The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE President has vetoed two more pen
sion bills passed by Congress, one favoring
David W. Hamilton and the other John D.
Hall.
SECRETARY LAMAR has ruled that the In
terror Department will recognize courts of
the Cherokee Nation as courts of record
which possess the powers of similar courts
of the States.
NOTHING is known at the War Depart
ment in regard to the reported action of
General Miles in offering rewards for the
capture of renegade Apaches, dead or alive.
1t is stated that if such is the case it will
not be sanctioned by the War Department.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has reported favor
ably from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions Senator Morgan's bill directing the
Attorney General to bring suit against
Benjamin We'll in regard to the Weil-La
Abra claims.
THE United States Fish Commission have
succeeded perfectly i'm the attempt to pro-
pagate Holsters artifically.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has rejected
the claim of the Wisconsin Railroad Land
Mortgage Company to l23,O0O acres of in
demnity lands.
IT was officially bulletined at Washing
ton on the 2Sth that the marriage of Presi-
dent Cleveland with Miss Folsom would
take place June 2.
The President has vetoed bills for the re
lief of Rebecca Eldridge and Eleanor c.
Baughanl, widows of soldiers, and bills
granting pensions to Mrs. Annie c. Owen,
Simmonds W. Harden and j. d. Haworth
on the ground that the disability for which
relief or pension is asked had its origin
in causes existing prior to the enlistment
of the persons for whose services the claims
are made.
The Senate Commerce Committee de-
clares the Eads ship railway canal scheme
feasible, and reports the bill favorable.
THE EAST.
THE Rev. Phillips Brooks has positively
declined to accept the position Of assistant
Episcopal Bishop of Philadelphia.
A GENERAL lockout threatened by the
Contracting Tailors' Association was car
ried into effect at New York on the 25th.
and in consequence about 5000 men and
women were idle. The contractors de-
clared they would keep the shops closed
for a whole year if necessary to compel
the men to come to terms.
THE Cameron oil well at Washington,
Pa, one of the largest in the world, began
to flow recently at the rate of $3.50 barrels
q day.
A STRIFE took place on the Church street
(New York; surface railroad on the 9th.
The road is owned by Vice-President Hart,
of the Third Avenue Company, and the
strike is the first of SERIES
Snow to the depth of several inches has
fallen in Northern Vermont and much
damage to crops was feared.
The trial of Herr Most commenced in
New York on the 9th.
EX-ALDERMAN DUFFY was arrested re-
Gently in New York charged with being
connected with the Broadway surface rail-
road bribery case.
THE stables of the Philip Best Brewing
Company q. Pittsburgh, Pa. were burned
recently, a number of employees having
narrow escapes. Thirteen horses persisted
in the flames.
IT is thought certain in New York that
". j. Warner. implicated with Ferd Ward
escaped to Europe by way of Bordeaux.
ana is now hiding somewhere on the con-
tinent.
COLONEL II. b. FISHER. cast iron pine
manufacturer, of Allentown. Pa, has
failed with an Indebtedness of about $780,
O0O.
The jury at New York found Herr Most.
Schenck and another anarchist guilty of
melting a riot. Sentence was deferred.
CHARGES of misusing funds have been
II 4 IS
who for number of years has acted as
counsel for the American Baptist Mission
airy Union.
EDWARD L. JONES. acting as master in
chancery at New York. has decided that
the Pacific railway, of Missouri, shall pay
over to R. L. Cutting and others the sum of
S459, 900, which was received as a compro-
mise from the Atlantic & Pacific and the
Missouri Pacific Railroad Companies.