The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-19
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

NOTESs
JOHN Y. STONE. Attorney-General of
Iowa, has been appointed a special as
sistant attorney of the National Depart
ment of Justice to bring suit on behalf of
the United States to quiet the title to the
Des Moines river lands.
SECRETARY WINDOW, OF the Treasury
Department, has decided to discontinue
steam plate presses in the bureau of en-.
craving and printing and substitute hand
presses.
THERE will be only weekly meetings of
the Presidents Cabinet during the heated
term and these will be on Wednesdays.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has respited to
August Frank Capel. convicted of MUIR
der in the Indian Territory and sentenced
to be hanged July L.
The President has appointed Horace A.
Tavior 81 Wisconsin, to be Commissioner
of railroads; Thomas c. Mendenhall, of
Indiana, to be superintendent of the
United States coast and geode,ic survey;
Henry w. Diederich, Of Indiana, to be
Consul of the United States at Leipsic
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS TANNER re-
turned TO W ashington on the 9th from an
extended Western trip.
The following Consuls have been ap-
pointed: Emmons Clark, of New York, at
Havre; Archibald j. Sampson, of Colo
RADIO, at Acapulco; Roswell G. Horn, of
Michigan, at Valparaiso, and James A.
Hartigan. of the District of Columbia, at
Trieste and all other ports i'm the Aus
trian dominions. John j. Chew, of the
District of Columbia, has been appointed
Secretary of Legation at Vienna.
The annual report of the Civil-Service
Commission for the period ended June 80.
1883, has been made public. During that
period % examinations were held in every
State and Territory except Colorado and
Kansas. The number of applicants ex-
amined was 1853. of which an average of
6S per cent passed in the common branches
and SO per cent in the special.
JUDGE TYNER, Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral for the Post-office Department. was
reported seriously i'll with liver trouble.
IT is generally believed that Congress
will meet before December.
ADMIRAL GHERARDI, .. S. N. cables the
Navy Department that all is quiet in
Hayti, Legitime and Hippoiyte both being
indisposed to move
The State Department will make no eff
fort to induce the Persian Minister to
withdraw his resignation.
T. DoN FERNANDINo CRUZ the new Guate-
malan Min lister to the United States. was
formally presented to President Harrison
on the 18th.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR has been
quite ill at his home in Rutland, VT, but
is now able to be about again.
some of the Washington butchers who
have secured Government contracts have
made complaint to the District Attorney.
alleging that the agents of Armour & Co,
Swift & Co, and two other Chicago
dressed beef houses who do a wholesale
business there. have combined to injure
them by instituting what is practically a
boycott
The Secretary of the Treasury has tele.
graphed his approval of the course OF the
Emigrant Commissioners at New York in
OBTAINING the emigrants sent TO Agent
Nell of the Southern Pacific railroad, by
Wrighton & Son, of London, and ordered
the immediate return of every man sent 10
Agent Nell, under the law prohibiting the
importation of contract laborers.
THE President has granted a respite till
August 9 in the cases of Jack Spaniard,
Joseph Matin and Elsie Jayne, convicted
in the United States court of the Western
district of Arkansas of murder in the In
dian Territory.