The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-08-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
ACTING SECRETARY FARcHILD recently
directed that q supplemental competitive
examination be held at the Treasury for
the purpose Of filing seven vacancies OF
the grade of cadets in the Revenue Marine
Service.
SECRETARY BAYARD recently received q
telegraphie communication from the
American Consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador,
saying that he had positive information
that Santos had been liberated. No de-
tails were given in the telegram.
The Smith court martial at Washington
completed its work on the 18th and the
court was temporarily adjourned. The
findings would be sent to the President for
his approval or disapproval.
THE Postmaster General has issued in
structions governing the special delivery
system, which comes into operation Octo-
Der 1.
The United States Treasury Department
has authorized the American Express Com
pany to receive the baggage Of passengers
from Europe upon arrival in New York to
to be forwarded Immediately in bond with
out examination to the principal ports of
entry in the United States and Canada,
where the duties, if any, will be assessed.
PROF. RILEY has received information
from Montana Territory that grasshoppers
of both the migratory and non-migratory
,s,.nv -, hat n~l
that they are about moving East in large
swarms.
COMMODORE OSCAR c. BADGER, recently
relieved from the command of the Boston
Navy Yard, has been placed on the retired
list.
THE Attorney General decided recently
that pension agents were not entitled I'M
der existing laws to fee of thirty cents
for paying fees to attorneys for pension
ers.
TRADES organizations throughout the
questing President Cleveland to call an ex-
ira session of Congress to be devoted ex.
clusively to the consideration of measures
for the relief of the industrial classes of
the country and the revival of business.
1t asks that an extra session be convened
before the last Monday in September, 1885.
II is announced unoficially that General
Luther N. Meiley, of Lima, O., has been
appointed Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and will assume the
duties Of the position on September 1, the
date the resignation of Luther Harrison
takes effect. General Meiley is native of
Ohio, and served during the war on Cen
eral landowners staff. After the war he
practiced law until 1878. when he was ap.
pointed Adjutant General of his State I'M
der Governor Bishop.
FIRST COMPTROLLER DURHAM says he is
not exactly satisfied with Mr.. Loring's ex-
PLANTATION of his accounts as Commissioner
of Agriculture, and that unless he can Of
fer better reasons for the expenditures of
seeds, ETC., than have yet been submitted
he (the Comptroller) will have to refer the
case to the Solicitor of the Treasury for
the institution of legal proceedings.
THE EAST.
AT meeting of the Battle Monument
Association at Bennington, VT, on the
18th, the design of j. P. Rim, of Boston,
was accepted, and a committee was APP
pointed to report to the President and the
Governors of Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire, which action will entitie the
association to the appropriations made by
Congress and the Legislatures of those
States. The fund now amounts to $50, 900.
FIRE in the fifth story of No. 167 Duane
street, New York, the other day, occupied
by Green & Blackwell, candy manufactur-
ers, caused loss of so, OOo; fully insured.
D. ]. HAMBURGHER's tannery at Oswego
Falls, N. Y, was destroyed by fire re.
Gently. The loss on the building and stock
was $1,000; insurance not known.
NINETY young ladies took the veil at the
Mattenckrodt convent, Wilkesbarre, Pa,
one morning recently, under the direction
of Bishop O'Hara. The ladies were from
various towns and cities in this country
and Europe.
The firm Of j. s. Martin & Son, whole
sale grocers, los Chestnut street, Philadel-
phia, have suspended payment.
The Greenwood Iron Works, operated
by the PARROT Iron Company, at Green
wood, N. Y, shut down the other night.
The liabilities are said to be from 500, 900
to 500, 600 with assets of S5O0,OOO. Five or
six thousand dollars are due the employees.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone occurred in
Northern New York on the afternoon of
the 18th. Norwood, st. Lawrence County,
was greatly damaged and eight lives were
reported lost.
J. b. JONES was hanged on the 18th at
Troy, N. Y, for wife murder.
GEORGE and Henry Martels, aged TWEEN.
fy-one and twelve wears, driving in q
wagon, were run down by an express
train at Hoboken, N. J.. and both killed.
Ar q meeting of the Associated Bessemer
Rail Manufacturers at Long Branch re.
Gently it was unanimously agreed to re.
duce :ss production of steel rails, SO as not
to exceed the demand and enable manufac-
tureas to make rails at remunerative prices
next year.
GOVERNMENT agents made another
seizure of crooked whisky at Philadelphia.
The plan adopted to defraud the revenue
was the use of thick slaves opposite the
bunghole, which prevented the gauger Ger
tifying to as much whisky as the barrel
really contained. Peoria, ILL.,, distillers
were some of the parties involved.
AT Ithaca, n. Y, recently, a gang of
four laborers on the Cayuga & Lake Shore
branch during heavy rain sought shelter
under an overhanging bluff, when q land
slide fell upon them and buried Mike Nc
Manus, Pat Mahon and Mike Fahey, al of
whom were killed. The fourth man es-
capped.
TEN thousand boys were thrown out of
in the Pennsylvania mines by
recent legislation. Their places we're filed
by Russians and Poles
HENRY JOHNSTON and James Rodger,
employees of the new Reading & Pcttsville
were killed recently at Reading,