The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
GEN. HANCOCK has signified his in
tention of being present at the Inauguration
of Gen. Garfield.
Col. CASH, who killed Col. Shannon
in duel in South Carolina some months
ago, has been indicted for murder.
BOTH Houses of the Tennessee Legis-
Iature voted to take a recess, in order to
participate in the Presidents inaugural
ceremonies.
The Arkansas lower House, on the
22d, by vote of 66 to II, passed joint res
olution proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitution prohibiting the sale OF liquor IN
the State.
GEN. MALONE, the Virginia Senator
elect, has chosen his seat on the Republican
aide, and friend who is constantly in COM
munication with him predicts with conf
dence that Malone will vote with the Repub.
lican party.
A LARGE mass-meeting was held at
the Cooper Union, New York, on the night
of the 21st, under the auspices of the Ma
tional Anti Monopoly League. Peter Coop
er was present. Judge Jere. Black delivered
the principal address.
THE banking interests throughout the
country are generally opposed to the Fund
ing bill, some going so far as to predict it
will prove fatal to the National bank sys.
tenn. The Cleveland bankers have united in
petition to President Hayes asking him to
veto the bill.
The United States Circuit Court Gus
tice Woods) has decided in the case OF
Emile Francois, white man, sentenced I'M
der the Texas State law to five years. impris-
onment for marrying a colored woman, that
the State law has been abrogated by the
Fourteenth Amendment.
THE National I.ancers Of Boston and
the Cadets of Charlestown, Mass. received
an ovation at New Orleans on their arrival
there to participate in the Mardi Gras festiv-
ities. On Westinghouse Birthday there was
grand parade and other festivities, par
ticipated in by the visiting and local militia.
The deadlock in the Pennsylvania
Legislature was broken on the 2Sd, John j.
Mitchell, of Tioga, being elected United
States Senator on the thirty fifth ballot, re-
ceiving the solid Republican vote. Mr..
Mitchell has served several terms in the
House Of Representatives and is member
of the present Congress.
The Republican House Caucus, held
on the night of the 23d, resulted in deter
mination to use an parliamentary tactics to
defeat the passage of the Apportionmentb bill
the present session. There was considerable
diversity of opinion expressed, but it is said
enough Republican members will hold Out
to defeat the passage of the bill.
GEORGE I. SENEY, President of the
Metropolitan Bank, of New York City, has
put at the disposal Of the Methodist Epis.
copal Church $40, 900 in money and real es.
tate, the money to be employed in the estab.
lishment and erection in Brooklyn Of hos.
pital, open to Jew and Gentle, Protestant
and Roman Catholic, heather and infidel,
on the same terms.
SENATOR MATHEW H. CARPENTER,
of Wisconsin, died at his residence in Wash.
ington on the oath, after long and painful
Illness. He was born in Moretown, VT, in
1924, removed to Wisconsin in 1913, and
established himself in legal practice. After
serving in the lower House of Congress, in
1869 he was chosen United States Senator,
and in 1879 was elected to q second term.
The vacancy in the United States
Senate, caused by the death Of Mr.. Carpen.
ter, can not be filled before the Sth of March
the Constitution providing that the election
shall take place on the second Tuesday aftel
notice of vacancy is communicated to the
Legislature. Mr.. Carpenters death at this
iuncture gives the Democrats an undisputed
majority in the reorganization Of the Senate
BARON F. B. Won BEcKToLsBE1M
late Austro- Hungarian Consul at st. Louis,
has absconded, leaving many friends in the
lureh who had granted him precuniary &C.
commodations, and what is much worse
having appropriated to his own use various
sums of money intrusted to him in his Off
cial capacity, the losers Of which are gener'
ally poor people, who have no recourse
whatever.
THERE was decline of one dollar
per barrel in the price Of pork at Chicago
upon receipt of the news that France hat
forbidden the importation Of American hos
products into that country. 1t is estimated
that the prohibition will cause loss of s.,
OO0, 200 upon stock in that city alone, to sa!
nothing of that stored throughout the coun
try. The embargo was very unexpected
and took dealers greatly by surprise.
A SIGNIFICANT meeting of Free Trade
Democratic members Of Congress took plac,
in Washington, on the evening Of the 22d
the ostensible occasion Of the gathering be-
ing a dinner given by Representative
Hurd, Of Ohio. About thirty persons
were present and the preliminary steps wer'
taken toward forming permanent organiza
ton. 1t was the general sentiment Of thos,
present that Free Trade should hencefortl
be made prominent feature Of the Demo
cratic National policy.
EIGHT lives were lost by the burning