The Iola register., 1889-08-16
THE SOUTH.

1AE SOUTHs
CAPTAIN JAMES H. RIGBY, a Grand
Army veteran, who commanded the ia
nous Rigby battery which rendered ef-
fective service during the war under Gen.
eral Mcclellan, died suddenly at Balti-
more, Nd, on the 9th. He was fifty y-seven
years old.
STEPHEN G. SHARP, Democratic candi-
date for Treasurer of Kentucky. has been
reelected by between $1,000 and 10000
majority. The Democrats gained eight
and possibly more seats in the LegisIa-
ture.
The trouble in Bolivar County, Miss,
is not yet over. Information has been re-
ceived from the sheriff of that county that
Weissinger, who killed an editor at Rose
dale, and who had escaped, took refuge
at Concordia, where, surrounded by
friends, he defied arrest.
On two-mile circle track the startling
speed of two miles a minute was main
tanned for about ten miles by the three-ton
motor of the Electro-Automatic Transit
Company, of Baltimore, at their grounds
at Laurel Md. This speed equals three
miles per minute on q straight track.
David G. Weems, the inventor, conducted
the experiments.
BARRETT LANGsToN was shot and killed
the other day at Landlords, near Charles.
ton, S. c., by Captain J. w. Landlord.
Langs on was unarmed. Landlord ac-
costed him about reports he had circu-
lated about the formers family. Langs-
ton offered no denial, wereupon Landlord
shot him. Both men were prominent in
the county.
THE new Kentucky Legislature will con-
sist of 1o4 Democrats and "a Republicans,
Democratic gain of II.
A SPECIAL from Bonham, Tex, says:
While a camp meeting was in progress
on Willow Branch, north of here on the
Red river, a party of men rode up on
horseback and began firing into the con-
gregation. A panic followed and some of
the men in the congregation returned the
fire. For awhile a regular battle ensued.
| The cause of the attack was not known.
The preacher finished the sermon strongly
guarded.
THE Galveston News has published the
last of its crop reports. The reports were
almost unanimous in chronicling the best
corn crop for years, while the yield for
other grain was fully up to an average.
| The cotton crop was a splendid one.
POSTMASTER LEWIS and the Republican
leader, Colonel Buck, were burned in efigy
at Atlanta, Ga, the other night in the
| presence of about 1000 people. The
| action was the result of the appointment
| of a negro in the delivery deparmen,
where a white lady was employed as
clerk.
A SPECIAL from Laredo, Tex, gives a
| description of the Tascott suspect under
arrest there, tallying more closely with
that of the much-sought fugitive than has
been the case in any previous capture.
The great tunnel at Cumberland Gap
which traverses sections of Kentucky,
Tennessee and Virginia, has been for
mally opened.
GENERAL HENRY DUPONT. since 1850
head of the extensive gunpowder manu-.
featuring firm of 7. /. Dupont, De Ne
! mours & Co, died at Wilmington, Del,
on the Srh.
BENJAMIN F. SPANDAUER who was the
principal witness against Mrs. Surrat
| hanged in Washington in 1865 on the
charge of conniving at the assassination
| of President Lincoln, died recently in the
Maryland penitentiary.
PROF W. K. PERRY. of the American
Balloon Company, made an ascension al
Mount Holly, n. c., twelve miles west OF
Charlotte, the other day. He was severely
injured in descending.