The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11

The Ohio General Assembly voted to
take part as q body in the Inauguration of
President-elect Garfield.
Mr.. A. W. SoPER has been appointed
General Manager of the st. Louis, Southern
& Iron Mountain Railway.
The President, on the LIST, issued
proclamation converting the Senate in special
session at noon on March 4.
TIE Jury in the case of Col. Cash,
indicted for killing Col. Shannon in duel
in South Carolina, failed to agree.
FERNANDO WOOD was member-elect
Of the Forty-seventh House, and a special
election will be held In his district to choose
successor.
The International Cotton Exposition
of Atlanta organized with II. T. Kimball as
President and Senator Brown Chairman of
Executive Committee. h
PREsIDENT-ELECr GARFIELD and
family arrived at Washington on the morn
ing of the LIST, having left Mentor by special
train at noon on the previous day.
A TELEGRAM from Chill announces
that Don Francisco Calderon has been elect
ed Provisional President of Peru. Peace
negotiations will probably be resumed.
JAY GOULD and party left St. Louis
on the LIST by special train for tour of in
spection over the railway lines controlled by
him in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkan-
Sas.
SECRETARY SHERMAN, on the Sd,
formally rendered to President Hayes his
resignation of the Office of Secretary Of the
Treasury, in order to take his place in the
United States Senate.
ADUBLIN telegram of the 28th says
Mr.. Hearne, land agent to the mother of
the late Lord Mountmorris, was fired at by
two men, near his residence at Ballinrobe,
and MORALLY wounded. He received six
pistol shots.
SIR EVELYN WOOD succeeds Gen.
Colley, killed in the. recent engagement with
the Beers. The latter's defeat it is said
does not seriously affect the military situa-
ton, as the British main body was not in
yOlved in the fight.
A TERRIBLE gale prevailed off the
coast of Newfoundland on the LIST. A num-
Der of vessels were lost with all on board.
Every boat in St. Johns Harbor was de-
stroyed. The storm is said to have been
the worst known in sixty years.
Mr.. E. SMITH. member of the Chi
cage Board of Trade, was robbed the other
night of So 500 in bills and $50 diamond
pin which he had placed under his pillow
before retiring. He was discovered in an
insensible condition in the morning, having
evidently been stupeied with chloroform.
No Chew to the robbers.
The public debt statement issued
March shows decrease in the debt for the
month of February Of $11, S43, 155. Cash in
the Treasury, $s3S, 2OS. 176; gold and silver
certificates, $54, 425, 74O; certificates of de-
post outstanding, $685.. 700; refunding GER
tifcates, $751;, $50; legal-tenders outstanding,
$40, 6Sl ,016; fractional currency outstand-
ing, $15,520 ,347, less amount estimated as
lost or destroyed ($s,s75, 9S4), s., 144,41S. :.
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The Sandwich Islands are being de-
yastated by smallpox and other epidemic
diseases. At Honolulu panic exists, and
the white inhabitants are leaving as fast as
possible by sailing vessels, the mail steamers
refusing to land or take on passengers. The
sanitary condition of the city is represented
as being most wretched. There is not a
sewer within its limits and its site is honey
combed with vaults that have not been
cleaned in quarter of century.
A wRECKING train On the Hannibal &
st. 10. Railroad was dispatched from Brook
field, Mo-, on the morning of the list to the
assistance of regular passenger train, pre-
viously ditched, near Beyier. The relief
train encountered broken rail while going
over bridge near New Cambria, and several
cars were precipitated into the stream, caus-
ing the deaths of five persons and the injury
of twenty others. Those killed were DR.. O.
ii. Wood, w. S. HaIlett, John Corners,
George swick, A. Jury and E. F. Lock.
TIE Minnesota State Capitol at St.
Paul burned on the night of the LIST. The
fire broke out while both Houses Of the Leg
islature were in session, and the flames
spread so rapidly that some Of the law
makers had to escape by means Of ladders.
The building was burned to the ground, en-
failing loss to the State Of about 500, 900,
besides the destruction of the Historical and
Supreme Court Library, which can not be
altogether replaced. The State records and
trust bonds were stored in fire-proof vaults
and thereby saved.
THE Irish landlords, in consequence
of the passage of the Coercion bill, are TAX
ing united action for evicting defaulting
tenants, and will endeavor to supply their
places with Protestant tenants from Ulster
and elsewhere. The eviction of Rev. Pat
rick Hurley, the parish priest of Kilkoman,
Kings County, has created no little eonster-
nation. Other evictions are now OF daily
occurrence. The League has issued circu-
lar to the Secretaries Of branch Leagues
throughout Ireland, asking the details of all
evictions since january.
A LATE Dublin dispatch says: The
police are very active making arrangements
for arrests, and lists of persons have been
prepared for immediate presentation to the