The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-03

THE lola REGISTER.
Published Every Friday.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
GEN. GRANT is to visit the White
House as guest of the President.
BRADLAUGH has been expelled from
the House Of Commons by an overwhelming
vote.
WAsH1NGToN's birthday (Feb. 22d)
was marked by general suspension Of bus
mess.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR had thirty-seven
guests at his first state dinner. The White
House was radiant with flowers.
GENERAL SHERMAN and some staff
officers are to spend two months in an in
spection of the Department of Texas and
visit to the Yosemite and San Francisco
GENERAL RUcHER, recently appointed
Quartermaster Of the United States Army,
has been placed on the retired list and Cen
eral Rufus ingalls, appointed to the vacancy.
The New York Anti Vaccination So
cety recently pledged themselves to refuse
vaccination and resist 1t in every possible
way. One speaker denounced the National
Board Of Health.
TIE bill for the admission of Dakota
q State provides that 5 per cent. OF the
proceeds of the public lands remaining I'M
sold at the time Of admission shall form
common school fund and gives ninety Sec
sions for an agricultural college.
JOSEPH E. SHEFFIELD, who died in
New Haven, Conn, recently, has given for
educational purposes no less than $500, 900,
one Of his good works being the scientific
school attached to Yale College. He leaves
to widow and six children an estate valued
At s, 1000, 900.
In recent report to Congress the
Secretary of the Interior says there are no
lands in Indian Territory open to settlement
or entry, the tracts to which the Govern
ment holds title being reserved by treaty
stipulations. A proposition that the Grim
inal laws Of the United States be extended
over their lands has been made to the Indian
delegations now in Washington, and will
evidently meet their approval.
The London Times, commenting on
Skobelef's speech, says: 1.-THE Russian Gov
eminent, by its laxness in discipline, be-
comes morally responsible for the state of
things distinctly endangering the peace of
Europe. Gen. Skobeleff's position can not
fail to breed alarm and suspicion in the
financial and political world. Europe has .
right to ask that the Cars authority be
used to prevent q recurrence Of fire. brand
speeches from Russian generals"
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WILLIAM C. CLARKE, formerly at the
head Of the wholesale paper-house of Clarke,
Friend, Fox & Co. y, has fed from Chicago to
Few York. 1t appears he bought out the
other interests In the firm with promissory
notes, and speedily transferred the stock to
rival dealers for SIZE, 900, of which $4,000
was in cash or good commercial paper.
Complaints by creditors to the original house
caused an investigation by Friend and Fox,
which showed that $1sO, 900 of the firms pa
Per was still afoat. or this amount 81, 900
was promptly paid, and the liabilities will
be honestly met.
A COMMITTEES appointed by Exon
1ederste soldiers residing in Cincinnati and
vicinity called on Mrs. Garfield, at Cleve-
memorial tribute to James A. Garfield, in
the form of eulogistic and sympathetic reso-
buttons engrossed on parchment and framed
I'm vari- colored Tennessee marble, highly
polished, cut from a single block, two feet
square, with the United States coat-Of. arms
in Mexican onyx inlaid at each corner.
Major C. A. Withers, formerly Adjutant-
General of Gen. J. H. M0rgan's staff, said:
SIT is with mingled feelings of qualification
and regret that have the honor, madam, OF
presenting to you this memorial of the ex-
Confederate soldiers of Cincinnati. 1t Il
gratifying that we can truthfully and feel
ingly unite our voices in commentator of
the lamented dead with those of the many
Thousands Of common people. The occa-
sion which called for such sentiments is
painful in its recollertions, and as fully de-
plored by the people of the South As by
those Of any other section. The unanimity
with which these resolutions were passed
and the expressions conveyed therein speak
more than any words Of mine, and you can
rest assured, madam. that in them is voiced
the tribute of all old soldiers of the South to
the sterling worth Of the late President"
Mrs. Garfield with great effort repres-ed her