The Iola register., 1891-07-17
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF
THE occURANcEs OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABRoAD-THE
PITa OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.


q The Paris chamber of commerc
strongly recommends manufacturers
exhibit goods at the Worlds fair.
The clause in the new constitution {
Mississippi requiring voters to registe
four months before election is givin
q satisfaction.
The pope has decided to create !
Mexico three archbishoprics to b
called Linars, Oxaca and Durango, an
five bishoprics, Cuernavaca, Saltillo
Tehuantepec and chihuahua
The secretary of the interior has ap
pointed as trustees for town site entrie
i of lands In Oklahoma, John Foster. w
S. Robertson snd A. c. Smell, all @
Guthrie, to be known as board No. 6.
Ex-senator Blair, as United State
minister to Chi"a, has drawn but on
month salary SIN ,e his appointment. H
is not now drawing salary as minister
Senor Romero, the minister from
Mexico, denies that Mexico is ripe fo
a revolt against the present govern
ment.
A. L. Donthett. cashier OF the Porter
Donthett company, buttermakers a
Pittsburg, has been arrested on tn,
Scharge of embezziing S65, 900 from the
company and falsifying the books.
Complaints have been made of cattle
| trespasses on the Cherokee strip.
| Advices from Hayti report indications
of an uprising against President Hip,
polyte.
Min Shepherd has escaped from the
Bentonville, Ark, jail. He was await
ing trial for killing policeman Ed.
Bright, of Pierce City, Mo-, and con-
stable Dallen of Arkansas.
John c. Robinson OF Kingston, Ind,
and David S. Wright, of Salem, Ind.
have been appointed special agents by
the president to allott lands in severalty
to the Cheyenne and ArapahOe Indians.
Governor Russell has appointed as
the board of Worlds fair managers of
Massachusetts, Alice Freeman Palmer,
Anna L. Days, John w. Corcoran, Ed
ward Burnett and Z. Clarence Hovey.
George McFarlane, half owner of the
Waikapee plantation, has brought suit
against the Hawaiian Commercial COM
pany, of which Claus Spreckles is presi-
dent for 81, 600, 900 damages for taking
forcible and illegal possession of the
plantation.
The Harvey Peak tin mining CON-
pany is now sinking five shafts near
Rand City. S. d.
United States treasurer Nebecker
denies report that he is to resign.
The Egyptian cotton crop is in a
tiourishing condition. Plenty of rain
has fallen.
American missionaries are alleged to
have been driven from Ponope, on the
Caroline Islands, by Spanish forces.
Gophers and squirrels are seriously
damaging the wheat crop in Washing
ton.
2. W. Ryan, elected to succeed Con-
gresham Wade, of Missouri, was Sc
verely hurt by a fall on a defective
at Springfield, Mo.
AT Baton Rouge. La, a cyclone de-
molished one of the penitentiary build
ing, killing ten convicts and injuring
thirty-five, five fatally. In the city fif-
tv houses were unroofed and a number
Of people hurt. Eleven persons have
died from injuries received and more
deaths are expected
The visible supply of wheat as esti- |
mated by the New York Produce Ex-
change was 12.5S3.6Ol bushels. a de-
crease of LOIS, 7S5 bushels, and of corn.
|. .O20, 22l bushels, an increase of l59. 10
bushels.
Slocum. Smiler, Wood and Jugiro,
5he four murderers, were electrocuted at
sing Sing, n. Y. The Job was finished
n eighty-fve minutes and was pro-
success. All the witnesses
Who talked said that death was aprar-
,ntly instantaneous and painless.
Chairman Taubeneck of the peoples
,arty national committee is in Ken
lucky organizing for the August elec-
ion. He is very hopeful.
At Elgin, H., 4l,04G pounds
'f butter brought uniform price of Il
.ents per pound, the market being a
hade lower than last week.
Captain Luther Martin, of Bruins
7ick, Ga, drowned himself at the same
'oint where his wife committed suicide
en- years ago in a like manner.
The grip Is working havoc among the
inhabitants near the straits of Belle
sic, Quebec, many having succumbed 4,
o the disease.
1t is reported that all the barbed wire
of the country have been merg- ,
u into trust to be known as the Col
mbia Patent Company.
Director General Davis of tho Worlds ,
Columbian Exposition has selected the j
Ion. A. G. Bullock of Massachusetts, !
be Hon. William Lindsay of Kentucky. !
erd W. Peck OF Chicago, the Hon.
'enjamin Butterworth of Ohio, and NJ. {
:. Handy of Pennsylvania to visit !
'urope in the interests of the fair I
Henry c. Adams, treasurer of the /
Ind for the relief of disabled universal {
It ministers, was arrested in New .
'ork in civil suit for the recovery of 5
deficit of ST., 700 in his accounts. i
1t has developed that in the official =
eports of Jan. "a last, bank examiner =
rev, of Philadelphia, failed to state +
lat the Keystone bank was indebted. =
i account of fclearing-bouse certificates. :
| the sum of S54i. S5l. .46. which amount 4 4
as given in the banks liabilities. =
AT Bloomington. Ind, Luther Jones v
es critically i'll from the effects OF a a
eating administrated by white caps t
lree weeks ago. a
Cadets and Negroes became involved a
quarrel, at the National Military t
ournment at Indianapolis. Several OF 8
e cOmbatants were injured, but \
me fatally. d
4 Prohibition attorney named Price I,
ID his son were assaulted at Elkder, H
wa for having been instrumental in n
osing a saloon. 1t is thought that /,
e elder Price will die.
The right of the woman TO vote will
passed upon by the Supreme Court
the United States in October. il
A South American newspaper re- p
ived in New York contains the con- c.
ssion of cannibal who killed and ate G
( persons. V
The decision OF the supreme court of c.
ansas on the eight-hour law averts the o.
cessity of an extra session of the leg a
ature ID
Drs. Southwick and Daniels of Buffa- re
| 7.