The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
Is given an opinion which permits the
'e of Federal funds for hhe extirpation of
or other contagious dis
ses among cattle.
Hon. A. NJ. WYMAN, Treasurer of the
nited States, has rendered his resigna-
IN, to take effect May 1.
Two trains came into collision on the |
eading Railroad recently and third ran |
to the wreck.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE PORTER |
as recently challenged to fight duel by
: Representative Whitthorne, of Tennes-
e. The note of challenge was returned
ithout answer.
WHITNEY has ordered the
scharge of all the foremen of the Mare
land Navy Yard who at any time were
lown to have Influenced or directed the
ties of Government employees during cleo
,ns.
Instructions have been issued to all
reign embassies and consulates 70 cable
to the Secretary of State the
tbreak of any epidemic disease in their
,alities, with full particulars. Secre-
ries Bayard and Manning were heartily
operating in the effort to prevent the
PRODUCTION of cholera. Secretary Man.
ng has large fund at his disposal to
eet all exigencies, and the Marine Hos
al Service is fully prepared to check the
vance of any and all epidemics.
ID, Da;l Envr,nonu |
s directed its Attorney in Washington to
Re an appeal from the decision of the
of the General Land Office
rowing open to settlement the lands
lined by the company as part of its land
ant.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has refused to
ercise the power of executive clemency
regard to the sentence of g. d. Swain,
dye Advocate General of the Army.
n was rumored that Mr.. Kelley, who de-
ned the Italian mission for certain
,sons, would be appointed to the Rus
n mission.
The Secretary of the Treasury has given
iers for the immediate repairs of the
7enue steamer Manhattan, now at Balti-
re, with view to utilizing it as quar-
tine vessel at the Cape Charles station.
RED CLOUD and Agent McGillicuddy
ed each other in the Office of the Com
ssioner of Indian Affairs at Washington
,ently. The old chief had prepared a
mber of charges against the Agent, rela-
g to the transportation of money,
of agency affairs, and
empts to crush him lRed CLOUDY and
stroy his influence. At the request of
, Commissioner they were reduced to
iting. McGillicuddy denied the charges.
THE EAST.
GENERAL GRANT was reported so much
proved on the Doth that he was able to
out driving.
THOMAS W. DALEY and Robert V. Mac
=, two New York building inspectors,
10 permitted Buddensick to put up the
ath traps which fell recently, were in
ted for manslaughter and arrested.
4 TERRIFIC explosion of gas occurred in
, Phoenix Colliery at Pittston, Pa, the
Ter morning. About one hundred men
re in the mine at the time, and many of
I'm were severely burned, though none
re fatally hurt.
OFFICERS succeeded in capturing twelve
rsons on the Forest branch of the Welsh
,untains of Pennsylvania, charged with
nmitting numerous burglaries and Gre
ng incendiary fires.
The funeral of Dan Mace, the horse
liner, was held recently in New York,
, remains being sent to Boston. Robert
inner and Frank Work attended the SER
,es.
IMMENSE damage has been done by for
fires in Camden County, n. J.
CAPTAIN JOHN O'BRIEN, of the steamer
~ of Mexico, was arrested by United
ates Deputy Marshal at New York on the
|, on a charge of violating section 1888
the statutes, by supplying arms and
millions of war to the insurgents of
nntry at peace with the Government.
e vessel was also seized. The arms were
Ken to Colombia invoiced as lumber.
TIE Board of Commissioners of Ashbury
rk, N. j., have passed resolutions con.
mining as a nuisance the meetings of the
lvation Army and iustructing the Chief
Police to prohibit the gathering of
,wds at the doors of the barracks.
The Connecticut Legislature has adj
lrned sine die.
Ar Sharpsburg, Pa, block of thirteen
ildings was destroyed by fire. Loss,
J, 900; insurance, $4,000.
BAILEY, of Cambridge, N.
has been suspended because he adj
tied that he purchased two pianos and
out 81 900 worth of merchandise and paid (
: them in postage stamps. The effect
Is to increase his apparent sales of
Imps, and consequently his salary, a
actice which tie President did not re-
I'd as good policy.
The General Assembly of Rhode Island
journed sine die on the oath.
JAMES II. WARDELL, of New York City,
$ been designated to act as chief of the
nsus division of the Interior Department.
THE WEST.
AT Chicago, the other evening, Charles
Schultz, an electrician, lost his balance
d grasped the rod which supplied an
,ctric lamp. He was unable to let go,
d hung writhing to the swinging lamp
til some one stopped the engine which
pplied the current, when he fell to the
lewalk dead.
FOUR men charged with being horse
ieves were killed by cattlemen in the
lickasaw Nation recently.
THE Oklahoma boomers under Captain
uch, it was believed, would temporarily
sperse to their homes.
Kan, was flooded recently by
sudden rise Of the river due to heavy
ms. Fifteen dwellings were swept away,