The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has 10
ceived letter from Colonel william A
8tone, at Pittsburgh, who was suspended
from his Office OF United States District
Attorney for activity in the recent cam
paign in Pennsylvania. His letter 4
modelled after that of Colonel Benton
which requested his reinstatement. It ex
plains that he spoke only in towns conven.
lent to Pittsburgh, to which he could go in
the evening, returning the next morning,
without loss to the public service.
the President has ordered that The
dragroon barracks on the military reserva
tion at St. Augustine, Fla, be placed I'M
der the control of the Secretary of the In
terror for disposition as b cling no Longer
required for military purposes.
COMMANDER SAMPSON, Superintendent
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in his
annual report recommends . change in the
academic course for naval cadets by q re.
duction from six to four years in the course
of study. He proposes to abolish the two
years course at sea.
The Washington District Commissioner
have announced their decision in the mat.
ter Of the police investigation. Major
Walker, chief of police, 10 allowed to re-
sign; Lieutenant Arnold is dismissed
Lieutenant Kelly reprimanded and sus
pended for three months without pay
Sergeant Diggins reprimanded and re-
duced to the ranks for three months, and
Private Edelin, dismissed.
The Commissioner Of the General Land
Office has forwarded to the officers of the
Senate and House the maps of the United
and Senate under joint resolution. Each
Senator gets about fifty and each Repre-
sentative about ten maps for distribution.
In his annual report to the Secretary of
War General Merely, Commissioner Cen
eral Of Subsistence, says his bureau ex-
pended $3174, $50 during the last fiscal
year, leaving q balance on hand of &8O9,
2Sl.
SECRETARY LAMAR has received the re-
port of the Indian commission in which the
umatilla Indians agree to the allotment of
A large surplus will remain and this will
be sold and tho receipts paid to the In
dians. throwing upon the market some Of
the best farming land in Oregon.
The gross amount of estimates for the
different navy yards and stations, as shown
by the annual report of Rear Admiral
Harmony, is s., $4,000.
TIE President has fully determined to
pardon ex-Banker Fish, of the Marine
Bank, New York.
A SCHEME is said to be on foot to give
ate by passing through the House the pend
ing Senate bill admitting Washington Ter
ritory as State, while leaving on the cal
endar the bill admitting Dakota.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has issued an order
for the discharge of all the employees in the
civil establishments of the navy yard at
Washington with the exception of fore
man and clerk for each department.
THE EAST.
AGENT LEMAN, who is on terms of init
macy with President Garrett, states that
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
is about to absorb the Erlanger system of
Southern railways negotiations to that
end having nearly reached conclusion.
H. NJ. HoxIE, first vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Gould Southwestern
railroad system, died at New York on the
sd from disease Of the bladder
WILLIAM REED, treasurer of the Boston
Horse Railroad Company, has been ar
rested, charged with embezzling $4,000.
THE remains Of Charles Francis Adams
were inferred at Quincy, Mass, on the
23d.
In accordance with an agreement signed
by the representatives of the express COM
panies at New York on the 23d. the clas-
sification rates of last spring were restored
on all lines.
AT Amsterdam, n. Y, recently there
were wholesale arrests of the knights of
Labor pickets, male and female, around
the mills
N. MuNKAczY, the Austrian pain ter, was
banqueted in New York on the ed.
W. E. STONE, Attorney for the Western
district Of Pennsylvania, recently sus-
pended, has addressed q complaint on the
subject to the President. The latter re-
plying through Attorney General Garland,
refused to alter his decision regarding the
suspension.
The jury disagreed in the case of the
New York ex-Alderman McQuaid, charged
with accepting DOODLE"
THE agents of the Inman line have re-
ceived q dispatch from Liverpool stating
that the steamship City of Chester was not
damaged, the fire being confined to the
cargo.
SUPERINTENDENT RICHARD HOLLAND, of
the Enterprise Coal Company, of Mount
train the other morning and instantly
killed.
AHEAvT cloth curtain which, during the
daytime covers the electric light lenses on
the Statue of Liberty, at New York, caught
fire the other night and fell on the light
woodwork of the staircase In the interior
of the statue, and it was only with hard
work that a bad fire was averted, and the
great statue saved from ruin.
JERRY CALLAHAN, his wife and son, aged
twelve years, and Mrs Foley, Of Lafay-
cite, n. Y, were struck by q train at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, recently ON the Oswego &
Syracuse railroad. Mrs. Callahan and her
SON were instantly killed and Mr.. Gala
han and Mrs. Foley fatally injured.
THE boiler of the tug boat Sunbeam ex-
ploded at the foot Of Ninth street, East
river, New York, on the 18th, sinking the
tug, and instantly killing five men.
h.
Aoen suit, q Providence special says that
the belief is growing that DOC" Wilson is
Philip Mems son. The secret, it il be-