The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-09

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS I'm BRIEF.
REDUCTION of public debt during
May, SIC, 1916, Al.
ADyIcEs from Sonora state that the
hostile Indians, pursued BY Mexican troops,
are fleeing in the direction Of Arizona.
REED. counsel for Guiteau, has ap-
uiied to Judge Gray for . writ of habeas
corpus. The Judge preferred to wait until
the case had been presented to his assOci.
stes.
M1scREAN1s defaced the soldiers
monument on the grounds Of the State Nor.
NAL School Ut Millersville, Pa, May 30.
bespattering 1t with ink and other SUBJ
stances.
GENERAL TERRY has information
from MIX River that Big Bear is making
ready to come south of the boundary to hunt,
with five hundred lodges, and has sent word
that he will fight II an attempt be made to
drive him away. ~ 'ke
MEETINGS in Chicago and St. Louis
between representatives Of the mills and Of
amaIgamated workers in iron and steel re-.
suited only In . determination to close the
works over vast region Of country, either
by lockouts or strikes. -...
ENGLISH papers print story that both
Gladstone and Harcourt have been warned
that at recent Irish meeting in London the
hope was expressed that Gladstone would
be assassinated next, and this expression
was received with loud and significant ap-
plause.
The vote in the Senate Military Com
mittee on the question Of favorably report
ing Sewell's bill for the relief Of Fitz John
Porter was as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Sew.
oil, Cockrell, Maxey, Grover and Hampton.
Nays-Logan and Cameron of Pennsylvania.
Harrison and Hawley were absent.
Mr.. Ella, auditor of post-ofice &C
counts, who Is really an officer Of the Treas
ury Department, refused to obey an order
of the Postmaster General to remove to the
treasury quarters. Secretary Folger de.
clined to interfere in the matter. By order
Of Mr.. Howe, the auditors room was un-
locked and his furniture, books and papers
were quickly transferred to the upper floor
by q hundred messengers.
SERVICES in memory of Abraham
Lincoln were held at the monument near
the entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 18th, in the presence of q
large number of visitors. The monument
was decorated with flowers. The graves In
the cemetery of the Naval Hospital, the
"Martyr's Tomb" in Fort Green Park, and
the graves Of Grand Army companions and
soldiers In the Catholic Cemetery were also
decorated. l4
SECRETARY FoLGER has recently had
astartling experience in the engraving and
printing bureau. The other night Prof.
CASTELAR, found two of the Government dies,
representing the tens on the National Bank
notes, lying outside the safe and within the
reach of the watchmen. Through Col. Irish
the dies were sent at once to Secretary Fol-
ger, who took time to satisfy himself that
the eventwas caused wholly by careless.
ness. Mr.. Bell, the custodian of the plates,
was dismissed, and Captain Burrows, of
New York, was temporarily placed in charge
of the safes.
SECRETARY TELLER has just made
IN important ruling in regard to the con-
struction hereafter to be placed upon the
act of June 3, 1878, authorizing citizens of
Colorado, Nevada and the Territories to fell
and remove timber from public domain for
domestic purposes. The department has
construed the words s'for domestic pur.
poses'' to mean the cutting of timber by In.
dividuals for their own use and not for sale.
Numerous suits have been brought and many
are now pending upon this basis. Secretery
Teller holds to take this view is to defeat
the very intent of the act, which was to pro.
vide a way by which the needed timber for
mines, mills and pioneer towns can be east
" obtained. He holds that any such use
within the State or Territory, whether by
individual cutting timber or by mill or
mill man to whom It has been sold, is con.
sumption for domestic purposes protected
by this act.
DECORATION DAY was more gener-
ally observed than ever before. James G..
Blaine and Gen. j. r. Hawley addressed
the assemblage at the Gettysburg Cemetery.
There was large gathering at the grave
of Gen. Zachary Taylor. near Louisville.
where General Elkin spoke. The process
sion of veterans and eleven militia regi-
ments in New York required two hours in
passing Madison Square, where President
Arthur, General Grant, Roscoe Conkling,
and Generals Hazen and ingalls, reviewed
It. The Garfield vault and casket at Cleve-
land were covered with floral offerings.
The Grand Army veterans 1T Washington
attended to the graves in the Arlington
and national cemeteries. At Spring Grove
Cemetery, near Cincinnati, an Grafton was
delivered by Hon. Thomas L. Young. The
mounds covering eleven thousand dead
heroes at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis,
were strewn with flowers. Philadelphia
was handsomely decorated, and about six
thousand soldiers marched to Laurel Hill
Cemetery. In Chicago, the grave of every
Union soldier. was garlanded, while the
resting-place Of five thousand Confeder-
ate dead at Oak Woods was marked
BY Whittier Post with . mammoth
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