The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-27
A WEEKS NEWS.
by Telegraph and Mall
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
A CIRCULAR was recently issued from the
office OF the Third Assistant Postmaster
General, officially notifying postmasters
throughout the United States Of the reduc.
lion in postage rates, to take effect the LIST
of October, and directing them to make
preparations for it. Postmasters are noti-
fied it is desirable to have as small a stock
of the present three-cent postage stamps
and stamped envelopes as possible on hand
when the reduction rate goes into effect.
THE President approved the sentence of
dismissal in the case Of Lieutenant Samuel
L. Holmes, of the Thirteenth Infantry, re-
Gently tried by court martial at Fort Bliss
for duplicating pay accounts.
THE investigation of Architect Hill at
Washington continues its weary length.
SECRETARY TELLER says the question of
transfer Of the Texas Pacific land grant to
the Southern Pacific Railroad company
will not be decided until September 1, and
that he proposes to settle the matter him.
self without referring to the Attorney
General for his opinion. - .E
A SPECIAL says that DR.. Campbell, the
American Consul at Monterey, Mexico, re-
Gently went to Laredo, Texas, and left the
Consulate in charge of Rev. Shaw. One
night after he left the American Consul's
Office was entered by q mob of Mexicans
and Rev. Shaw, acting United States Con.
sui at Monterey, was attacked and beaten
nearly to death. The furniture and papers
belonging to the Consulate were destroyed.
The information created profound sensa.
tion at Laredo. $780,
The Surgeon General of the Marine Corps
recently received an official dispatch from
Vera Cruz, Mexico, that yellow fever pre-
walls with unusual severity in that city.
Ninety deaths occurred in May; 261 in
June; and IA up to date (the ISth) in July.
The number of new cases are diminishing,
especially amongst the shipping, for want
of material. Surgeon General Hamilton
said no case of yellow fever had as yet ap-
peared on the shore in the United States,
and he believed the precautions taken will
prevent its ingress beyond quarantine
limits.
In the Criminal Court at Washington on
the 18th, Judge Wylie delivered an opinion
upon the pleas in abatement by the defense
and the demurrer entered by the Govern
ment in the case of the United States
against William P. Kellogg, charged with
illegally receiving money while United
States Senator for action in connection
with the expedition of certain star routes.
The court overruled the plea of defend
ants attorney.
AT noon, Washington City time, on the
18th, was inaugurated the most extensive
strike in the history of this country. For
some time past there has been dissatisfac-
ton between the Western Union telegraph
operators and the company, growing out of
what the operators declared was too small
pay and too many hours work. The opera
tors made demand for redress of their
grievances to which the company refused
to accede. The Brotherhood of Telegraph
Operators accordingly ordered strike, and
promptly at noon on the day mentioned
most of the operators in every Office in the
United States and Canada left their desks
and walked out. The Brotherhood is said
to number 1900 members, well organized
and backed by the Knights of Labor, an
other powerful organization.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
appointed Isham Young, of Knoxville,
Tenn, Revenue Agent, vice c. NJ. Horton,
of Boston, removed.
The first vacancy In any of the depart
ments occurring since the new Civil Ser
Adiutant Generals office, and was created
by the death of a s., 200 clerk. Over this
bone there was great contention.
THE body of H. w. Lord, son of ex-Con.
gresham Lord, of Michigan, and recently
clerk in the Patent Office, was found float
ing in the Potomac River at Washington,
the other day. Il was supposed he fell
from q steamer.
THE EAST.
NEAR Port Hsnry, N. Y, Levi McConley
shot and killed his wife, wounded his
mother-in-law and fed.
A BARK laden with rags arrived at New
Haven, Conn.,, recently from Egypt via
New York harbor, where the vessel had
been quarantined. The officers of the bark
said that there was no cholera at Alexan
dia when they sailed. No communication
was allowed between the vessel and the
shore.
AT Reading, Pa, the other day the eight
boilers of an anthracite furnace, owned by
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, ex-
ploded, reducing the furnace to a mass of
ruins. The men had just left, but two men
were killed and number injured.
ARGENT explosion seriously damaged
the Yonkers, n. Y, Gaslight Works and
injured several persons.
Ar Altoona, Pa, the other day, ex-Con-
gresham Archibald McAllister dropped
dead from appoplexy. .I.S -
Ar Cape Vincent, n. Y, recently, SEQ
BELLS brewery burned. Hundreds of bar
rels Of lager, ale and porter and 1900
bushels of malt were destroyed. Loss,
10000; no insurance.
THE Philadelphia Produce Exchange
agreed to cooperate with the Commercial
Exchange in urging upon Congress the re-
demption, retirement or legalizatiop Of the
trade dollar.
The General Convention of the North
American Saengerfest lately in session at
Buffalo, N. Y, selected Milwaukee rs the
next place for holding the saengerfest.
The steel mill and two furnaces of the
Bethlehem, Pa, Iron Company started up
recently. About one hundred special po-
lice were on duty. No collision took place
between the Amalgamated workers and
the others, though the former felt very
bitter against their brethren.
A FIRE broke out in a pile of jute which
had Just been landed at Harbeck's dock in
Brooklyn, n. Y, the other day which
burned the dock, three large vessels that
had just landed from Calcutta and an inn
mense amount of property. Total loss,
8, 000, 900. Twelve firemen were injured by
being buried In ruins. one fatally,