The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-26
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
CAPT. HIGGINsoN has been removed
from the command of the United States
steamer Atlanta for dilatoriness in sail.
ing for Greytown, Nicaragua, and has
been ordered home. Capt Bartlett
succeeds him.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has called for
the resignation of S. G. Brock, of Ma
con, Mo-, chief of the bureau of statist-
les, treasury department.
WILLIAM z. CURTIS, director of the
bureau of American republics, has ten
dered his resignation to the president.
SECRETARY GRESHAM advises tie
south to secure Swedish immigrants.
ALL the member. of the cabinet and
many leading democrats arge urging
upon the president to make strong
recommendation for an income tax a
special feature of his first message to
congress.
THE president and Mrs. Cleveland
have moved out to their country house.
ROBERT +. ROONEY, JR., of Tennessee,
has been appointed examiner of Chip
pewa Indian lands.
THE president has appointed Robert
r. Hough, of Ohio, to be solicitor of in
ternal revenue, and John Daggett, of
California, to be superintendent of the
mint at San Francisco.
A CALL for 50. 500, 900 more gold has
been made for export to Europe.
THE report of the piano committee
calling for the resignation of Director
of Music Theodore Thomas, was adopted
by the worlds fair national commission
by IS to 20.
CONGRESSMAN WILSON, of West Vir-
ginia, who is to be chairman of the
committee on ways and means, is busily
engaged in framing a new tariff bill.
THE contract for the sale of the Cher
olzee strip was signed at Washington
on the 18th.
THE president was not satisfied with
the findings of the court martial on
Capt. w. A. S. johnson at Fort Leaven-
worth. Johnson was charged with not
paying his debts.
DR. S. S. LAWS, well known in Mis-
souri,, has been in Washington. He is
talked of for commissioner of education.
1T has developed that after all his
bluster Delegate Rawlins, of Utah, has
not resigned his seat in congress.
A NUMBER of prominent Jews called
on Secretary Gresham and asked that
the government protest against the re-
fusal of the Russian government to
honor passports granted to Jews de-
sirous of visiting that country.
pr for fba Navu Or1aapc 6r-;1ora
have been approved by the war depart
ment.
1t is conceded that Collector Wenne-
ker, of st. Louis, will be dismissed as
soon as his successor can be decided on.
THE negotiations with Spain looking
to the settlement of claims made for
indemnity to the representatives of
Rev. Mr.. Doane, who died of ill-treat-
ment in the Caroline islands several
years ago, and other missionaries. have
been satisfactorily adjusted.
Rev. WILLIS G. CRAIG, of Chicago,
was chosen moderator to succeed Rev.
Mr.. Young at the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church of Washington.
1T is said that a mistake has been
made by the interior department in re-
ferring back to the Cherokees the mat
ter of to whom the seventy allotments
shall be made in the strip.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER RoosE-
WELT is going to Terre Haute, Ind, to
investigate the recent post office trouble
there.
A WASHINGTON florist has offered $500
for the first Isabella souvenir quarter.