The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WORLD AL LAkGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WARRINGTON NOTES.
The order of Assistant Secretary Thomp-
son, of the Treasury Department, ordering
all principals to report for work went into
effect on the 18th. The system OF employ.
ing substitutes by the clerks had grown
into dangerous magnitude, large numbers
of clerks upon the rolls not having been at
their posts for as much rs two years.
DELEGATES representing fraternal soci-
cites with q membership Of $4,000 met in
Washington on the 10th, and organised the
National Congress of Fraternal Beneficiary
Societies.
The estimates for the establishment of
the navy for the fiscal year are $l0,0OO,0 600
less than last year, only $5,0Oo,oO being
asked for the construction of vessels.
The President on the 18th reinstated as
United States attorney for the Western
district of Missouri Colonel NJ. E. Benton,
who was recently suspended for active par
ticipation in politics.
The Washington Medical Association re-
Gently appointed a committee to wait upon
the Secretary Of the Interior to inquir
what foundation there was in the charge
that some Of the doctors in the district
were derelict in their duty in the certifica-
ton of sickness for department clerks.
The department officials charged that the
local physicians did not report cases of
Irunkenness.
TIE suit brought by the Government
against General Adam Badeau to recover
t1O,500 alleged to have been received by
him for notarial fees while acting as United
States Consul General at London, was dis
missed by Judge Brown in the United
States Circuit Court
THE EAST.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
decided that the three mill tax could not
be collected from corporal. ons. There
were three appeals, those of John Hunter,
John G. Adair and J. G. Barry, from the
courts of Philadelphia.
MERCHANTS of Rochester, n. Y, have or
dered the Bell telephones out of their Of
fees because of certain restrictions i'm
posed by the company.
LUCIUs LATHRoP, owner Of the Diamond
mill property and several tenant blocks at
Newport, n. H., has disappeared, owing a
large amount of borrowed money. At
tachments amounting to sl0O, 900 have been
put on his property.
The question Of lighting the Bartholdi
statue of Liberty was officially brought to
-he attention of the President on the 10th
Or the first time by the Secretary of the
Treasury. The President directed it to be
placed in the hands OF the Light House
Board.
JOSEPH McMEEN, under sentence to death
in the jail at M,ffiintown. Pa, for murder
ing his wife by poison last March, escaped
the other night and is still at large. His
case had been appealed to the Supreme
Court and q decision was daily expected.
IT was reported in New York labor cir
cles recently that Henry George is going to
Ireland in a short time to speak in behalf
of Home Rule.
The Legislature of Vermont passed a bill
providing that all hotels or restaurants
using oleomargarine shall put up large
signs notifying the public of the fact.
NEW YORK dispatch says that the ef-
fects of the late Salmi Morse, of Passion
Play" fame are to be sold to pay the claims
against his estate.
A TERRIBLE disaster happened on the 18th
on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & st. Louis
railroad. huge mass of rock and earth
came tumbling down a precipice and crush
ing passenger train. The scene following
the accident was indescribable, many be-
ing injured, some fatally.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR died on the morn
ing of the 18th in New York City Of cere-
bral apoplexy. He had been fiicted by
an affection of the kidneys for some time
and ever since he left the Executive Man
sion has done little else than try to regain
his health. His death, however, was
rather unexpected.
HoN. THOMAS h. DUDLEY, ex-Consul to
Liverpool. has brought suit against United
States Senator William J. Sewell for S25.-
600 damages for remarks made by the lat
ter in a speech at a Republican meeting at
Camden October Z.
son Chemical Company, near West Troy.
n. Y, were demolished by a cyclone re-
Gently. Six men were badly burned by
vitrol, but none fatally. The loss is $4O,-
900.
THREE masked men effected an entrance
into the residence Of Matthew McKeever,
of Oakland township, Butler, Pa, and
after fight lasting an hour, in which Nc
Keever's sisters, Margaret and Jane, were
terribly injured, succeeded in stealing q
bucket containing nearly $4,000.
AT the session of the American Humane
Association on the 18th measures were
taken to memorable Congress in refer
ence to the transportation of cattle, the
protection Of birds and the protection of
children exhibited on the stage.
CHARLES A BROWN, of Syracuse. n. Y,
and p. l.. Burgett of Newark, n. J., were
killed lately by the explosion of filter in
a pan in the Experimental sal: works at
Syracuse. George Denton was badly
scalded and otherwise injured. The build
ing was badly wrecked.
The steamer Beaconsfield. with cargo
of - 600 bushels Of wheat, outward bound,
from New York to Aberdeen, came into
collision off the Battery recently with the
steamer Britannia, bound in from Mediter.
ranean ports. The Beaconsfield was struck
near the coal breakers and water poured
in, extinguisbing the fires. She was as
sisted by tugs to Hoboken. The Britannia
came to anchor with her bow badly dam
aged above the water line.
FREITAG's embroidery factory, Jersey
City, n. j., was destroyed by fire a short
time ago Loss, Si50.00a
Miss MARY NASH AGNEw and Miss Grace
H. Dodge, who were lately appointed Com
missioners of Public Schools by Mayor
Grace, of New York, have taken the oath
of Office.
THE WEST.
On the 18th many skating parties glided