The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

JUDGE MORROW, in the United States
court. gave Mrs. T. s Smith judgment
against the Occidental & Oriental
Steamship Co in 81, 900 for the loss of
her husband, Henry Smith, and child
Mytra. in the Oceanic-Chester collision
in San Francisco bay in 1888. Other
suits will doubtless follow.
The resignation of Judge Caldwell
as chairman of the republican congress
sional committee has been accepted
aud J. w. Babcock. of Wisconsin,
chosen to the place.
The republican steering committee
of the senate met on the 11th for con-
ference concerning the programme to
be pursued on the tariff bill No de-
cision was reached except to allow the
debate to go on under the present ar
rangement as long as possible.
REPRESENTATIVE SHERRY, of Con-
necticut, has introduced in the house a
bill to esta blish bureau of interstate
banks The bill is a modification in
some important respects of the national
banking act, and is designed to meet
the demand for local currency in the
south and west by affording more
profitable and accessible basis for cir
culation than United States bonds.
FIRST ASSISTANT POsTMAsTER-GEN-
ERAL JONES, at Washington, and Post
master Hesing, at the Chicago post
office, held a conversation on the
18th through the long distance tele-
phone The event marked the COM
pletion of a new private post office tele-
phone system which connects the Chi
cago main office and all sub-stations,
and is connected with the long distance
system.
SENATOR KYLE has introduced bill
in the senate providing for Sunday rest.
1t provides that no one shall perform
any labor and ali traffic must stop on
that day.
SENATOR WOLCoTT has introduced a
bill providing for the allotment in sew
crafty of lands in the Uncompahgre In
dian reservation in Utah and the re-
mainder of the lands to settlement
IT is the present expectation of Cha I-
man Bland to call meeting of t..e
house committee on coinage on the
18th 10 consider the free coinage bill
pending, as the members now absent
will be present at that time.
THE postmaster-general says that
hereafter only short names, or names
OF one word only will be accepted for
newly established post offices.
SENATOR MORGAN has completed and
will present to the senate soon his re-
port on the Nicaragua canal The re-
port says: Carefully revised estimates
of the cost of the canal, and work con-
pected with it, makes the total sS7, OOO,-
600 at the outside"
The jury in the Pollard d-Breckinridge
breach of promise case at Washington
brought in a verdict for the plaintiff,
awarding her SIS, 600 damages.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina,
died at Washington on the 14th of
apopleXy.
PROMINENT women of Washington
held meeting on the 14th and adopted
resolutions calling upon congress to
consider the qualifications of Col.
breckenridge for membership in that
body. Representatives of the Woman's
Suffrage association, the Women's
Christian union and other societies
took part in the meeting.
]. COOPER McGinn committed sui
eide in a sensational manner at Wash
ington recently. He was talking with
friends in the National hotel and,
walking outside, sat down on truck.
drew a revolver and shot himself. He
was a writer of some prominence for
the various local papers. OF late he
had grown Respondent