The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-19
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
COMMISSIONER ATKINS, of the India,
Bureau, will leave Washington about July
on visit of inspection Of the various In
dian agencies.
THE Secretary of the Navy has been in
formed that Auf de Morte, the defaultipi
officer at the sub-treasury at New Orleans
has fed to Mexico, where he is interestet
I'm some mines.
IT was reported at Washington recent,
that Commissioner Sparks was formulating
an order cancelling all Withdrawals o
land by the United States for the protec
tion of the indemuifying limits of railroat
grants. The effect of such an order wouie
be to restore to the public domain at leas
50,000,00O acres and would undoubtedly
lead to litigation.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS recently ad'
dressed letter to Secretary Lamar, re-
questing him to call upon the Attorney
General to institute legal proceedings tt
set aside the Maxwell grant in New Mexico
upon allegations of fraud. The grant COM
prises two million acres and originally be-
longed to ex-senator Chaffee.
The President on the 10th appointed the
following Collectors of Internal Revenue
John T. McCarrigle, Ninth District Of
Pennsylvania; Attilla Cox, Fifth District
of Kentucky; George NJ. Davis, Fourth
District of Michigan.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has de.
clared dividend of two per cent. in favor
of the creditors of the New Orleans Bank.
ing Association, making total of sixty.
two per cent. so far paid to the depositors.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs on
the 10th opened bids for the supplying Of
15,000, 600 pounds of beef to the Rosebud,
Yankton, Crow Greek and Pine Ridge In.
dian agencies. There were ten bidders,
and the prices ranged from S3.45 to $3.6j
per hundred pounds on the beef.
COLONIES BArcHELDoR, Deputy Quarter
master General, left Washington recently
for New York to receive the testimonials
and presents received by General Grant al
home and abroad, which were presented to
the Government by Mrs. Grant. 1t was
not decided where the presents would be
placed.
IT was understood at Washington on the
11th that the Secretary of the Navy had de-
cided to order court martial for the trial OF
Paymaster General Smith, United States
navy.
Ar Washington, on the 18th, Daniel Car.
rigan, ex-Chief Clerk of the Bureau OF
Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Depart.
ment, who had pleaded guilty of fraud,
was sentenced to six years in the Albany
penitentiary.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered an.
other trial of the dispatch boat Dolphin,
considering that the previous trial was
yalueless as TO the vessels ability to stand
a heavy sea.
II. c. DE alma, who some weeks ago at
Washington caused the arrest of the Com
missioner of the Land Office for assault,
was recently dismissed from his position as
Timber Agent of the Land Office.
THE EAST.
THE New York Daily Commercial Bulletiq
places the aggregate loss by fires in May,
in the United States and Canada, at S., 49,
600, or ten per cent. increase in the fire
waste during the same month for ten
years.
ALL the Pittsburgh, Pa, gambling houses
have been closed.
JOSEPH RENsoN, while suffering from
delirium tremens recently, blew up his
saloon at Newport, r. /. He was terribly
burned. Three other persons were injured
THE entire family of William King were
poisoned the other morning at Stapleton
R. l., by eating canned corn. One child
a.. H., - Al
precarious condition.
In the Pennsylvania Senate the Con.
gressional Apportionment bill was passed
over the Governors veto-yeas, "a; nays
10.
GENERAL GRANT passed an almost slee D.
less night on the 10th. DIR. Douglass said
that it was not because of pain, but the
result of steady thought and application tc
literary work the previous day. The local
conditions were unchanged.
THE New Hampshire Senate and House
met in convention on the 18th and pro-
ceeded to an election of State officers, with
the following result: Secretary of State,
A. B. Thompson; State Printer, John B.
CLARK; State Treasurer, s. A. Carter and
Commissary General, Frank P. Brown.
THE epidemic at Plymouth, Pa, was re.
ported decreasing. The plague, however
had broken out at Sugar Notch and Warren
Run, near Nanticoke.
ANoRTH bound fast freight on the Penn
sylvanaa & Schuylkin Valley Railroad re.
Gently crashed into the rear end of a local
freight which had stopped at Spring Mil
Station, near Norristown, Pa. The con.
ductor and fireman were fatally injured.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, became
drunk at Philadelphia the other day and
put the inmates of several saloons to fight
A dozen of his friends overpowered him
and by main force put him to bed.
COLONEL EDWARD E. WHITE, United
States Consul at Puerto Cabelia, Vene.
zuela, died at his residence in Philadelphia
on the 18th.
SERIOUS i-prohibition riots recently
broke out at Spring Vale, Me. The win.
dows of five or six dwellings were smashed
but the principal damage was done to the
Office of the Adrocate.
THE WEST.
AT the examination of the charges
against Assayer Harrison at Helena,
Mont, a number of witnesses testified that
Government money was used for specula-
tion in private enterprises.
A TERRIFIC windstorm passed over Mar
shall County, H., the other night Houses
were unroofed and trees uprooted.
A STEAM roller weighing twepty-four