The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-30

Commissioner General of the Land Office It is
held that the mere certihcstion OF land to
State does not convey the title thereto, but
that patent must be duly issued. The effect
Of this decision will be to compel the State OF
Minnesota to take out patents for all lands
certified to It which may be found to be free
from conflicting claims. r
THE SOUTH. @
Four boys who participated in train rob-
berry near Austin, Texas, . week or two since,
have been arrested and jailed. The youngest
was thirteen and the Oldest only sixteen years
old.
W. E. Moore and bride, of Petersburg, Va,
started the day after their marriage, in
January, for visit to the West. They have
not been heard from since, and the families Of
both parties are very much concerned.
The johnson brothers, two Of the men OF
the little Rock and Fort Smith train robbery,
now in Jail, have confessed their crime.
George johnson said the party was organized
with the understanding that the train of the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was to be
captured and robbed. Their intention was
not to kill any one except in self-defense, and
to avoid bloodshed unless absolutely neces-
sary. Jim Herndon, who was captured recent
ly near Huntsville, fired the shot that killed
Conductor Cain. George johnson is an ex-
Federal soldier, drawing q Government PEN
sion. 20
The s., 900 reward offered by the State and
the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway for
the capture of the train robbers and the
murderer Of Conductor Cain at Mulberry,
Ark, not only exerted an influence resulting
in the capture of all but one Of the despera-
does in question, but caused dozens OF other
criminals to be captured or killed The
Sheriff Of Logan County and posse attacked
gang whom they found lodging in the
woods, and in the fight several Of the gang
were killed and the rest captured. They
proved to be criminals although not the train
robbers.
Richard Cowley, an escaped lunatic at San
Antonio, Texas, killed his mother with an axe.
The Fontaine cotton mills at Columbus, Ga,
burned recently Thirty-four hundred bales OF
cotton, forty rolls Of bagging, three hundred
bundles of ties, twenty barrels Of syrup, forty
one bales Of domestics, besides other property
on storage, were burned. The Columbus bag
ging factory had on storage $1,000 worth Of
bagging.. Everything, except the Office fur
niture, was totally destroyed. The loss was
estimated at $4,000 insurance on building
and contents, $145, 900. .......
A heavy snow storm prevailed in Virginia
and North Carolina on the Odd. 1t was feared
the cold weather had injured the fruit crop.
Blanchard, an Iowa editor, was arrested in
Hot Springs, Ark, recently, charged with
writing letter to his paper slandering prom
nent citizens of that place. ..t r.p..
The State Normal Colored Institute, at Pc
tersburg, Va, has purchased Fleets farm,
Chesterfield County, for sl3,5OO, and propose
erecting building to cost s., 500, to accom-
modate five hundred pupils
CENGRsL. .
The authorities at st. Petersburg have been
warned by letter that the Kremlin, where the
Car is to be crowned, will be blown up dur
ing the coronation ceremony IL the Gar re-
fuses to grant a Constitution -
Queen Victoria recently ell down stairs at
Windsor and received injuries which excited
great apprehensions among the English peo-
pie. Her physicians declared that while there
was no immediate cause for alarm, yet owing
to her advanced age there was a possibility Of
complications which might prove serious in
their nature. ~ 30. - fGE D.. #..E.f
The leprosy has broken out in one of the
Hawaiian Islands recent invest iaation by
the Board OF Health discovered twenty-eight
cases, all natives.
The emigration from Switzerland to Amer
lea 10 alarming the authorities Of that 4
country. Several districts are fast becoming
depopulated. Guttanen is without an inhab-
liant. The exodus is owing to bad haryests
and American competition. I . ia.
The business failures for the past week were |
195, as against 225 the previous week.
The injuries received recently by Queen |
Victoria were greatly exaggerated.
Advices from Buenos Ayres report that . |
fight occurred in Patagonia between the |
troops of the Argentine Republic aud Gillian |
troops owing to the refusal of the former to |
quit the Gillian territory. The Argentines |
finally retired across the frontier. ...
Heavy snow storms prevailed generally |
through Canada and the Eastern States on |
the 23d. In the Dominion freshets did much |
damage. IT. ,.
The eruption of Mount .Etna increases in |
violence. A new crater has opened. he lava |
villages. The people fed from their homes,
and troops assisted to save property.
THE LATEST.
Postmaster General Timothy o. Howe, died |
at the residence of his nephew, at Kenosha, |
Wis, Sunday afternoon, the 25th, after brief |
illness. He contracted severe cold the pre- |
vious week at Green Bay, returned to Keno |
sha and was very i'll till the day before his |
death, when he seemed to improve. Physi- |
clans pronounced it pneumonia. He was
taken worse Saturday night, and sank rapidly |
until death claimed him. He was sixty-six
years old. e., -,., ..
1t is reported in Washington that Secretary
Folger's sickness has now assumed the shape
OF erysipelas of the face and head, and that
his condt on is considered dangerous.
Officials in the Treasury Department, who
hear from Secretary Folger daily, say they
have no information which would warrant the
statement that Mr.. Folger is suffering from
the disease alluded to. They do not deny,
however, that the Secretary is much Frustrated
and his system generally disorganized.
The statement of the United States Treasu-
rer shows the gold, silver and United States
notes in the Treasury, the Path, as follows:
Gold coin and bullion, S1s2, 6l0 755; silver dol
lars and bullion, $l06 49,, 1872; fractional silver
coin, $27, ZOO, 519; United States notes, s44,-
ST., $50; total, 1851, 625, 1856.
The Treasury Department will take no ac-
ton in regard to the question of exporting
bonded whisky into Canada in less quantities
than one hundred gallons until the matter has
been brought to it officially. 1t is understood
the Comm ssioner Of Internal Revenue favors
the proposition.
In taking evidence before the Commission
at Washington recently, in the civil case of
Walsh vs. Brady. James B. Price refused point