The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
WASHINGTON NOTES.


filed in the State Department at Washing
ton by the Chinese Minister on behalf of
the victims Of the anti Mongolian out
breaks in the West.
NINE bills are before Congress for right
of way through the Indian Territory.
METEoRTrE fell upon farm two miles
west of Washington, d. c., on the 23d.
People in the neighborhood were startled
by loud noise, and later found a large
hole in the ground with pieces of rock scat
tered around. The aerolite was shattered
to fragments.
The American Institute of Civics was in
session at Washington recently
The House Committee on Public Lands
has agreed to report favorably the bill for
feiting the land grant Of the Ontonagon &
State Line Railroad Company in Michi-
gan.
The conference of directors of State
weather stations, members of meteorologi-
cal societies and others interested in me-
neurological work. assembled at Washing
ton on the oath. General Hazen called the
conference to order. Prof. Mendenhall was
elected chairman; Prof NJ NJ. Davis, sec
rotary.
1T was understood that the Secretary Of
the Treasury would recommend that Con-
gress provide specific duties on silk.
GENERAL HAZEN. Chief Signal Service
officer, is suing George Jones, the proprie-
tor of the New York Times, to recover S1O.-
600 damages for alleged libel. it rbeing
charged that the newspaper published libel
Gus statements concerning the plaintiffs
character as Signal Service officer
The Senate Committee on Indian At
fairs reported favorably Mr. Dawes bill
to amend the act for the sale of the Sac
and Fox and Kiowa Indian reservations in
Kansas and Nebraska.
The House Committee on Railways and
Canals has reported favorably Mr.. Perkins
joint resolution for the relief of the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Gulf railroad.
THE House Committee on Indian Affairs
has instructed Chairman Wellborn to re-
port favorably bills granting right of way
through the Indian Territory to the Fort
Scott & Kansas, Fort Worth & Denver.
Kansas & Arkansas Valley, Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Gulf railroads.
TIE EAST.
The strike insugurated by the hand loom
ingram carpet wesvers of Kensington, Pa,
on January "a has ended in a victory for
the workingmen, who secured an advance
of IL cents per yard for weaving.
A SCHEME is on foot at Pittsburgh. Pa.
to organize Welsh colonies in this country.
AT Johnstown, Pa, recently Jacob Shank
and William MiShler were crushed to death
in the coal bank of Jacob Lovergood. on
the hillside above the Bedford pike, while
at work. The bodies of the men had to be
dug out from under a mass of horseback
which weighed many tons.
JAMES HENRY PAYNE, who died recently
in cheap lodging house at New York, was
said to have been q millionaire.
The schedules in the assignment Of David
". Cranberry and Bolton Hall, jewelers.,
New York, show liabilities, s1O2, 40; nomi-
nal assets, $l29, 40; actual assets, s23,031.
The case of the New England Iron Com
pany against the Metropolitan Elevated
Railway Company, ofNew York, for breach
of contract, involving about a, 00O, 600, and
which has been in litigation since 1878, has
just been compromised for s25O,OO
AT the conference of labor leaders, held
at Pittsburgh, Pa, it was decided to send a
representative committee of working men
to Washington to advocate the interests of
the tariff to Congress
The Indian girls and boys asylum at
Steamburg, near Buffalo, N. Y, was burned
the other morning. The forty-two pupils of
the institute and their preceptor barely es-
capped with their lives The asylum was es-
tablished thirty years ago by certain Phila-
delphia Quakers.
The coke drawers at the Morgan foundry,
White and Summit works, near Pittsburgh,
Pa, who struck for an advance of five
cents per ton for drawing small ovens.
have returned to work, the operators con-
ceding the increase. The coke operators
have decided to release all Hungarians
under arrest for riot except the ring lead
ers
The New York Senate has passed the bill
ceding to the United States jurisdiction
over the Drexel cottage at Mt. McGregor
in which General Grant died
THE Valambrosia skating rink at Troy,
n. Y, wes destroyed by fire on the Goth.
Loss, $4,000. Loss to other buildings
amounted to $4,000.