The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-07-06


cred the Army Appropriation bill. but failed
to reach a vote on its passage. joint res'lu-
non extending certain appropriations thirty
days passed. After q conference report the
House went into Committee Of the Whole on
the Tariff bill and a long debate ensued. The
House agreed to the Senate joint resolution ex-
tending certain appropriation thirty days. an
at the evening session passed twenty-seven
pension bills and adjourned
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The President was formally notified on
the 96th of his denomination to the Chief
Nagistracy.
TnE President has nominated Oscar E.
Rea, of Dakota, to be register of the land
ONCE at Bismarck, d. T.. /; William D. Myers.
Of Missouri, to be agent for the Indians of
the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita agency,
In the Indian Territory.
ArToRNEY-GENRRAL GARLAND has gone
TO a quiet resort on the Chesapeake bay for
q few days rest
SENATOR EDMUNDs is reported as saying
that he is satisfied that the charges against
Melville W. Fuller, which are unknown, SO
far as the public are concerned. are un-
founded ana malicious, and that the CON-
mittee at the next meeting will probably
report the nomination favorably.
ment OF the University OF Virginia at
Charlottesburg on the 9TH.
THE PostOaster.G General has removed
twenty post-office inspectors. This was
made necessary by the reduced appropria-
ton for this service for the fiscal year be.
ginning July l. Ten more will also be re-
moved.
The President has allowed the act to
allow the Paris, Choctaw l. Little Rock
railroad to 60 through the Indian Terri
tory to become q law without his sigma
ture.
REPUBLICAN Senators have expressed an
opinion that the vetoing power SO exten.
sively used by the President is q danger
ous use of his prerogative.
The contemplated removal OF General
Sheridan from Washington was postponed
temporarily because of RAIN.
TIE total number of Presidential post
Offices in operation (per department report
for July l. 1851 is 2,502; increase during
the year. 1866; aggregate allowance for sal
aries Of Presidential postmasters for the
next fiscal year, q, a02, 400; increase, $32s,-
400: total gross receipts Of Presidential
post-offices for the year ended March 81,
SIS, 49S, 72l; increase, 1881, $50.
TEE Secretary Of State has officially
called the attention of the British Minister
to the case Of the American ship Bridge
water, unlawfully seized by the customs
onicials of the Dominion of Canada q year
ego and detained for e,ghty-one days at
Shelburne.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has &C.
cepted $3la.OOO Of four per cent registered
bonds at rs
TIE President has accepted the resigna-
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navy, who was convicted by court martial
in November, 1887. Of absence from duty
without leave, and Of disobedience of or.
ders and sentenced to dismissal
The large water nam between George
town and Washington broke the other
morning leaving the fashionable section Of
the capital without water.
TIE internal revenue collections OF the
past eleven months were over $500, OOO
larger than the same time last year.
THE EAST.
TIE New York Prohi bltionists' meeting
at Syracuse adopted q platform and nom!-
mated State ticket, headed by w. Martin
Jones, of Rochester, for Governor.
Miss ANNIE MILLER and the wife of Ben
jamin B. Odell, Jr.. were drowned at New
burgh, N. ", by their yacht beng struck
by a steamer recently.
MRS CHIARI CIGNARILA was carried into
court at New York recently and sentenced
by Recorder Smyth to be hanged August
L. Dan Lyons was also sentenced to be
hanged on the same day. This makes
three executions that day, Giblin being the
third.
Ar the Yale exercises at New Haven,
Conn.,, on the 18th, General Sherman and
many other celebrities were present, in
Guiding the oldest graduate-from the class
Of 1915. Justice Stanley Mathews, of the
United States Supreme Court, delivered an
address on 1.-THE Judicial Power of the
United States.''
81. HoDeEs, SoN & Co., manufacturers of
straw goods in New York and ut Monson,
Mass, in the latter place under the style
Of Fay, Peck 4 Co., have failed. Their la
Utilities are reported as from &60.OO0 to
$4,000.
CONGRESSMAN GRoUr has been unaui-
s,cusly renominated by the Republicans Of
the Second Vermont district
TIE revolver shooting match for $1,000
between Payne and Bennett at New York
ard in favor of Bennett.
TIE New York Tribune sets into Judges
Krekel and Philips. The former is ar
and the latter for carrying around in the
pockets of his friends the resignation Of
the former for several weeks to be pre-
scented conditionally.
Six Hungarian laborers were killed and
four were fatally injured by a collision
with gravel train ON the PENNSYLVANIA &
Schuylkii Valley railroad at Cable City,
IA. recently.
CHARLES A. PITCHER, teller of the Union
Bank, at Providence. K L. has absconded.
He took about all the valuables he could
lay his hands OF, even to pennies It is
said ne took s510,Ou0 in bonds and all the
cash in the vault.
A MASS meeting was held In the Acad-
envy Of Music. New York, Gu the 18th. to
ratify the denomination of President Cleve-
land. Hon. John G. Carlisle was the p.in-
cipal speaker.
TaE second meeting cf the Re,ublicaa
campaign was held In the Metropolitan
Opera House at New York ON the 10Th.
The National ticket was ratified. Roswell
q. Horr. Of Michigan. and Robert G. Inger-
soil were the prin dpal speakerA