The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE Consul General of the United States
for Roumania, reported to the Department
of State. that according to test case re-
Gently decided, that petroleum Of Ameri
can origin If transhipped at an English
port may be admitted into Roumania duty
free, owing to the British treaty with that
country.
THE Secretary of the Treasury recently
received letter from the collector OF GUS
toms at San Francisco, to the effect that a
large importation of cattle from Australia
was expected at that port and asking in
structions in regard to establishing quar-.
antine for their accommodation. The Col
lector was instructed to provide the neces-
sary facilities for their care and shelter at
the expense of the owners.
Mr.. HAwoRTH, who has general super.
vising charge of Indian schools, reports to
the Department good progress in the con.
struction and equipment of new Industrial
Indian Schools. The school building at
Chilocco, Indian Territory, will be finished
by October 1, and be opened for reception
the 18th of January. The schools at Law
renee, Kan, and Genoa, Neb., will accom-
modate $50 pupils each, and also be opened
in January. When these are completed
the Indian schools throughout the country
viii accommodate II, go pupils.
NOTICE was given that on Wednesday,
August %, and on each Wednesday follow
ing, United States bonds embraced in the
121st call will be redeemed at the Treasury
Department in Washington to the amount
of 500, 900, without rebate interest.
THE Department of State has been appraised
of the recent action by the Government of
Spain, which places foreign blacks landing
in Cuba on an equality with all other per-
sons. Such blacks can now land on that
island without previous consent of the Cap
tain General on deposit of money, and can
reside there as they do at other places.
IT is stated at the Treasury Department
that by reason ofthe vigorous action by the
Government in prosecuting opium SNUG
glers on the Pacific coast, the duties col
lected at San Francisco, on opium for the
last fiscal year, were more than SI,O0O,OO0
in excess of net collections from that source
the previous year.
The Treasury Departm. II on the 10th
purchased 369, 900 ounces of silver for de-
livery at the Philadelphia minis.
THE Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
pital Service in Washington received a
telegram from DIR. Rober Mainegra, an
nouncing his arrival at Vera Cruz and re.
porting yellow fever raging in that city
and among vessels in the harbor.
The Treasury officials are said to be very
much puzzled at the appearance of another
counterfeit coin which is likely to deceive
even the average expert. 1t is a five-dol.
lar gold piece, and is worth 1888 in gold.
This counterfeit is said to be the best ever
made, and its perfection has created the
grave suspicion that the Government dies
have been tempered with or an impression
taken from them. 1t is said that when
placed side by side with the genuine FIVE
dollar piece, the difference can scarcely be
detected by any but experts. The weight
is nearly the same, and can only be detected
by the gold scales.
ONE result of the new Civil Service act il
said to be to make of no value applications
of men strongly Endorsed for place, and
the Interior Department is sending bach
papers to applicants.
THOMAS B. KIRBY, OF Tennessee, clerk
in the Postofice Department at Washing
ton, was recently dismissed on the charge
that he shared with Houghton, Miffiin g. Co.
Boston publishers, half of the postal guide
profits on all pages above the number
specified in the contract. Houghton, how
over, denied that Kirby shared the profits
THE EAST.
THE anniversary of the establishment o.
the Federation and Society of the Method
list Episcopal Church was held recently al
Ocean Grove, n. j. The receipts of the
Society for the past year were over SIS,
900, large increase over the previou:
year.
GEORGE W. BURGESS, sixty-six years ole
and partially paralyzed, recently passed
forged drafts upon a bank at Lockport, n
Y. He was pursued to Dunkirk and ar
rested. He had been swindling number o.
other banks in the State, and had but re
Gently been released from the penitentiary
AT Trenton, n. j., Mrs. Knoblach pitched
her husband into the canal and then leapet
in herself. The woman was drowned and
the husband rescued.
L. W. JOHNSON, the operator charged
the Troy & Boston Railroad, whereby si1
lives were recently lost, was arrested.
AT Chautauqua, n. Y, recently, Metho
dists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Congrega
tionalists, Lutherans and United Brethren
held Sunday School congresses in various
halls and tents on the grounds.
MIDDLEFIELD, MASS, had a centennia
celebration recently.
SEVERAL recent heavy failures in Wal
Street, New York City, caused quite pani
in financial circles.
AT the National Convention of the Anti
Organ faction of the United Presbyterian
Church at Pittsburg, Pa, Rev. Jane
Price of Philadelphia, presented series o
resolutions in effect that the propriety o
holding local conventions similar to thi
one, and of forming an association for tn
maintenance of the principle and especial
ly the purity of the worship of the church
demanded serious consideration and at
tention.
FoR the six months ended August 1, on
hundred and sixty persons were killed an,
four hundred and one injured on the rail
roads in the State of New York.
CAPTAIN ]. d. RHODES, who talked o
swimming the whirlpool rapids of Magyar,
River, looked at the waters and abandone,
the job. An open letter was addressed +
Rhodes by the Canadian authorities, stat
ing that any attempt by him or others t
swim the whirlpool rapids would be locke
upon as the act of an insane person, an
they would be prevented as far as takin
the water from the Canadian shore wa
concerned.
RIcHFKLD SPRINGS, n. Y, offers
purse of 81 900 for a boat race there in Seq
TENDER between Hanlan and Courtney.