The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Eolisy Arias as vice-Consul of Spain, at
New Orleans, Francois Edmond Bruwaert,
Consul of France, at Chicago, ILL.,, and H.
Raars. Vice-Consul of Austria Hungary,
for Florida, to reside at Pensacola.
Ar q meeting of the officers of the Post
ONCE Department, called by First Assist
ant Postmaster General Stevenson, com.
mittee was appointed to receive voluntary
contributions from the officers and clerks
of the department in aid of the yellow
fever sufferers at Jacksonville. Over 500
was collected and it is probable that this
amount will be considerably increased.
DISQUIETING runners are current with re-
gard to the health of Senator Beck, who
has been at Fortress Monroe for some DAVIS.
Inquiry among his friends develops the
fact that in compliance with the advice of
his physicians he has decided not to re.
tnrn to his duties in the Senate until next
session.
The Railway Roadmasters' Association
Of America began its annual convention in
Washington on the 18th.
The President has made the following
nominations: Lambert Tree, of Illinois,
now Minister to Belgium, to be Minister to
Russia. vice George Y. N. Lothrop. re-
signed; Edwin r. Cornell, Consul Of the
United States ut Batavia Secretaries Of
legation-Howard Martin, of New York, to
China; Charles 4. Holiday, of Kansas, to
Venezuela: Henry A. Villas, of New York.
to the Argentine Republic: Henry b.
Whitehouse, Of New York, to Mexico.
CHIEF BELL, of the United States secret
service, has received o telegram dated
Chicago, from Agent Porter, stating that
he had captured, at Mount Carroll. ILL.,.
two countefeiters, Reach and McLaugh-
Lin. together with q large quantity Of
counterfeit money and complete outfit.
SECRETARY WHITNEY authorizes the
statement that he has no intention Of re-
signing from the Cabinet and that he never
owned a dollar in the Standard oil trust
nor had any relation to it.
The condition of Hon. Samuel J. Randall
has 50 much improved since leaving WASH
ington that his physician, DIR. Martin, as
sures him he may safely count upon re-
summing his seat in Congress when the
House reassembles in December.
THE EAST.
TIE corner stone of the new Masonic
temple at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the site of
the building destroyed by fire last year,
has been laid with impressive ceremonies.
WILLIAM TURNBULL, the New York mill
1io0aire, died at Saratoga, n. Y, the 9th.
eRday.
THE Journal of Lewiston has returns
from $50 Maine towns, which give Burleigh
17,2Ts; Putnam, 5S,595; Gushing. 1883:
Simmons, $40. Republican plurality, 49,
t9; majority, 14,S43 The same towns two
years ago gave the following vote: Bod
well, Ct, 24s; Edwards, 52,621: Clark. 4, 9S3.
Republican plurality, A,Gl5; Republican
majority, l0,Sss.
The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts,
have nominated William II. Earle, Of
Worcester, for Governor.
RICHARD A. PROCTOR, the well known
English astronomer, died at New York of
yellow fever on the night of the 18th. He
had just previously arrived from Oak
Lawn, Fla, which place, it was thought,
was free from the plague.
J. NEWTON GoTTHcLD. the well known
actor, died on the 18th at his residence in
Sewickley, Pa. His wife, who was May
Richards, an actress, was with him, but
she is an invalid and could do nothing for
her husband.
OLIVER AMEs was renominated for Cow
ernor of Massachusetts by the Republicans
1t Boston on the 18th.
A ROVE cablegram to the Catholic Neus,
Ct New York, announces that decree of
tAe Holy Office on the Knights OF Labor
Qne ton, favorable to that organization,
- bsen forwarded 10 Cardinal Gibbons.