The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-05-20
Personal AND GENERAL.

MRS. MARY PATTERSON, aged %, and
married on the previous day, committed
suicide at Philadelphia BY. leaping from .
spected. Her friends believe that the pros
pect of continued poor health and the ex-
element attending her marriage had affect
ed her reason. 4 @ at 5f
MRS. CHARLES MURRY, of Canton,
O., had been ordered by her physician to
take quinine pills every three hours and a
morphine powder thrice day. She reversed
the order, with fatal results. She had been
married but two weeks.
A REMARKABLY interesting expert
ment has just been made at Calais and Do
yer, on the English Channel, between which
places conversation has been kept up uird
roce, by means of q new kind Of telephone,
which has been patented under the name Of
the electrophone. Not only were words
whispered into the apparatus at Calais dis
tinctly heard at Dover, and Of course cice
rersa, but the listener at one end was per-
fectly able to distinguish by mere tones Of
other end.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on
the 9th voted to report adversely on the
nomination Of Stanley Matthews as Associate
Jnstice Of the Supreme Court.
The United States Grand Jury at
Denver, Colo, have indicted Major W. H.
Berry, Indian Agent at the Los Pinos Agen-
cy; Commissioner A. r. Meacham; Capt.
II. C. Kline, and five Ute Indians, VIZ,
Shavano, Piah, Echo, Henry and Uneo (the
latter now dead), for the murder Of young
Jackson some months ago. The Indians
will in all probability resist arrest, and a
collision is considered imminent.
ORDERS have been issued from the
Post-office Department to discontinue the
steamboat mail service at once on the fol-
lowing routes in the South and Southwest:
Memphis, Tenn.,. to Wittsburg, Ark, 140
miles, cost of service and route ST., 1873 per
annum; Camden, Ark, to New Orleans, 671
miles, cost of service 5000 per annum;
Jacksonport, Ark, to Batesville, Ark. :,
30 miles, cost of service, S3,959 per annum;
Little Rock to Fort Smith, Ark, 26O miles,
cost of service, 5000 per annum. In addi-
ton to the routes mentioned q score or more
short routes South and Southwest will be
discontinued, and at an early date other and
larger reductions and disturbances of
what the department regards as unnecessary
routes in various sections of the country may
be expected.
The Southern Utes are on the war
path, and general uprising is feared. In
La Plata County, Colo, three ranchmen,
named May, Smith and Thatcher, were
killed.
THE completion of the St. Louis &
San Francisco Railroad to Rogers, Ark,
was formally celebrated at that place on the
10th.
AT Kincardine, Ont, two men, named
Bronscome and Spindler, were suffocated by
foul air while repairing well.
A FIRE occurred within the Missouri
Penitentiary inclosure at Jefferson City, On
the night of the 9tt, entirely destroying Sui
livan's saddle-tree shop and Priesmeyer's
shoe shop, together with the prison engine
and machinery. The Capital Guards were
put under arms and marched to the prison
to prevent any outbreak Of prisoners, but
fortunately their services were not needed.
THE management of the Texas & Pa
cidc Railroad Company have applied for a
company of United States soldiers to be sent
to the western terminus of the road to pro-
tect workmen and property from a gang Of
desperadoes.
AT Lincoln, ILL.,, the three-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Yellton climbed
upon a stool and thrust her head through 3
loop formed in the rope of swing. In some
way the little thing lost her footing, and
when discovered by her horror-stricken
mother was hanging by the neck, dead.
The President has nominated Thomas
r. McMorris, Colorado, Commissioner to ac-
cept and ratify the agreement submitted by
the Indians of Colorado.
The French Ambassador at Constan-
tinople has handed the Porte q note saying
that the dispatch of any armed force to Tunis
by Turkey would be regarded as ''casus
belli."
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany has leased the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad, which it has operated since
the latter road was taken from the hands of
the Union Trust Company in December of
last year. The lease has been approved and
signed by the officers Of both companies, and
be submitted to the stockholders for ratifica-
ton on May 10. It is understood that the
lease is virtual continuation of the present
agreement, by which the Missouri Pacific
operates the road and pays to the company
the net earnings.
An expedition is to be at once formed
to root out band of American and Mexican
horse thieves in the Ariope district near the
Arizona border. The Governor Of Ariope
has asked the cooperation of Gov. Fremont
of Arizona.
The boiler Of portable saw-mill en-
CINE exploded on the farm of H. n. Rood
house, near Whitehall, H., instantly killing
con of F. NJ. Baldwin. owner of the mill,
and severely injuring two others. Four men
employed in Powers saw-mill at Belfort,
O., were scalded by similar explosion, one,
W. H. Young, fatally.
DURING thunderstorm near Cedar
town, Ga, Mrs. Braizer and Miss Prince
were killed by lightning. They were sitting
in a room with Thomas Yancey, Thomas