The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-10-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,

IHE NEWS LIN BR1EE,s
GEN. JOHN C. FREMONT has resigned
as Governor of Arizona.
THE election of Window for U. S.
Senator from Minnesota is assured.
GEN. JOSEPH C. ABBOTT, ex-United
States Senator, died at Wilmington, N. c.,
on the 9Th.
IT is said that the Emperor of Ger
many and Bismarck have offered the Pope
an asylum at Cologne.
THE French guests were dined by
Secretary Blaine on the 18th, and the Ger.
mans by the German Minister.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to Mrs. Garfeld's
fund received and paid to the United States
Trust Company amount to $S6O,a45.
IT is now announced by Mr.. Scoville,
counsel for Guiteau, that all questions Of
Jurisdiction and malpractice will be waived,
and the defense take their stand on the plea
OF insanity alone. This determination has
been arrived at because of the short time in
which they have to prepare for trial, and
because of the discovery of Guiteau's appli-
cation some time ago for q pension. Gui-
teau had never been in the army, and the
medical examiner Endorsed upon the paper
ssinsane.''
KING, the aeronaut, accompanied by
Hashagan, Signal Service observer, made
a balloon ascension from Chicago on Thurs
day, the 18th. The balloon took north
westerly course, and on the evening of the
18th passed over Trempeleau County, Wis,
Mt very low altitude, where conversation
took place between the aeronauts and cit
izen. Ballast was then thrown out and the
balloon continued its course toward the
Mississippi River. Up to the Goth no addi-
tional news had been received as to the fate
OF the daring voyagers.
1T was stated on the 18th, apparently
by authority, that the President had de-
manded the resignation Of First Assistant
Postmaster General Tyner. It is known
that Postmaster. General James has all along
desired to displace Tyner with some one
more in sympathy with the Star-route pros.
ecutions, and that Attorney General Mac
Veagh added his influence in the same di-
rection; but adverse counsels prevailed in
the Garfield Cabinet and prevented the
change being made. Frank Hatton, of the
Burlington Ha,ckeye, is named as the prob
able successor of Tyner.
The Associated Press dispatches from
Washington on the 18th noted the fact that
oh
gross from the Eleventh Missouri District,
had separated from his wife on account of
the imprudent, not to say scandalous, man.
ner in which she had conducted herself for
some time past. Mrs. Clark was formerly
Mrs. c. JacobY We'll, a dashing widow with
three children, who kept fashionable
boarding on Fourteenth Street, and
also occupied position in one of the De-
partments. The parties were married less
than year ago. Mr.. Clark announces his
intention to apply for a divorce. Mrs. Clark
has made statement, denying all the allega-
lions charged and asserting her ability to
prove her innocence.
AN attempt was made the other night
to burn the Cunard steamer Bothnia at her
dock in New York City. Two men gained
access to the steamer on the plea of wishing
to see friend, an officer of the vessel. Al
ter some time they departed, and a few
minutes later fire was discovered in an OBJ
scure passage, where the carpet had been
saturated with very inflammable liquid
composed principally of kerosene and phos-
phOrus. Traces of their work were subse-
quently found in other parts of the vessel,
the carpets upon which the mixture had
been placed bursting into flame as soon as
tread upon. Fragments of the bottles con-
tanning some of the fluid were also found,
and turned over to the police. Experiments
showed it to be one of the most dangerous
infiammatory agents ever concocted.
A RECENT dispatch from Rome says:
The Pope, in his address to the Italian pill
grims at St. Peters, stated the deplorable
state of affairs placed before him the alter.
native Of enduring continual captivity, made
harder daily, or going into exile. He there
fore asked the Catholics to watch and pray
for the liberty and independence of the
Pope. He concluded by saying he was
no longer secure in his palace; that he
was outraged in his person and dignity in a
thousand ways. The gravity and earnest
ness Of the Pope made profound impress.
sion. He closed his address with his arms
raised to heaven as though imploring help.
1t is impossible to describe the enthusiastic
cheers after the Pope gave his benediction.
He looked thin. worn and anxious. A gang
Of roughs pelted the pilgrims on leaving the
Church Of St. WHALE, shouting SHOWN with
the Vaticanv'
The military review at Yorktown on
the Goth was successfully carried out. All
the organizations presented a fine appear
ance and marched well. The route was
about four miles, over broad fields. One
hour and twenty minutes were consumed in
passing a given point. When the process
sion reached the grand stand, Gen. Han
cock rode at the head, but then fell out of
line and, with President Arthur and his
Cabinet, the foreign guests and other digni-
taries, reviewed the troops from the stand.
Gen. Hancock stated to the President there
were 800 men in line. The States repre-
scented by volunteers were Georgia, New