The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-10-02
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
tn. President recently ordered the
court -martial which tried and sentenced
Paymaster Smith to reconvene. The
court-martial sentenced Smith to two
years. suspension from service. Surgeon
General Wales had been tried on a sim
liar charge . short time previously and
was sentenced to five years. suspension,
and it was understood the President did
mot approve of the inconsistency Of the
verdicts.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the Land
Once, has refused to honor surveyors ac-
counts held by Western banks because of
Irregularities in land surveys.
A CRANK sent letter to President
Cleveland recently requesting him to re-
sign by October 8.
IT was alleged in Washington that the
late Commodore Semmes, whose death was
recently announced, committed suicide
from alteration of mind caused by mala.
rial troubles.
Some time since Dorman B. Eaton, Chair
man of the Civil Service Commission, ten
dered his resignation to the President.
The latter, in reply, thanked MIR. Eaton for
his services in the cause of civil service re.
form, and hoped the resignation would be
deferred until November.
THE President has appointed s. NJ. Stock
slayer, of Indiana, to be Assistant Com
missioner of the General Land Office.
SECRETARY MANNING, in q recent letter
10 District Attorney Dorsheimer at New
York, requested him to take steps to put
an end to the fleeing of customs officials by
passengers Oh the examination of their
baggage. The feeling was illegal and was
believed to lead to gross frauds on the rev.
enue.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs re-
Gently sent the following telegram to
Agent Owens at Muskogee, L T.: "Sus-
pend execution of the order Of August 26
for the removal of settlers on the line of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
until further orders"
The President has appointed the follow
Ing collectors of customs: Charles C..
Sweeney for the district of Galveston,
Tex; Otto L. Threlkeld, for the district of
Salura, Tex; j. j. Cooke for the district of
BRACES de Santiago, Tex.
A STATEMENT prepared by Superinten-
dent Bell, of the Foreign Letter Mails
Bureau, shows that the weight of the for
eign letter mail decreased 1870 pounds
during the last fiscal year, while the
weight of the printed matter increased
1919 pounds. The cost of ocean mail
transit was $327, 179, or just $3.50 less than
the cost during the preceding year.
JOHN MoRRIssEY, of Washington, D. c.,
was killed and three other workmen in
jured by a dynamite explosion recently at
York Haven, near Harrisburg, Pa.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports the number of arrivals of immigrants
to the United States, exclusive of those
coming by way of Canada and Mexico as
follows: For the eight months ending
August 81 last, 24l,O35. For the corre-
spending period of last year, 303,O54.
THE EAST
UNITED STATES COLLECTOR SMALLEr, of
the Vermont District, has reduced the SAL
aries of q number of Deputy Collectors
500 a year, and the wages of a number
paid by the day from 50 to 8. The effect
10 saving of 5000 per annum in his dis
trict.
BARNUM's big tent fell upon the audience
at Titusville, Pa, recently. The people cut
their way through the canvas. No one
was seriously injured.
In the New York Republican convention,
held at Saratoga, on the ODD, Hon. James
w. Hustled was elected permanent chair
man. Only one ballot for Governor was
cast, when the convention adjourned till
next day.
OFF the coast of Maine, near Eastport,
during fearful gale on the I'D, party of
men, numbering ten or twelve, were
drowned on the wreck of the Spanish
steamer Humacoa, lost six weeks pre-
yiously.
Four miners were drowned on the 23l
in an old mine at Houtzdale. Pa. The VIC
Tins were John Mehan, Peter Folk, Joseph
Hampea, a Hungarian, and John Forsythe.
The Genesta won the 800 mile yacht race
and the Bennett international cup. The
race took place through heavy fogs and
storms. The time was 4S:0.:O5.
IRA DAVENPORT was nominated for Gov
ernor of New York, in the Republican con-
vention held at Saratoga on the 2Sd
Joseph B. Carr, for observation-disclosures;
Auson J. Wood, of Franklin, for Secretary
of State; James W. Wadsworth, of Liv-
ingstone, for Comptroller.
The Governing Committee of the New
York Stock Exchange has admitted to the
list $1,500, 600 first mortgage 8 per cent.
bonds of the Chicago & St Louis Railway
in July last.
TEE sloop yacht, Puritan, was sold at
public auction at New York ON the 23d for
$I5, 800 and Edward Burgess, who designed
the yacht, was the purchaser. After the
sale he stated that he had bought the Puri-
tan for a gentleman in Boston.
The American Forestry Congress at
Boston ended on the oath. The following
Officers were elected: President, Warren
Hgley, of New York; First Vice resi-
dent, n. J. Jolly, Of Quebec; Second Vice.
President, J. Sterling Morton, Of Ne
braska; Treasurer. J. s. Hicks, OF Long
Island; Corresponding Secretary, E. E.
Fernow, of New York; Recording Secre-
tary, H. Eggleston, of Washington, d. C.
The schedules in the assignment OF Kos
snth, Adolphus and Jacob Marx, compris-
ing the firm of Kossuth, Marx & Co., jew.
elers, of New York. show liabilities, $62S,
9i6; nominal assets, $5J6, 80: actual assets,
$SSye40
The noted trotter Goldsmith Maid died
at New York recently 1t the age of twenty