The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-29
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

uiS ANNUAL TcpbTJ 10 Tue preSluenI Z.
The receipts of the department for the
year ended June 30 were $40, III, ,O9C
and the expenditures $50, 79O. I72. Mr..
Wilson recommends the extension oi
the free delivery service, notes the
abuses of second-class mail matter and
recommends the extension of the civil
service rules wherever practicabl BILE.
The director of the mint has sub
mitted his report to the secretary OF
the treasury. The coinage during the
year was. gold, $40, 934. 475; silver dol
lars, S5,956. oil; subsidiary silver coins,
s., 113 469: minor coins, SIP, 594, total
coinage of S53.715.549. The estimated
product of gold and silver in the
United States during the calendar
year 1894 was, gold, $50. 500, 900; silver,
40. 500. .OO) fine ounces of the CONNER
cial value of S31. 432. 600 and the coinage
value of S64. OOO 900.
THE report of James White, superin-
tendent of the railway mail service,
shows that during the year 497 acci-
dents occurred. in which seven clerks
were killed and IT'S injured while on
duty. He also shows that the service
is becoming more and more efficient
each year.
THE interstate commerce commission
has issued preliminary report on the
income and expenditures of railways
in the United States for the year ended
June 30, 1895, prepared by the statisti-
clan.
COMMISSIONER STUMP, of the immigra-
tion bureau, in his annual report rec
ommends legislation for the suppress
sion of the padrone system and urges
the passage of an act by congress for
bidding persons or corporations engag-
ing in the business of procuring en-
ployment for alien immigrants with
out first securing license from the
immigration bureau.
FRANCIS II. HATCH, the new Hawaiian
minister, the authorities say, does not
go to Washington to ask for a pro-
tectorate. This statement was made
to refute a we'll defined rumor. Mr..
Hatch will use his best endeavors to
bring the annexation question before
the next congress and high officials
state that nothing else will satisfy the
Hawaiian government.
GOVERNMENT officials have emphatic
ally denied that there was any truth
in the statements that the state depart
ment had decided that ex-Consul Wal
Ter had no case or that the department
finds that his trial was fair and holds
that the United States has no substan-
tial grounds on which to base demand
for indemnity.
THE general assembly Knights of La
Dor, which has been in session at Wash
ington, adjourned to meet at ROches-
ter, n. Y, in 1896.
THE president has ordered medal
of honor to be awarded to James c.
Walker. late private company X.
Thirty-first Ohio volunteer infantry,
for most distinguished gallantry in
action at Mission Ridge, Tenn, No
vember 25. 1868. At this engagement
this soldier voluntarily carried the
regimental flag in a charge in which
the flag received ninety-eight bullet
marks and the flagstaff ten.
THE representatives of District Us
sembly 40. X. of L.. of New York, pre-
sented charges against General Master
Workman j. K. Sovereign, at the ses-
sion in Washington on the Goth, TO the
effect that his administration was not
in line with the best interests of labor
and that he aud his officers had com
promised with capitalists Mr.. Sover-
eign defended himself warmly and at
the close of his speech rendered his re-
signation, but by an almost unanimous
vote the assembly refused to accept it,
and adopted a vote of confidence in
Mr.. Sovereign and the other general
officers.
1T has been decided to remove the
body of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock
to Arlington cemetery, Washington,
from Norristown, Pa, where it has
rested since 1856. None of the projects
to erect a monument at NOrristown
have succeeded. and the committee of
the Second artillery corps has succeed
ed in securing the consent of members
of the family to the removal 1t is
planned to have the burial in Airing
ton to take place next spring, when a
monument to Gen. Hancock on one of
the public squares i'll Washington will
be dedicated