The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-14
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
GEN. SCHoFIELD has ordered that
hereafter. in view of the small number
of vacancies in the army and the con-
sequent restrictions upon recruiting,
that no person under the age of 81 will
be enlisted except boys as musicians or
to learn music.
THE case of Judge Charles L Long,
of Michigan, against Secretary Hoke
Smith and Pension Commissioner
Lochren was before the district SUI
preme court. Assistant Attorney-Gen-
eral Maloney asked that the motion
for mandamus be dismissed. Argu-
ments were postponed until October
26, when they will be heard by Judge
Bradley.
AT Washington on the 5th the su-
preme lodge. X. of p, discussed the
proposed new statutes and adopted a
new system of transfer of membership.
The new rule provides that by paying
dues for ninety days a knight may re-
tain his membership in his old lodge,
unless admitted to another within that
time.
THE congressional campaign commit
tees of both parties at Washington
were reported on the 9Th as doing
speakers in the campaign unless ap-
pealed to. The campaign text books
of both parties were in type and would
soon be issued from the press The
democratic committee was circulating
leaflets with extracts from the Wool
Trade Journal showing increased prices
for wool.
THE much-mooted German question
was decided by the supreme lodge,
knights of Pythias, at Washington on
the 9Th by decisive vote of SO to 79
against permitting the use of the ritual
in other than the English language.
Sitting in committee of the whole the
lodge has approved the unanimous re-
port of the committee recommending
that saloonkeepers, bartenders and
professional gamblers be declared in
eligible to membership, but not affect
ing those who have already become
members. The question has not been
acted upon by the supreme lodge proper.
CoNsUL-GENERAL WILLIAMS, of Ha-
vana, has forwarded to the state de-
partment statement showing the eX-
ports of sugar and molasses from Cuba
for the six months ended June 80, 1894.
During that period there has been ex-
ported s2s,3 ,311 tons of sugar of which
792, ,39i tons were sent to the United
States. The molasseS exported for the
same time was 31,675 tons, of which
27.569 tons were sent to the United
States. The United States has taken
1856 per cent. of the sugar crop OF
Cuba.
THE supreme lodge, Knights of Pyth-
las, has adopted the report of the COM
mittee on the board of control of the
endowment rank, recommending that
no insurance shall hereafter be paid to
benefciaries of suicides.
THE bureau of immigration has for
warded to the commissioners of i'm
grafton at the various ports of the
United States detailed descriptions of
twenty-six anarchists recently expelled
from France and believed to be en-
route to the United States.
In the supreme lodge of the Knights
of Pythias at Washington on the 9TH a
movement was started to erect a mon
ument to Maj. Rathbone, the founder
of the order, who is buried at Utica, n.
Y. Washington lodges will endeavor
to raise funds to purchase the hall
which was the birthplace of the fra
ternity.
SECRETARY CARLISLE issued an official
circular regarding the marking, etc,
of goods under section of the new
tariff law, in regard to which much I'M
certainty existed.
THE supreme lodge, knights of
Pythias, at Washington on the sth
adopted the new code of statutes. A
plan to raise funds for the Pythian uni
versity at Gallatin, Tenn, was agreed
to, and under it a subscription of 25
cents will be requested from each
knight. The new code of rules makes
the supreme lodge and the uniform
rank independent of each other.
SECRETARY CARLISLE will issue in a
short time to the Cherokee nation bonds
to the amount of 5000. 900 to cover the
Indebtedness of the government to
these Indians.
GENERAL NEWS