The Iola register., 1891-03-27
GENERAL NEWS.
THR EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
GATHERED, CONDENSED AND AR
RANGED FOR READING HASTILY.
The Recent Occurrences.

, 1nfce houses on leFFdce SbFeet, Nan
sas City, were buried beneath a land
slide. :. Another crevasse in the levee
near New Orleans adds to tie danger
of food . One hundred thousand
tons of rock were torn out OF ledge ol
Lookout mountain by blast. For the
first time in eight years the govern
J ment refused to allow gold bars to be
taken for export The jury at Liberty
No. returned a verdict for the defen-
dants in the suits against the Lathrop
crusaders. Judge Mari of New
Orleans charged the grand jury to in
vestigate the killing of the Italian pris-
Ioners. Chicago police made the Anar-
chists haul down the red flag while
they were celebrating the Paris Com
mune Sunday .TennysOn has written
the worlds fair officials that he cannot
promise them a song, IS they request
ed, to he read at the opening ofthe fair.
The CuiOred Press association as
sembled in Cincinnati. The president,
in his annual address, deplOred the de-
feat of the Lodge and Blair bills.
Editor DeYoung has withdrawn from
the race for senator in California in
| favor of fex-Congressman FELTON,. SEN
sational charges of bribery in FeltOn's
| interest have been made IA motion
| for a new trial for Patrick O'Sullivau.
now serving a life sentence in the Joliet
penitentiary for the murder of DR..
| CrOnin. was submitted to the Illinois
supreme court The governor of Ari-
ZOna signed bill exempting from taxa
tiOn for twenty years all railroads built
within three years . The director of
the mint refused Heidelback, Ickle-
heimer & Co.. and Lazard F'reres, of
New York, S1,O00.00 in gold bars for
export. This is the first time in eight
years that the government has refused
to allow gold bars to be taken for ex-
port. . . .Ex-Secretary Bayard has eX-
pressed the opinion that the United
States is not liable for indemnity or
reparatiOn in the case of the Italians
lynched at New Orleans q. . .COmman-
der-in- Chief Veasey issued orders for
the observation of the silver anniyer-
sary of the organization of the Grand
Army of the Republic 1t was an
nounced that the Sherman statute fund
at New York ammounted to $3S. .635. d. .
The California Athletic club will
give Mitchell. the pugilist, $1,000 for
his defeat of La Blanche. Two men
were blown to atoms and one was fatally
and others seriously hurt by mine eX-
plosiOn near Ashland. Pa AT New
York S1.000,OOO in gold bars was
ordered for shipment to Europe =. .
Proceedings to forfeit the charter of
begun in New York The Nebraska
supreme court has decided that studies
are elective with the parent and not the
teacher. Rich ancient mines, togeth- !
er with interesting archaeological re-
mains, have been discovered 20 miles |
from Albuquerque, N. NJ. Several |
labor leaders have been arrested on a |
charge of conspiracy to extort money |
from Rochester IN Y. clothing manu-
facturers. . Tine California legislature |
has appointed COMMITTEES to investigate |
the rumors of bribe"y in connection |
with the senatorial contest. The peo-
pie whose friends are buried in the cem-
etery where the remains ofCrawford. the |
murderer, are inferred, near Decatur,
Ill. have compelled the removal of his
body. Rhode Island democrats nomi-
mated the old state ticket. The levee
at Sunfiower Landing, Miss, broke, and
the crevasse is widening. Gen. Miles
has been granted 80 days leave of
absence and is going to Mexico. . Gen.
John w. Fuller, who distinguished
himself at Atlanta on the federal side,
died in Toledo. . In the King-POston
affray at Memphis the coroner rendered
a verict holding King for premeditated
murder.
By King Kalakaua's will, Princess
Liliokalani is declared successor to the
Hawaiian throne Colonel James
Rody Sneed, a noted southern leader. |
died in Chicago, aged 75. 1t is stated
that Congre ssman PaysOn will succeed
Judge Croft as commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office. . Congressman Spring
er of Illinois is i'll at Washington with
nervous prostration resulting from la
grippe.
In his speech at Cork Mr.. Parnell Of
fered to resign from parliament if Healy
would do the same, to test the feeling OF
the country. . Mrs. Charles Dimick.
wife of Shamokin, Pa, miner, has fai
len heir to the third of an estate valued
at ] million dollars, left by her father
in England The cases taken to the
court of the United States TO
test the constitutionality of the Mc-Kin-
lev law have been postponed to the sec
Ond Monday in Octoba. AN inquiry
has shown that the recent stories of
massacres at MaSsowah were unfOunded.
the only basis for the report being the
execution of few spies and traitors
Miss Fannie L. Barrett and Miss
Eleanor Knott, New Y ork milliners, were
at New York for trying to
large quantities of European
finery, claimed as personal effects.
Great excitement prevailed last week
on the Stock Board at San Francisco.
and some shares made heavy advances
on the reports of the development of
new ore. The principal stocks to ad-
vance were Consolidated California and
Virginia, Rest & Belcher. Mexican.
Gould & Curry. Savage, Potosi, and
Yellow Jacket William II. Herndon.
the former law partner of Abraham
Lincoln, died at his home near Spring
field. H., aged - years. The gross
of the Union Pacific Railroad
for January were So, lis. $40, an increase
of 1916. 0SS: net earnings. S9S3, ,30S. -.
Fire in the opera house block at Joliet.
Ill. caused a loss of $4,000: insured
forS26 600. Peter \. Classen, convict
ed at New York. of wrecking the Sixth
National Bank, was sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary.. An ex-
plosion cansed by hot Stag falling into a
pool of water killed one man, fatally in
jured two, and slightly injured six at
the Crescent Steele Works at Pitts
burg j. & A. Simpkinson, we'll
known shoe dealers at Cincinnati, have
made an assignment. with liabilities of |
about S4O0. 600. The United States
Savings Bank at Topeka, Kan, failed.
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1t is reported that sand rich with gold |
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