The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-05-01
bili.ies are 500, oOo; their assets about the

same.
ORLANDO W. POWERS, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, has been appointed Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of Utah.
BY the payment Of a sum said to be Less
than s., 900, 900, Jay Gould secured the dis.
missal of the Marie Garrison suit against
the Missouri Pacific Road, pending In the
Federal Court at st. Louis.
AFEATURE of the railway war at Chicago
was the making of a rate OF thirty -nve
cents on first-class freight to Montana ana
Idaho. The Northwestern Road took the
first step, and was quickly followed by its
rivals.
THE Mary Morton, of the Diamond 10
line, arrived at st. Paul, Mimi, on the list,
the first boat from below. She struggled
all the previous night with the slush and
ice in Lake Pepin.
COLONEL g. s. INNS, who has canvassed
the country around Columbus, o., reports
that wheat will not yield one-ffth an
average crop. This was true as to the
southern and central counties, while the
northern counties were protected by snow.
ONE hundred and fifty employees OF
Frank Wheeler's ship-yard, at Bay City,
Mich, struck the other morning for twenty
FIVE cents per day advance all around.
Wheeler submitted and all returned to
work at the advance demanded.
TYPHOID fever was reported prevalent at
Harvard, Ill. It had carried off quite
number of inhabitants.
ROBERT GILLIAN, Engineer of the Kansas
City Cable Line, was seriously if not fatally
injured by the "grip" iron of a car falling
on his head while he was in one OF the holes.
FOURTEEN dead bodies were recovered of
the persons killed by the recent floods at
Medicine Lodge, Kan.
GENERAL HATCH stated recently that the
Government was preparing warrants for
the arrest of all the prominent Oklahoma
boomers. The camp had broken up and
the settlers dispersed.
A MAN under arrest at Chicago on a
charge of disorderly conduct has been
identified as Adolphus K1eekamp, a noted
forger, bigamist and swindler. known by
the names of Lawrence, Sheldon and Clay
ton. He is wanted at New York, San
Kansas City and various other
places.
INFORMATION has been received at st.
Louis that Attorney General Garland, on
more careful examination of the law, has
the decision given a few days ago
the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture to purchase and slaughter all cattle
afflicted with pleuro- pneumonia or other
diseases.
THE SOUTH.
THE Governor of Louisiana has issued
a proclamation of quarantine against the
leading ports of Mexico, Central aud South
America, and the West Indian Islands, to
take effect May 10.
GENERAL LAwToN was the recipient OF
praise for refusing the Rus
sian mission, thus preventing an embit-
tered opposition to him on account of his
political disabilities.
Two editors of Abilene, Tex, had fool
shooting scrape the other day. One was
shot in the head, but not fatally.
A CYCLONE struck Denison, Tex, the
other evening. Many houses were
wrecked, but no lives were reported lost.
ANTHONY w. Kelly, of Virginia, re-
Gently nominated and commissioned
United States Minister to Italy will de-
cline the position, not wishing to embar-
rass the administration by reason of the
objections that might be offered by the
Italian Government against him.
PERRYvILLE, on the Tennessee River,
was destroyed by fire recently, the work of
an incendiary who sought revenge ON
man for burning his residence.
AN Austin, Tex, correspondent tele-
graphed on the 22d that the heaviest rain
that ever fell there was then falling, and
the city was completely flooded, many
buildings and stores on Congress avenue
being inundated, and the water three feet
deep in the streets. The damage was
great.
W. E. HARTMAN, of Homecoming, Nd, has
been arrested for setting fire to his store,
causing loss of $4,000.
MARTIN MITCHELL reported to the
police at Memphis, Tenn, recently, that
he had killed three men in st. Francis
County, Ark, who had attempted to kill
him.
FIVE persons were killed and several in
iured by a tornado, which struck the
Prairie Grove neighborhood, eight miles
south of Mexia, Tex, on the afternoon of
the 22d.
SIX dead bodies were found on the Esd
in the ruins of the buildings destroyed by
the fire in vicksburg, Miss. TWAS thought
twenty persons had persisted.
E. W. Couch, City Treasurer of Peters
burg, W., has been instructed by the State
Auditor not to receive coupons in payment
for licenses or taxes as the Supreme Court
has not yet rendered its decision in the
license cases. He was also instructed not
to make any levies at present.
Miss CONSTANCE EDGAR, step-daughter
of Jerome n. Bonaparte, and great grand
daughter of Daniel Webster, was invested
with the habit and vail of the Order Of the
Visitation, and assumed the name of Sister
Mary Desales, at Baltimore, recently.
GENERAL
DISPATCHES from Sir Peter Lumsden.
giving an account of the affair at Penjdeh,
conflict materially with the report of Cen
eral Komaroff. The belief in England was
that the attack was purposely made and
was unprovoked.
THE Russian frigate, General Admiral,
put in at Toulon, France, recently for
repairs, having been damaged by a storm.
She was manned by 500 men and carried six
heavy guns.
Four steerage passengers from Antwerp
were detained at Castle Garden recently
until an investigation could be made. 1t
was claimed by representatives of the
Knights of Labor that they were brought
over by a glass manufacturing firm in
Kent, O., in violation of the contract labor
law.
The police have taken possession of the