The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-06-15
STATE NEWS

AT AAneo9 lily, No., tne evening OI INC
nh, the joint meeting OF the Kansas and
Missouri Academies Of Science met At DR..
Bells Church, very appreciative and good
audience being present. Col. Van Horn
called the house to order, and with some ap-
propriate remarks introduced the Kansas
guests, and Prof. Snow, the President Of
the Kansas Academy, opened the regular
The following are the names Of
The Kansas guests: B. f. Nudge, Frank II.
Snow, G. b. Collier, F. G. Adams, F. W.
and wife, Joseph Savage, Prof. G.
Patrick, James Marvin, j. A. Leane, e. A.
Popenoe, Secretary Kansas Academy; Mrs.
F. W. Apitz, F. B. Ashton, Prof. Broad
head, Prof. F. o. Marvin.
NEAR Wichita, recently, Mr.. Emil Pleifer
died from the effects Of lsudanum which he
took for the purpose Of elf-destruction, it
is supposed, as an empty four-ounce vial
was found in his bed.
work counting railroad.ties between that
place and Newton.
Mr.. DANIEL WARK, Of Appanoose Town.
ship, Franklin County, had eight horses
seriously injured by running against barb
ed wire fence recently. Mr.. w. estimates
his damages at $50.
AT Leavenworth, the evening of the 9th,
a colored man residingat Platte City, named
George Wood, was shot through the head
and fatally wounded. The party who did
the shooting is named Stephen Kelly, and he
is coal-miner. There is no cause assigned
for the act, and no person witnessed the
shooting, it having been done in vacant
house. Kelly, after doing the shooting,
crossed the river into Missouri.
OTTAWA has an O'Leary in the person Of
Mr.. Hayman, who recently walked, in Shell
don Hall, 100 miles in less than "a hours.
HATTIE LONG was tried at the last term
of the District Court, in Oswego, for child
murder. She was acquitted.
CHARLES BOLLEs, Of Trading Post, Linn
County, committed suicide at Pleasanton,
between and 2 o'clock on recent Monday
morning. 1t appears that young Bolles had
been paying his addresses to young lady
(Miss Wealthie PowelD in Plessanton for
some time, and rumor had it they were en-
gagged to be married; but the young lady for
some cause concluded to release herself
from the engagement and had notified him
of the fact. He visited her on Sunday even
ing in order to press his suit and if possible
to obtain renewal of her pledges Of affec-
ton. Failing in this, he took up his revOlv.
er which he had laid ON the piano during
the interview, walked deliberately to the
lounge, lay down upon il, and placing the
muzzle of the revolver to his breast dis
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the vicinity of the heart and he died almost
instantly.
THE exercises of the sixth annual COM
mencement of the University of Kansas
closed at Lawrence on the 9th. The eXer-
cises Of the literary and other societies, the
oratorical prize contest, the annual GRAFTON
by Gen. Blair of Fort Scott, the speeches Of
the graduates, the baccalaureate sermon by
Rev. F. F. ingalls, of Atchison, the speeches
of those taking the masters degree and the
several other features of the week were all
largely attended and thoroughly interesting.
The number of visitors from abroad was I'M
usually large. The past year has been one
of remarkable prosperity with the institu.
ton.
A FEW nights ago, negro prisoner in the
Jail at Ottawa tore up the bedding in his cell
and set fire to it. As the fire could do no
harm in the iron cell, he was left to enjoy it,
but soon extinguished it for his own COM
fort.
THE Wichita Herald says: Make the Ar
kansas River navigable and it will not cost
over 10 cents per hundred to ship wheat to
New Orleans, which is the most natural and
best market for this whole region.
JUDGE PERKINS, Cherokee County, on a
writ of habeas corpus, admitted Allen
Smith to bail in the sum of $4,000 for the
murder Of Ira Hyde. The sum is very large
and there is no probability of Smith giving
the bond.
CHANGES were made in post-offices in
Kansas, during the week ending June 1, as
folio IS: Observation-Disclosures Hill, Russell
County, Jehiel Forest, Postmaster; Fred
Phillips, John C. Little; Gere,
Barton, John A. Gere; Greenvale, Phillips,
Aaron Ford. Names changed-Dixon, Cof-
fey County, to Halls Summit, Ezra E. Hall,
Postmaster; ShirleyN Cloud, to Ames. Post
masters appointed-Lawndale, Jackson
County, II. II. Armstrong; Morganville,
Clay, Mrs. Susan A. Eddy; Oakland, Jewell,
John Britain; Ridgeway, Usage, John c.
Iserman; Union Valley, Lincoln, George A.
Clyne.
COMMISSIONS were issued by the Gov
ernor for the week ending June as follows:
Notaries Public-W. D. C. Smith, Usage;
H. w. Rice, Leavenworth; h. c. Bates, Rice;
w. w. Thomas, Sedgwick; w. A. Harris,
Douglas; H. II. Lowrey, Marshall; T. W.
Gardner, jefferson; NJ. A. Stearns, Lincoln;
George E. Wise, Barbour; Kos. Harris,
Sedgwick; C. K. Scoville, Nemaha; Jonas
Waters, Ellis; f. F. Robertson, Cowley;
charles w. Morse, Sumner; VIM. T. Dutton,
Neosho; Daniel Hinesley, Kingman; j. j.
Bartlett, Cherokee; VIM. T. Mcclure, JEFF
ferson; s. j. McNaughton, Leavenworth;
B. h. Dayton, Allen; James B.
Lutten, Pawnee; Lyl. L. Bishop, Norton;
Justices of the Peace-Frank C. Leach, for
Kingman Township, Kingman County, vice
C. C. Barnard, removed from county.
Mcbride, Richland Township,
Jewell, vice w. King, resigned. John B,
Ellsworth, Battle Hill Township, McPher-
son, vice B. F. Potter, deceased. James
Slater, Eminence Township, Woodson, vice
N. Hale, resigned. Edmund L. Fish, Bur-
ingame Township, Osage, vice A. A. Hen
deceased. G. NJ. Dix, Rock Creek
Jefferson, vice N. 8. Peterson.
County Surveyor-Thomas C. Austin, Reno
County, vice c. A. Taylor, removed from
Dounty.
TEE remains Of 70 soldiers arrived at Fort
on the Sd from Fort Harker,
md were inferred in the National cemetery
with military honors. The bodies were
AIKEN from the depot in army wagons drap-
ID in flags and accompanied by one compa- |
~ Of the Twenty-third Infantry, and the |
'egimental band.