The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-02-13
INSTANTANEOUS PARAGRA PuS.

The Elinburg theater was burned last
Saturday.
England has only one divorce to
Americas len.
There are nearly loo, 900 co,ored Free.
nlasons in the United States.
Nebraska has the smallest Legisla.
ture of any state in the Union.
On the 9th inst. the Pope gave audi
ence to number of Americans.
The Franco rusian war cost France
81 $3.50, DOC, 030 and 5000 lives.
The Grange organization in the United
States claims ,4a0, 900 members.
King Kalakaua thinks the American
ladies are handsome, build and forward"
Rev. McAllister of New York, advises
the Ola;he people to introduce the Bible
in the schools.
Gen. Sheridan has thanked the Metho-
dist Preachers Association of Boston for
their recent vote of confidence.
The senate committee on railroads at
the next meeting will take final action
on the Texas and Pacific railroad bill.
Gen. Burnside and Gen. Buckner
shook hands over The bloody chasm in
the Indiana legislature last Thursday.
The ice crop of the Hudson river is
estimated to be worth more than either
the wheat or the corn crop of the State
of New York.
1t is estimated that it costs the news
papers of New York and Brooklyn s., 900
a day to publish the details of the
Beechcr trial.
Prominent senators say that the senate
will pass the house bill for the admission
of Colorado as q state after the new gov
ernor takes the place of McCook.
Senator Conkling, in his speech on
Louisiana matters, said that John T.
Hoffman was elected Governor of New
York by $4,000 fraudulent votes.
Four vacancies by death have occurred
in the Forty fourth congress: Head, of
Tennessee; Mcmillan, of Georgia; Allen,
of New York, and Henry, Of Maine.
The State Grange of Wisconsin very
favor modification of the Pot
ter railroad law, and ask for legislation
to encourage investment in railroads.
The cost to the people of New York of
the criminal cases of that State, adding
the cost of arrest and prosecution, is
thirty million dollars q year. This is
tremendous burden.
Washington, Feb S.-Whiting, who
$685. of the Pacific Mail
steamship subsidy, has been discovered
in Hamilton, Canada, and a subpoena
served on him by telegraph.
The President has nominate, ex-Sena-
tor Jno. NJ. Thayer, of Nebraska, to be
Governor of Wyoming in place of Jno.
A. Campbell, who is nominated for
Assistant Secretary of State.
De Lesseps, of Suez Canal fame, has
written letter favoring the Nicaragua
route for the Ante Oceanic Canal in case
it is found impossible to construct the
canal through the Isthmus of Darien.
The sum OF $40 has been lying on q
table in Alton, N. H., for nearly Two
years. A man tried to make legal ten.
der of the sum to John w. Currier, but
he refused it, and it has been left ON the
table ever since.
A gigantic engine on the Pennsylvania
railroad has made its trial trip sue
on which occasion it trundled
along comfortably with one hundred and
Forty loaded cars weighing 2,250, 900
making a train one third Of = mile long.
The engine itself weighing A tons.
Senator Schurz will not return to Mis-
,ouri after the close of the present Con.
yress, unless it be for very short visit. |
He will probably spend the summer in
Europe, and then take up his residence
IN the East, for the purpose of gathering
for his promised volume Of
American politics.
VIM. 8. King, for whom search has
,een made by deputy Sergeant-at-Arms
# the House for nearly month past
las been found on . stock farm near
COMPTON. Canada, and a subpoena to ap-
,ear and testify before the Committee Of
WAYS and Means, was served on him. 1t