The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-03-31
KANSAS ITEMS.

The scarlet fever at Wichita has
abated. No new cases have OCCURRED for
some time.
The spring term of court for Neosho
County will convene at Erie, on Tuesday
of next week.
A grand reception was given to Hon.
j.. Ingalls, by the people of Atchison
last Monday night.
Hon. H. W. Cook, of Wyandotte,
who was prominent candidate for the
nomination for Member of Congress for
this district last fall, has become insane.
On Thursday of last week, VIM. Tull,
of Greeley, Anderson County, was almost
instantly killed by the falling of tree
while he was engaged in chopping wood.
A youngish.looking man who register
ed as Rudolph Feuerstein, Dalton, NO.,
committed suicide at the Durfee House
in Lawrence by taking morphine, last
Saturday morning.
A fire at Dodge City on the night of
Tuesday of last week destroyed the stock
yards, together with a house and barn
and several head of horses and cattle.
Entire loss about $1,000.
The Attorney General has just issued
q circular calling a meeting of the
County Attorneys of the State at the
capital for the purpose of consultation
regarding the duties of their Office.
On Wednesday of last week, a man
named E. J. Coulter, who lived near
Vermillior, Marshall County, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his barn.
He is supposed to have been temporarily
insane.
The Supreme Court has appointed as
Commissioners for revising the statutes,
in accordance with an act of the late
w. G. Webb, of Topeka; B.
F, Simpson, of Paola; and E. Stillings,
of Leavenworth.
Newark and Neodesha townships in
Wilson County will vote on the 10th of
next month, on propositions to issue
bonds in aid of the building of narrow
gauge railroad from Parsons to Neodesha
and other western points.
Tiogs township, Neosho County, has
lately voted $4,000 in bonds in aid of
the constitution of a narrow gauge rail-
road from Chanute to Altoona and FIRE.
donia. The Times thinks the voting of
this subsidy very nearly insures the
building of the road.
A boy named Ernest Richardson
aged about twelve years, living with his
brother-in-law on Mall Creek in Clay
County, committed suicide on Friday of
last week, by taking strichnine, because
he had been scolded for not getting kind
lings the night before.
The storm of last Friday seems to
have been felt with much greater sever
ity in the northern part of the State
than here. At Atchison it was thought
to have been the worst storm of the sea-
son, and snow fell to the depth of seven
inches. 1t is feared that fruit buds in
that portion of the State were seriously
injured.
While parties were engaged in moving
an old counter in Crew & Hadley's
bookstore at Lawrence, one day this
week, a mouse nest was discovered near
the money drawer, which upon an exam
ination, was found to be composed of a
mixture of bond coupons, bank notes
and fractional currency. 1t is not kno wn
just what damage has been sustained in
this way, but in 1872, Mr.. Crew missed
500 worth of railroad bond coupons that
had been laid away in this DRIVER, and
among the rubbish was found $40 worth
Of revenue stamps, S. and 81 green
back, and any quantity of postal cur
of course, badly mutilated.
For number of years change had been
missed from the drawer, but no clue to
The thief could be obtained, although dill.
gent watch had been kept. So says the
he Journal