The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-10
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WURLD AL LAkHE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
+ The President has made the following
appointments: Edward Cushing, collector
of customs for the district of Belfast, Me. !;
Joseph e. Moore, to be collector of customs
for the district of Marlborough, Me. /;
PhillipW. Downs, general appraiser Of mer-
chandise for the district Of Baltimore. Md. /;
William NJ. Neal, of Franklin, Ind, agent
of the Indians of Lempi agency in Idaho.
THE first fourteen French spoliation
claims cases have been submitted for the
decision Of the United States Court Of
Claims.
The public debt statement shows that
the decrease of the public debt during the
month of November amounted to $30O5,
24957. Total cash in the treasury, $439,
O23. 1869.
The President was confined to his room
recently for two or three days by q slight
but annoying attack of rheumatism, and
for tn is reason was obliged to deny
himself to all callers except the Cabinet Of
ficers.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has directed COM
mandants at all navy yards to utilize ma
rine guards under their commands in
watching and protecting Government
property at their stations.
GENERAL BUTLER, it is announced in Wash
ington, is to be the counsel for Thoebe, in
his contest for the seat for which Speaker
Carlisle holds the certificate.
The President on the I'd issued a proc.
lamation promulgating an extradition
treaty with Japan, which he ratified after
being amended by the Senate last June.
THE Pension ONCE was recently informed
of the arrest by Special Examiner Paul E.
Williamson ofGeorge Foster, of Knoxville,
Tenn, for making false affidavits. Foster
has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
one years imprisonment in Albany peni.
Tertiary.
The Secretary of War has approved tho
request made by the Chief Signal Officer
that Lieutenant Greedy be retained in the
Signal Office as assistant to General Hazen,
who is in i'll health.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has issued an order
for the concentration after January l in
ehO DuA Cou VI SAOtuiuk duu IIONISlOuS VI
the responsibility for stores and supplies.
IT was understood in Washington that
Jarvis Patten. Commissioner of Naviga-
ton, has been requested to resign.
THE EAST.
PETER ADLER, a young German, COM
mitted suicide in New York recently be-
cause judge ordered him to marry mid
dle-aged widow, who claimed that he had
seduced her.
An immense bituminous coal pool is said
to exist in the East for the purpose of put
ting prices up twenty five to thirty per
cent.
Two hundred and sixty men were dis
charged from the department of construc-
ton and repair in the Brooklyn navy yard
on the 3Oth.
A LARGE schooner was reported ashore
on Milk Island, Mass, on the LIST laboring
heavily. Nothing was definitely known
about her.
THE other night two boys, both sons of
John Lee, aged five and six years respect
ivelv, and a son of Robert Pulitzer, aged
six years, were drowned at Joy, village
in Wayne County, n. Y. They went on
the ice in a mill pond and broke through.
THREE Hungarians, John Cobbalack,
John Werner and Andrew kasko, who
were lying in a drunken sleep on the track
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad near Pittston, Pa, the other even
ing were struck by passenger train and
instantly killed.
GEORGE c. ELLIOTT & SoNs, carriage
dealers, Providence, R. l., have assigned.
1t was said that from SIS 600 to 100000 in |
paper was out.
THE glass blowers in several New Jersey |
factories have handed in their knights of
Labor charters rather than strike against |
the apprentice system.
THE mystery of the Moen- Wilson case has |
been lifted by Wilson avowing himself to |
be the son of Moen, born short time after |
Moen was married to his mother.
In an interview at New York P. D. Ar |
mour, the pork packer, said to the reporter |
that the recent Packingtown strikes had |
unsettled confidence. He wanted to in
crease his facilities but could secure no one |
who would dare to lay brick on his prem.
Uses. He would he compelled to give it up
and extend his interests further West.
A GENERAL strike Of the upholstery
weavers of Philadelphia took place on the |
LIST. The manufacturers had announced |
their intention of making q reduction in |
wages.
PATRICK RILEY, William Mccarthy, Hugh |
McGinty and Henry Niehause were terri |
bly, burned in the converting department. |
of the Edgar Thomas steel works at Brad |
docks Pa, the other morning by the acct |
dental loweet1g of the converter.
The New Y6rk Daily Commercial Bulletin |
OF December estimates the November fire |
loss in the United States and Canada at |
$10,O0O,0O0, which is an increase of one.
third upon the November average since |
the Boston fire of 1872. There were $50 |
fires where the reported loss was $1,000 |
and over.
COMMISSIONER HALLET, of the United |
States Court at Boston, has refused to issue
awarrant against Philip L. Moen for per-
jury, on the complaint of Levi Wilson. The
records Of the town of Oxford, Mass, show
that Levi Wilson was born thsre on De-
cember /, 1853, eleven months after Mrs.
Moen died.
The Opera House block at Brockton,
Mass, was on fire on the night Of the I'd.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance not stated
GEORGE SEAMAN and James Soldiers. aged
twelve and fourteen respectively, absented
themselves from school at Reading, Pa,
the other day, and being afraid of punish
ment from their parents did not 60 home
but crawled between two hot ovens at the
Henry Clay furnace, where they were suf-
focated and burned to death.
THE employees of the Philadelphia &
Reading and tho JerSov CoptraI co,pplo;,, |