The Iola register., 1883-09-07

TIRE SOUTH.
THE six.yesr-old SON Of Rudolf Reichert,
OF Marshall, Texas, took strychnine by
mistake for quiDine recently, and although
physicians were Immediately called, death
ensued in less than an hour.
| ONE death and one new case of yellow
fever at Pensacola on the 2Sth.
| NEAR Crockett, Texas, an entire freight
train plunged into creek through burnt
bridge. Two brakemen were buried in the
debris.
| PLANS for the new silver vault at New
| Orleans have been completed. It will have
storage capacity OF 100000 standard
dollars. fHS e0 e.
"A DISASTROUS drouth has prevailed in
parts of Texas, and the crops will ke an
entire failure.
NAT. NJ. SMITH, of Nashville, Tenn, re-
Gently received through the post-office a
box of cake, accompanied by letter
signed Annie L. Sullivan, dated New Al
bany, Ind, with Louisville postmark on
the envelope. The letter explained that
| the cake was wedding cake, and announced
the marriage of the sender. Mr.. Smith ate
| two pieces of the cake, and discovering q
bitter taste, suspected it contained poison.
Shortly after he was quite i'll from the
effects, and was only restored after some
hours by physicians, who were called in.
| An analysis showed that the cake contained
strychnine. Smith declared he did not
know such woman, and was at loss to
divine the motive for this attempt to poison
him.
A LATE fire at San Antonio, Texas, de-
stroyed S140,O 900 worth of property. Perry
Davis was so badly burned as to die and
two other men were fatally and several
severely burned.
THE Grand Jury at New Orleans recon-
mended that a crematory he established
for the burning of bodies of persens who
died of contagious diseases.
EsAU SMITH, colored, was hanged at st.
Joseph, La, for the murder of Esau Nc
Can. He was convicted n'1S75, but broke
Jail, and was only recaptured last June.
y GENERAL.
The steamer Woodburn and the French
steamer st. Germain recently collided in
the English Channel. The former was sunk
and eighteen of the crew drowned.
RECENTLY volcanic eruptions upon the
island of Java were attended by fright
full loss of property and destruction
of life. The towns of Anjier, Jiringine
and Silongbelong were destroyed. All
the light houses in Sunda straits dis
appeared, and where the mountain of
Kramatar formerly stood the sea now flows.
The quarries at Morak disappeared, and all
the people of the place perished. Some
1000 Chinese, living on the low ground at
the entrance of the Batavia harbor were
drowned by the rising waves, and out of
$500 Europeans and Americans living in
that city, 500 We're said to be lost. Bantam
was entirely covered with water and 900
to 1000 persons drowned. The island of
Serang was submerged and all its inhabi-
tauts perished, and several other places
shared like fate.
The plate on the coffin of the Count de
Chambord bore the inscription: "Henry
v, by the grace of God, King of France and
Navarro" His crown, however, was myth
ical and his throne fabricated of fiimsy
material.
THE court-martial that tried the soldiers
who participated in the massacre at Alex
andria at the breaking out of the war in
Egypt last year sentenced thirteen culprits,
charged with having organized the massa-
cres, to be hanged, and two to fourteen
years. and six to five years. penal servi-
tude.
THE captain of a steamer which was in
the strait of Sunda during the recent vol
canic eruption upon the Island of Java,
reported that ashes fell on the deck of his
vessel to depth of eight inches. He passed
masses of floating pumice stone seven feet
in depth. He estimated that 10, 900 persons
lost their lives at Ajringin. Total number
killed by the eruptions and tidal waves,
10000.
A LATE storm along the coast of Nova
Scotia did much damage to shipping. Ten
schooners were driven ashore, some COM
pletely wrecked, others badly damaged.
The fury of the gale was terrific.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ending August 81, were 1856, as compared
with 1G5 the previous week.
THE opinion of the Chinese Legation
at Berlin is that the treaty between France
and Anam is invalid, as China had not
recognized the new King of Anam.
THE cholera seems to have nearly disap-
peared from Egypt, or else is not reported.
THE LATEST. f..
THE public debt statement for August
showed: Cash in Treasury, $351 ,503, ,9S6;
debt less cash in the Treasury, 81 ,536, ,51S,-
765; decrease during August, Sc 6,671 ,s51; de.
crease since July 30, 1883, $14,572,442.
THE official report showed there had been
27,3lS deaths from cholera in Egypt since
the outbreak Of the epidemic to September
1. There had been 40 deaths among the
British troops stationed in Egypt.
AT meeting ofthe Executive Committee
of the Democratic State Committee of
Massachusetts a call for the State Conven-
tion, to be held at Springfield, September
26, was drawn up and accepted. 1t was
authoritively stated to the committee that
election this fall.
Hon. E. NJ. CUTTs, member of Congress
from the Seventh District of Iowa, died the
other day at Oscaloosa.
AsPECIAL from Peoria, ILL.,, says it has
been definitely ascertained that States At
torney Loueck is short $4,000 in his public
capacity and as custodian of private funds.
1t is stated that an ignorant peddler, named
Jacob Mendelshon, in 1879, placed $4 900 in
his hands and Loueck gave him bogus
mortgages for security, the nature of which
was discovered only few days ago, and
resulted in the disclosure of all his short
ages. Loueck claimed to have lost money
in gambling. He is under arrest.
The authorities of Port Townsend, Wash
ington Territory, have been notified of the
smuggling of Cinnamon to this country
along the coast.
JOHN PoNNELLY, watchman at the Treas