The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-12-07

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can, sc, 1894; Gilstrap, Greenbacker, 61,-
167. Democratic plurality, 84,965.
MINOR NOTES.
About 70 temporary clerks, the majority
women, have been discharged by the Treas
ury Department, the appropriation being
exhausted.
On application of Major Reno, Seventh
Cavalry, Court Of Inquiry is appointed to
assemble at Chicago on the second Monday
in January, to inquire into the Majors con-
duct at the battle of Little Big Horn, when
Gen. Custer was killed.
Hancock (Democrat), defeated for Con.
gress in the Fifth Texas District by Jones
(Greenbacker), 1t is said will contest the
seat. ....r -
The last of the Fenian prisoners, Michael
Ahearne, was released from Millbank Pris-
on, London, on Nov. Z. He had been II
years in confinement.
Richard Evans, Daniel Garrison and j. j.
Miller were instantly killed, Joseph Wagon
fatally wounded, and 10 others seriously in
jured by boiler explosion at Uniontown,
Pa, on the 18th ult. Most of these men
were on the roof of the boiler house, help
ing to erect new stack, when the explosion
occurred.
DR.. Henry j. Livingstone, late agent at
the Grow Greek Agency, has been arrested
upon an Indictment charging him with the
forgery Of vouchers. Several clerks and
traders are also under Indictment for COM
plicity in the alleged frauds.
DR.. McCabe, Auxiliary Bishop of the Di-
Geese of Dublin, succeeds Archbishop Gull
len.
A dispatch from Sofia reports that Turk
ish Rediffs and Circassians sacked 1900
houses in Miluik District in Macedonia on
the Goth ult., and massscred Inhabitants
without regard to age or sex.
O'Connor, the convicted Fenian confined
at Spike Island, has been notified he will be
released Immediately on condition he reside
outside the Queens dominions. Kelly, an
other confined Fenian, will probably be lib
Grated on the same terms.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson has given $500
as contribution to the fund for defraying
the expenses of Homeopathic Yellow
Fever Commission which Is to meet in New
Orleans.
New Orleans will continue to be the cap
ital Of Louisiana, the proposition to remove
the seat Of Government to Baton Rouge hav-
ing been defeated by some 5000 votes.
During an entertainment given by Lissea,
Hungarian Prime Minister, to Count An.
Grassy, at Pesth, the other night, . bomb
filed with glycerine was exploded near the
palace, SCATTERING the windows, but doing
no further damage. 1t is supposed the
bomb fell short Of the target at which it was
aimed.
DR.. Buck, Sheriff Of Claiborne County,
Miss, was fatally shot few days ago while
attempting to arrest negro desperate
named Harrison Page, who two years ago
killed the Chancery Clerk of the county;
and Robert Lum, one Of the Sheriff's depu-
ties, was killed at the same time. Page es.
capped, although some of his accomplices are
reported killed.
At public meeting of refugees held at
Memphis on Thanksgiving Day, at which
most Of the leading citizens were present,
resolutions were adopted, thanking all So
cieties and individuals who had assisted
them during the recent yellow fever cpl
demic.
Prince Charles of Roumania has issued
his proclamation formally annexing the
Dobrudscha and proclaiming liberty and
equality for Mohammedans and Christians.
Robert Heller, the well known musician
and magician, died suddenly at Philadelphia
on the 9th, of pneumonia.
The Louisiana rice crop of 1878 is esti-
mated at 155 900 barrels, against 143, 900 for
the preceding year.
The steamers Charles Morgan, bound
down, and the Cotton Valley, bound up, COL
lided two miles south of Donaldsonville, La,
on the morning Of the LIST. The Cotton VAL
10y sank almost Immediately after the collis-
ion. Sol. Meyer, Dan'l Gehr and Henry Levy,
merchants Of Alexandra, La. and Miss San.
ford, aged 16, Of Loudon County, Va, were
drowned, together with II or Is rousta-
bouts. The Cotton Valley belonged to the
Red River Transportation Company. She
was valued at $4,000 and had $4,000 car
60 on board, all of which is total loss.
j. c. Stoddard, of Pine Plains, Allegan
County, Mich, on the morning of the SOth
was found sitting in chair dead, with his
gun between his legs, and his head shatter-
ed. His wife was found dead in bed, and
child, three years old, missing. 1t is be.
lieved Stoddard killed his wife and child
and then shot himself, during an attack of
temporary insanity.
Jackson, the county seat of Breathitt
County, KY, has recently been the scene
Of . bloody combat between two rival bands
Of outlaws, under the respective leaderships
Of Bill Strong and Jack Ackman.
Each party numbered dozen
or more Of brave and reckless
men, heavily armed, who fortified them.
selves in adjacent buildings, and whenever
one Of either party showed his head 1t was
the target for the unerring aim
Of his antagonists. A law.and. order
party was formed under the command Of
County Judge John ". Burnett, for the
protection Of some prisoners In the County
Jail. Judge Burnett was shot through the
heart and instantly killed, and number OF
the despersdoes bad also bean killed or
wounded. At last accounts the mob stu
held possession Of the town.
The Old South Congregational Church At
Hallowell, Me-, built in 1796, was burned on
the LIT.
Martin, Republican, viii get the certificate
Of election from the First Congressional
District Of North Carolina. Yeates will con.
test the seat In the House.
PEDESTRIAN excursions are given {"
now by the fashionable New Workers. |
Luncheon is provided at some of the ru-