The Iola register., 1891-07-10
GENERAL NEWS.
A CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT OF
THE oCCURANCEs OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABRoAD-THB
P1TH OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

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The steamboat fare between Cincin.
natl and Louisville has been reduced tc
fifty cents.
A national convention of postofflce
clerks will be held at Pittsburg, Sep
| tenber I, next.
The pastors and young people OF the
Baptist churches of Missouri held
meeting at Pertle Springs.
Valera. Freeman, wanted at For
rest, Texas, for starting terrible riot,
was arrested at Louisville, KY.
A large meeting of prominent Phlla-
| delphia Irishmen decided to affiliate
with the new Irish federation OF Ameri-
ca, which is against Parnell.
Arnold Siegfried jain, son OF the
| founder OF the Turner's societies of the
world, was buried in Chicago by Turn
ers. There were no religious cere-
monies.
All the last edition of the Detroit
Commercial Advertiser and Home Jour-
nal was seized for containing lottery ad-
vertisements and the officers of the
company fined $500 and costs.
Z. S. Lacey, comptroller of the cur
rency, has written to the mayor OF
Philadelphia, requesting that he sub
nit the names of two suitable persons
to assist in an investigation of Keystone
Bank affairs.
Receivers Eddy and Cross have turned
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway
over to the stockholders. Mr.. Cross
becomes president of the road.
The southern passenger association
has made the rate of one fare for the
round trip to the national G. A, R en-
campment at Detroit. Mich, August
2-l0 inclusive.
Bob Ross, an insane Cherokee
broke out of his cell at Talequah, |. T.,
and knocked down the mother of Sup
erintendent Joe Campbell with a hoe.
Campbell. in trying to catch the man,
was attacked and in self-defense stabbed
Ross fatally.
General Jubal A. Early has promised
to speak at the unwilling OF the Jack
son monument at Lexington, Va, July
81. His subject will be THE Military
Achievements and Character of Gen.
eral Jackson"
Wing Ok and his wife, Di Toy, of
Sacramento. Cal, destitute Chinese,
cut out their tongues that they might
starve TO death. Ok died from loss OF
blood and his wifes injuries will prob
ably prove fatal.
The finest wine crop known in years
in Alsace-Lorraine and Rhenish Prus-
sia has been almost totally destroyed by
the overflow of the Saar river.
The name of Sir William Gordon
Cumming has been stricken from the
list of deputy lieutenants of Elginshire,
Scotland, by order of the queen.
Sheriff and Collector John Warfield,
of Desho county. Ark, is short in his
accounts about s25, 900 and is missing.
Fred Steinman, an iron moulder of
Chicago, shot his wife and then COM
mitted suicide while in a fit of jealousy.
President Diaz has granted General
Sturm the right of way for circuit
railway around the City of Mexico and
suburban villages.
Mrs. May Dayton, OF St Paul, left
SIS week to keep her dog, and s2oO,OOO
to Preside4 Arthur's private secretary.
Her husband will contest it.
Boudinot Crumpton was hanged at
Fort Smith, Ark, for the murder OF
Samuel NJ. Morgan November 3, 1889:
Judge Hall, of Lincoln, Neb., has de-
cided that the marriage of a divorced
Nebraska person in Missouri becomes
inyalidated on return to Nebraska.
The potato crop in Prussia is doubt
full, but the yield of winter wheat will
be SO per cent of the average and the
rye 75t.
A son aged Is years, of Mrs. Mary
Lease. was arrested at Wichita charged
with stealing a gold watch and check
from II. E. Corn.
Constantine Demara. an Italian boy,
was deliberately drowned by Joe Costel-
10 at Stopp's ferry near Plttsburg;
Pa. He was swimming with number OF
American boys.
Pinkerton guards and 600 negroes
fought with white strikers at Seattle.
Wash, and two white men were killed
and number seriously injured.
The bronze statute of General Grant
arrived in Chicago and is ready TO be
erected in Lincoln park. 1t will be un
veiled during the reunion OF the grand
army of the Tennessee.
Governor Boies, of Iowa, issued a
proclamation appealing for aid for the
sufferers by the late flood at Cherokee
and other towns in the vicinity. ..
Official notice of the death, June 3. OF
Alexander Clark United States minis
ter to Liberia, was received by the State
Department Monday.
The visible supply of wheat Saturday,
as estimated by the New York Produce
Exchange, was 13, 500, 1856 bushels, de-
crease OF i, ,O57, 1881 bushels, and of corn
3,S5l. 05l bushels, decrease of 476, 2i2
bushels.
A Chinese lodging house in San Fran
cisco burned. The charred remains OF
one Chinese woman were found. Five
Others are believed to haye perished.