The Iola register., 1888-11-02
THE SOUTH.

THE Board of Health of Columbus, Ga.
has raised the quarantine against al
| points.
j. NJ. WILSON, county and State tax col.
lector of Atlanta, Ga, has been sus.
| pended. He is short in his accounts $50,
| 900.
ORTIZ Fl. STEIN, q notorious newspaper
crook, formerly of Kansas City, has sue.
| ceeded in passing bogus check for $3.50 al
Baltimore, Nd.
THEODORE f. GoBELL and a negro, Ton
Peak, have been arrested at Chattanooga
Tenn, for setting fire to an unoccupied
house which was heavily insured.
THE passenger depot and dining hall OF
| the Santa Fe railway at Temple Tex, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; in.
sured.
DR.. NEIL MITCHELL reported thirty-one
cases of yellow fever at Jacksonville or
the 24th. There were four deaths. OF the
new cases twelve were white and nineteen
colored. Total cases, 1903; total deaths
| 337.
THE steamer Phil Armour sank at Will
sons Landing, short distance above
Vicksburg. Miss, recently. She was en-
gagged in the Vicksburg and Greenville
| trade.
THE four small children of Joseph Whit.
| aker, colored, We're burned to death re-
| Gently at Blackshear, Ga, while their par.
ents were away from home.
ALL the keno rooms in New Orleans
have been closed and the proprietors ar.
rested. The faro games have not been in.
terfered with.
THE price paid for the Georgia Central
l. L. =. a
have been $s,0O0,0O0.
AT the meeting of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers at Richmond, Va,
p. N. Arthur was reelected chief and Mr..
Ingraham secretary Of the insurance order
of the brotherhood. G. d. Doherty, OF
observation-disclosures elected grand chaplain,
and W. X. Hesky, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
grand guide.
COLLECTOR MAGoFTIN, of Ell Paso, Tex,
finds considerable difficulty with his small
force in keeping out Chinese seeking en-
trance into the United States by way OF
Mexico.
THREE negro murderers who were to
have been hanged at Arkadelphia, Ark,
on the Goth, have been granted respite to
allow the State Supreme Court to review
the case.
THE night watchmau at Platt & Co.'s
packing house, Baltimore, Nd, was burned
to death the other morning and $4,000
damage done by fire.
SURGEON PORTER reports to the Marine
Hospital Bureau from Jacksonville, Fla,
that there are nine cases of yellow fever
at Enterprise, Fla, six of which are crit
ical, and that DR.. Long is the only ply
sician there. He adds that DIR. Posey will
go to Enterprise.
NEWS has been received from Columbus
Polk County, N. c.. which is in the mount.
aims away from railroad and telegraph
communication, that riot occurred there
recently between Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, after rival political meetings, in
which a man named Brown was danger.
ously shot. Many others Of both parties
were wounded and battered up.
HUGH BLACKMAN, a negro, was hanged
at Toledo, Ark, on the 26th for killing
another negro over a game of craps.
A LARGE steam gin house together with
forty bales of cotton and q lot of seed, be-
longing to Frank & Co., on the Covington
plantation, near Greenville, Miss, was
burned recently.
WILLIAM 7. HAMILTON, Ex-Governor and
ex-United States Senator, died of pneu-
monia at Hagerstown, Nd, recently.
The engineer and passenger were ia
tally and two other men badly injured by
the wrecking of a passenger train near
Paris, KY, the other day.
THE more prominent members of the
iute bagging trust have been indicted by
the grand jury of Shelby County, Tenn,
for conspiracy