The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

bered them more than three to one. All OF
the whites were killed, six of them being
dispatched while lying on the field wounded.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
lie completed to Durango, $50 miles southeast
of Denver. This road opens up the San 'uan
mining regions, which have SO long been
isolated.
The Perry County, Ark, troubles are
in fair way Of adjustment. Writs have
been issued for score Of persons, and are
being served as rapidly IS possible. The al
legged murderers Of Editor Matthews were
arrested on the Sd. Their names are James
A. Isom and w. S. Payton. They offered no
resistance, but surrendered to the posse, re-
marking that they were not guilty and would
prove it. An alleged accomplice named
Kennedy has also been arrested, and the
officers are hunting for eight others charged
as being accessories. The Jail in which the
prisoners are confined is guarded by the
militia, and every precaution taken to pre-
vent their release by outside parties.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, the fourteenth
victim of the explosion at Woolner's distil-
lery, Peoria, died on the 4th, leaving only
four Of the injured alive.
WILLIAM G.. FARGO, Americas pio-
neer eXpressman, died at his home in Buf.
ralo, N. Y, on the Sd. He started out IN
life poor boy, with only common-school
education, and died worth $2O,OOO,OOo.
GOVERNOR TARRANZAs, of Chihua-
hua, on the Sd at Ell Paso drove the silver
spike which unites the United States and
Mexico by rail.
A SMALL yacht sunk off the coast of
Baleshire, Scotland. Five persons were
drowned, including three ladies.
A DISPATCH from Natal, South Afri-
ca, says the American ship Calcutta, Capt. I,
Smith, from Cebu, Philippine Isles, May 8,
of and for Boston, was totally wrecked on
the coast of kaffraria, on the Sd Of June,
only three of the crew being saved.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MACVEAGH has,
at the request of Postmaster General
James, given an opinion as to whether under
the act of Congress of April Z, 1880, allow
'ance for expedition in carrying mails is linn
tied to 80 per cent. of the original contract.
The Attorney-General holds that the law
specifically makes this limitation, and
that it can not be exceeded; that
the Postmaster General can not go be-
yond this limit, and the expedited
service must provide an increase of
office and material employed to correspond
with the increase of pay as compared with
the original contract. This opinion is an
official condemnation Of the system followed
by Brady in the star-route matters of in
creasing the pay of expedited routes out Of
all proportion to the original service con-
tracted for and to the increase of material and
men actually employed to carry out the ex-
pedited service. The Department will fol-
low this opinion, and stick to 80 per cent.
limitation in increase.
The notorious sanctimonious swindler,
who under the name of the Rev. CASTOR de
Rouhan was sentenced to the Missouri Pen
itentiary in 1879 for five years, but escaped
within year, has been again operating sue
cessfully in Nova Scotia, but has been again
detected and is now lodged in the Halifax
Jail. The history of his misdeeds runs back
for nearly twenty years, during which time
he has operated under various names in
nearly every Catholic community from Can
ada to California.
The excess of exports of merchandise
over imports during the year ending June 80,
1881, was $3.50, 726, 254, against $167 ,6S3, 912
during the previous fiscal year. The excess
of imports of gold during the past fiscal year
was $9l,16S, $50, and the previous year
$775,s91, 3s1. During last fiscal year the value
of exports of merchandise amounted to
500. 319, 473, being larger than ever before in
the history of the country. The value Of
imports of merchandise was $642 $50, 219,
which was larger than during any previous
year with the exception of the year immedi-
ately preceding.