The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
WASHINGTON NOTES.


JUSTICE ANDREW WYLIE of the SUI
f5reme Court of the District of Columbis
has notified the President that he desire.
60 be placed upon the retired list. Justice
Wylie is seventy -one years of age.
JUDGE DURHAM, First Comptroller Of
the Treasury, gave an opinion recently
that Lot Wright's Deputy Marshals, OF
duty in Cincinnati last October, should moi
be paid by the Government. The reason
given was that there was no necessity for
their employment.
ALTHOUGH no official information had
been received by the Marine Hospital
Bureau of Experts at Washington of
cholera in Europe, the authorities were
taking every possible pre0ution to prevent
its introduction into this country.
The Attorney General has given an
opinion to the President sustaining the
eligibility of Mr.. Lawton, of Georgia, for
appointment as Minister to Russia.
SECRETARY WHITNEY received the fol-
lowing telegram from Admiral Jouett on
the 18th: II crossed the isthmus yester-
day. Good order continues. Our men are
all sound and comfortable"
Ex-Governor HUBBARD, of Texas, and
Rufus Magee, of Indiana, the newly
pointed Ministers to Japan and Norway
and Sweden, were at the State Department
at Washington recently and received their
instructions. The former will leave for his
post of duty the early part of May.
THE colored people at Washington. on
the 10Th, celebrated Emancipation Day in
grand style, by parades and commemora-
tive exercises in the Lincoln Memorial
Church.
THE public debt statement will be issued
in two forms at the first of each month up
to the LIST of July next, which is the begin
ming of the next fiscal year. Thetwo forms
will include the one issued for the first
time, April 1, and the form which had been
previously used by the department since
1869.
THE Postmaster General has ordered the
clerks in the Office of the First Postmaster
General not to publish papers or give in
formation to applicants for postmaster
ships. Much trouble and ill-feeling had
been caused by rival applicants learning
the contents of papers filed at the depart
ment by one another.
SLEN ELANH TeCeHtlN dp-
proved the findings in the case of Hazen,
Chief Signal Officer, charged with conduct
prejudicial to military discipline. The
Court finds Hazen guilty, and sentences
him to be reprimanded. The President in
issuing the order to reprimand comments
upon the demoralizing tendency of unau-
thorized and captious criticism of superb
ors.
Two persons named Reed and johnson
were arrested recently, by order of the
Government, charged with fraudulently
claiming $3.50 and interest. as sufferers
from the depredations of the Confederate
cruiser Alabama.
THE President has issued proclamation
declaring that the Winnebago reservation
in Dakota was still Indian land, and that
the settlers who recently "boomed" there
must clear out.
AT recent cabinet council it was def
nitely decided that the President could do
nothing in opening the Oklahoma lands.
The matter was entirely in the hands of
Congress.
A NUMBER of colored Methodist minis
tiers visited President Cleveland the other
day.