The Iola register., 1886-01-08
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUTH
AT Gainstown, Clark County, Ala, re
Gently, Alexander Reid, the negro who
brutally murdered Miss Carrie Bayer al
that place, was chained to a tree at the
spot where the crime was committed and
slowly burned to death by a crowd of in
dignant whites and blacks.
STEAD & Co. oil mill at. t.Greenville, Miss.
was burned recently. The loss amounted
to $3.50 900; insurance, $4,000.
JAMES SANDERS, his wife and three chill
dren, We're upset while crossing the Ken
lucky River near Nicholsville, KY, the
other night. Sanders reached the shore
but it was so dark that he could do nothing
to save his family, and they perished.
An Italian organ grinder, in New Or
leans, recently, was leaning against tele-
graph pole Wien a current of electricity
ran down and struck him dead. Another
organ grinder, who went to his friends as
sistance, was seriously injured. 1t was
supposed that Brush electric light wire
had accidentally crossed the line, causing
the fatal result.
THE story of the attempted blowing up
of the Southern Pacific bridge across the
Rio Grande was denied by the railroad Of
ficials.
One of the boilers Of the Gulf City Oil
Works at Mobile, Ala, exploded on the
Goth, killing seven colored men and wound
ing fatally and seriously several others.
THE population of Charleston, S. c., is
now 60, 145, an increase of 10,161 in five
years. OF these the whites number 27,605.
THE Kentucky Legislature convened at
Frankfort, KY. on the 3Oth and elected the
following officers: Speaker, Charles Offut,
Of Bourbon County; Clerk of the House,
Green Kellar, of Nicholas County; Door
keeper, Robert Tyler, of Cradle; Clerk of
Senate, Harry Glenn, of Carlisle.
RABBIs belonging to the Southern branch
of the Jewish Church met in New Orleans
recently to discuss various matters of re-
form.
FIVE Lebanon (Ky.) business houses were
burned the other day.
EPHRAIM BEAsLEY, a well-to-do farmer of
Wilson County, Tenn, accidentally killed
his son, aged six years. Mr.. Beasley, who
is very near-sighted, was chopping wood,
when his son came in front of him and was
struck by the ak, splitting his skull.
FITzHUGH LEE was inducted into Office
at Richmond, Va, on the 1st.
The annual report of the police depart
ment shows that during the year 1885 &c, S04
arrests were made in Baltimore.
r. II. HARRIS, prominent citizen of Lee
County, Ala, and a member of the Ala
bama Legislature in 1880, committed sui
eide the other day by shooting with a pis-
tol. Financial trouble caused the act.
A DISPATCH from Austin, Tex, of the 1st,
says: James Phillips, who was seriously
wounded on Christmas eve when his wife
was outraged end murdered, is still in a
very critical condition, but was arrested
last night charged with being his wife's
murderer. The Mexican who was arrested
on suspicion Of being implicated in the re-
cent murders turns out to be a rag picker,
which may account for his possession of
the bloody clothes. Mrs. Eanes, charged
with the murder of her son, was remanded
to Jail to-day.
In a saloon brawl at Louisville, KY, An
thony Sauer fatally stabbed his brother,
Henry, who had knocked him down.
ANDREW T. Cox, a wealthy piow manu-
self at Maysville, KY. His hat and some
letters were found on the river bank. He
had been in poor health.
GENERAL
TIE Newfoundland Executive has issued
proclamation forbidding the Orange pro-
cession in Harbor de Grace or other ports
on Conception Bay. Numerous afidavits
were made affirming the certainty of dis
turbance of the peace in the event of pub
lie demonstration. Sir Ambrose Shea has
been appointed Governor of Newfoundland,
being the first native and Catholic Cover
nor since the days of Cabot.
n. BRIssoN rendered the resignation of
the French Ministry to President Grevy on
the Goth. 1t was thought that N. de Frey
cinet would form q new cabinet.
MANY people were asphyxiated ct Kings
ton, Ont, the other night, by broken gas
main which filed several houses with gas.
Two or three were fatally injured.
THERE was lively scene in the French
Chamber of Deputies on the 29th. Several
members charged that an inaccurate
record had been kept of the Tonquin credit.
Shouts of iliar'' and ''swindler'' were
raised in all parts of the Chamber. The
official record was voted to be correct. The
uproar was repeated in the lobbies, and
two duels were likely to result from the
controversy.
The London Standard says that the cred
itors of the King of Bavaria have united in
a petition for the distraint of the goods and
property of the Imperial household. Prince
Leopold, uncle Of the King and General-in-
Chief Of the Army, has forbidden the Bailif
Of the State to take any action to carry out
the obje cts of the creditors.
EUGENE ScHERRER & Co., West India
merchants, Of London, have become bank
rupt. Liabilities, $4,000; assets said to be
''shadowy."
BRITISH troops recently attacked the
Arabs near Kosch. A heavy engagement
followed, resulting in the defeat of the
Arabs and capture of their position. The
British and Egyptian loss amounted to
about fifty killed and wounded.