The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-11

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE constitutionality of the Geary
anti-Chinese law is to be tested again
in the United States supreme court
IT is announced that Minister Blount
will soon retire from Hawaii.
THE public debt statement for July
showed a net increase of upwards OF
four million dollars
The coinage executed at the United
States minis during July was very
light, being only 2, 165, 500 pieces, of the
value of 1891, 200.
1T is said on good authority that
Judge Holman will be made chairman
of the committee on Indian affairs in
the next house.
The gold reserve has passed the $780,
900, 600 mark. The net treasury balance,
however, is declining.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH states that
it will be impossible to open the Chero-
kee strip on September 1, as hoped and
expected.
For the first time since it was broken
into in April the treasury gold reserve
was made good again on the I'd.
SENATOR VEST has bill for the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of % to 1.
HAWAII has sent Commissioner Alex
ander to the United States with in
structions to do all in his power for an
nexation.
The president has appointed E. Ellery
Anderson, of New York, one of the Pa
cifc railroad commissioners in place of
Mr.. Dimmock, who was appointed by
Mr. Cleveland, but declined the posi-
ton. The salary of a commissioner.
when engaged in the performance of
his duty, is $40 per day, with expenses.
THE EAST.
II has been discovered that Charles
f. Morrill,, the bank cashier, who alb
seconded from Manchester, n. H., was
over 500, 600 short in his accounts.
The Waltham. Mass, Watch Co. has
resumed at a reduction of Is per cent.
in wages
The Philadelphia Packing & Provis-
ion Co. is insolvent.
FINANCES were firmer in New York
ard the demands on savings banks
much quieter. 1t was said that 81, 400,-
OG0 gold had been withdrawn from the
Bank of England for shipment to this
country.
THE Edison Photograph Co, of
Orange, n. J., has discharged 500 men.
1t is asserted that the reduction in the
force is for the purpose of taking stock.
A MEETING of the eastern agents of
the Western Passenger association was
held in New York to attempt to regu-
late the scheduling of immigrants over
the various routes.
WILLIAM SULZBACHER and Henry
Gitterman. composing the firm of Sulz-
bacher, Gitterman & Wade, importers
of woolens, of Worth street, New York,
have made an assignment.
THE receivers of the Reading Rail-
road Co, as was expected, failed to pay
the interest due upon the bonds of the
Philadelphia, Reading & New England
and Poughl1eepsie Bridge and Philadel-
phia & Frankfort Railroad companies.
LEVI P. MoRToN's immense new barn
at Ellerslee, near Rhinebeck, \. Y.,with
100 head of Guernsey cattle and all farm
horses, was destroyed by fire. The loss
was 100000.
THE Philadelphia Press says: IAN
effort is being made in this city to i'm
port 81, 100000 of gold direct to this city
from Europe. New York will not be
consulted in the matter, nor will that
city have anything to do with the
operation"
"a CATHOLIC American" in an in
spired article in the New York Sun on
the Catholic church in America caustic-
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Office of papal ALLOCATE in this conntry
and criticises Satolli's course through
out.
THE editorial control of the New
York World has passed entirely into
the hands of Col. Charles II. Jones, late
of the st. Louis Republic.
IT is thought that the mills at Falls
River, Mass. will have to shut down,
the banks finding it difficult to pay
checks in currency.
By the collapse of boat house bal
cony at Chelsea, near Boston, three
persons were killed and many injured
Ex-TAx COLLECTOR MOSES p. SMITH
of South Orange, n. j., has been ar
rested on a warrant charging him with
embezzling 1884, of the funds intrust
ed to his care as township collector.
HULDA, the noted five-year-old. made
heat in the trotting race at Buffalo
n. Y, in 2:OS15.
THE financial situation in New Yorl
on the 4th was a very peculiar one, il
the fact that higher premium was of.
Tered for currency than gold.
THE steam yacht, Rachel. sank il
Lake George near Troy, n. Y, anC
nine persons of a party Of pleasure
seekers were drowned.
OLIVER p. MINK. of Boston. comptrol
Ter of the Union Pacific, has declared
that retrenchment will be the watch
word of the management all along the
line.
THE Lebanon Trust & Safe DEPOSIT
bank, of Lebanon, Pa, failed to oper
its doors. The bank is a state institu
ton with capital of $4,000. 1t is be
Geved that the suspension is only tenn
porary.
MEssRs. PARROT Bros, members o.
the New York Cotton exchange, have
announced their inability to meet theil
engagements
THE WEST.
THE attorney-generalo of Colorado ha:
rendered an opinion that the stat<
legislature can take action establishing
bullion repositories and issuing certii
ca+aS fberaop which eba1l no 1aoal tom