The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tenant Of ireland.
A CONTRACT has been made between
the Huntington railroads on the Pacific coast
and the Gould system in the Southwest, by
which they will be operated as a joint line
from the Mississippi River to the Pacific
Ocean, with q division of earnings on the
basis of mileage.
The Porte has informed the repre-
sentative English and German philanthro-
pists, endeavoring to promote the migration
of Jews to Turkey, that Jews will be allowed
to establish themselves in separate commu-
mites in all parts of the empire except Pal.
estine, but they will be subject to Turkish
laws and have to adopt Turkish nationality.
TUCKER BAsHAM, who pleaded guilty
of participation in the Blue Cut train rob-
berry, and whose evidence was relied upon
to convict other members of the gang, has
been living in independence, Mo-, until a
few days ago, when he left for parts I'M
known. 1t is said he has been the recipient
of many threatening letters, warning him
against making further disclosures.
DOCUMENTS found in the house of
Il
are said to reveal the existence of a society
known as the "Royal Irish Republican SOci-
ety. which is said to have numerous menu
bers, and whose object is the establishment
of an Irish Republic by force of arms. There
are number of additional reports of out
RACES, in various parts of Ireland, inflicted
upon tenants for paying rents.
SAUL, contributor to the Frankfort
Zeitung, has been condemned to one months
Imprisonment for libeling Bismarck.
Ed. MAXWELL was lynched in the
courtyard atDurand, Wis, on the 10th. I'm.
mediately after making statement in court
in which he acknowledged the shooting Of
the Coleman brothers and claimed that it
was in self-defense, rope was thrown over
his neck and he was dragged from the room,
down the stairs, and along the ground to a
tree a few yards distant, where he was run
up. He denied all knowledge OF the killing
of Sheriff Lammi, of Calhoun County, and
insisted that neither he nor his brother had
been in Illinois since the Colemans were
killed.
A "CRANK" has been arrested in Ger
many, at Viersen Station, for uttering
menaces against the life of the Emperor. A
revolver, with six barrels loaded, was
found on him. His name is given as DIR.
Schleuter.
Two reports came in g. single day of
the deaths of young children by falling into
tubs of boiling water. One of the victims
was the daughter Of E. Pickerson, of Sum-
merfeld, O., the other child named Hum
phrey, at Elgin, III.
SMALLPOX is epidemic both at Ro-
chester and Lockport, N. Y.
TRACK-LAYING has begun on the
Georgia Pacific Railway. Ex-senator Cor
don drove the first spike, at Atlanta.
AN Alton freight train broke through
the Kankakee bridge near Wilmington, Ill.
The train employees escaped by leaping,
but the engine and twenty five cars were
wrecked in the river-bed, causing a loss es-
timated at not less than $780, 900.
LITTLE CHIEFS band of Cheyenne
Indians are being escorted by Federal cav
airy from Indian Territory to Dakota, for
settlement in Pine Ridge Agency.
Mr.. A. 3. THORNTON, editor of the
Boonville (Mo.) Nears, Greenback weekly
paper, was shot and instantly killed on the
10Th by Thomas S. McDearmon, City Mar
shall. The Ne,rs published an article Sc
verely rejecting upon some Of the City Mar
shal's official acts, and a personal alterca-
ton, following close upon the offensive
publication, led to the shooting. Nc
DearmOn claims that Thornton first drew
his revolver and that he fired in self-de-
tense. He voluntarily placed himself under
arrest.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has
publicly announced her retirement from the
stage at the close of her present engagement,
when she is to be married to Mr.. T.. B. Whit.
ney, Philadelphia gentleman.
GEORGE LAW, the well-known New
York capitalist, is dead. He began life as i
hod-carrier; his estate is worth several
millions.
The kennebec Jonrnol, Blaine's home
organ, publishes the following: eve are
authorized to state that Mr.. Blaine will not
be candidate for Representative in Con-
gress, will not be a candidate for Governor,
anu VIII uOt uC d CauuiultC tuC CutCu
States Senate. When Blaine retires from
President Arthur's Cabinet, early in the
coming month, he will devote himself en-
tirely to his private affairs. The rumor of
his going out as Minister to England has no
foundation whatever"
CHARLES DAVIS, negro, who had
committed an aggravated assault upon wild
ow named Luckey; residing near Athens,
o., was taken from the Jail by party of
about twenty undisguised men and hanged
from bridge.
JAMES COOPER, City Marshal of Cow
ington, Tenn.,. was killed in an ARRAY with
James Slaughter, merchant of that place.
VIM. HOEssEL, a widower of some
means, living alone at North Evanston, ILL.,,
was found murdered in his bed few morn
ings since. Robbery was undoubtedly the
cause, and bloody ak found upon the
premises was the instrument with which the
crime was committed. Some discarded
clothes, supposed to belong to the assassin,
served to identify him as tramp who had
been lettering about the locality for some
days previous.
AT Columbus, Ca, Osborn Pitts
drank quart of whisky on a wager, and
was carted home dead. Denison, the keep