The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-03-27
WASHINGTON NOTES,

ST. lfATR1CK'S parade at w aShington W as
a very creditable one, and the President
reviewed it while passing the Executive
Mansion.
The Navy Department has instructed
Commander Wildes, of the Yantic, now at
New Orleans, to proceed to Livingstone,
Guatemala, and use every exertion to pro-
tect American interests there.
AMONG the callers on the President at
Washington recently were the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, Senator voorhees, and Ex-
Senator Mcdonald.
IS the Hazen court martial on the 10Th,
the friends of the defendant manifested
their sympathy for him by loading his
table with choice flowers.
A DISPATCH from Washington recently
stated that little or nothing could be done
towards opening Oklahoma until the meet
ing of Congress next December.
THE Secretary of the Navy declined to
recommend the acceptance of the new dis
patch boat Dolphin until he had an oppor-
tunity to examine the contract and all the
details of the vessels construction. The
Secretary also ordered the Tallapoosa to be
put in repair for the regular service instead
freight and passengers.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, Commissioner of
Labor, recommends that three special
agents be sent to Europe, for from three to
five months, and that eight or ten of such
agents be appointed for the United States,
TO investigate the labor question in all its
various ramifications.
INTERNAL Revenue Commissioner Miller
has entered upon the discharge of his du-
ties. He received many congratulations.
IT is positively denied in Washington
that President Cleveland has requested
Minister Morton to remain in France.
THE EAST.
The Board af Health of New York CITY
has directed a house to house inspection in
view of the probable appearance of cholera
this summer.
An explosion of gasoline at Braddock,
Pa, fatally burned James Mccullough and
injured three other men the other day.
BULLS steam saw mills, at Franklin.
Vt, burned with all their contents. Loss
heavy; insured.
TIE bark John Chase, coffee laden, sunk
at the dock at New York. The captains
wife and infant child were drowned.
GEORGE RUSH, Philadelphia butcher,
was arrested recently charged with
Strengthening dogs and selling the flesh
for veal.
A MIKE superintendent named Latimore
was assailed by strikers at West Newton,
near Pittsburgh, Pa, and beaten with
mickbats recently. His life.was despaired
of. Forty arrests We're made, including
fifteen women
The rumor from New York that General
Grant had died on the night of the 18th
proved to be false.
A WRECK occurred the other day on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Paoli. Harry
Lgtz, fireman, was scalded to death, and
an engineer and conductor seriously in
jured. The accident was caused by freight
cars jumping one track and obstructing an
other, the fast mail dashipg into the OBJ
struction.
The trial of James ID. Fish. ex-President
of the defunct Marine Bank, was concluded
on the 18th in the United States Court at
New York.
THE parafine factory at Elinabethport,
n. j., was fired recently. The still burst
and was totally destroyed. Loss 500, 200;
no insurance.
The Concord (Nass.) Public Library
Committee would not admit Mark Twain's
book, "Huckleberry Finn" to the library,
alleging that it was the veriest trash.
TIE employees of the Bankers and Mer- |
chants Telegraph Company, at Boston,
stopped work ON the 18th, their pay being |
in arrears.
Az attempt TO escape from the Riverside !