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


NEWS AND NUYm
A Summary Of Important Events.
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IT was reported on the 9th that Mrs.
Garfield was seriously III with bilious inter-
mittent fever. ~
II has been decided by the Treasury
Department to extend the limit of time for
receiving six per cent. bonds Tor continue.
ton at 1-2 per cent. The date to which the
limit will be extended is believed to be the
Goth inst. f. aa
THE monument to Stonewall Jackson
was unveiled by the Association OF the Army
of Northern Virginia at Metarie Cemetery,
New Orleans, on the 10th. Fitz Hugh Lee
and Jefferson Davis addressed an immense
gathering.
The Cowpens monument was un-
yelled at Spartansburg, S. c., on the 18th,
with impressive ceremonies. The granite
base and the pedestal of the monument were
built by Joint contributions Of the old thirteen
States and Tennessee, and the bfonze statue
ofGen. Morgan was contributed by Congress.
ADUBLIN dispatch says: A bailia,
employed by Lord Dundalls, while return
ing from wake, was shot through the lungs,
receiving a mortal wound. His assassins
were concealed behind hedge near Dooken.
John Hefferman, aprominent Land Lacquer,
has been arrested at Cork, and several other
arrests have been made near Castelar,, I'M
der the provisions Of the Coercion act.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD is said to have
clearly intimated that he should consider the
votes of Senators upon the question OF
Robertson's confirmation to be test of per-
sonal and political friendliness. The Presi-
dent, it is said, scrupulously abstained from
threats, but it was very evident that he
would regard vote against Robertson as an
unfriendly act toward his Administration
and toward himself.
OFFICIAL information is published
that the majority of stockholders in the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
have agreed with the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way Company to sell their shares to the lat
ter, receiving pay therefor in full-paid stock
of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company at
the rate of three shares of the Missouri Tor
four shares of the Iron Mountain. 1t is un-
derstood that q distinct management for each
road will be continued.
A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says
there were two days of rioting at Beresouka,
Government of Cherson. Shops were pill
LACED and three Jewish houses burned.
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peasants and village authorities ut Victo-
vowk. At Kieff troops are stationed In the
streets. One person was killed and eighteen
wounded. There have been ], 400 arrests.
Near Jeanewika, Jewish houses and shops
destroyed. Two special trains Of refugee
Jews have arrived at Berdieheff. At Anan-
jeff all houses of Jews have been destroyed.
The River Dwina, at Archangel, has flooded
the greater part of the town, causing great
distress.
ONE F. D. Wilcox, of Portland, Ore,
but formerly of Arkansas, has commenced
suit at Denver, Colo, against ex-senator S.
W. Dorsey, for compensation for getting up
petitions for tsexpeditedo star mail routes
in Oregon and Washington Territory. A
large number Of alleged letters and kilograms
from Dorsey to Wilcox are published, giving
explicit directions for getting up the petit
lions and for sub.letting contracts. OF the
routes thus manipulated, one from Eugene
City to Bridge Creek was ''expedi-
ted" from $2,46s to $21, 400; one from
Dallas to Baker City, via Canyon City, from
s., 2ss to $72,5eO, and one from Canyon City
to Camp McDermott from $2,S8S to
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name of J. NJ. Peck, s. w. Dorsey's brother
in-law. Another expedited" route, held by
j. w. Dorsey, brotheriof S. w., is from
Dallas to Lakeview, the compensation being
raised from $s,oss to $4,000.
The marriage of the Crown Prince
Rudolph Of Austria and the Princess Ste
phanie of Belgium was most imposingly
solemnized at the Church of Augustine at
Vienna on the 10th. An immense multitude
collected in the streets through which the
royal procession drove to the church. An
hour before the commencement of the cere.
mony the church was densely crowded by o
brilliant and striking assembly. A fanfare
of trumpets signaled the arrival Of the cor.
tege at the church door, where it was received
by the Cardinal Won Schwartzenberg at the
head of his clergy, and their majesties took
seats under the canopy over throne. The
bridal pair proceeded to their places before
the sanctuary rails, where they offered short
prayers. After brief address from the Car
dinal the marriage ceremony was proceeded
with. At the moment the rings were ex-
changed peals broke forth from the bells of
the city and salutes of artillery were fired.
At the conclusion of the ceremony the TIE
Deum was sung, after which the Hoffburg
choir executed the old German march. The
newly married pair, accompanied by other
royal personages, then returned to the city
palace of Hofburg.
SENATOR CONKLING made q lengthy
speech before the Republican Senatorial
Caucus held on the 9th, in which he pre-
scented with great force and perspicuity his
reasons for opposing the confirmation OF
Judge Robertson as Collector Of the Port of
New York. He showed that Robertson had
been, and still continued to be, an agrees
sive foe to him and his friends, and declared