The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-03

the night OF the sd, by which many lives
were lost, the number being estimated at
near one hundred. The excursion was un
der the management of the Mount Royal
Beneficial Society Of the Catholic Church
Of Corpus Christi, of which Father Starr is
pastor. Between fifteen hundred and two
thousand children and parents had gone on
the excursion and the party had mostly re-
turned by steamer, but when the last boat
left, there was a rush to get aboard for fear
of being left, when the wharf gave way and
fell with a crash, carrying with it fully two
hundred struggling human beings. Fully
one hundred were reported lost, mostly
young ladies and children.
GEORGE KANE, Harry Suffer and Worth
ington Mccullough, Of Cumberland, and a
young man from Frostburg, Md, while
rowing on the Potomac in a boat recently,
were capsized and all drowned.
Ex-GovERNoR SWAMI, of Maryland,
died recently at Leesburg, Va.
The various commercial bodies of New
Orleans few days ago adopted a resolu
ton that the Board of Health be requested
have infested vessels now in the waters of
the State removed, and that he issue his
proclamation that henceforth no vessel
from any infected port be permitted to en-
ter the waters of the State.
THE other night boat containing eight
men and two young girls, all colored, who
were crossing the James River near Rich.
mond, Va, to attend a prayer meeting at
Sandy Point, upset and eight of the party
were drowned.
The Georgia House of Representatives
unseated d. P. Proctor (white) from Cam.
den County, and seated Anthony Wilson
Wilson has been in two previous Legis.
latures. There arc two other negroes in
the House.
The steamship Andian, with yellow fever,
arrived at Newport News, Va, and was
ordered below quarantine station. All
foreign vessels entering the capes will be
stopped if sickness is on board.
JAMES WILL, telegraph operator Of At.
lanta, Ga, who had withdrawn from the
strikers and returned to work, was shot
and seriously wounded the other day by
an unknown person who fired through the
window of the Office. The Western Union
conviction of the man who fired the shot.
WHILE Smelling corn in barn W. d.
Eskill, a prominent farmer near Fayette-
vile, Tenn, was killed by lightning and
several others seriously injured.
The jury in the case of ex-Treasurer
Polk, of Tennessee lately on trial at Nash.
vile, brought in a verdict of guilty of EN-.
bezzlement, fixing the penalty at imprison.
ment in the penitentiary for twenty years
and imposing fine to the full amount of
the embezzlement, about 100000.
Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR died at his
residence at White Sulphur Springs, Va,
last week.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany denies the rumor that that company
was negotiating a compromise with the
Brotherhood of Operators, and declared
that no conferences were pending with that
view or any other, and none was contem.
plated.
A RECENT concert at the Grand Opera
House in Baltimore for the benefit of the
Brotherhood of Telegraphers of that city,
realized 81 300.
AT Nashville, counsel for the defense in
the Polk case entered a motion for q new
trial on the ground of incompetency of the
jury. Affidavits of two witnesses were
submitted to the effect that one of the
jurors stated to them on the day he was
summoned that if selected for Juror he
was in favor of hanging the prisoner, but
the affidavit also stated that this was said
in a lest