The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12
PERsoNAL AND GENERAL.

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Exeter Hall, London, on the 18th ult About
500 delegates were in attendance, some sixty
being from the United States and the D6min-
ion Of Canada, and the remainder from Great
Britain, France, Switzerland, Germany and
other countries.
THE Emperor of Germany has con-
ferred upon Prof. VIM. Dwight Whitney, Of
Massachusetts,, the order Of merit made Va.
cant by the death of Thomas Carlyle.
At Valley Station, Ky. Geo. M. Al
sop, accused Of forgery, and hard case
generally, killed Constable J. 8. Harrison,
who was attempting to arrest him. The
murderer had not been captured at last ac-
counts.
H. ANDREWS, q young farmer living
northeast of Marion, Iowa, was thrown from
a wagon ind killed by the team running
away. His body was found by the road
side.
A DOUBLE tragedy was recently en-
acted near Stonewall in the Cherokee Ma
ton. Major A. Williams, becoming fren-
zied through jealousy of his wife, shot her
through the head, causing instant death.
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bodies were found lying only few feet
apart.
WILLIAM A. STEWART, County Clerk
of San Francisco, CAL, has skipped out leav-
ing a shortage in his accounts of $50, 600.
Stock speculations and fast horses did it.
A MAGAZINE explosion, with great
loss of life, is reported from Mazatlan, Mex
leo. The building was situated in the GEN.
ter of the business portion of the town. The
explosion completely RACED the magazine
and destroyed many houses in the immedi-
ate vicinity, beside doing considerable dam.
age to number of others and killing large
number of people. Immediately after the
explosion, the soldiers and citizens went to
work to recover the bodies of those known
were recovered, and among them was Fran
cisco Pena, District Judge. The number of
killed and wounded was not known, as
many bodies were said to be still buried I'M
der the ruins.
THE NewYork Herald publishes Stats
tics showing that there has been subscribed
in the North and in Europe for investment
in the South during the last eigh-
teen months, 500, 100000. Most of this
money has been put into the States
east of the Mississippi and in the
country south of Richmond. 1t has gone
mainly, of course, into railroads. But 50, 0O0,-
ono has lately been invested in cotton fac
tories in Augusta alone; and considerable
sums have been lent to planters and to mer-
camille or Industrial enterprises.
IT is rumored the British officials OBJ
tanned their Information regarding the con-
templated shipment of internal machines
from America from a memorandum-book
found in possession of McGrath, one Of the
men indicte for the attempt to blow up the
Town Hall at Liverpool.
The Vicksburg quarantine station
has been re-established.
THE Yorktown Centennial celebration
will begin on Oct. Is.
AT Dyersburg, Tenn, on the I'd, Mike
Wells, negro, was lynched upon con-
Tossing an assault upon the person of Mrs.
j. T. Childress.
Ex-Governor COVE SALISBURY,
of Delaware, is dead.
FIRE in the lower part OF DeadwOod,
OAK, ON the Sd, known as Fountain City,
destroyed twenty-five buildings. Loss about
100000. Small insurance. Many families
with only thin night clothes. The
origin is unknown.
TRUcKEE, CAL, has had $3.50, 1000
fire. 1t originated in a dance-house.
McKEEsPoRT, Pa, and surrounding
country is intensely excited over the murder
of George Mcclure and the serious wound
ing Of Constable Fleming by gang Of
thieves. Large forces of armed men are in
search of the murderers. Six men supposed
to belong to the gang have been arrested at
West Newton.
The continued war of the trunk lines
on passenger rates West has finally resulted
in reduction of fares to the East. All the
lines have been selling tickets from Bo.ton
and New York to Chicago at a net price Of
81. On the I'd the Grand Trunk Chicago
office placed Boston tickets on sale at S., and
it was expec ed other routes would at once
meet the reduction. The St. Louis roads
are not directly involved in this fight, but
have made slight reductions in fares to all
points North and East.
MCGRArH and McKavitt, who at
tempted to blow up the Liverpool Town
Hall, have been found gully. McGrath was
sentenced to penal servitude for life and Nc.
Kavitt for fifteen years.
The cornerstone of the monument to
Casewell, North Cardinals Revolutionary
War Governor, was laid at Raleigh on he
Sd. Senator Vance and Gov. Jarvis made
addresses.
The total receipts from the Internal
Revenue service for the fiscal year ending
June 80 last was in round numbers $780,
229, 9O2, classified as follows: Spirits, $67,-
153,S74; tobacco, $42.S54, 99l; fermented
liquors. $40, 7OO,24l; banks and bankers,
IS, 1852 ,2OS; sale of stamps, ,924, 707; penal
ties, 1921 JOG; other sources, $l52, 121. The
largest whisky district is the Fifth Illinois,
$11 34 .93l. The largest tobacco district is
the Third New York. 1851, 67s. But TAX
ing whisky and tobacco together, the First
Ohio takes the lead-whisky, $1O,5l7 40;
tobacco, $1.S5s,74
The investigation made by Drs.
Thayer and McEachern, representing the
United States Treasury Cattle Commission,
into the disease prevailing among cattle in
certain districts of Nova Scotia. leads to The