The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-04

Lexington, KY, 106 head brought $40, 400,
an average of 1925 per head. The two
days sale aggregated 1893 head for $74.9O5,
an average of 1878 per head. The third day
closed the sale, which aggregated near
$4,000.
In the suit of the United States Govern
ment against the Chattanooga Railroad, in
the Federal Court at Nashville, the other
day, Judge Baxter decided that the debt
for unpaid coupons, amounting to $153,OOo,
with interest, was barred by the statute of
limitations, and the jury brought in YER
dict for the defendant.
ELIZA PINKsToN, tcolored) who figured
so prominently at New Orleans as a wit
ness before the Returning Board during the
canvass Of the vote for President in 1876,
died in jail recently at Canton, Miss.
w. B. STALEY, son of Judge Staley,
committed suicide in Knoxville, Tenn, be-
cause young lady refufused to marry
him. This was the third attempt to take
his own life for the same cause.
AT the late special election for Governor
Of Georgia the vote was very light, not be-
ing more than $4,000.
The Minister'S State Temperance Con.
vention at Louisville, KY, resolved to
make united effort to secure the adoption
by the next Legislature of an amendment
to the present local option law so as to ex-
tend its application to whole counties. The
Convention also declared in favor Of Pc
titioning the coming Legislature for law
forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors
within three miles of any church, univer-
sity, college, academy or school house, ex-
cepting in towns Of over 1000 inhabitants.
w. WOODS WHITE, of Atlanta, Ga, de-
clined the Secretaryship of the Civil Ser
vice Commission, and denounced the re.
ports of Washington correspondents that a
bargain had been made by which son of
DR.. Gregory was to succeed him as the
Georgia agent of the Northwestern Insur-
ance Company.
JAMES CROUCH, Of Owingsville, KY, re-
Gently ate heartily of wild greens and died
within an hour.
Ar Annapolis, Nd, William Peck, for
whipping his wife, was given twenty lashes.
1t was the first case in the county under
the law Furnishing wife-beaters.
P. B. THOMPSON, member of Congress
from the Eighth Kentucky District recently
shot and killed Walter Davis, prominent
business man of Harrodsburg. The shoot
ing took to place in the smoking car of the
Cincinnati and Southern Railroad. When
the two men met on the train Thompson
said to Davis "YouM not take my wife to
Cincinnati again" and fired. This was the
first time the parties had met since last
November when the disgraceful Cincinnati
affair is said to have taken place.
GENERAL.
An explosion i'm a dynamite factory at
Lupernucca, Spain, killed seven persons.
TIMOTHY KELLEY, the alleged Phoenix
Park murderer, in whose case the jury
failed to agree last week, in Dublin, has
again been placed on trial.
AT the second trial of Timothy Kelly at
Dublin, charged with being one of the Phue-
nix Park murderers, the jury again dis
agreed.
A PANAMA dispatch sums up the damage
by recent South American earthquake as
follows: In the town of Antigua the
facade of the cathedral was thrown out of
plumb, many columns were overturned,
and all houses suffered more or less. In
Santa Rosa the church steeple was injured,
and a number of houses rendered unin-
habitable. In Yarmula the prison and
thirty houses were destroyed. In Aqua
das the town hall was demolished, and
at Abijirral the church and several houses
were injured. In Pinagua, the chief vii
lage Of Darien Territory, many palm huts
were thrown down, and the river rose and
fell with alarming rapidity. The volcano
of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua is in erup.
ton, being the first time in history. A
large island at the mouth of the Artria, sur.
veyed by the United States steamer Fire.
brand in 1862 is reported to have disap-
peared.
The failures the past week were 1S2,
against 205 the previous week,
MICHAEL PAGAN, another alleged Phoenix
Park assassin, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to be hanged1iay %.
The discovery of a dynamite factory
at Northampton, England, caused great
alarm.
FURTHER news from British Columbia
states that the Indians, after numbering
two Chinese and stealing several horses
and threatening to kill the white settlers,
had taken to the hills and were pursued by
armed settlers, and a number of the l.;
dams had been killed. The band is small,
the disaffection not wide and will not
spread.