The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
boro, Miss, for /. murder committed two

boro, MISS, Tor murder committed two
years ago.
DEPARr's planning mill and 900, 900 feet OF
lumber, in the western portion of Nashville,
Tenn, burned the other night. Loss, ST..
900.
&c. JONES, wife murderer, was hanged
at Lexington, Ga, and Henry King was
hanged at Wsycross for the murder of a
colored band-master.
F. r. RICE, while working in his field
near Beebe, Ark, was recently killed by
lightning and his son badly injured.
In recent street fight at Paulding, Miss,
DR.. ]. NJ. Byrd, q prominent young ply
stefan, shot and killed Captain VIM. Browe,
ex-Sheriff of Jasper County.
The United States Collector at Newport
News, Va, reports that whisky is being
shipped from that port at Bermuda at such
q rate that his force is not able to do the
work. Additional gaugers will be sent
him. The shipments are expected to run
from 5000 to 10000 barrels per month.
THE business portion of the town of Alto,
La, was burned by an incendiary fire re.
Gently. Loss $40, 600; insurance 5000.
THE treaty of peace between Chilli and
Peru is said to be confirmed. Peru cedes
Tacna and africa for term OF ten years.
At the end of this term plebescite is to
determine to which country the Provinces
belong, the country acquiring them to pay
indemnity.
On the 18th st. Johns, N. B., was visited
by a severe snow storm.
BREADsTUFFs exported in April, 1888,
were valued at 81, ,3l3: corresponding
month last year, $9,90S, 1S9; exported for
the ten months ended April 80 last, S179,-
13S, 343; same period last year, S151 $40, 72'.
IT is announced that the Pekin Govern
ment has decided to establish Consulate
in Chicago, to consist of two members, one
American and one Chinese, who will devote
themselves to the protection of subjects of
the Celestial Empire, of whom there are 200
engaged in various avocations in that city.
Claims have been made that the police had
raided the resorts of these people indis-
innocent with the guilty, and certain of
the Cinnamon have requested a representa-
tive of their Government to whom they can
make an appeal.
DANIEL DELANEY and Edward Caffrey
were arraigned at Dublin upon the charge
of conspiracy to murder and pleaded gull
ty. Sentence deferred.
JAMES MULLET, Edward O'Brien, Ed
ward Mccartney, Daniel Delaney, William
Moroney and Thomas Doyle, all of whom
pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy
70 IN, n,,ll TO
sentence, and the first five were sentenced
to ten years and Doyle to five years penal
servitude.
VESSELS arriving from Bombay are be-
ing quarraptined at Suez, owing to the ex-
istence of cholera at that place.
FITZHARRIS, the Dublin cab driver, who
was acquitted of the charge of murder of
Cavendish and Burke, was put on trial
again as accessory after the fact, found
guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for
life.
ACCOUNTS from British Columbia state
that the conduct of the men who recently
attacked the Chinese in that Province was
cowardly and brutal, while the men who
had the alteration with the Chinese beat
them off with pick handles. At night,
when the Chinese were in bed, their camp
was attacked by a crowd. All the men
were armed with clubs and struck down
the Chinese as they rushed out of their
cabins i'm the dark. Nine were left on the
ground for dead. The mob then set fire to
the houses and decamped. As the white
men left some Chinese FASTENED back to
camp and tried to put out the fire, but
there being no water everything burned up.
DANIEL CURLEY, the second man convict
ed OF the murder of Cavendish and Burke,
was hanged at Dublin.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg says the
police of that city have been informed of
the existence of plot to brighten the horse
of the Gar at some favorable opportunity
during the procession at Moscow on corona.
ton day, and in the confusion which would
no doubt follow, to kill the Emperor.
MICHAEL DAvITT, in letter forwarding a
subscription to the fund being raised for
Parnell, says the Papal circular to the
clergy is preiudiced and unjust, and must
evoke strongly a painful resentment on the
part of the people. Healy, member of Par
lament from Wexford, in sending sub
scription to the fund, says Ireland will
neither take religion from Errington nor
gratitude from Rome.
THE business failures throughout the
country during the past week were III
against 154 the previous weeks.
THE LATEST.
LATER reports from the cyclone at Racine,
Wis, make it more terrible in its fatality
than at first reported. In and about the
city the killed were estimated at not less
hundred. The same tornado passed through
Illinois carrying death and destruction in
its course. The total number of killed at
various points in the State aggregated fully
sixty or sixty-five and the injured some
where near two hundred. At Springfield five
were killed and dozen or more wounded,
some fatally. At Jacksonville there were
a number of fatalities. Alton, Jerseyville,
Shipman, Staunton, Clinton, Litchfield,
Carlinville. Mason, Roodhouse, Maroa, and
various other places were visited with fatal
results. In Montgomery, st. Charles and
Warren Counties, No., some twenty or
more persons were killed and seriously in
Jured by the same Storm.
AN order has been issued by Postmaster
General Gresham, which directs that after
October contractors must secure permits
sion of the Postmaster Generalsbefore max
ing sub-contracts on any route, and appli-
cations to sub-let must be filed in the office
of the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral, and specifying rate to be paid per
annum under it in case the service shall be
changed.
The Treasury Department has decided
that the limitation of eighty-five per cent
in the schedule of the new tariff act relating
to duty on leaf tobacco refers to each pack
age covered by one invoice.