The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-15

lola. KANSAS
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary of Important Events.
ANOTHER lunatic has been arrested il
Washington. He went into the Adjutan
Generals office, slapped General Drum OF
the back, and said he had revelation tina
he must kill Vice-President Arthur. HI
was promptly arrested.
THE Washington correspondent of 6
New York paper of the 7th writes: sit i!
said on good authority that proclamation
converting Congress in special session wal
prepared Yesterday or earlier and signed by
the President, to be issued in the event of hi.
illness taking an unfayorable and necessarily
fatal turn"
THE attention of the Secretary OF
State has been called to the fact that William
Brink, for four years citizen of Hartford,
Conn.,, and member of the State militia,
has been seized while on visit to Germany,
his native land, and forced into the Six
teenth Infantry. 1t is expected the Ger
man Government will promptly order the
release of Brink as soon as the facts are pre-
scented.
REDUCTION of the public debt during
June, $12,32S, 152. Cash in the Treasury,
S249, 1868, 416; gold certificates, 5,7S2, 9N;
silver certificates, SOL, 166, $50; certificates of
deposit outstanding, 1885, 600; refunding
certificates, $685., 500; legal-tenders outstand-
ing, $346, 741, 551; fractional currency out
standing, 81, 105, 1858. Tota; reduction of the
debt for the fiscal year, SOL ,57S,4 S3; availa-
ble.cash in Treasury, SIC, 920 1863.
THE Memphis Board of Health have
issued an order, to take effect July 10, that
no boat of any description arriving at that
port from below shall land any articles such
as rags, paper stock, old rope, second hand
clothing, bedding and upholstered furni-
ture, nor shall any other freight which may
have been carried in contact with such ar
ticles, nor any person from such boat, be al
lowed to land or be landed at that port. The
above classes of merchandise should be
shipped in sealed barges past that port for
the next ninety days.
The Talbot brothers, sentenced to be
hanged on July % for the murder of their
father, DR.. Perry H. Talbot. near Mary
vile, Mo-, have made confession. Accord
ing to their statements Charles E. Talbot
shot his father with gun while the latter
was maltreating his mother. Henry Wyatt
was present and saw the shooting. Albert
p. Talbot came in soon afterward, and the
father was placed in bed. He realized that
his wound was mortal, and instructed the
family to charge the shooting upon some I'M
known assassin, in order to clear the family
through which it was declared the shot had
been fired, was shattered Intentionally, by
order of the father, to further carry out the
alleged scheme.
TIE committee appointed by the
New York Assembly to investigate the
sions have made two reports, as was ex-
pected The majority report says that the
charge and denial were both positive andthe
other evidence merely circumstantial, and
in view Of the fact that the Grand Jury had
taken the matter in hand, it Is recommended
that no steps be taken to prejudice the case.
The minority regard as conclusive the evil
dence that money has been used to influence
the Senatorial election, but the committee
failed to examine Barber, Edwards or
Phillips, whose names were most prominent
in the alleged use of money, and no direct
evidence was educed other than that given
by Bradley. The testimony taken will be
laid before the Grand Jury.
FURTHER information concerning the
recent massacre of party of Americans
in Mexico by Indians is to the effect that
the victims were not railroad engineers,
as 1t first supposed, but a party of trav-
elers going by coach to Chihuahua. The
Indians ambushed the coach and fired upon
it, killing the driver at once and the two
lead mules. The passengers, seven in
number, were then taken out and five of
them killed, viz, Charles Greene, Of In
dependence, HANS; Larie Fordham, Of
Boston, Mass; Guy Levitt, of Indi-
ana; George Wallace, of Taylorville, ILL.,,
and Charles Haines, of Kansas. Greene
body was burned. The other bodies were
all scorched. Thomas r. Pugh, one Of the
passengers, and son of ex-senator Pugh,
was taken prisoner by the Indians. What
his fate is has not yet been learned. The
other passenger, Thomas Cummerford, of
San Francisco, Cal, and the conductor es-
capped in the darkness. The Indians were a
remnant of Victorio's Apaches. The Next
can authorities have already dispatched sew
eral bodies Of troops to the Candelario Noun
tains to scout for these Indians, and Gov.
Terrasas will order Mexican Federal troops
from Chihuahua to scout the stage road,
and will also furnish an escort for stage
coaches.
LATE European news: The harvest
prospects in Southern Russia are so brilliant
that II realized the abundance will be unpre-
cedented. This Is due to the abnormal
quantity of rain the last two months, though
its continuance in some parts now excites a
fear they may have too much. Such num-
bers Of corn beetle appeared in the Govern
ments Of Kharkoff and Kherson that the