The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-08
WASHINGTON NOTES.

TIE house committee on pensions has
voted to report favorably the bill in
troduced by Representative Moore, Of
Kansas, to make the veterans of the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth regiment:
of Kansas volunteer cavalry pension
able under the act of June, 1890.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL BIssELL on the
27th placed in the hands of President
Cleveland his resignation, to be ac'
cepted upon the appointment of his
successor.
DRESS reform was the theme of dis
cussion at the session of the National
Council of Women at Washington on
the 27th. The hall was crowded as a
result of the announcement of the topic
and many of the prominent members
OF the council contributed papers. The
dress committee made vigorous pro-
test against the present cumbersome
skirts, high heels and CONSTRUCTED waists
and characterized the modern civilized
woman's dress as a demonstration Of
habitual idleness.
The president sent to the senate on
the 2Sth the nomination of Congress
man William L. Wilson for postmaster
general. Senator Villas, as chairman
of the committee on post Offices, in
stead of calling a meeting of the COM
mittee to consider Mr.. Wilson's nomi-
nation, polled the members of the com
mittee and obtained unanimous con-
sent to make a favorable report. The
report will be made at the next execu-
tive session.
REAR ADM JAMES A. GREEN was re-
tired on the 2Sth on account of age, aud
Rear Adm. George Brown, command
ant at the Norfolk navy yard, became
the senior officer of the navy.
The president has sent to the house
his veto of two bills granting rights of
way through the Indian territory to the
Arkansas & Northern Railroad Co., and
the Oklahoma Central Railroad Co.
AT the session of the National Coun-
Gil of Women at Washington on the
2sth the divorce law was the subject
of discussion and Mrs. Elizabeth b.
Grannis. of New York, advocated a
universal marriage and divorce law
throughout tine federal government,
recognizing no divorce except for
adultery.
The democratic friends of silver in
congress have issued a manifesto to
democrats throughout the country say
ing that the money question was the
paramount issue and that the bimetal-
lists in the party were in the majority
and ought to control its policy and
place the party on record at once for
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the ratio of 16 to l, as it
existed prior to 1873, aud all newspa-
pers in harmony with the above finan-
cial policy were urged to place it at the
head of the editorial column and assist
in the immediate restoration of bimet-
allism.
REPRESENTATIVES, WILSON'S nomina-
ton to be postmaster-general was con-
firmed by the senate on the ist. There
was not an opposing vote.
THE National Council of Women
closed their session at Washington on
the I'd. Resolutions were adopted set
ting forth the aims of the council. In
the conflict between labor and capital
the resolutions urged cooperation in
stead of competition and submission of
disputes to arbitration, also equal
wages for equal work.
GENERAL NEWS.
CARRIE, the 4-year-old daughter of
William Williams, of Newcastle, Ind, q,
died recently from the effects of eating
frozen oranges.
AT Folsom, Cal, desperate attempt
to escape was made by fourteen con-
Victs recently. AS a result three con-
Victs were suffering from gunshot
wounds, one being mortally wounded,
another will probably die, and the
third was painfully injured.
BULLETINS on the fat pea and on the
giant knot-weed or sachaline have
recently been issued by the agricul-
Sural department.
A DISPATCH from London on the Sd
said that the influenza epidemic was
still causing havoc among the promi-
Bent men in and out of parliament.
The disease had spread with greater
rapidity than any of the previous four
spidemics of influenza.
The works of the Akron (O) China
Co. were destroyed by fire. The loss
On buildings and machinery is $4,000
and on stock Sl2, 900; insurance, SIS, 500
One hundred. and forty men were
thrown out of employment.
EARLY last moth the Union Pacific
paw car left Omaha, Neb., on its regu-
lar monthly trip to Salt Lake City with
the wages of the company's employees.
Closely following the car went a gang
Of check raisers and they have reaped
rich harvest, many checks being
raised from $40 to Sl10, it has just been
discovered.
VARIOUS labor organizations and
German singing societies met at the
Terrace garden, New York, to take
steps toward inducing the legislature
10 pass more liberal excise laws and
permit more open Sunday. Over 100
organizations, representing 110, 900 vot-
srs, had delegates present at the meet
ing. Resolutions were adopted decry-
ing the present ''blue laws"
AN excursion train going to Mexico
City, Mex, on the 2sth on the Inter
oceanic railroad met with an accident
While rounding a curve on the side of
a mountain five coaches jumped the
track and went down the canyon.
Forty-two people were killed and thirty
Or more seriously injured.
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred on a
Mexican railroad by which over 100
lives were lost and eighty-five persons
badly wounded A train filed with
Catholic pilgrims left the track and
plunged over a precipice. The engi-
neer was blamed for not putting on the
brakes in going down the steep incline
xvhara the accident hannapad