The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-12

of the " Shepherds Fold" in New York
City, convicted Of cruelty to children, has
| been taken to the State Penitentiary. The
| reverend convict was at one time Chaplain
| Of that institution.
TEE President has withdrawn the
name Of P. B. s. Pinchback as Naval Officer
at New Orleans, thus leaving Lewis, incum-
bent, undisturbed.
SURGEON-GENERAL WILLIAM MAX
! WELL WOOD, U. s. Navy, died at his resi-
| dence near Baltimore, Nd, on the LIST, aged
seventy.two.
THE report of the arrest of Vera Sas-
sulitch proves to be unfounded.
GEMS. GRANT and Sheridan, on the I'd,
reviewed the troops stationed in the City OF
Mexico. 1t was gala day in the Mexican
capital.
THE paper-makers of the. Northwest
are said to have combined for the purpose
Of making vigorous effort to prevent leg
islation by Congress abolishing the tariff on
articles used in paper manufacture.
JAMES MOREHEAD, q commercial
traveller, representing the liquor house Of
Derby & Day, St. Louis, was shot by waiter
in an alteration ut the St. Nicholas Hotel,
Las Vegas, N. Mexico, on the morning Of
the Sd. He died before night. The shoot
ing is said to have been done without any
reasonable provocation.
j. w. MACKAY has purchased from j.
C. Flood the latter's entire interest in the
Comstock mines and mills, valued at some
thing over 100000.
The Kansas Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Topeka, May 26.
Count L1TrA, First Secretary of the
italian Legation at Washington, is dead.
THE Indiana delegates-at-large to the
Chicago Convention are said to be divided
in their Presidential preferences between
Grant, Blaine and Washburne.
The Greenbackers of the Seventh In
diana District have renominated Gilbert De
La Matyr for Congress.
THE Kentucky Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Lexington, June II.
The House Committee on Commerce
will make favorable report on the bill in
troduced by Mr.. Clardy, Of Missouri, pro-
viding for the removal by the Lighthouse
Board Of wrecks and sunken vessels lying in
the course of commerce and obstructing nav
igation in the Mississippi River and tribu.
taries.
THE London Times anticipates an un-
usually large emigration to America the
coming season. H-
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has left Mad
rid for London to assume his duties as Min
lister to the Court Of St. James. ' -
/ The Senate, on the 18th, rejected the
nomination of Gen. Mcneil, of St. Louis, as
United States Marshal for the Eastern Dis
trict of Missouri. The vote stood seven
for confirmation and thirty-two for rejec-
ton.
DOUGLAS, the Ute Chief, made fly
ing escape from his prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, on the 4th. He outran all his pur-
suers on foot, but was finally overtaken and
recaptured by soldier on horseback.
MARSH DYER, VIM. Wolfe and w. E. 1
Ames, three well-to-do farmers Of Casey
vile, Union County, KY, and oolored man
accompanying them, were drowned on the
morning Of the 18th by the upsetting Of q
skiff.
The would-be assassin of Gen. Nell
koff was tried on the 4th and executed by
hanging on the 9Th. His real name was
Melodetsky; he was a native Of Minsk, thirty
years of age. He maintained q stOlid de-
meanor throughout his Incarceration, and
acted from principle and not from personal
motives. He further said, as reported, that
though he had failed in killing Gen. Melikoff
some Of his comrades would succeed.
ROYAL B. CONANr, ex-Cashier of the
Elliott National Bank, of Boston, convicted
Of embezzlement, has been sentenced to sew
en- years. imprisonment.
A SEVERE tornado occurred during
the night Of the 4th, causing much damage
to property in indianapolis, Louisville, Gin
cinnati, Cleveland, Toledo and other locali-
ties. In Toledo two men were killed by the
falling of chimney.
The Tennessee Democratic State
Convention has been called to meet at Nash
vile on June 8, to select delegates to the
Cincinnati Convention.
WALTER KILGORE was hanged at
Mexico, Mo-, on the 9Th, for the murder of
L. D. Willingham in January, 1879. The
execution was witnessed by some five thou
sand people.
JOSEPH CORE was hanged at Lebanon,
Mo-, ON the 9Th, for the murder Of W. H.
King in September last. From six to ten
thousand spectators witnessed the hanging.
A BERLIN dispatch says that, with
view to aftording Bismarck further relief