The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-04
THE SOUTH.


THE SOUTH.
THE italian brig Aragon, from Bruns-
wick, Ca, was wrecked off the coast in the
recent storm. The captain, his wife and
nine of the crew were taken off the dis
mantled wreck by the brig Emma Ernst
and brought to Savannah.
The Georgia Legislature has formally re-
ceived the records of the Board of Trustees
of the Georgia Colony, which were pre-
sented to the State by John S. Morgan, of
London. The presentation speech was
made in the House of Representatives by
General John r. Gordon, and the records
were received by Governor McDaniels,
who made short address.
THE strike of the employees of the Queen
and Crescent system ended at Meridian,
Miss, on the Goth, the men agreeing to ac-
cept their pay and quit the service of the
company.
IT is estimated that the total amount of
damage by the recent storm at Charleston,
S. c., will reach S2.OOO,OO0 Nearly every
vessel in port and every house in the city
was more or less injured.
SUPERsTITIoUs people at Brownsville,
Tex, were recently greatly exercised over
the numbers of parrots, never before seen
SO far north. that have appeared in large
swarms along the river and back in the
country. Crows, an unusual visitant, have
also appeared in the lower valley.
THE body of Alexander Jandro Vindurn,
the wealthy merchant assassinated near
the Carralitos ranch, was found floating in
the Rio Grande near Laredo, Tex, with
five bullet-holes in the head and heart.
A DISPATCH from Baton Rouge, La, says:
The committee to learn of the condition of
the finances of the Fourth Levee District
reported to the Morganza Levee Conven-
ton that about $4,000 was available to-
ward repairing the crevasse. A committee
was appointed to canvass the district for
the purpose of raising the additional Si0,-
600 necessary to complete the work.
FIVE bandits were brought into Laredo,
Tex, recently by a company of soldiers
who captured them after a desperate
fight, in which three bandits were killed
and two soldiers wounded. One of the
slain bandits was Juan Chevarria, aged
eighteen. who is said to have killed six
men. He was brother of Caledonia Che
varria, who was hanged ut Laredo on the
14th of August.
IT was rumored recently at Dallas, Tex,
that there would be reduction of the force
of the freight and ticket agents on the
Gould and Southwestern system by COM
bination of freight aud ticket agents into
one.
mn ovnke Sct
attempted to address a crowd of about
five hundred people on public thorough
fare at Dallas, Tex, the other day, his
theme being "The Liquor Traffic" He
was drunk. however, and was arrested and
throng Of admiring friends followed him
to prison. A riot seemed imminent at one
time.
The other night as the west bound Santa
Fe train reached a point two miles from
Bolton, Tex, some person fired into the
train, wounding two ladies and a child.
Watson were arrested for the crime. The
wounds were in the faces and disiguring.
A DISPATCH from Jackson, Miss, reports
six passengers fatally injured in an acci-
dent on the Bayou Pierre Railroad. Three
railroad men were killed. The train went
through the Big Bayou Pierre bridge.
The bark Victor, which went ashore on
Turtle beach, north of the Savannah (Ga.)
quarantine station, was got off on the 18th,
and was ordered by the health officers to
Sapolo quarantine station. Her crew, num-
bering eleven, had ali been sick with yell
low fever, and five of them were just con.
valescent.
FROM passengers arriving at Ell Paso,
Tex, via the City of Mexico, it is learned
that the yellow fever at Vera Cruz has
greatly increased curing the past two
weeks.
ATHREArENED duel between Editor Larry
CAN'T, of the Athens (Ga.) Banner Watch
man, and Hon. r. A. Cornell, member Of
the Legislature from Decatur County, has
been averted by the award of q board of
arbitration. In the House at Atlanta Mr..
Cornell Withdrew his structures on Mr..
CAN'T and apologized.
The Atlantic coast, from Florida to
Maryland, was visited by heavy storms
on re 18th. Much damage was done ON
Suhivan's Island, S. C.
AcAMP meeting held by Northern Meth
odists (colored) at Pine Hill, Rutherford
County, N. c., was attacked by an armed
body of Zion Methodists, recently, and
fred into. The Northern Methodisis fed
in disorder, seven of them being wounded.
FOURTEEN lives were lost by the wreck
of three Beaufort pilot boats, the T. W.
Schoper, Walter Smith and John Stod-
dard, in the recent storm of South Caro-.
lima.