The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-01
A WEEKS NEWS.
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THE Secretary Of the Treasury has de
eided that the 100000 appropriated for the
prevention of special epidemic disease.
shall be discussed by the Surgeon General
of the marine hospital service.
THE Department Of the Interior has de
cided not to interfere with the Greek In
dian trouble, and the entire matter hat
been turned over to the War Department
Commissioners viii go to Okmulgee, the
capital of the Greek Nation, with Indian
Agent Tuft, to investigate the claims te
citizenship made by large number Of per
sons. They viii visit the capitals of all
the civilized tribes for Che same purpose.
There are over two thousand persons in the
tntire Territory who claim to be Indians,
put who are NOS recognized as such by the
Indian authorities. e
THE special committee appointed to in
vestigate the affairs of the Office of the SUI
pervising Architect of the Treasury met in
Washington and organized by electing
Acting Secretary New Chairman and IL. L.
kcLennan Secretary. Mr.. Murch was
present with counsel and said he had made
arequisition for additional papers in the
Architects offices, which he had Just re-
ceived and would like to examine carefully
before opening the case.
The Patent Commissioner estimates that
the receipts of the Patent Office for the cur.
rent year viii be 81 200 600 or SEQ, 900 more
than last year.
THE Acting Postmaster General issued
an order for all postoffices to close on Deco
ration Day between the hours of ten a. m.
and five p. m, except in large cities.
SECRETARY TELLER has directed that in
future Registers. and Receivers of, Land
Offices must not receive filings upon odd
sections of lands granted railroads within
the limits of grants withdrawn for indem.
nifty purposes.
THE Treasury Department was advised
that g party of peuper Mormons from
Switzerland are en- route to New York on
the steamship Nevada. Instructions were
issued to the Collector of New York to CO.
operate with the State authorities to pre-
vent their landing. = M, E,sDS.g,E
THE Treasury Department recently pur.
: chased 1900 ounces of silver for delivery
at the different minis. g. ?
AcrISe Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Rogers has prepared a circular to
collectors and others in regard to the re.
peal of the tax upon bank capital and de.
posts. The circular states that in accor.
dance with the recent opinion of the At
torney General no returns will be required
for, a time subsequent to NevemherISo, 1852,
except few such persons, firms, associa-
tions, bankers, ETC., as are liable for taxa
ton. rgrf f-sy4gft
COLONEL JOHN A. MARTIN, Secretary of
the National Republican Committee, has
received number of letters making in.
CURRY concerning the next meeting of the
Committee, and as to what action had been
taken looking to the National Convention
of 1884. Replying to these Inquiries he
states that the Committee will meet in
Washington on the 18th of December next,
to fix the dan and apiScss tn sAoIaitss
convehtion. utiUAlt lAfN
IsFoBMATIoN has been received ID Wash
ington Of the arrest in Montreal Of William
C. Phelan, counterfeiter and fugitive from
Justice from Portland, Me-, with $l0,o00
bonds of the May Flower Mining Company
of Utah in his possession. Ct 1uffl,1il
1t is stated that the case of ,Hallet Kill
bourn against John G. Thompson, for false
Imprisonment, will be tried in Washington
before Judge Cox in June. At the last
/. trial the Jury Air. KilbouzaS a08, 600
damages, but the verdict was set aside by
Judge Macarthur, who was then on the
bench, as excessive. Mr.. Kilbourn's coun-
:el will claim much larger damage at the
ilext trial.
4 THE Department of State hasreceived
official Information of the signing of the
treaty of peace between Chill and Peru.
THE National Board of Health has been
informed of twenty two deaths from yellow
fever at Havana for the week ending May
Is, and the disease has made its appearance
among the shipping of that port.
WITH view to keeping Indians-on their
respective reservations, and also reducing
the expenses of the Indian service, the
circular to agents of non-treaty Indian
agencies directing them to discontinue sup
plying Indians with coffee, tea, sugar and
tobacco, except ascompensation for labor
performed.
a aQ ! THE EAST. ~ 'x :
The American Sunday School Union held
its fifty-ninth anniversary at Hartford,
Conn.,, last week. General Hawley, pre-
sided and made the opening address.
The other principal addresses were by Rev.
c. L. Goodell, of ST. Louis, and ex-Gov-
ernor A. H. Colquitt, of Atlanta, Ga.
THE New York Labor Union issued a
proclamation asking all werkingmen to
absent themselves from the ceremonies of
opening the Brooklyn bridge because the
Trustees refused to change the day to some
other date than the Queens birthday. The
Sons of Liberty denounced the bridge au-
ihorities for holding the ceremonies on the
Queens birthday.
THE house Of Alfred Cole, at Buckfeld,
he, was entered by burglars the other
night, Mr.. and Mrs. Cole chloroformed and
5000 in currency stolen. a.
TIE Trustees of Williams College, Of
North Adams, Mass, received check for
$4,000 from &. d. German, of Albany, to
found q Professorship Of Natural Theology
in memory of the donors deceased son,
who was student Civilians. .,
AT ire in Greene street, New York
City the other morning. in house IN which
a number of people were employed, there
was stampede, and II was 'I1rmored many
were burned to death. One woman was
taken out insensible and afterwards died.
The corpse o. child had also been recov.
cred.
SMALL-Pox of violent type has broken
out in the Lancaster pa County Prison,
and the institution has been placed in
quarantine.