The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24

old child OF David Henderson, of Boonvlfic.
Ind, fell into = tub of boiling water and was
scalded to death. se
THE SOUTH. ia. ~
: The Court House at Crockett, Texas, in
which was the jail and postofice, was com,
pletely destroyed by fire lately. All the
records were lost. A white man named OH
yer McCarys and . negro, Samuel Doty, per-
ished in the flames. - i1Ht@4 .gif,Ga
Unofficial returns from all counties in North
Carolina, except Graham, give Bennett, Dem
ocrat for Congressman-at,L Large, S73 maiori-
ty. Graham is small county and will prob
ably increase Benefits majority. Yorke, Co
alitionist, is conceded by the Democrats to be
elected to Congress in the Seventh District.
Mary Booth, negrcss, fourteen years Of
age, who Was sentenced to be hanged at Sur
rey Court House, Va.y for the murder Of
Mrs. r. c. Gray and Travis Jones, by poison
ing has had her sentence -commuted by the
Governor to life imprisonment owing to her
extreme youth. '7i,a zoe %
!. The New York and Texas. Mexican Railway
company recently purchased 10000 acres of
land in Pecos, Tom Green and Ell Paso coun-
ties, Texas, for colonies.
An elevator in Meningitis carpet store, in
Louisville, KY, fell recently, distance Of
thirty five feet. Capt. "! c. Hite had both
legs broken, and will probably die; Capt. John
Howard, Of Jacksonville, Indiana, probably
fatally injured; Judge B. F. Beard, Of Har.
dinsbbrg, KY, and c. F. Turner and X. Dye.
statesmen of the house, we're seriously injured,
The steamship Hankow cleared at New
Orleans on the 14th for Liverpool with S.7l3
bales of cotton, the largest cargo ever cheated
from that port. y, In,
Six prisoners under sentence to the peni-
Tertiary, broke Jail at Bowling Green, Ky,
lately by knocking the jailor. down when he
entered to give them their breakfast.
Gov. Colquitt has been elected United
States Senator by the Georgia Legislature for
the long term to succeed the late Senator Hill
Pope Barrow was chosen for the short term.
1t is announced that Massey, the Democratic
candidate for Congressman-atL Large in Viz.
ginia, will contest the seat of Readiuster John
s. Wise, who has been clared elected. go
The yellow fever epidemic has been declared
ended at Pensacola.
J. B. Tinsley, of Knoxville, Tenn, a trader,
recently presented forged note to the Cleve-
land, Tenn, bank, and when discovered shot
himself through the head, dying Instantly.
GENERAL.
Ninety sailing vessels and eight steamers
wore lost during September. .TH' -
The Governments of England and France
have entered into O definite agreement in re.
gard to the control of the finances of Egypt.
France has accepted the offer of
England that the Presidency of the
public debt commission be given to France as
compensation for doing away with the present
system of control, and other questions re-
lating to the organization of finances. Egypt
will be treated by these two Governments in
concert with the other great powers of Eu-
rope. '',-.' ..'
Mrs. Scoville is lecturing at London, Ont,
on Tried for Insanity" She will lecture in
other Canadian towns. ..
Paris dispatches state that President Grevy
has been seized with sudden illness. He has
had two attacks of rush of blood to the brain,
caushed primarily by Indigestion. The attack
is apoplectic in its character. Excitement in
official and political circles is intense, and the
in Government circles is still further
by this unlocked for factor.
President Grevy's resignation, which has been
foreshadowed by certain papers, may be ex-
peditei by his illness.
The Porte informed the Khedive that any con-
vention made with England must first be re-
ferred to the Sultan. -,
The English counsul at Cairo has complained
to the Khedive of harsh treatment of pris-
oner at Szagazig, who was formerly cotton
but who had been set 20 watering
the streets and doing other degrading labor.
Russian newspapers have been forbidden to
make any allusion regarding the construction
of military railroads or the movement Of
troops near the Russian-Turkish frontier.
The question at issue between the prose-
cution and defense in the case of the Egyptian
rebel prisoners have been practically arranged.
one of Arabi's counsel, will COM
mence the examination Of witnesses for the
defense.
fearful explosion of dynamite occurred
in Burryport Llanelly, Wales, instantly killing
three girls and two men and wounding seven
others.
The steamship Ganges, which started from
Baltimore recently, for Belfast, ireland, ran
aground about fifteen miles below the city.
The Ganges had on board over $1,000 bushels
of wheat.
Patrick Casey, on trial in Dublin for the
of the joyce family has been found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged Dec. 18th.
-." THE LATEST. tHH ~
Malignant diphtheria is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Frankford, a manufac-
turing suburb of Philadelphia. h is feared
the disease may become epidemic. '-..''
William II. Cunningham, workman at the
tAla) Rolling Mills, left work.
and walked over to the Alice blast furnace,
assembled to the mouth of the stack and
awaited the moment for charging. When the
ball was raised he threw off his hat and leaped
head foremost into the furnace. The deceased
came formerly from Kentucky.
The cut in passenger rates between Chicago
and the Northwest has about reached the
having been sold at 81
from st. Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago
The freight traffic is also getting the benefit
Of the cut in rates, grain being transported
Tor about one-half the ordinary rate. In fact
i has now become q contest for the movement
If this years crops, and will lead to a free
light between the rival lines, which, it is be-
ieved in railroad circles, may last thirty days,
Or until the crop is moved. ''-'''.
Secretary Teller will not; in his annual re-
sort, recommend reduction in the cost of
a patent He is persuaded to this.
course, it is said from the fact that our patent
avs are now the most liberal of any country |