The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
A WEEKS NEWS.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES,

Cleaned by Telegraph and Mai
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Postmaster General directed that IL
making postoffice appointments in Missis
sippi recommendations of ex-Congressmar
Chalmers should be given no greater weight
than may be properly attached to them al
the recommendation of private citizen.
A REPORT has been received by the Ma
tional Board of Health to the effect that
cholera, which prevailed to an alarming
extent in China, Japan and India some
time ago, has disappeared. A report has
also been received that smallpox is raging
In Rio de Janeiro.
other day returned indictments against
VIM. Pitt Kellogg, for receiving money
while United States Senator for ser.
vices rendered in relation to a con-
tract with the Government; and against
Thomas Brady, for receiving money
while Second Assistant Postmaster
General, for services in relation to a con-
tract with the Government. Kellogg is
charged with having received five INSTALL
ments of 81 800 each, for using his influence
with Brady to secure certain expeditions of
service, and Brady is charged with receiv-
ing therefor five drafts also for 81 500.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
jected the offer of a compromise in the case
Of Cuendot, the st. Louis jeweler, for al
legged smuggling. He has directed that the
money already received from Cuendot be
restored pending q hearing of the suit
against him.
THE EAST.
THE New York Senate defeated the
proposition to pay Mrs. Martha Washing
ton, of Denison, Texas, $4,000 for certain
relics of George Washington.
A DYNAMITE cartridge was recently found
in the basement of Rinaldo & Co.'S factory,
Brooklyn, n. Y. One hundred girls were at
work in the upper part of the building. The
cartridge was sufficient to demolish the
factory.
THE investigation into the affairs of the
Tewksbury (Mass.) Almshouse continues
to reveal some queer things. One day last
week John F. McGavern, tanner at Wo-
burn, testified that the skin of negro, I'M
tanned, was brought to the tannery by w.
F. Morrison, who wanted it tanned. Nor
rison said he brought it from Harvard, and
that it came originally from Tewksbury.
Morrison claimed to be a student. Pieces
of the skin were shown.
AT New Haven, Conn.,, recently, in the
case Of Mrs. Adelia Curran against William
NJ. Fay, to recover $4,000 damages for
shooting her husband, the jury was out an
hour and brought in a verdict for the de-
PENDANT. Judge Beardsley refused to ac-
cept the verdict, and sent the jury back
to deliberate, stating they should have
found some damage for plaintiff. The
Judge told them the defendant failed to es-
tablish legal justification for the shooting,
and their verdict was not in accordance
with the evidence. They returned after
another hour with verdict for the plaintiff
of $50 and costs. Fay was previously tried
for the murder of Curran and acquitted.
JAMES TREGLAUN was hanged at Norris
town, N. j., for the murder of Minnie
Chirgwin, at Port Dram, about a year ago.
AT Taunton, Mass, Mrs. Ellen Hallasey,
aged sixty five, was found dead, supposed
to have been murdered. Her sons Timothy
and John, aged nineteen and twenty-five
respectively, and William Flynn were ar
rested for the deed.
SETH KENNEDY, trusted clerk of NJ. s.
Page & Co., pawnbrokers, of Boston. Mass,
was lately arrested on the charge of en-
bezzling $4,000.
THE Massachusetts, House failed to pass
the bill appropriating money for the ex-
penses of the various State Charitable and
Reformatory Institutions over Governor
Buffers veto.
THE Woman's Suffrage State Convention,
lately in session at Troy, n. Y, elected
Lille Devereaux Blake President. The
resolutions proclaimed that only by
woman's cooperation can social order be
secured and maintained.
THE Pennsylvania Senate passed the bill
prohibiting one person from treating an.
other in saloon.
The 10Th of April was celebrated at New
burgh, N. Y, it being the centennial of the
celebration by Washington's army at New
burgh over the declaration of cessation of
hostilities between the United States and
Great Britain. At noon salute of thirteen
guns was fired at Washington's headquar-
tiers, and was answered by salute of thir-
teen guns at West Point by order of the Sec
rotary of War.
THE paper mill at Catawassa, Pa, owned
and operated by McCready & Co., of Phila-
delphia, burned recently. The loss was es-
timated at $4,000. About $50 men were
thrown out of employment.
THE WEST.
TEN stores and buildings were lately de-
stroyed by fire at Plymouth, Ind. Loss,
$4,000; partially insured.
The wife of b. Zeipfright, well known
druggist of Dubuque, Iowa, lately threw