The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Post-office Department has rendered
. decision of appeal directing that postal
cards having . special delivery stamp
affixed shall be immediately delivered the
same as letters with the extra stamp on
them.
THOMPSON MCKINNEY, the Secretary OF
the Choctaw Nation, has been nominated
Tor the position of Principal Chief Of his
Nation. He is backed by the present Chief
and nearly every prominent man of his
country, and Is sure to be elected.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has ap.
pointed Robert J. Mayfield, Of Indiana, to
be Chief of Division in the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency.
TIE Post-office Department has issued .
modified circular of instructions to post
masters, concerning the special delivery
service. The new circular includes postal
cards and sealed packages in the matter
entitled to special delivery If properly
stamped. Where the business is 80 limited
as to preclude the employment of regular
messengers, postmasters are directed to
make other arrangements for deliveries.
A DISPATCH from Washington of the
18th says: About half of the class of Sig.
mai Service men, who are undergoing .
course of instruction at Fort Myer, are be-
ing tried by court-martial. The circum.
stances are as follows: The men of the
class felt they were unjustly and harshly
treated by their instructor, Lieutenant
Frank Green, of the Signal Service, and
they resolved to make an effort for relief.
With this view meeting of the class was
held, which resulted in a petition to the
signal Service Officer. The petition was
answered by an order for the court-mar-
tialing of all the men who had signed the
petition, on the ground of INSTRUMENTATION.
The United States Fish Commission re-
Gently sent out car load of 10000 carp
(cyprinus carpio), vigorous fish, four
inche s long, and several hundred gold fish
for distribution in the West.
A STRONG syndicate of Eastern and
Western capitalists have the assurance of
Secretary Lamar that he will grant them
. new lease of the hotel privileges in the
Yellowstone National Park when they
show their plans of organization and the
outlines of improvements they propose to
make. The Rufus Hatch Company lease
has gone the way Of the hotel that the
company built.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports that 1891 immigrants arrived in
this country, exclusive of Canada and
Mexico, during September, against 50 395
In September, 1884, and 26S, S36 for the first
nine months of this year against $50, 449 for
the corresponding period last year, de-
crease of 65,613, of which A, 1853 is the de-
crease in the immigration from Germany
and ,404 that from Ireland.
ADMIRAL DEcRAFr died at Washington
on the 10Th. He entered the service in
1871, and served during the war with dis
On June 2, 1885, he became .
Rear Admiral by the retirement of Rear
Admiral Upshur.
Hon. WILLIAM E. SMITH, of New York,
has been appointed Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury in place of Charles E. Coon,
forty five years of age, and resides at
Pittsburgh with an Office in New York
City, where he was one of the attorneys
for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Com.
pany.
DIR. KMBALL, Director of the Mint, has
reduced the estimate of the appropriation
for the mint service for the next fiscal
year over S2l0, 900, compared with the esti.
mates for the present year, and over 5000
Is compared with the actual expenditures
of the last year.
SECRETARY MANNING has made decis.
ion which, it is expected, will settle the
long existing differences between the pro-
ducers and importers of rice. It is in e.
feet that the rice imported by the Fowler
Rice Company, of New York, per steam.
ship Elba, June 30. shall be accepted as the
standard of assimilated rice -four, dutiable
at 20 per cent ad valorem.
UNITED STATES CONSUL WINaArE at Foo
Chow reports to the Secretary of State, in
after careful inquiry he is unable to ascer.
tain that any adulterated tea is sold to
foreigners, there being stringent rules
against its manufacture and sale.
THE EAST.
JOHN ROSTER, of Roster & Bial's Concert
Hall, New York, was arrested recently for
violating an old law which prohibits the
selling of liquors in the auditorium or
Hobbies of any place of exhibition or per-
Torrance, or in any apartment connected
Herewith by any door or other aperture.
This, it is said, is test, and il successful
will shut up every beer garden in the
State.
RECENTLY near Boston several workmen
on q construction train were injured by
the train coming in contact with . car
standing ON q side track.
The large mills of Samuel Riddle &
Sons, at Medea, Pa, have resumed opera
lions, the strikers having returned to work
ut the old wages.
THE laborers in the Sharon (Pa.) water
works struck for an advance in wages re-
Gently. One hundred Italians were tele.
Eraphed for and trouble was expected.
Ix the F@d. Ward trial at New York, on
the 9th. U-Banker Fish continued his
damaging testimony against Ward. Fish
laid all his troubles 10 Ward and said if he
were notsseh q contemplate, hypocritical
sneak he ~suld have killed him.
EDWARD STOKES, Of New York, and VIII
2iaR King, of Minnesota, ex-Postmaster of
the National House of Representatives,
are about 30 build . telegraph line from
St Louis 70 Duluth. The estimated cost
Of the plant Is placed at $500, 900 and por.
hoa of the construction is expected to be
done this yer.