The Iola register., 1891-07-24
GENERAL NEWS.
A CONDENSED ARRAN CEMENT OF
THE OCCURANCEs OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABRoAD-THE
5PITH OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

| Domestic.
The petition committee of the French
senate has recommended that the gov
ernment favorably consider the appeal
of the Panama canal shareholders that
the government cooperate with the
Credit Fonciler to raise funds to COM
plete the canal.
tt is reported that the grasshoppers
| In Colorado and Kansas ane not of the
dangerous kind.
General Thomas Harrison, an ex-
Confederate cavalry leader, died at
Waco, Tex.
The st. Paul. Mimi. Chamber OF
Commerce has taken action looking to
the permanent union of Minneapolis
and st. Paul.
Thirteen thousand dollar in gold was
found hidden in piano stool in a
Winona (Minn,) hotel. A history is
connected with the matter.
Canadian customs officers seized
the American sloop Flora while trying
to smuggle load of ssChinese into the
country.
William Hanlon, one of the famous
family of acrobats, was killed during a
performance in Lyons 10.
A box of dynamite cartridges in the
after hold of the steamship G. r. Booth
exploded at Brooklyn, killing two
men, iniuring four, blowing big hole
in the port side of the ship.
Mrs. Lucy Platt,- young widow of
San Francisco, sold strip of skin from
her body 9x5 inches for 800. The
skin was grated upon the leg Of a pa
tient in hospital.
Preachers of Topeka, Kan, held a
mass meeting for the purpose Of taking
steps to enforce the prohibition law.
Recent investigation shows that the
drug stores have practically taken the
place of the saloons.
A story from Nickerson, Kas., pre-
tends to clear up the mystery of the dis
appearance of the Bender family, who
are said TO have been hanged and shot
in their own house before their absence
was discovered by their neighbors.
In formal report on the electrocu-
ton OF four murderers at Sing Sing,
Drs. Macdonald and Ward declare
that death was painless in each case.
Governor Campbell was renominated
by Ohio democrats at Cleveland on the
first ballet. The vote stood: Camp
ball, sos 7-16; Neal, l35 GIG: Kline, ST;
johnson, l.. Tne free-silver men were
victorious in the platform. -.E
AT the tenth National temperance
convention in Sadalgo n. Y. high
license was denounced and prohibition
advocated.
President Harrison and Cardinal
Gibbons met at Cape May.
William Brennan was killed and his
wife mortally wounded while resisting
arrest in JERSEY CITY,
Senator Major has issued card con-
corning his suit against certain alliance
men for damages.
Edison has won victory in his suit
alleging infringement in the manufac-
ture of certain incandescent lights.
Six thousand teachers assembled in
Toronto at the annual convention of
the National Educational Association.
Thirteen glass companies of Penusyl-
vania, Ohio and West Virginia have
combined.
A German engineer has been fined
Sll5 at Glatz for bypnOtizing a girl so
frequently that he drove her mad.
Major Powell has been ordered by
General Miles to investigate and make
a report on The White Earth reserva-
tion trouble.
Salton lake continues to rise and now
covers 2,C00 square miles.
Sir James Boxendalle, of England.
has willed TO the wife of DR.. J. Hollo-
way of Springfield, Ohio, a relative,
million dollars.
Robert Williams was hanged at Pine
Bluff, Ark, for the murder of Albert
Hayes, one mile from Warner, on the
night of November %. 1890.
The executive committee of the re-
publican league of clubs of Pennsylvan-
la decided upon September % as
the date for the convention at Scran-
ton.
The story that Lily Langtry had been
kicked in the face by Lord Abingdon is
untrue. A month ago. however,
Abingdon blackened both her eyes in
Paris.
The proposed reduction in the pay of
the Monongahela river miners from
three and one-half cents to three cents
per bushel will precipitate shut
down between August and August Is
unless the men agree to work at the re-
duced rate. Another strike of 5000
miners is likely.