the prisoner was hanged, has written
a letter to- Attorney General Brewster, in
which he says: ''The Attorney Generals
opinion in reply to the petition for stay of
proceedings contains two very important mis-
statements of facts.n
The house of Gen. Sturgis, at the Soldiers
Home, in Washington, was recently robbed of
5000 worth of diamonds, silks, laces, velvets,
etc. The trunks of French governess in the
employ of H. L. Dousman, of Wisconsin, Gen.
Sturgis' son-in-law, who with his wife were
visiting the General, were found packed with
the missing property. Three thousand dol
lars worth of diamonds were not recovered.
The Postoffice Department decides that the
privilege accorded publishers of second-class
matter, namely, to print upon the wrappers of
periodicals the request that if the same be not
called for in limited time it may be delivered
to any one of class of person named, cannot
be extended to senders of the third class.