The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-11
A WEEKS NEWS.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.


IT was rumored in Washington tina
Judge McCrary, of the United States Su
preme Court, had resigned to accept thu
position Of Solicitor of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad.
AT meeting of the House Committee OF
Military Affairs recently, General Slocun
was authorized TO report TO the House
favorabIy the Fitz John Porter bill, which
passed the Senate last Congress.
The total receipts of internal revenue fol
the six months of the fiscal year ended De
cembpr 81, were S6l.196 2O1; receipts fol
December, g, SO. 100 Issue of silver dol
lars for the week ended December 90, 29. !,
4aS, against 1,041, 900 for the same time last
year
THE public debt statement for December
showed: Cash in treasury, $375,S74.2oo;
debt less cash in treasury, 81 ,49S, h41 123
decrease during December, ST., AZ, 49,; de-
crease since June 80, S53049,4
CONGRESSMAN HOLMAN, of the House
Appropriations Committee, said recently
that the committee would probably request
Commissioner Dudley to revise his pension
estimates for the reason that there was nc
probability that the amount of money
asked for could be expended during the
next fiscal year.
THE total bullion production of the Pa
cific coast for 1889, is placed at $4,000, 600.
Utah produced 100000. Total for the
Territory since the Opening of mines by
the Gentiles, $70,C0O,00O.
In a late case where duty had been col
iected upon a cossack imported from Cana
da into Maine, the owner, a Catholic priest,
made application to have the amount re-
funded, on the ground that the article was
used for religious purposes. The Depart
ment in reply stated that where a priest
imports vestments or any regalia or robe
as his private property he must pay duty,
even though the articles imported are after
ward used in religious ceremonies; but
where such articles are imported by {
church or society for religious purposes
they will be allowed to come in free.
THE Director of the Mint estimates that
between 100000 and S6,OC0,0D0 trade dol
lars are out, and in the hands of tradeSmen
and the people generally, instead of in the
possession of spectators. The remainder
of the S"0,0J0,00O originally coined is
thought to have been exported or remelted
An important decision was recently rem
dered by the Court of Claims at Washing
ton, in test case, fixing the status of
EtigantS under the Bowman bill. passed 10y
the last Congress. The opinion was care
fully drawn by Judge Richardson. who
decided substantially that no claim under
the Bowman bill can be considered if the
Court had jurisdiction of the same previous
fn no Of
the claimant failed to take advantage
within the six years limitation.
TIE Treasury recently purchased Al, COO
ounces of silver for the Philadelphia and
New Orleans minis. Coinage at minis in
December, S5,4S0.041, of which S2,S54. 10
were standard dollars.
THE National Board OF Health has infor-
nation, communicated by the State De-
paTtment, of the continuance of cholera j,
Alexandria.
The Attorney General has decided that
a postmaster in order to be entitled to
receive the compensation provided by the
revised statutes for issuing and paving
money orders must personally perform the
Bervices required in the money order bust
hess in his office, in the sense that if the
r6ork is not physically executed by his
Land it must be executed under his imme-
Iiate supervision by clerk employed by
i'm for that purpose, and who is in no way
Employed by the Post-office Department
roper, or paid from the postal fund as dis
!nguished from the money fund.
The town talk in Washington the other
day was the discovery of the ALLEGED for
Eeries and flight of Clarence VI. Barton,
formerly managing editor of the National
Republican. Mr.. Barton will be remem-
bered as the party who attacked the pri-
vate character of the well-known Journal
list, \. N. Slreldo, in the columns of the
National Republican, growing out of
Bateldo's defense of fallen
woman, who had been assaulted by
Jimmy Kegan. formerly 4 reporter
for the New York Herald. This resulted
IN 4 personal alteration, in which Sa,eldo
was killed in the editorial rooms of the Re
publican Office. 1t seems that these for
geries had been known to various parties
for some days, but Were not made public
n an earlier moment, because of sympathy
for BartOn'S sick wife and helpless chill
dren. Among the names said to have been
forged are William NJ. Dickson, foreman
of the first star-rOute jury, and Henry D.
Battler, merchant. General Bradv's name
is on some paper, but it is not ascertained
whether forged or not. The amount Of
fraudulent paper was unknown.
THE Postmaster General has issued an
order changing the rate of postage on a
number OF articles heretofore rated third
class or printed matter, paying postage at
the rate of one cent for every two ounces.
Under this order these articles are here
after classified as merchandise, or fourth
class matter, upon which the postage is
one cent per ounce. He rules that labels,
patterns, photographs, letter heads, envel-
opes and other matter of the same character
are mere articles of merchandise, and will
be rated as fourth-class matter.
The dwelling of j. V. Carney, at Duke
Center, Pa, burned recently while the
parents were absent. Four little children,
aged from one to six years, who had been
left in the house, persisted in the flames.
DEPRESSION in trade caused the Coulev
Iron Works at Allentown, Pa. 10 shut
down.
THE EAST.
Mr.. CHURCH, Cashier and Superior
dent of John Dwight & Co.'s soda factory.
in New York, was assailed the other dav
as he was leaving the depot at the Second
avenue elevated station, One Hundred and
Tenth street, by two masked men, who
knocked him down and robbed him of