The Iola register., 1889-12-13

THE Southern cotton crop aggregate
is estimated at Ia, 600 bales. Texas
leads with an increase of 900 bales
over last year. Tennessee, North Caro-
lima, Arkansas and South Carolina
show decreases.
The State Senate of Virginia has au-
| thorized the Governor to accept in the
name of the commonwealth the statue
of General Robert E. Lee, soon to be
unvailed at Richmond.
JEFFERSON DAVIS died at the house
of his friend, j. U. Payne, at New Or
leans OH the 9th.
THE boiler ON the sugar plantation of
planter named Meredith exploded at
Cclfax, La, recently, killing six men
and two women, all negroes, and
wOunding several others.
THE boiler in Governor JacksOn's
sawmill at Marion, Nd, exploded re-
Gently. William Dennis, aged twenty.
two years, was killed, and William
Dixon probably fatally hurt. Richard
Martin had foot blown off and two
or three others were seriously injured.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for
the Kennesaw cotton mills at Marietta,
Ga. The financial condition is not
known.
DURING trial in Judge BlantOn's
court room at Marshall, Tex, opposing
lawyers got into dispute and weap-
ons were drawn. The result was that
State Representative Alexander Pope
was mortally wounded, dying the same
day, and Senator w. II. Pope, his
brother, was seriously wounded i'm two
places. Another lawyer was also hurt.
THE trial of MOussa Bey, who was
charged with committing murder,
arson and pillage in Armenia, resulted
in his acQuittal.
GENERAL.
THE Sisters of the Visitation in
Washington have sold their convent
and academy property OH Connecticut
avenue to J. II. Flagler, of New York
and Florida, for s650,0OO. This prop
erty contains 1l4,579 lare feet on
Connecticut avenue, L, Seventeenth
and De Sales streets, improved by the
convent building, and it is understood
that Mr.. Flagler intends to erect Il
grand hotel on the site.
THE Salvation Army headquarters
at London and adjoining property
burned on the morning of the Sd.
THEplatfOrm of theater at Wienhen
in the province of Shantmg, China, col
lapsed recently during a performance.
Two hundred persons were killed.
The reports of disturbances at Lis
bon, Portugal, were false.
THE largest elephant i'm Barnum's
show, now in Lendon, fatally injured
its keeper in a fit of rage the other day.
THE President of Nicaragua has ap-
proved the treaty forming union of
the five Republics Of Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Honduras, San Salvador and
Guatemala under the name of the
United States of Central America.
WHITELAw REID, United States
Minister to France and his wife have
gone to the South of France and Italy
on months tour.
TIE bark Christian Schriver, from
BuenOs Ayres, reports that at the Della
ware breakwater she passed nine dead
bodies, eight of them the bodies of men
floating on a life raft. The other was
that of a woman floating near the raft
with life preServer around her.
AN English company is reported to
have applied for a concession from
France for bridge across the English
channel.
THE Kaiser has wired Stanley and
Emin that he sympathizes with them
and sends congratulations and well
comes them home. Mackinnon, the
chairman of the Emin relief commit
tee, was summoned to Windsor Castle
by Queen Victoria, where he dined and
slept
EMIN PAsHA had a serious accident
at BagamOyO the day after his arrival.
Owing to his nearsightedness he mis-
took the height of a railing and fell
twenty feet, fracturing his skull.
THE Brotherhood managers claim
that they have signed all the baseball
players they need.
THE house of John Madden at Kings
ton, Ont, caught fire the other night
and while he and his wife were trying
to eXtinguish the flames their means of
escape were cut off and both periShed.