The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.
A coNDENsED ARRANGEMENT OF THE
OCCURANCEs OF THE PAST WEEK
AT HOME AND ABRoAD.--THE PITH
OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

ton, a movement was started to present
to the city statue OF Chris
TOPPER Columbus, to cost about Sl2, UUo.
The visible supply of wheat as COM
piled by the New York produce eX-
chance was 19, 243, 142 bushels, de-
crease of 1910, 1873 bushels, and OF corn,
3, 49,, S44 bushels, decrease OF 23I, lO4
| bushels.
A company has been organized at
West Alexandria Ohio, to mine for
gold.
A convention of Ohio farmers will be
held the latter part of July for the pur-
pose of organizing an independent
political party.
The indications at present go to show
that General Mitre will be the only
candidate in the field for the presidency
of the Argentine Republic.
John r. Johnston, who. while acting
as trained nurse to William F. Dunn
ing of Detroit, Mich, in New York,
robbed him of money and jewelry Of
considerable value, was sentenced to
fifteen years imprisonment.
At Bloomington, ILL.,, new parasite
has been discovered on currant bushes.
Several children have died from eating
infected currants, their malady re-
sembling rabies.
All the iourneymen bread bakers Of
Wilmington, Del, seventy-five in num-
Der, are out on a strike for shorter
hours and an increase in wages. The
supply of bread is short.
Martin Farrell of western New York
was thought to have been slain in the
-, oet
Farrell, who had been adopted by the
McCable family of Columbus, Ind,
found his aged sire in the soldiers
home at Dayton, o.
The Car has sent a cordial reply to
Emperor Williams congratulations
upon the escape Of the czarowitz.
1t is reported that Billy Porter, the
notorious American burglar, who
was sentenced last year in France to
twenty-five years Imprisonment, has
escaped.
The New York board of aldermen
have given the letter carriers permits
sion to erect a statue of Sunset" Cox
at the junction of Astor place and
Eighth street.
Judge Caldwell has granted Frank
Woodruff new trial. Woodruff was
recently convicted of embezzlement
while assistant postmaster at Law
renee, Kas., and sentenced to two years
in prison. He will be released on bail
pending his second trial.
The city treasurer of Philadelphia is
said to be behind $4,000 in his pay
ments to the state treasurer.
The corruption in municipal affairs
Of 10 hai
is thought at least S500.000 has been
stolen from the city in one direction
alone.
No elections of intruders from the
Chickasaw nation were made, no troops
or militia appearing.
At Scranton, Pa, Joseph Moncke
shot three men who were endeavoring
to prevent him from killing a girl.
The bill emitting women to vote at
school elections was recommended for
passage by the Illinois house commit
tee on education.
Secretary Rusk, of the department of
agriculture, ordered that all sheep and
swine imported through Canada from
Europe, should be subjected to fifteen
days quarantine.
1t is rumored that Eva Hamilton, the
alleged widow Of Robert Ray Hamilton.
will go on the stage as an actress in a
drama portraying the tragic death Of
her husband who is supposed to have
been drowned in the Smoke River.
The Michigan house of representa-
tives passed bill Tuesday practically
strangling the state board of corrections
and charities.
Police Judge Beeson and his wife are
under arrest at Rich Hill, Mo-. for
child murder.
By means of photograph, Cardinal
Gibbons of Baltimors listened to a mes
sage from Cardinal Manning of Eng
land.
Ex-Governor Ramsey of Minnesota is
said to have been blackmailed out of
800, 900 by his former coachman on an
unknown demand.
An alleged case of Asiatic cholera is
quarantined at Catlin, III.
1t has been learned that $3.50, 900 has
been in deposit in a San Francisco bank
to the credit of Chiliau rebels.
Prof. Stanton. of Cheyenne, Wyo..
predicted bloody war between the east
and the west in speech to the Trans
mississippi congress at Denver.
The report of the committee on i'm
migration of the national conference of
Charities and Corrections takes stand
against the dumping on our shores in
discriminatory of undesirable foreign
erS.
The national union conference at
Cincinnati formed the Peoples Party
of the United States" and arranged for
presidential nominations to be made in
1892 The platform indorses the st.
Louis, Ocala and Omaha resolutions,
but prohibition plank was defeated.
Taubeneck of Illinois was chosen chair
man of the national executive commit
tee.
The Merritt conspiracy law, codif
cation of the common law on the subject
of conspiracy to commit crime. the pas
sage OF which was the result of the
anarchist riots in Chicago. has been re-
pealed by the Illinois house.
The secretary OF war has made the
following allotment of money to Kansas
and Missouri for arming and equipplng
the militia on the basis Of representa-
ton in congress: Kansas, IS, 1872; Mis-
souri,, Sl4,542.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company has been robbed of Sl0,O or
sl2, 600 between Chippewa Falls and Abb
bottsford, Wis. The money was con-
signed to the bank OF Phillips at Abb
bottsford. The safe was taken from the
car for transfer to the agent running
north: when it was opened the money
was missing. The safe was not broken
open and the money must have been
taken by some one who had access to
the safe.
Trouble With the Teachers.