The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

In reply to recent charges that the postal
clerks had not had an opportunity to vote
Postmaster General Hatton insisted that
the clerks in the New York post-ofice all
had chance to vote, and if they did not
do SO, it was their own fault.
PROF. SANDERS, of the Agricultural De-
ants, left Washington recently for New
Orleans, where he will put in operation the
sugar crushing machinery which has been
experimental with successfully in Della
ware. The appropriation for the conduct
of the machine at the department was OBJ
tanned last year through Senator Plumb's
influence. The crusher gives signs of revo-
iutionizing the growing of cane in the
United States for sugar production. The
gentlemen who go to New Orleans will
place this machinery on exhibition, also a
fine chemical display from the Agricul-
tural Department.
SENATOR HAwLEY's committee, ap-
pointed to investigate the Pittsburgh steel
works and report upon their facilities for
the production of steel for heavy guns and
naval vessels, began its work few days
ago.
THE General Superintendent of the Life
Saving Service in his late annual report
said the total number of disasters during
the year were 439; total value of property
involved, 0,607 $40; total value of prop
srty saved, 1916, 354; total value of
property lost, S1,446,5S6; total number
of persons involved, ASP; total num-
Der of persons saved, 4,412; total num-
Der of persons lost, 90; total number of per-
sons succored at stations, 552; total num-
Der of days of succor afforded, 1,319; num-
Der of vessels totally lost, GA. Investiga-
lions held after each case of loss of life
showed that twenty persons who persisted
we're entirely beyond human aid, and
that in no instance could their loss be at
tributed to any failure in duty on the
part of the life saving crews. The
total number of disasters during the
past year exceeded by twenty three the
number for the year prior, which was
seventy-one more than any previous year
In the history of the service. The amount
OF property moved was 1886 30 greater
than in the preceding year but the amount
lost was S223. 4S4 less, while the amount
saved was $3.50 ,654 more. The assistance
rendered during the year in the saving of
vessels and cargoes has been much larger
than In any previous year.
Three hundred and ninety vessels,
which is fifty-three more than in
the preceding year having been worked off
when stranded, repaired when damaged,
piloted out of dangerous places and SINH
larly assisted by the station crew. There
were besides 240 instances, lis more than
in the preceding year, where vessels run
ming into danger of stranding were warned
off by night signals of the patrols, most of
them thus being probably saved from par
Gal or total destruction.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE, Register of the
Treasury, lately returned to Washington
from his trip to the West, undertaken in
the interest of the exhibits intended to
show the material development of the coll
ored race at the New Orleans Exposition.
The public statistics, he said, conveyed a
very inadequate conception of the subject.
Especially notable was the progress of the
colored people in the matter of manufac-
lures.