The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AMI NUIEO
A Summary Of Important Events.
GEN. JOSEPH LANE died at his home
In Roseburg, Ore, on the 18th, aged 70.
THE President nominated Gen. James
Longstreet, now Minister to Turkey, United
States Marshal for Georpia.
The effort to displace John Kelly a.
head Of the New York Tammany organiza.
ton at the recent election failed.
Hon. ROWLAND E. TROwBRIDGE, late
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and for sew
eral terms Representative in Congress from
Michigan, is dead, aged 60.
Col. FRED. GRANT has resigned from
the Army for the purpose of entering the
employ Of the Chicago, Texas & Mexican
Central Railroad as civil engineer OF the
road.
SECRETARY BLAINE has been forced
to take few days. vacation on account of
his impaired health, which is said to be
greatly augmented by the onerous duties OF
his important Office.
The Vienna police have seized series
of letters and other documents written by
Most, editor of the London Freiheit. and
other Socialists. The papers prove Vienna
to be selected by German Socialists as the
center of their agitation.
Tup bo,ro ~ Erroro porrol1 FORM
er at Hastings, Neb., was struck by light
ming and burned the other day. Mrs. Par
nell was disabled and persisted in the flames.
Her husband succeeded in dragging himself
from the house, but his recovery is doubt
full.
THE United States Courts it seems
have no jurisdiction in the Missouri land
fraud cases, and the accused parties will be
proceeded against by indictments in the
State Criminal Courts. Lindsay has already
been indicted, and some of the others will
probably meet with the same treatment.
. The President has nominated Richard
A. Elmer, of New York, Second Assistant
Postmaster-General;W w. A. NJ. Grier, of
Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster
General, vice A. D. Hazen, appointed
Assistant Attorney General of the Post
Office Department; George B. Everett,
United States Collector of Internal Revenue,
Fifth District of North Carolina.
The International Monetary Confer
ence convened in Paris on the 10Th. Fifteen
States were represented Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Spain, United States,
France, England, Greece, Italy, Holland,
Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.
The English and Italian delegates had not
arrived. On motion of Mr.. Evarts, Delegate
Magnin, French Minister of Finances, was
elected President of the Conference.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dis
patch of the 21st says: The action Of the
President in removing Brady, Second As
sistant Postmaster General, has revived the
matter of the star route service and former
charges in that connection. Not only has
Brady been removed, but the President has
ordered that the star route matter be thor
oughly investigated with view Of ascertain
ing all who had any connection with it. POST
master General James is conducting the
Investigation, and it is given out that he
has discovered enough to warrant the
removal of several officials in. the depart
ment 1t is stated that some of the accused
parties will be indicted in the end. In a
short time James will publish the result of
the investigation, but at present the Depart
ment only says that hundreds of thousands
of dollars were unnece-> arily expended in
eXpediting routes, and that when all useless
expenditures are cut down the Post office
Department will be nearl. self.sustaining.
On the morning of the 21st, as the
night express train st-bound on the Rock
Island Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway was moving ut ordinary
speed across the trestle-work over the Mere
dOsia River, one mile south of Albany, H.,
the trestle gave way, and the train without
warning was suddenly precipitated into the
river. The train consisted of an engine,
tender, baggage.car, passenger and sleeping
cars. All went down except the
sleeper, which remained suspended
over the end of the bridge at an an.
gle of forty-five degrees, the up
per end high in the air. Two cars foated
off down stream. The passenger coach
lodged against an island forty rods away,
and the baggage-car stuck in the middle of
the stream about the same distance. Three
persons were rescued from the top of car
as it floated down the stream, and others
saved themselves by springing upon the
abutments Of a wagon-bridge some distance
below. The engineer and fireman disap-
peared with the cab in deep water. Eight
lives in all are reported to have been lost.
BENJAMIN DIsRAELI, Lord BeAcons-
field, died at $50 a. m. on the 18th. after an
illness of several weeks duration. He was
born in London Dec. 81. 1905; commenced
his literary career at the age of 81 by the
publication of "yivian Gray" novel which
at once brought its author into prominence;
at the age of 30 was first elected to Parlia-
ment, having been twice previously defeat
ed; in 1S49 he became the recognized leader
of the Conservative party in Parliament;
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