The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-24

THE lola REGISTER
Published Every Friday.
lola. KANSAS
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
The President has refused to enter
tain the charges against Gen. Carr.
JOHN C. NEW, of Indiana, has bee
nominated for Assistant Secretary of tn
Treasury.
THE revolt in Herzegovina is increas
ing, and a provisional government has beef
established.
THE next reunion of ex-Confederate
q Missouri is to be held at Sedalia, on tn
18th of August.
TIE Garfield Scent postage-stamI
will be issued March 1, and is pronounced
the truest likeness Of the murdered Presi
dent.
CHARLES W.. WEST, of Cincinnati,
has made another gift of 5O,OOO to the Art
Museum, the interest only to be used by the
association.
The town of Columbia, Texas, has
been inundated from the Brazos River. The
Inhabitants gathered in the churches and
were supplied with food by boats.
The determination of the Pullman
Palace Car Company that workmen should
pay ten cents per day for riding from the
works into Chicago has resulted in strike.
The report of the commission on the
cattle plague, which was sent to the Senate
by the Secretary Of the Treasury, shows that
no lung disease exists in the Western centers
of livestock traffic.
EFFORTS to colonize the Northwest
ern territory are being made by all the re-.
ligious organizations in Canada. The price
paid for land is - per acre, half of which is
refunded on actual settlement.
EASTERN Texas has a hundred-mile
being lassoed to trees on either side. A
bridge on the Texas & Pacific, near Dallas,
was washed away the other day.
The Treasury investigation has led to
the resignation of Norton, clerk in the
lighthouse board, and Skeen, foreman of
laborers in the Treasury Department, and
the removal of Hatch, the storekeeper.
THOMAS MARIN, Mayor of Adrian,
Mich, has fed to parts unknown, after
drawing $4,000 from New York house on
account of $3.50, water bonds recently is.
sued. Ralph j. Jewell, formerly City Treas
urer, has been arrested for completely in the
fraud.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has sent spe-
cial message to Congress transmitting letters
from Secretary Kirkwood and the acting
Governor Of Arizona in regard to lawless.
ness in that territory, and urges the amend
ment Of the posse comitatus act to permit
the use of troops in assisting the civil au-
thorities.
AT recent meeting of members of
Unity Church, Chicago, the resignation of
George c. Min as pastor was requested, by
vote of 11S to 50. Mr.. Min asked to be in.
formed of the reasons for the action taken.
1t was finally resolved to give him a vaca-
tion with continuance of salary. Mr.. Min
Is determined to force definition of Unita-
rianism.
THE seventy-third anniversary of the
birthday Of President Lincoln was celebrat-
ed by the Lincoln Club. of New York City,
on the 18th. Gen. Grant, Emory A.
Storrs, Senator Mcdonald, and Gov. Cornell
were among the guests. Gen. Grant said
he never met Mr.. Lincoln till March, 1864,
and spoke Of him as 'sthe greatest man
whom this country has ever produced"
The Legislature of Virginia has
passed law by which commonwealth at
torneys may require seconds in duel to
testify, which service shall exempt them
from prosecution. The Riddleberger bill for
the settlement of the State debt passed the
House Of Delegates by Sc to 30, the amend
ment to submit it to the people being de-
feated by IA to II. The Senate passed bill
abolishing the whipping post.
The House banking committee has
made a favorable report on the bill to ex.
tend the charters of national banks. The
charter of one institution has already ex-
pired, and next year the corporate exist
ence of 1913 others will terminate. It is be-
lieved that the discontinuance of the system
would be disastrous to the country, and
there are trust funds in large amounts in
vested in bank shares which could not be
carried to new organizations. The bill is
said to give full protection to dissenting
minority stockholders, and to enable the
Government to determine the amount of