The Iola register., 1881-02-11

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
The New York Assembly has passed
q bill prohibiting consolidation OF telegraph
companies.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature took its
fourteenth Intellectual ballot for United States
Senator on the 1st, the vote being-Waiiace,
Is; Oliver, 76; Grow, 50; scattering, ID.
SECRETARY ScHURz, in response to a
request from the Senate, on the I'd transmit-
ted to that body large mass OF ohciai cor
respoudence in reference to the Ute troubles.
Iris officially announced that the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe and the soutn-
ern Pacific Railroads will begin running
through passenger trains by the middle OF
March.
NEGoT1ATIoNs are in progress Tor the
sale of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
to the Chicago & Northwestern. st. Paul
and Minneapolis are terribly indignant, as
they anticipate the proposed change VIII
cut them out as terminal points.
THE President has nominated another
anti -Conkling man, John W. Jacobus, to De
Tinted States Marshal for the Southern Dis
trict of New York. The present Marshal,
Pavne. an adherent of the senior New York
Senator, was candidate for reappointment.
A APAssENGER-CAR on the Fergus Falls
Division of the St. Paul, Minnesota Il MANI
toba Railroad, on the Cd, near Elk River,
was thrown from the track and rolled down
an embankment sixty feet high. Many OF
the passengers were badly injured, one Vi
more it was thought fatally.
ADELEGATIoN of leading Indiana Re-
publicans have been on visit to Mentor to
present to the President-elect the claims OF
their State to seat in the Cabinet 1t Is
said that Mr.. New was the first choice OF
majority of the committee for Cabinet po-
sition, but no individual name was presented
to Mr.. Garfield.
THE following are reported to be the
Chilian conditions of peace: Cession OF
Astofagasta to Chill; surrender OF the allied
fleet and payment of $4,000, 900, whereof
Peru shall assume $2O,OOO,0O0 and Bolivia
$40. 900, 600; Chill to occupy Callao and work
the guano deposits and copper and salt
meter mines until payment of the indemnity
is made.
THE President, on the I'd, transmitted
to Congress the report of the Ponca Commits
sion. accompanied by message recommend
ing-1. The education of young Indians;
9, The allotment to the Indians of lands in
severalty; 3. Fair compensation for all LANDS
not required for individual allotment; 4. In
yesting them ultimately with the rights OF
citizenship.
AFTER a continuous session of forty
one hours of the British House of Commons,
during which the Home Rulers used every
parliamentary device to defeat the motion,
the Speaker ordered the debate closed and
the Government obtained leave to bring in a
bill for the protection of life and property in
Ireland. The Home Rule members then left
the House in a body.
HON. E. B. WAsHBURNE, of Illinois,
on the Sd presented to the State Of Missouri
q portrait, painted by Stuart, Of Edward
Hempstead, Missouri's first Representative
in Congress. The presentation ceremonies
took place at Jefferson City, and were par.
ticipated in by both Houses of the Legisla'
ture, the Governor and other State officials
The latest advices from Apia, Samoa
state that King Malistoa died Of consump
ton on November s, and the Islands are nov
in state of anarchy. On his deathbet
Malistoa appointed his nephew, the Vice
King, as his successor, and named the Prime
Minister Matufa as next in succession, bu
the people were not disposed to quietly ac
quiesce in this arrangement.
THE public debt statement issuet
Feb. 1 shows decrease of the debt during
January of $7,3S2, ,167; cash in the Treas
ury, $221, 81, ,535; gold certificates, S6,54l,
4SO; silver certificates, $46,SOO, go; certifl
Gates Of deposit outstanding, $S,6SO,OOO
refunding certificates, 1850; legal ten
ders outstanding, $346,6Sl, ,O16; fractiona
currency, $15,52O, ,433.12; less amount estl
mateQ as lOSG OF utstIOs cuS aSC Va oeAAS -
1879 C$S,375,9 ,974), $7,1H, ,499. II.
SENAroR-ELECT PLATT and Governor
Cornell, of New York, both close persona
and political friends of Senator Conkling
spent Sunday, the 3Oth, at Mentor, as tn
guests of President-elect Garfield, and at hi
special invitation, as is announced apparent
lyby authority. The conference is regarded
as one of great political importance. as tn
probable relations between Senator Conklin
and the incoming Administration have bee
of late the subject of no little comment.
The Fifty-eighth British regiment
under Sir George Colley, have been repulse'
in an attack upon the Beers at Drakenbur
Pass, losing ISL men killed, wounded o
missing. Gen. Dean, Maj. Poole and Lieuts
Elves and Battle were killed; Lieuts
Hingeston, Lovegrove and O'Donnel
wounded. The Beers held q strong position
and fought with great bravery. Their los
is estimated at 500 killed and wounded.
THERE was an exciting scene in tn