The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-09-18
GENERAL NEWS.

The sun is to be eclipsed on the Goth
inst.
A Colorado woman beats the bass drum
for brass band.
Judge Dillon leaves Liverpool Sept
25sh for home.
During the past year 700 divorces were
granted in Maine.
The coroner says Ralston died of "epi.
lepsy and drowning"
Theodore Tilton has 275 lecture en-.
gagements for this season.
Sailor Ned, Donaldson's former assist.
ant, is Barnum's new aronaut.
JEFF. Davis does not travel in sleeping
cars during his present lecturing trip.
Mark Twain is back in Hartford from
Newport and his new book is in press.
Long Island has over one million dol.
lars invested in the propagation of trout.
A block of Strattsville (Ohio) coal,
weighing five tons, will be taken to the
Centennial.
Gen. Spinner has accepted the New
York Republican nomination for State
Comptroller.
A tax on every child born in the Argen-
tine Republic is proposed as source of
revenue in the government.
The property of Isaac NJ. Singer, the
sewing machine man, recently deceased,
is said to amount to $13,OOO,O0O.
The Pennsylvania Democratic nominee
for Governor is Pershing. If he had two
is he would see that he was pcrishing.
DR.. J. G.. Holland is at Saybrook,
Conn, working on his new lecture. His
novel Of "Sevenoaks" is already finished.
The Hon. VIM. Irwin, Governor-elect
Of California, is native of Butler Coun-
ty, Ohio, but has been a resident of Cal.
ifornia, since 1852.
The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, who
incurred his fathers displeasure by Sc
cret marriage, has been divorced from
his wife, and is now happy in the impe-
rial forgiveness.
"Some subsequent disturbances" is
what the chairman Of the Georgia Dem
ocratic State Executive Committee pleas
antly calls the shooting down of few
scores of negroes.
Capt, J. P. Jones, of Mqrrisania, New
York, who lately committed suicide by
jumping into the rapids above Niagara
Falls, owned property in Wyandotte
county, and was on his way to visit Kan
sas.
A party of women visited every saloon
in Bonaparte, Ia, on Friday last, and
destroyed their contents, and poured all
the wine and beer into the streets, the
constabulary force being unable to stop
them.
White boys of the senior class of the
Central High School, New Orleans, de.
cline to attend because q colOred man
had been appointed Professor of Mathe-
matics for that School by the School
Board.
The Grand Lodge, I. o. O. F., of the
United States, will meet at indianapolis
on the Goth inst. Governor Hendricks,
Mayor Craven, Senator Morton and
Schuyler Colfax are to deliver addresses
Of welcome.
Speaking of the treatment of the Mis- |
sissippi troubles, the Washington Re- |
publican says: "The number of editors |
of Northern Republican newspapers,
whom it were base flattery to call idiots,
is constantly increasing"
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is said to
have accepted thrice offered appoint
ment from the Kedive to become Com
Chief of the Egyptian army.
He is to have supreme command with q
salary of $685. 900 a year, and the sum of
BLOC. 700 for the purchase of an outfit.
The Legislature of California stands,
in the Senate. 10 Democrats, Indepen-
lent Democrats, 9 Independents, Re-
publicans; in the Assembly, 60 Democ-
ats. l Independent Democrat, Z indie.
IL Republicans. The Demo
rats and Independents tied in Yuba
County.
New Meat Market,