The Iola register., 1881-09-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The New York Democratic State
Convention is called to meet at Albany on
Oct. II.
GJrfEAU was hanged In efigy at
z,uffalo, N. Y, the other night. in the gres.
ence Of 5000 people.
The Car will 60 to GermanY'by sea,
landing at Dantzig. More than. the usus
precautions will be taken for his<safety.
The trial of Rev. DR.. H. W. Thomas
late pastor of the Centenary N. E. Church
at Chicago, for heresy, begun at Chicago or
the sth.
EX-SENATOR PLATr has been elected
Chairman of the Republican State Contra
Committee of New York, in place Of Vice
President Arthur, resigned.
GEN GRANT attended the reunion OF
of the 127th Regiment Illinois Volunteers at
the Palmer House, Chicago, on the evening
of the 9th, and made a very brief speech.
ARCHPIsHOP HENNI, of Milwaukee,
is dead, aged 76. He was the upbuilder Of
the Catholic Church of the Northwest, and
was a man of great learning, energy and
goodness.
The movement inaugurated by Gov.
ernor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, appointing
Tuesday, the 9Th, as day Of fasting and
prayer for the recovery of President Gar
field, was generally observed throughout
that State and several others.
WHILE most sections of the country
were broiling under temperature of from
So to 105 in the shade, Deadwood dispatch
of the 1th announced a fall of five inches OF
snow in that locality and two feet at Bald
Mountain. The snow-storm extended as far
east as Nebraska, Hastings reporting a fall
OF two and half inches.
AYOoB KHAN has issued proclama-
ton saying that he had abandoned his in
tention Of fighting the Ameer and was about
to fight the English. To this end he invited
all persons having weapons belonging to the
Government to consider them their own on
condition Of their joining his standard i'm
mediately.
An investigation by the Mexican De-
partment of Public Works into the recent
awful disaster on the Morelos Railroad re-
suited in finding the railroad company, its
Chief Engineer, and the Government Engi-
neer responsible. The company is to be
proceeded against civilly, and the two engi-
neers will be called upon to defend them.
selves in criminal action.
THERE was meeting of the Cabinet
in Washington on the Sd. The session was
second only in importance to the conference
of surgeons, and involved more than the is
sue Of life and death, extending to the disa.
bility Of the President. 1t was the first
formal recognition of the possibility of an
acting President by the Presidential advis-
ers. The session lasted some time; what
the conclusion was is not disclosed.
Col. GEORGE E. WAR1NG; sanitary
engineer, has made thorough inspection
of the Executive Mansion at Washington,
with view of improving its sanitary con-
dition. He reports many radical defects in
the system of waste.pipes and sewers, and
submits detailed plan Of such alterations
and improvements as seem to him neces-
sary to tranform the house into a healthful
abode.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
temperance bill. 1t provides that on petit
tion of one-fourth of the qualified voters of
any city in the State, the people in said
municipality shall have Il right to hold an
election to decide whether intoxicating Ii
quors shall be sold in the limits. 1t also pro-
vides that no intoxicating liquors shall be
sold at any given point in the county, except
with the consent of q majority of the quail
fed voters living within three miles.
GOVERNOR CR1rrENDEN, upon re-
ceipt Of intelligence concerning the recent
train robbery near Glendale, No., at once is
sued an official proclamation calling upon all
law-abiding citizens to use their earnest en-.
deavors to capture the outlaws. The Gov
ernor also proceeded to Kansas City and put
himself in communication with the county
officers who had already entered upon the
pursuit at the head of large posses of mount
ed men. Three men were arrested near the
scene Of the robbery who are. almost posi-
lively identified as belonging to the gang.
Their names are Greed and Sam Chapman
and John Burglor. They are residents of
the vicinity. Several other parties in the
same neighborhood are strongly suspected,
and have probably been arrested ere this.
The loss to passengers on the robbed train
in money and valuables will exceed $15, 600.
The exact amount of the Express Company's
loss is not obtainable, but is supposed to be
somewhere between 5000 and $4,000.
The eastern peninsula of Michigan,
comprising the counties Of Huron, Sanilac
and Tuscola, has been devastated by most
disastrous conflagration. Whole villages
have been swept away, together with iso-
lated farm buildings, mills, and other prop
erty. In Huron County, the villages of Bad
Axe, Verona, Port Hope and Huron City,
are almost entirely burned, and hundreds
of people perished in the flames. Many saved
their lives only by retreating' to wells or
burning themselves in the ground. An ur-
gent appeal for aid has been issued. Thou.
ands are destitute of the most ordinary ne
cessities of life. A committee makes this
report:
In twenty towns in sanilac and Huron