The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-02


treal, Canada, is o defaulter to a large
amount and has fed to the States.
TIE reputable citizens of Benson,
Arizona, give notice that they have driven
from the town gang of confidence men
who have long infested the place, to the dis
comfiture and pecuniary loss of many East.
ern tourists.
GENERAL LESLIE COOMBs, of Ken
lucky, who died at his home in Lexington on
the 21st, in the SSth year of his age, was the
last of the Pioneer Indian warriors Of that
State. He was a Captain in the war Of 1872,
and raised and equipped regiment to aid
Texas in her struggle for independence. He
was trusted friend of Henry Clay. He was
several times Auditor Of Kentucky, and SUI
fered defeat for Congress at the hands Of
John c. Breckenridge. He was strong
Union man during the late civil war. Many
years ago he lost large fortune in building
railroads, and two years since he was left al
most destitute by the burning of his home.
WHILE the crops throughout a large
area OF the United States are almost an ut
ter failure on account of the prolonged
drought, British agriculturists are bemoan-
ing the probable destruction of their harvests
by too copious rains.
The Illinois and Mississippi River
and Canal Improvement Commission, ap-
pointed by the Convention held at Daven-
port, Iowa, last May, to further the con-
struction of the Hennepin Canal, met in
Chicago on the 25th. The most important
hnSinosS fpo ofo ho infu ~
committee to memorabilia Congress for the
construction Of a commercial canal not to
exceed seven feet in depth, from Hennepin
westward to the Mississippi River.
B. WILKES, a well-known planter and
merchant of Sunfower County, Miss, was
shot dead while standing in the door of his
store at Jacksonville. The assassin is I'M
known.
GEORGE W. RIGGS, the well-known
Washington banker, is dead.
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, suffered the
destruction of nearly the entire business
portion of the town by fire, on the morning
Of the oath. The Journal Office was entirely
consumed. The total loss foots up about
500, 900, with but little insurance. A coal
oil lamp explosion was the cause of the con.
fagratOn.
THROUGH the assistance of the United
States Ministers to Chill and the Argentine
Republic. the boundary between those coun-
tries has been fixed.
THE Attorney General has given de-
cision in favor of Gen. Hazen as against Gen.
Sherman, conceding to officers of the Signal
Corps army status under the law.
A LETTER from Bangkok, Siam, says
Asiatic cholera is raging. 1t is variously
estimated that from 100 to 300 natives are
dying daily. Very few foreigners have died,
but several have fled to Singapore and Hong
Kong.
A TERRIBLE encounter occurred in
Edgefeld County, S. c., between j. w.
Buzzard and his son and j. W. Thinner
man, in which Zimmerman was killed and
Buzzard and his son seriously wounded.
An old feud was the cause of the ARRAY.
The weapons used were double-barreled
shotguns.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Rathkeale,
County Limerick, Ireland, owing to the re.
port that the police were about to remove
some cattle seized for rent. A mob assem-
bled and stoned the police, who charged the
crowd several times.
TRAIN-wRECKERs in Massachusetts
made three unsuccessful efforts on the Old
Colony Road, near Bridgewater.
FOUR Mexican horse-thieves were
shot dead while making off with valuable
stock near Bracket, Texas.
DANIEL C. DE JARNETTE, a member
OF the Thirty-sixth Congress and afterward
of the Confederate House of Represents
tives from the Richmond (Va.) District, e
dead.