The Iola register., 1891-04-17
GENERAL NEWS.
TEE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
GATHERED, CONDENSED AND AR
RANGED FOR BUSY READERS.
Domestic.

The excitement in the coke regions
OF Pennsylvania gradually subsided
during the past week. Several coke
strikers were arrested. :. The bodies oi
seven Italians and two Americans were
taken from the ruins OF the fire al
Rochester, Pa. One hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in gold, belonging to
the Italians, was also found, and an
Italian girl who escaped by jumping,
says there is $500 more in the debris. d. &.
Frost In Alabama killed potatoes, to-
matOes, cucumbers. squash, beans and
peas. The visible supply OF wheat
and corn is respectively -, ,4S3,9l0 and
2,66l. 233 bushels. Since last report
wheat has decreased 26l, AL bushels,
while corn has diminished to the ex-
tent of 326, ,S07 bushels.
Butter on the Elgin board of ira de
Monday was lower and easy. All sales
were at 20 cents per pound. A year ago
the price was 20 cents.
Gonsawlls was murdered and robed OF
81, go, the day he was to pay it for a
home for his intended bride at West
Liberty, Pa. . . Eighty thousand Texas
cattle which have been sold to Chicago
packers cannot be shipped, owing to
recent quarantine order of the govern
ment. The first case under the act of
congress forbidding the importation of
foreign labor in Ohio was decided by
Judge Sage at Cincinnati. The offense
was bringing an expert to take charge
of Louisiana sugar mills, the court
holding as the expert made no contract
the case did not come under the law. -.
Edgar J. SOmervilie and James B. Ed
dy of Pendleton, Oregon, have been ap-
pointed special agents to allot lands in
severalty to the confederate band of
Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla In
dians residing on the Umatilla reserva-
tions, Oregon. &. Bids for the Mines
building will soon be invited by the
Worlds fair officials. Professor John
M.COulter has been elected president OF
the Indian University. The New Or
leans grand jury has begun an active in
vestigatiOn OF the lynchlng of the ltal-
ians. The leaders of the mob say they
desire to be indicted. The Rev. Sam
Small has been asked to account for
funds entrusted him for building a
methodist university in Ogden. Utah.
He repels the insinuation and courts
scrutiny. Five Peoria citizens have
been summUud be ore the Federal grand
jury in Chicago. and it is thought SEN
satiOnal Developments in the Gibson
whiskey trust dynimite conspiracy
case are at hand. 1t is expected that
over LOCO delegates. representing y
states. will attend the tnird-party con-
ventiOn in Cincinnati, Maybe. -. L. B.
ImbOdcn. a prospective bank president
of Fort Worth. Tex, pleaded guilty to
forgery and and emb3zZlement. and was
given a FIVE years sentence. .Secre-
tary Tracy told the republican club of
Massachusetts that he intended to
reform the service by eliminating
machine politics from the navy yards.
Prices Of pork produced will rise on ac-
count of the reInOva! of Germanys EN-
barge Jack Halsey, sport, once a
millionaire. Is dying in Brooklyn
charity hospital ...P. 7. BarEum. the
famous Snowman, died at his home in
Bridgeport Conn. after long illness.
William Mccoy, the suspected
murderer at Kansas City. could not be
arranged owing to fears o! mob viOlence.
.... Harry Donovan. aged I, heir to
lIOlu0@, was recovered by his father in
a lonely farm house on Long Island.
tIc Lad been kidnapped from school
II New Haven. Conn, few days b5fOre
1t his graHjmother's instigation. ...
Congress man Mills friends deny indig-
Iintly THAT h IS out of the race for
;he speaiier5hiD. In the Wisconsin
.cTislature rearrOrtiOImeIt was passed,
.llifO?m text books dete tied and resO-
.ition passed f2voring the election OF
-nited States senators by popular vote.
The steamship Cashmere from
fIeljteraIlan p)rt5 ARRIVED at New
York having on board 1900 italian
immigrants. This is the largest num-
Der OF Italians ever brought to this port
y One vessel.
VIM. Wal &C.. u)stm- Ser a. ILdi ma
oils. is dead Hundreds of Italians
arc tcing landed in New York. Mrs.
Annie Besant, the English theosophist.
iias arrived in New York AT Rome
Ga, Mrs. Ora Mckee was acquitted OF
IEc charge Of numbering Mrs. Wimrel.
.ConGres5.Tan-clecG Watson of Geor-
gia. has declared his opposition TO
Crisp for speaker. Twenty national
banks in Kansas will deuationalize and
reurgGaize under the new state banking
law. Governor Eagle says he will
call a convention "a Little Rock to de-
wise ways and means for the Arkansas
exhibit at the Worlds fair . The
'olZe strikers will epdcavor to settle
heir troubles by dealing directly with
Ee employers. the labor leaders having
greed TO step aside ..All the miners
~ The country viii strike for eight
hours May |. the conference between
workers and bosses ~ Pittsbarg having
adjourned without making an agree
nent.