The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-20
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTESs
THE Association of American Agri-
cultural Colleges and Experiment Sta
lions, at its session in Washington on
the 18th, elected as its president George
7. Fairchild, president of the Kansas
state agricultural college at Manhat-
tan.
RETURNS from all of the 119 counties
in Kentucky have been reported at the
office of the secretary of state. On the
national ticket they show total vote
of AS, 600. McKinley's vote was 2ls.O55;
Bryan's, 217, 79s; McKinley's plurality,
PSI.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Chicago
Inter Ocean from Washington on the
18th said that the war department had
called on the leading trunk line roads
running to Key West, New Orleans and
the other gulf ports for an immediate
statement of their capacity to move
troops, supplies and heavy war ma
terial Caution as to secrecy was inn
posed on all roads called on for in
formation.
IT was reported at Washington re-
Gently that Secretary Carlisle may re-
tire from the cabinet before the ex-
piration of his term. The report was
based on the belief that Justice Field
will soon retire from the supreme
bench and that Mr.. Carlisle will be ap-
pointed to succeed him.
OFFICIALS of the war department
denied without qualification the story
published by Chicago paper on the
18th to the effect that the department
had called on railroad companies for
rates for the transportation of troops
and war materials from the west to
gulf ports.
UNITED STATES letter carriers must
not smoke in the streets when in uni
form. This is the edict of First Assist
ant Postmaster-General Jones.
GEN. THOMAS NJ. VINCENT, assistant
Acknowledgement. ended his active ca
reer in the army on the 14th. He had
reached his Gath year and was trans
ferred to the retired list
IT was said at Washington that Jus
tice Cox, of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, was about to re-
tire, having reached the age of sc
years, and that Secretary Herbert was
to be given his place.
GEORGE R. PECK, formerly of Kansas
and the Santa Fe railway system, but
now general attorney of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad Co,
with his official residence in Chicago,
fell down an elevator shaft at hoteI
in Washington and his right arm was
broken Just above the wrist, while al
of the fingers of his left hand were
broken back from their sockets and
the full use of the hand never will Be
recovered, his physician said
THE National Grange, at their ses
sion at Washington on the 10th, adept
ed resolution in favor of the appoint
ment of practical farmer for secre
tary of agriculture and appointed q
committee to draft a memorial to Mr..
Mckinley expressing the views of the
grange.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, commissioner
of labor, has transmitted to the secre-
tary of the interior special report or
the statistics of occupations. He says
there were 22.735, 661 persons engaged
in gainful occupations In 1890, and OF
these 3,523, 73o were unemployed dur
ing some part of the year, or, approx
imately, 1,139,672 persons were unem
ployed at their occupations during tho
entire - months, representing sol pei
cent of the total number of persons
engaged in gainful occupations
THB report of Paymaster-Genera
Stanton, made public on the 10th
stated that the cost of the United
States army for the last year was SIS,
OLA, 4ss.
A WASHINGTON dispatch on the l6tl
stated that President Cleveland ant
his cabinet were waiting for the devel
opments in Cuba of the next fortnigh
with the greatest concern a. to the re
suit
THE supreme court of the Unite'
States adjourned on the 18th for thu
Thanksgiving recess Its next session
will be on the 30th.