The Iola register., 1881-02-18

THE lola REGISTER.
Fublished Every Friday.
lola. KANSAS.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
The Committee on Post-offices and
Post-roads have voted in favor of 81 ,OO0, 900
subsidy to American steamers in foreign
mail service.
THE King of Ashantee has declared
war against England, and stores and ammu-
milton have been ordered to the Cape Coast
from Madeira.
PARNELL soon sails for America.
American Fenians are said to be arriving in
are closely watched.
A PARTY of Eastern capitalists have
visited Arkansas and Texas with view OF
investing largely in cotton mills should the
outlook prove favorable.
PA. COLLINS, President of the Amer
lean branch of the Irish Land League, sp-
peals to the American people and Irish in
America for practical aid.
JAY GOULD as Vice-President and
Gen. Eckert as General Manager Of the
consolidated Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany, have assumed entire control OF the
business. ra -..s
The fund of the Irish Land League
has been deposited in France, in the. names
of Parnell, Davitt, Dillon and Egan. The
latter has gone to Paris to escape the opera
ton of the Coercion act.
The report is current in Wall Street
that Gould and Vanderbilt are hereafter to
work together in the development of the
Southwestern railroads and in the construc-
ton of a line to the Mexican capital,
IT is said that orders have been given
to treat Davitt with all possible indulgence.
He occupies room apart from the convicts
and will not be subject to ordinary prison
labor, although wearing convict's dress.
The Ways and Means Committee
have voted to present a bill to repeal the
stamp tax on exports of tobacco and the iE-
ternal revenue tax on matches, proprietary
medicines, perfumery, bank checks and
bank deposits. A motion to add salt to the
free list was lost-five to five.
The ice blockade of the Mississippi
at St. Louis was broken on the 9th and navi-
CATION resumed, after close Of seventy -one
days. Steamboatmen apprehended no little
damage from the great fields of ice coming
down the Missouri, but fortunately their
fears proved groundless on this occasion.
The steamer Bohemian, from Boston
to Liverpool, laden with cattle, meat and
grain, was wrecked of the Irish coast during
the recent gales, and thirty-five lives were
lost, among them her commander, Capt.
Grundy, and five men in charge of the cat
tie and refrigerators. Twenty one Of the
crew were saved.
The St. Louis Times was sold on the
9Th, by order of Court, and was knocked
down for $24, 800, the proprietors Of the st.
Louis Republican being the purchasers. 1t
is understood that its publication will be
permanently discontinued, and its Asso-
ciated Press franchise thereby permitted to
lapse.
A NUMBER of prominent Cleveland
manufacturers identified with the iron in
terest have addressed memorial to General
Garfield, setting forth the injury done to
their interests by recent customs decisions
Of the Secretary of the Treasury, and asking
that his successor be man who is more in
sympathy with the doctrine Of protecting
American industries.
MFssRs. OLIVER and Grow, the rival
Republican contestants for the United States
Senatorship before the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature, both announced their withdrawal on
the 9th, after the twenty first ballot had been
taken. The Oliver men then transferred
their votes to Gen. James A. Beaver, and
the Grow men gave theirs to Thomas NJ.
Bayne. The result of the twenty-second
ballot was as follows: Wallace, So; Beaver,
63; Bayne, 60; scattering, 26.
The latest advices from Cape Town
are that the British forces under command
of Sir G. P. Colley are in a very critical posi-
ton, having been cut off from their base of
supplies at Newcastle. The Beers have been
largely reinforced. An engagement occurred
on the sth, brought on by Gen. Colley
attempting to restore communication with
Newcastle. The Beers made the attack, and
it is said were repulsed with considerable
loss, but nevertheless succeeded in thwart-
ing Gen. Colley's plans, and he was forced to
fall hack AGAIN to his old camp.