The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SECRETARY HoKE SMITH on the 23d
requested the secretary of war to send
troops to the Indian territory to sup
press the lawless bands which have
been operating there and in the ada
cent country.
ArroRNEY-GE OLNEY has decid-
ed that the issuance ~ counties OF
small denomination bonds to be used as
currency is not violation of the ma
tional banking law. The danger to the
currency, however, is SO great that
treasury officials are not content with
the safeguards to to be found in the
national laws of credit. and Mr.. Car
Isle will demand q tax of 10 per cent.
upon every dollar in bonds a county
NAV issue.
The Indian agent at Muskogee, L. T.,
has telegraphed to Washington fol
troops He said affairs were in a des.
perate condition, that the Cook gang
Of outlaws was encamped close by and
that another holdup. he believed. was
in contemplation, and that the state OF
siege must be broken and something
done.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has notified
Pension Agent Click. of Topeka, Kan,
that s3.5OO.O0O has been placed to his
credit for the payment of November
pensions in his district. As the 4th OF
November falls on Sunday, Agent
Click has given notice that vouchers
are not to be dated or forwarded to
him prior to November ).
Col. GARRICK MALLORY, U. S. A, re-
tired, died at Washington, aged 65
years. He was in charge of the signal
service bureau from 1870 to 1876.
WASHINGTON was having smallpox
scare on the 25th and it was estimated
that over 5000 people were vaccinated
on that day. An order has been issued
by the interior department closing all
the rooms in which the persons atfiict'
ed with smallpox worked, and all per-
sons engaged in the rooms have been
given leave of absence and ordered to
stay away from the department.
CHIEF HAzEN. of the secret service at
Washington, has received from Roches
ter. y. Y, new counterfeit S. treas
ury note. with the Thomas head. The
bill was a very poorly executed etched
plate. The features of Thomas were
blurred and the lettering and lathe
work very poor. The panel containing
the treasury number of the bill had
parallel lines in the counterfeit, and in
the gr nuine they are oblique.
TIL. war department has issued a
genel n order fixing the annual allot-
Inent per soldier for ammunition for
target practice at So for cavalry and
81. 40 for infantry. The empty shells
will be shipped for reloading. These
changes were made necessary by the
new smokeless powder and small
caliber ride.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has complet-
ed his estimates of appropriations
needed in the interior department for
the fiscal year ending June 80. 1896.
Mrs. CLEVELAND has consented to
christen the steamship st. Louis, OF
the international Navigation Co..
which viii be launched from Cramps
shipyard November II.
THE president held his first cabinet
meeting on the Goth since the first
week in September. All of the mem.
bers were present except Secretary
Morton, who was absent from Wash.
ington.
A LAW clerk in the interior depart
ment at Washington was stricken with
smallpox on the Goth and when the
clerks came back from their noon lunch
n state of panic prevailed. DIR. Wood.
ward. the health officer, made an urgent
appeal to Secretary Smith to close the
entire interior department in the inter.
est of public health, and an order was
issued closing every bureau until the
29th.
OCTOBER returns to the department
of agriculture at Washington make the
general condition of corn 64.2 against
63.4 last month. The postponement OF
frosts had been favorable to the ripen.
ing of areas ordinarily late in matur-
ing.
THE agricultural department at
Washington will thoroughly investi-
gate the cases of alleged Texas fever
on which the German government has
seen fit to prohibit the importation oi
CdIllC anu lICSh DCt1.
IN view of the crusade for cheaper
bread inaugurated in a number OF
cities, the agricultural department has
given out 4 bulletin of the cost OF
bread from the forthcoming report OF
Prof. Atwater.
UNITED STATES TREASURER MORGAN
has given out for publication a circular
just issued by him of special interest to
banks on the subject of the issue and
redemption of the currency.
AyoTHER case of smallpox was dis.
covered on the 2Sth in the interior de.
partment at Washington. the victim
being Charles E. Williams, a colored
messenger. Williams is the third mes
senger in the department who has been
attacked with the disease.