The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-18

proceeding at once to the election OF
President pro tempore. Friends of Senator
Anthony reported that he was gaining In
health, but had doubts as to the advisability
of undertaking the duties of the office.
C. D. GILMORE, lawyer of Washington,
has begun suit against Carl Schurz, ex.
Secretary of the Interior, for 500 900 dam.
ages for debarring him from practice. The
offense which resulted in his disbarment
was the alleged payment OF money to
clerk in the General Land Office, q case in
which Gilmore was interested.
A BILL has been introduced into Congress
to REQUIRE a Government building to be
constructed in every town and city in the
Union at which the postmaster draws
salary of 81 900 and over. The author OF
the bill believes this policy will save the
Government 81 ,OOo, 900 per year rent.
THE Senate has decided to go at once to
the consideration of the Mexican Recipro-
city Treaty. it had not been settled
whether to have the discussion with open
or closed doors. A great number of petit
lions have been received, chiefly urging the
ratification of the treaty.
THE TivoIi Theater at Pueblo, Colo,
burned the other night.
In view of his physical condition, Senator
Anthony recently said to committee from
the Republican caucus that it is inexpe-
dent for him to accept the Presidency pro
tenn of the Senate.
THE EAST.
THE connecting rod of an engine on the
Long Island IN. W Railroad broke the
other day and Engineer Feeney was killed.
The fireman was badly scalded.
A RANGE in the residence of Robert
Matthews, of Pittsburgh, Pa, exploded the
other day, completely demolishing the
furniture in the room where the explosion
occurred and quite seriously injuring
Matthew's two daughters, the youngest
mere child, who was thought to be fatally
scalded.
The Woman Suffrage State Executive
Committee of New York denounced Sena-
tor Edmund's proposition to disfranchise
the women Of Utah as a gross wrong to
npn-polygamist women.
THE Opera House at Meadville, Pa,
burned TeCeutiy. LUG totoA ioSS was oSeA
mated at half million.
A LATE gale and high tide on Coney
Island, N. Y, flooded the meadows and de-
stroyed property to the value of 81 0O0, 900.
THE snowfall at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9th was the greatest on record. The roofs
of number of houses fell from the weight
| of snow.
THE Legislature of New York unani-
mously requested the Senators and Repre-.
sentatives in Congress to urge the speedy
passage of laws for the suppression Of
pleuro pneumonia, or lung disease, preva-
lent among cattle.
LIEUTENANT JOHN ]. AUGUR, of the
United States Navy, escaped from the
Bloomingdale IN. W Lunatic Asylum the
other night during the terrible storm, and
the next morning his body was found in the
roadway. His death was due to cold and
exposure. His father, General Augur, u.
s. A., is in charge of the military post at
Fort Leavenworth, Kas. Lieutenant Augur
had been in the navy since 1870. He
was one of the officers sent outupon the ex-
petition in search of the Arctic exploring
steamer Jeanette, and the hardships then
affected his mind.
AN accommodation train ran into a gang
of snow shovelers on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, eight miles east of Pittsburgh,
the other day, killed three men and serious
| ly injured four others.
FEARS were entertained of a disastrous
food at Pittsburg, Pa.
Two boys aged fourteen and fifteen years,
residing at Schoenck, Pa, recently en-
ticed small boy into an isolated place,
and under threats of cutting his throat in
ficted with blunt instrume nts injuries from
which he died.
UNREQUTrED love caused Miss Johanna
| Oft to shoot herself the other night at Erie,
| Pa. She was found insensible, and said she
wanted TO die because her love for Mr.. Max
Deller was not returned, The girl is an
actress of considerable ability recently
from Sa1ony. 1t was thought she would
die.
THE Board of Directors Of the Philadel-
phia Geological Society recently decided
not to accept the $4,000 offered by Joseph
E. Temple, on condition that the garden be
opened free to the public one day each
week.
Snow and ice recently crushed in the
roof of the warehouse in the yard Of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail-
road at Hoboken, N. j., fatally injuring
John Jordan, an employee, and wrecking
two engines.
THE WEST.
| SIX of the crew of the steamer Silver
Spray, recently started from Silver Islet