The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-10

mas to be tried for burglary committed at
that place.
THE charge is made that clerk in
the Post office Department, without author
ity, prepared for the Presidents signature
the nomination of William Nichols to be
Postmaster of Norfolk, Va. which went
to the Senate with number of others duly
authorized. Its withdrawal has been Or
dered.
AT an enthusiastic meeting recently
held in New York City, presided over by
Mayor Grace and addressed by VIM. NJ.
Evarts, Chief Justice Noah Davis, Rev.
Drs. Hall, Howard Crosby, j. p. Newman,
and others, resolutions were adopted ex-
pressing sympathy with prosecuted Hebrews
in the Russian Empire, and protesting
against the spirit of medieval persecution
there revived.
GEORGE F. HANFORD, conductor, and
George Mellius, brakeman, have been in
dicted for manslaughter by the Grand Jury
investigating the Spuyten-Duyvil disaster.
Superintendent Toucey and the managers Of
the New York Central Railroad are censured
for not having the cut better guarded, and
for allowing too high rate of speed through
it. The jury advocate some method for car
Illuminating other than mineral oil, and say
heating cars by fire should be discontinued.
The Commissioner of Pensions, re-
plying to House resolution calling for in.
formation As to what amount of appropri-
alton would be required annually to pay
pensions for the next twenty-fv years "if
all claims for pensions arising from the war
of rebellion shall be adjudicated within sew.
en- years, and If at the end of that period the
survivors of the war with Mexico and their
widows shall then be pensioned at So per
month"; estimates the amount at $1,347,-
651, 593.
Mr.. SCovILLE, counsel for Guiteau,
has issued a card to the American people,
in which he says: s'Under the circum-
stances, I dom feel called upon, as a matter
of public interest alone, to give an add.
tional two months time to the motion for a
new trial before the court in banc. If my
fellow. citizens, few or many, think the in >,
terests of justice, the cause of
humanity, or the honor of the
prolonged. and that no effort be spared to
secure a verdict and judgment after passion
shall have subsidized in the public mind, let
them manifest it by providing means, and
competent counsel will be secured at once.
ask nothing for myself up to this time, but
can not give my own services hereafter
without compensation. At least 5000 is
needed.''
THE appointment of John F. Cahill as
Minister to Mexico is thus urged upon the
President by Missouri delegation of fifteen
Democrats, Republicans, and Greenbackers:
ave, the Senators and members of the
House from Missouri, being deeply inter.
ested in the extension of our commercial re.
lations with the Republic Of Mexico, unite,
regardless of party, with the Merchants,
Exchange of St. Louis, the Board of Trade
of Chicago, the Board Of Trade Of Cincin-
natl, the Merchants Association Of Boston,
and other commercial bodies and individ-
uals, whose Endorsements are already on
file in the Department of State, in recon-
mending for appointment as Minister to
Mexico John F. Cahill, Esq, Of st. Louis, a
gentleman familiar with the commerce, lam
guage and customs of that country, and who
can render most valuable services, not only
in the cause Of inter-republic commerce,
but in promoting more intimate political
and social relations"
The anti-polygamy bill reported from
the Senate Judiciary Committee provides
that ''every person who has q husband or
wife living who, in a Territory or other
place over which the United States have ex.
elusive jurisdiction, hereafter marries an.
other, whether married or single; and any
man who hereafter simultaneously or on the
same day marries more than one woman in
a Territory or other place over which the
United States have exclusive Jurisdiction, Il
guilty Of polygamy, and shall be punished
by fine Of not more than $500, and BY i'm.
prisonment for term of not more than five
years." The last section Of the bill vacates |
all the registration and election officers of
every description in the Territory of Utah,
and devolves upon board of five persons,
to be appointed by the President and con.
firmed by the Senate, each and every duty |
relating to the registration of voters, the |
conduct of elections, the receiving or rejec- /
ton of votes, the canvassing Of the same and |
the issuance Of certificates Of election until |
new territorial Legislature shall have been |
elected !