The Iola register., 1883-01-12

sHalpOx corpse. lney ail TOOK tne ulsease
in its most malignant form and two have died.
Anton Gaus and Hermann Fogel were ar
rested at Canton, Ohio, and taken to Atlanta,
Ga, where they are charged with robbing the
mails
Mrs. +. T. Fields, the wife of a respected
business man, of San Antonio, Texas, was
recently fired at twice with revolver by Mrs.
Lucretia Weber, the wife of hackman, one
ball grazing Mrs. Fields head. The cause of
the trouble was about children. Mrs. Weber
was arrested.
GENERAL.
The excess of exports for twelve months,
ending November 30, 1882, was 81, ,434, ,S35;
excess of exports of gold and silver coin and
bnllion, same period, was S32, 701, ,307: value
of imports of merchandise into the United
States for twelve months ending November 30,
was $f5O647,295, increase of 800, 400, ,295;
value of exports of domestic and foreign mer-
chandise for twelve months, ending November
80, 1889, was $152, ,0S2, ,661, decrease Of s103,-
2O5, ,O3S.
Dispatches from Berlin state that. great dis
tress prevails along the Rhine caused by the
recent heavy foods. Seventy houses have
fallen at Badenheim. At Rexheim, Morsch
and Ophar 240 houses have fallen. At Dussell-
dorf the Market Square is flooded. Robstadt,
with the exception of the church and houses
of the clergy, is deeply submerged,
the water in many houses nearly reaching the
roofs. IL Friezeheim the scene beggars de-
scription. Ten thousand persons are rendered
homeless by the food ia the districts near
Worms. They are in danger of starvation.
Three thousand persons are homeless at Lud.
wigshafen, two thousand at Mannheim and
two thousand at Worms. They are lodged in
school houses and churches. Weisbaden ap-
pears to stand on an isthmus in the middle OF
vast sea. The great Rhine dam has given
away. A steamer and forty-five boats re-
cefved the people by torchlight. The.
village of Triesenheim is deserted, ard third
of the inhabitants have abandoned their
homes. Along the Danube the floods are
also disastrous. At Vienna the Danube has
risen suddenly. A thousand persons in the
lower parts OF the city have been compelled to
quit their homes. Travel on the railway con.
Meeting Vienna with Morayia is suspended.
The large railway bridge over the Danube 10
demolished and the Vienna terminus of the
road is flooded. The railway between Geneva
and Belegrade has washed away, and direc,
railway communication with France and Italy
is interrupted.
Dr. Neumcyer. the eminent physician of
Berlin. in public lecture, sscribed Gambet.a's
death due to the incompetency of doctors at
tending him.
Delaney, found guilty of conspiracy to muir
der Judge Lawson, at Dublin Ireland, was
sentenced to ten years. penal servitude.
The failures of the past week were 224 OF
which seventy-two were in the Western States.
THE LATEST.
In the Senate the 9th, the House bill per
hitting the expectation of tobacco, snuff, etc.,
free of duty rassed. The Senate then discussed
the Presidential Succession bill. The House
proceedings were unimportant.
Officials at the Interior Department are said
to be not very well pleased with the report of
the Senate Committae on Territories, in re-
gard to the Yellowstone Park lease to Rufus
Hatch and others. They regard it as an in
sinuation against their judgment or honesty,
and claim that under the law the Secretary of
the Interior has unquestionable right to make
lease of the kind objected to.
Minister that the United States Government
will permit transit through the United States
Of Chinese laborers.
Gambetta's funeral was attended by an i'm
mense concourse of people, the military OF
Paris, Government officials and civic societies.
The car containing the catafalque was one
especially designed by Bastien LeSage, the
painter. Itmoved low on black wheels, streaked
with silver. Along the line ofmarch the streets
were packed. All seemed anxious to do honor
to the memory Of the illustrious dead.
Ex-County Commissioners Carson and Eb-
ner, OF Wil,iamsport, Pa, were recently SEN
fenced to Fay a fine OF $3.50 each and Carson
to be confined twenty-one months and Elmer
fifteen months in the Eastern penitentiary.
They pleaded guilty to the embezzlement Of
the county funds.
At George H. Hayman's turpentine farm,
near Darien, Ga, negro entered the house
while the family were at dinner and shot Hay
man in the abdomen. Hayman knocked the
negro down, took the pistol and shot him
dead.
The Germans Of New York City are moving
promptly to raise relief for the sufferers by
the terrible food in Germany.
Robert Rose and Jack Moore, two middle
aged men, while asleep in house in Webster
County, W. Va, were recently burned to death.
They had probably drank heartily, built large
fire andlaid down, with the fatal result stated.
The Northern part Of Ohio was recently
shaken up by the shock of an earthquake.
In fight between the Albanian and Euro
pean members of the police force at Alexan-
dria, Egypt, one Albanian was killed and six
dangerously wounded. Two European police
were injured.
The Inman line steamer City of Brussels,
Capt. Land, from New York December g, for
Liverpool, was run down in the British chan
mel by Glasgow steamer during fog on the
7th- and ten persons were drowned. Two Of
those drowned were passengers.
Jas. A. Scott, one Of the pioneers of Kansas,
committed suicide by strychnine in Kansas
City last week. He had been wealthy, but
lost all his money in Kansas and Texas.
He moved to Kansas City and opened
small grocery store, but his previous losses
preyed upon his mind to fatal extent. His