The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-10

THE consolidation of the Missouri Pa
cffic and Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail.
roads went into effect on the 1st. The com.
bined lines will henceforth be designated a
the Missouri Pacific, and the NJ, X. & T. be
KNOWN as the Kansas and Texas Division.
Mr.. A. A. Talmage is the General Manager,
and the old Missouri Pacific officials gener.
ally are continued with extended jurisdic.
ton.
The public debt statement for Decem.
Der shows the following totals: Cash in
Treasury, $2l, 092. SIG; gold certificates
outstanding, $780, 500; silver GER
tificates, $3.50, OF, 2SO; certificates OF
deposit, $685. 600; refunding GER
tifcates, $643, $50; legal-tenders, $346,
6S1, O16; fractional currency, $7,163, 2O7
United States bonds Of go, ST., 255, 600.
Decrease of debt during November, 5000,
261.
THE butter and cheese dealers of Chi
cago and Elgn, H., have organized for the
purpose of protecting the trade against adul-
terated butter and cheese, with which the
market is now said to be flooded.
The. United States, France and Ger
many are arranging for another conference
on the silver question.
The International Cotton Exposition
has been organized at Atlanta, Ga, with
Senator Joseph E. Brown as President and
twenty-five Vice. Presidents from the prin-
cipal cities and manufacturing centers Of the
country. The first Exposition will be held
at Atlanta during October and November
next.
The Convention recently in session
| at Springfield, ILL.,, composed of delegates
from the Boards of Agriculture of various
Western States, recommended that each
State issue a monthly crop and stock report
| during the growing season, and that an eff
fort be made to secure such legislation as
shall render the reports uniform, prompt and
accurate. An Executive Committee was APP
pointed, composed of the following gentle
men: W. 1. Chamberlain, Ohio; Alex.
Heron, Indiana; S. d. Fisher, Illinois; j.
X. Hudson, Kansas; j. r. Shaffer, Iowa; j.
B. Killibrew, Tennessee; H. HI. Young,
Minnesota.
H. VICTOR NEwCOMB has resigned
the Presidency of the Louisville and Nash
vile Road, and +. II. Green has been chosen
his successor.
IT is reported that the recent CONSOLE
dation of the Missouri Pacific and the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas Railways is the par
tial development of Jay Gould's prodigious
scheme for securing through line from
New York and the lakes to the Mexican bor-
der and the Pacific coast. The Wabash sys-
TEN, it is said, will be an important part Of
the grand combination.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
DURING the temporary absence of
James Harris and wife from their home, at
Elizaville, KY, the other night, one of their
children, aged years, was burned to death.
Its clothing caught from an old.fashioned
fireplace.
CAPT. ATKINS, of Life-saving Station
No. Z, Massachusetts coast, and two of his
crew, were drowned while trying to rescue
the crew of stranded schooner.
HAYDEN H. SHoUsE, a prominent
lawyer of Henderson, KY, killed himself at
Louisville, on the 30th, as the wind-up of
protracted spree.
by jumping off the St. Louis Bridge, on the
S0th. He was about 40 years of age, dark
hair and black mustache- apparently an
Irishman. As he sprang from the bridge he
exclaimed-"Well, here's an end of it."
The wife of VIM. H. Stewart, living
six miles south of Lebanon, Ind, was fatally
burned, on the 3Oth, by her clothing taking
fire from an open crate.
JOHN S. SAPP. a Council Bluffs sa-
on-keeper, was murdered and robbed in
his place Of business by some person I'M
known.
w. T. BEAN, a lawyer of Greenwood,
Miss, committed suicide in vicksburg, on
the Both, by taking morphine. He was hard
drinker.
A BAND of cattle thieves in Grant
County, Arizona, were pursued by citizens
and overtaken. A fight ensued, and the
ringleader of the robbers, named King, and
one of the band, named Smith, were seri-
ously wounded. Most of the stock was re-
covered.
AT Seymour, Ind, the other night, a
young woman named Martha Lockhart, af-
ter lighting lamp, threw the burning taper
upon the floor and attempted to stamp out
Gue DlaZcS LII uOAuS WHICH, ueT ClOCuiuS tOOk
fire and was burned almost completely of.
She died after few hours of terrible agony.
MRS. w. P. BAILEY, of Porter, KY,
was fatally burned by her clothing taking
fire from the kitchen stove.
DAN SMITH, a negro, who was arrest
ed in Giles County, Tenn, for an assault
upon white girl, was hanged by mob
while being taken to jail.
MRS. ELIZABETH METCALF, aged rs,
was burned to death at Lexington, Mo-, her