The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-02
A WEEKS NEWS.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTRs.
The other day the Treasury Department
received a letter postmarked Allegheny,
Pa, and signed Clergyman" which con
tanned six hundred dollars to be credited to
the Conscience Fund.
Up to the close of business, the odd, the
total amount of Government bonds re-
deemed under the various calls amounted
to S115, 900.
AT therequest of the Postmaster General,
Attorney General Brewster has addressed
a circular to all District Attorneys, direct
ing them to cordially cooperate with the
officers of the Postoffice Department. in en-
forcing the section of the revised statutes
which forbids any letter or circular con.
corning lotteries being carried by mail.
THE annual report of the Second Assis-
tant Postmaster General showed that the
total cost of transportation by all methods
was S19, 234 500, an increase over the pre-
ceding year of $3.50, The increase in
the railway mail service was Sl,0S4 ,616; in
steamboat service, So, 602. The increase in
the cost of star-route service was 1914, 81.
y The machinery of the Government for the
punishment of fraud and the protection of
disabled soldiers and the parents, widows
and orphans of soldiers has been set in
vigorous motion, and as the first result
fifteen pension attorneys and firms
were recently suspended by Secretary
Teller from practicing before the Depart
ment. 1t is reported that further develop
ments are to be made which ''will startle
the country"
THE official report made to the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue says the organ
ization of Red Men in West Virginia is not
engaged in violation of the internal reve.
nue. laws.
THE Commissioner of the General Land
Office is gradually reducing the number of
land offices as the opportunity arrives. The
Office at Des Moines, Iowa, will soon be
abolished, and others will soon follow.
SINCE September /, the Postoffice Depart
ment has furnished to postmasters 900, $780,
164 postage stamps, SC, 359, 600 stamped en-.
velopes and 1885, $50 postal cards, or a
total of 452, 211 OLA pieces, of the aggregate
value of $3.50, $40. This enormous issue
was made upon 114,061 acquisitions from
postmasters.
THE Universalist General Convention
begun its annual session in Washington
City on the oath. The Woman's Centen-
nary Association held a session in connec-
tion with the General Convention.
THE report of the Superintendent of the
Money Order Bureau of the Postoffice De-
partment for the fiscal year ended June
80, showed the total number of money
orders of all kinds issued to be 9,e13, So, of
the aggregate value of So, 047 ,23S; total
number paid, S,721,077, to the value of
$40, J0l, 23S; amount of fees received, ST.
2T2, 060. The increased value of domestic
orders issued over those of the preceding
year were 1885, $50.
THE Department of State has been Off
cially advised of the evacuation of Lima
(Peru,) by the Gillian troops.
THE Secretary of the Treasury says that
no official information had been received
by the department respecting the arrival
of Cinnamon at San Francisco.
The Commissioner of Pensions it is said
has discovered irregularities in the prac-
tice of Belva A. Lockwood, the female
lawyer, who has large number of cases
pending before the Pension Bureau, and it
is understood the question of suspending
her from practice before the Bureau is be-
ing considered by the Commissioner and
Secretary of the Interior.
THE EAST.
Four boys aged from six to eight years
recently found giant powder cartridge
where blasting was being done on Fiftieth
street, in New York, and applied a match
to it. One boy was fatally injured, two
others lost their eyes, and the fourth was
badly hurt.
Mrs. LOUISA DoHERTY, twenty-five years
of age, attempted to kill herself in New
York, the other night, also her five-year
old child, by cutting the throat of the lat
ter and severing the arteries of her own
wrist. 1t was thought both would die.
A YOUNG man reported himself at Port
land, Me-, recently, who claimed to be the
missing Charlie Ross. He said he was kept
in dark room four years, and subsequent
" taken to Brazil.
G. CLARK and Charles W. Stone were
recently arrested at Jamaica, Vt, on the
charge of counterfeiting. They belonged
to an organization of twenty-three young
persons who had a complete counterfeiting
outfit, which was seized with quantity of
spurious coins.
An explosion in the Excelsior Squib Fac
tory at Kingston, Pa, recently tore the
establishment to pieces, and eight children
employed there were blown out with the fly
ing timbers in every direction. Eight of the
children were probably fatally injured.
ANDREW d. BENNETT, a prominent farme-
of Crawford County, Pa, while cunning
the other afternoon near his home at Espy-
vile, shot himself accidentally. His cloth
ing caught fire from the discharge, and the
body was almost completely cremated.
CAPTAIN FINLEY, William Fowler, A.
Whalen and another seaman were drowned
by the capsizing of schooner at Vineyard
Haven, Mass, recently.
A LATE fire at Pittsburgh, Pa, destroyed
Munderf's planning mill and one million
feet of lumber, together with five dwelling
houses and furniture. Loss, $4,000; par
TALLY insured.
LEWIS Bros, wholesale liquor dealers of
New York, recently failed, with liabilities
of Sis, 900.
Ex-CoLLECToR BEARD, of Boston, recent
ly made a statement to the effect that dur
ing the administration of William A. Sim
mons as Collector at Boston, an extensive
system of smuggling was carried on with
the knowledge of the officials.
THE WEST.
Ten inches of snow fell in Western Ne
braska on the 23d. r -
The immense medicine factory and pack
in st. Louis, burned the other night. Loss
about $4,000.
HENRY MosHER, brother of the Mosher
who kidnapped Charlie Ross, was recently
lynched near Cheyenne, Wy. 7.