The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-10-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SECRETARY SMITH has issued instruc-
tions to the Indian division of the in
terror department to prepare list OF
intruders on Indian allotments in Ok
lahoma. This will be forwarded al
Dnce to the war department and troops
will be ordered TO eject them. The
Indian police. under the authority OF
the agent at the Sac and Fox agency,
have Intellectually endeavored to eject
the intruderS, and il is feared that a
continuance of their efforts will result
in bloodShed.
REPORTS received at the weather
bureau at Washington on the Goth in
dicate that the present drought was
one of the severest. most prolonged
and general known in the United
States since the bureaus organization.
There were a few places which showed
an exception to the general condition,
but in no large section of the country,
unless, perhaps, in the northwest and
far west, did there appear TO have been
a heavy rain for the past two months
or more.
a CABINET meeting was held at
bers being present. The Cuban situa-
tion and many matters of foreign
policy, as well as domestic administra-
ton, occupied the attention of the
president and his advisers.
THE official report of the Lake Mo-
honk Indian conference reached the
Indian office at Washington on the
18th. Among other things the report
declared that the reservation system
was an insuperable obstacle to civiliza-
tiOn and should be abolished, the
tribal organization destroyed, the
lands allotted in severaltv. the Indians
intermingled with the whites and the
Indians treated as other men.
The annual report of the surgeon
general of the army for the fiscal year
elded June 30, 1895. shows a gratify-
ing record as regards the health of the
army. The prevalence of alcoholism
in the army continues to decline. In
1890 no less than seventeen posts had
10 per cent of their average strength
under medical care for drunkenness,
and during the past year only four
posts had this percentage.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the
annual dinner of the New York board
of trade, November Is.
IT has been understood that the fate
of eX-Consul Waller. who is still held
in Imprisonment by the French at Mar
sailleS. hangs on the proceedings of
the court-martial which sentenced him.
and therefore the state department at
Washington has directed its efforts
mainly to secure a copy of the record
of the court. 1t has been discovered
that Waller was not really tried as
charged. but that as the trial pro-
gresSed. evidence was taken on another
charge not included in the original
matter, and that it was upon what
might be called a supplementary but
irregular charge that Waller was con-
victed
president CLEVELAND has ordered
TO be presented to Capt. Krech, COM
mander of the Ham burg American line
steamer Servia. a silver cup in recogni-
tiOn of his act in saving eight men of
the schooner Mary E. Amsden, of Lu-
beck, Me, which Capt. Krech discov-
cred drifting helplessly on the sea.
CHIEF CONSUL POTTER. at the coming
session of the national assembly, L. A.
w, in February. will try to get racing
under the sanction of the league abol-
ished and have the league confine its
attention to the matter of good roads,
hotel rates, etc.
GEN. JOHN GIBBoN has been elected
grand commander of the Loyal Legion
of the United States.
ALL the members of the cabinet eX-
cept Secretary'Morton and Postmaster
General Wilson gathered at the white
house on the 10th in answer to a sum-
mons from the president. and the first
informal cabinet meeting for several
months was held, probably for the pur-
pose of enabling the cabinet officers to
report to the president the state of
business in their departments.
THE quartermaster-gener of the
army has made his annual report. He
asserts that the United States cavalry
mount is superior to that of any for
eiCn army.
DERELICTIONs of a very serious ma
ture have been found among Chicago
letter carriers and the post Office de-
partment at Washington has suspended
l73 of them pending further investiga-
tion.
GENERAL NEWS