The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30
THE WORLD Al LARGE.
Summary OF tho Daily Newa
WASHINGTON NOTES.


PAX CHUNG YANG, Corean Minister, left
Washington on the 18th for home.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has is
sued q circular calling attention to the
fact that the retirement of National bank
notes is limited to So 900, 900 q month. De-
posits for the retirement Of circulation
will be acted upon according to priority
and within the limit.
SENATOR VEsT's committee investigat-
ing the beef business opened proceedings
at St Louis'on the 10Th.
THERE was a report in Washington on
the Doth that Colonel Lamont would be APP
pointed Judge Acknowledgement to sue
coed Swain. Lamont denied the rumor.
The President-elect has rendered E. w.
Halford, managing editor of the Indianap1
oils Journal, the position of private secre-
tary. Mr.. Halford is forty-five years of
age and came from England when child
with his parents, who settled in Cincin-
natl.
MRS. SHERIDAN, widow of General Sher-
idan, left Washington for Canada on the
21st for the purpose of securing the En-
glish copyright to the memoirs of her hus-
band, which q residence on British soil
will give her.
CONGRESSMAN WOODBURY., of Nevada,
was robbed while asleep in his hotel at
Washington recently. A colored boy was
arrested and S140 of the money recovered.
The last volume of the report m the
tenth census has just been issued. 1t conf
pletes a set of twenty-five volumes, ag-
gregating 1904 pages.
BRIGADIER-GENERALN NELSON A. MILES
assumed command of the division of the
Pacific on the 23d, vice General o. q. How
ard.
THE EAST.
THE much talked of race between the
yachts City of the Straits, of Detroit, and
the Alice Enrfght, of Toleda, was sailed on
Lake Erie on the 18th. The distance was
fifteen miles for purse of S, 900. The City
of the Straits won easily, coming in four
minutes ahead of the Enright.
A MEETING of prominent parties inter-
ested in baseball commenced at New York
on the Goth for the purpose of revising the
rules.
A Mrs. FITZPATRICK and her father
were fatally burned recently at Bridge
port, Conn.
JOHN W. KELLY, of motor fame, who was
sent to Jail at Philadelphia recently for
contempt of court in refusing to give ex-
perts, appointed by the court, information
regarding his mysterious motor, has been
released on bail.
The 120th annual banquet of the New
York Chamber of Commerce at Delmon-
ico's on the Goth was a very elaborate and
interesting one. Most of the leading BUSH
ness men of the metropolis were present
and toasts were responded to by General
W. T. Sherman, Hon. Warner Miller and
Hon. Goodwin Smith, of Canada.
Ar fro in fauamanf on E1avapfh
street. New York, recently Mrs. Mary
Lally was burned to death. She was
found near a window out of which she had
attempted to escape.
WHILE running thirty miles an hour the
head car of a passenger train on the
Bloomsberg & Sullivan railroad jumped
the track recently near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
rolled down the embankment and caught
fire and the twenty-five passengers, many
of whom were slightly hurt. were rescued
by being taken out of the windows.
DION BOUCICAULT, the veteran actor,
was reported dangerously sick at New
York on the 21st
WILLIAM DEvLIN, who jumped from the
fourth story of the steam gauge and lam
tern company's building near Rochester,
n. Y, on the night of the fire, died of his
injuries. He was the thirty eighth known
victim.
THE New York factory inspector was
called upon recently by the Ohio inspector
for assistance in ferreting out the partici-
pants in an arran cement by which chill
dren were sent from Brooklyn, n. Y,
orphan asylum to Fostoria and Findlay,
O., to work in the glass factories in those
places. Other Brooklyn asylums were
suspected.
THE notorious immigration agent, Par
sons, of Boston, was recently found with
one of his imported laborers-a Pole
chained to his buggy. The Pole told a
story of being misused. Parsons said he
was insane.
VERY REV. MAURICE A. WALSH, LII. D.,
pastor of st. Paul Roman Catholic Church
and Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia, died on the I'D.
GEORGE S. KNIGHT, the actor, was re-
ported suffering from brain trouble at
New York.
REV. ARTHUR Brooks, Episcopal cler-
gyman of New York, created somewhat of
sensation in the Church Congress re-
Gently by vigorously denouncing the sec
tartan idea advanced in the government
of colleges. He thought the broader they
were and the more daring men they
Episcopacy, but not in running colleges.
His remarks were received with consider
able applause.
OVER one hundred children were hurt
recently in panic caused by an alarm of
fire in the First ward school, Long Island
City, n. Y.
THREE acres of the earth over Mineral
Spring collery, at Miners Mills, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, caved in recently. When
the earth went down it carried with il
the main pipe of the Wilkesbarre Water
Company, which conveyed water from the
reservoir to this city. The water from the
reservoir then poured into the mine food
ing il in short time. The miners narrowly
escaped.
The Electoral vote in New York State
was as follows. the highest and lowest
number of votes received by am Elector
being given: DISQUALIFICATION ESQ.,
331; Democratic, 635, 965: Prohibition. 30
2sl: Socialist, 2,06S; Union Labor, 625:
United Labor ELECTORS at Large), 1866
OLAF SUNDE, cssf5.s, of the New Y ork
Daily Neics, is reported 10 have absconded.
A preliminary Investigation disclosed the
fact that Sunde ahscok9ed with at least
5000.
JAMES E. BEDELL, of New York, who
swindled his employers and their clients
out of 1864 600, has been sentenced to twen-
ty-five years Imprisonment.
THE New York Supreme Court has
handed down an important decision in
which it seems that the Bell Telephone
Company is liable for New York State
taxes. The State claimed the right to
collect a tax of one-half of one per cent.
on the gross earnings.
Boston, have failed. Their liabilities were
rot stated