The Iola register., 1891-05-01
GENERAL NEWS.
THE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK
GATHERED, CONDENSED AND AR
RANGED FOR OUR BUSY READERS.
Domestic.

ings from, Pittston, Pa, and conveyed
T them to New York. u. Frank Price ant
James Harris. both colored, kfought a
st. Louis and Price died of knife
wounds inflicted by his adversary.
L. Pioget, manager of Daniel Sullivant
ranch, in Buchel county, Tex, has fiet
to Canada with $50, 900 of his employer:
money and beautiful woman. He ha:
been located at Toronto and will be ex
tradited. In the United States Dis
trict Court at Boston, General b. F.
Butler, who appeared for Mrs. Johnson.
} defendant in prosecution for pension
forgery. was ordered from the room by
Judge Carpenter, who had the marshal
and an assistant enforce his decree.
General Butler, with tears in his eyes,
| said that he yielded to force; and when
he returned to the court after the judge
had left the bench, remarked that the
room smelled little better. a family
in Arkansas drank coffee in which a
centipede had somehow got into and
been boiled. The mother and two
children died, but the father and two
other children pulled through with
difficulty.
John Q. Cahoon, the young natural
ist of Taunton, Mass, fell from cliff
into the sea near Placentia, Newfound-
land, recently. The body was recOv-
cred Tuesday. -Four carloads OF
Pinkerton guards arrived in the coke
region of Pennsylvania to. take the
place of the militia, as Governor Patti
son will not allow the national guard to
be used to evict the strikers. :. The
National Convention of the Republican
League convened at Cincinnati, music
hall being thronged to its fullest capac-
| ity. Mayor Mosby, General Foraker,
the Hon. II. H. Powers, and President
Thurston, of the League, made stirring
addresses. . The Kansas City and
Southern railroad was sold at auction
at Kansas City, Mo. 1t was bid in by
John L. Blair for S250.000. He was the
only bidder The Woman's Board of
PRESBYTERIAN missions of the North
western met in twentieth annual session
at Peoria, Ill. Delegates representing
twelve states and territories were pre-
sent. d. . The ChickaSaw nations capital
| is to be moved from Tishomingo to Da-
Wis, station on the Santa Fe. The
| largest death record ever made in
| Cleveland was made last week, when
1863 persons died. La grippe is largely
responsible. :. Secretary Foster said
Saturday that he thought there would
be no surplus in a national treasury
next year. He is arrasnging to apply
tito the bonded debt. . The Edgar
Thomas steel works of Carnegie & Co,
at Pittsburg, Pa. which have been clos
ed for ten weeks has resumed, giving
employment to 1000 men.
An advance of 13t cents in year op-
tion wheat was established Monday at
San Francisco, the last quotation being
SI.SSt per GENITAL. Buyer the season
also advanced, closing at S1.S6.
Brigadier General John Gibson, COM
manding the division of the Pacific,
gadier General Thomas II. Ruger sue
At Sumer, ILL.,. Monday, James Os-
borne. Of Bridgeport, died from the
effects of dose of laudanum which he
drank presumably through mistake.
One thousand coal miners of the Up
per Monongahela have refused to strike
for eight hours May l. The New
York State Alliance of farmers was Or
ganiZed at Hornellsville. Eleven couu-
Perryman of the Creek nation, pardon
ed Samuel Logan, the school teacher
sentenced to be shot for killing James
Mcintosh. The New York police are
looking for Rocco OSsini, an italian,
who sold his bethrothed, Amelia Gandi,
to house of ill fame and beat her nigh
unto death because she objected.
Actor Daniel Kelly of the "Fairies Well"
:
Schoch in Newark, n. j., for speaking
disparagingly of Miss Bessie Gray, the
actors wife. Kelly broke the doctors
nose Troop L., of the Sixth Calvery.
composed entirely OF Brule Sioux, has
been organized. This, it is thought,
indicates that the Sioux are peaceably
disposed. When the fast mail on the
Fort Wayne road pulled in at Pittsburg,
last Wednesday, the doors OF the express
car failed TO open as usual. They were
forced in, and J. II. Robinson, mes
senger for thirty years, was found in
his chair paralyZed. unable to move or
speak. He is dying in a hospital. -.
The st. Louis Presbytery voted almost
unanimously to recommend to the gen.
eral assembly the appointment of
women as deaconeSseS. The annual
statistical report of the American iron
and Steel Association, shows that in
1890 the United States produced the
greatest amount of iron and steel ever
manufactured by any country.
Twenty thousand people attended the
funeral of Congressman NJ. ii. Ford, at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
At st. Paul, Mimi, a crude oil eX-
ploded in IA, 900 gallon tank. John
johnson had descended into the tank
with lighted candle 10 repair a leak.
The gas which had accumulated at once
exploded, and set fire to the tank.
Johnson was killed. The visible sup
ply of wheat and corn is, respectively,
-, lS6, 106 and 2,23S, S47 bushels.
Since last report wheat decreased 2l0,-
704 bushels, and corn 80, $50 bushels 80.
Wheat continues in sellers favor al
London, with foreign grades active at a
good advance. The grain trade is said
to be realizing big profits. "A meeting
of white republicans recently at COlum
bia. S. c., has caused much political eX-
citiment in the state. 1t is considered
as significant that the convention was
attended by a number of white men who
heretofore have been democratic lead
ers. . All legislation affecting mortga-
ges, railways and corporations failed to
pass the Minnesota legislature, which |
adjourned sine die. The measure pro-
hibiting the wearing of tights by actres-
ses and the income tax bill were also |
killed. .. .. Butter on the Elgin Board of
Trade Monday, was in active demand
and limited supply. All sales were at |
p cents. A year ago the price was Is |
cents. Six negroes employed at tan /
bark camp near lockwood, Tenn, were |
killed by regulators. Three of the
seven men sentenced to be shot in the |
Creek nation were pardoned and the |
four others escaped. John c. Cahoon,