The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-07-20
STATE NEWS.

SIAIE NEWS.
MAR Wichita, . few days ago, the 5-year.
old child Of d. E. Hastings was drowned in
fording East Chisholm Greek. 81, q
FOLLOWING IL list Of post-ofice changes
In the State during the week ending July 6:
Established Tree, Osborne County
Thomas T. Mcclellan, Postmaster; Sarat0-
60, Pratt, VIM. F. Gibbons; Sugar Loaf
Rocks, Charles II. Dewey; Terra Gotta, ELS.
worth, Dwight E. Loomis; Wells, Marshall,
Samuel T. Phillips. Discontinued Roach
Greek, Washington County.
HENRY GREEN the eccentric Englishman
at Leavenw0rth,i it is said came to his death by
trying the experiment of.how much corro-
sive sublimate he could take without hurt
ing him. 1t is estimated that he spent $780,.
0OOin three years in Leayenworth, and it is
said that he had notice day or two before
his death that 1900 more would soon be
forwarded to him Is the proceeds of the sale
of some Of his property. Ed.
The Congressional appropriation of &c..
600 for river improvement at Atchison is
available and engineers are about to take
immediate steps for the protection Of the
river-bank.
PAwNEE FORK, near where the post Of
Fort Larned, just abandoned, was situated,
was not many years ago thought the most
dangerous place on the plains on account OF
Indian ambuscades. The country all around
there now is rapidly becoming one of the
most populous portions of Kansas.
JOHN WESLEY BRANDON was recently
drowned in the Verdigris six or seven miles
below Independence. He came near drown
ing man named Sharp, who went to his
rescue, and who had to struggle for his life
to break loose from the drowning man.
RECENTLY, Charley Cookson, aged about
IA, residing six miles southeast of Newton,
was kicked by horse in the forehead, and
his skull badly broken. Doctors Coleman
and Boyd dressed the wound, but consider
his chances for recovery very doubtful.
In Cowley County, a man by the name Of
Blizzard, being confronted with a shot-gu n,
confessed to burning the haystacks Of j. G.
Titus, and destroying 800 bushels of wheat.
Object, revenge ON Titus for beating him in
lawsuit.
1T is claimed that certain fruit-tree mis-
sionaries, whose goods are always ''true to
name," are victimising the orchardists of
the northwest by selling common style of
pippin tree, under the name and style of the
Russian apple.
In shooting ARRAY between ALI. Down
ell and Frank Grant, near Lindsburg, in
Mcpherson County, the latter received the
contents Of double barreled shot gun in
the leg.
MRS. DANIEL BOONE, of Union Town
ship, Sedgwick County, scalded her 49,
months-old child to death by the handle of
a teapot giving way while she was pouring
the tea.
THE neral sense of Larned is now being
shocked by the developments in the case Of
the State against Joseph Leighty and Mary
Nicholson for adulterous cohabitation.
A FEW days ago three children, aged re-
spectively Q, 8 and 4 years, Of Andrew
Harms, Mennonite, who lives miles east
of Newton, in Pleasant Township, section
had gone to town that day to do their usual
trading, leaving the children at home, and
while playing the children for some reason
got into large Russian chest, which had
double spring lock, and when the lid came
down it fastened them in, and there their
parents found them next day, after long
search, smothered to death. The children, in
the agonies of death, had torn quantities of
flesh off of each other. Another child, aged
2 years, was left at home also, bull Fortunate
ly did not get into the chest.
AT Leavenworth, on the 4th, by an explo-
sion of fireworks a little girl named MUIR
ply, residing with her parents on Spruce,
between Fourth and Fifth Streets, was Sc
riously if not fatally burned, her clothes
taking fire and burning completely from her
person before the blaze could be extinguish.
ed. Her mother, who attempted to put out
the flames, was also seriously, although not
fatally, burned.
CowLEY COUNTY has made to the A., T.
and S. f. Road the following proposition:
To vote to the Company 81 600 per mile, not
exceeding $4,000 in the aggregate, in 30
years g. per cent. coupon bonds, on the COM
pany giving suitable guarantee that the
road shall be completed through the county |
by August 2, 1879; bonds not to be delivered
until the road is built.
ANOTHER colony of Russian Mennonites, |
numbering several hundred, arrived at |
Atchison on the 9Th, and went to settle near |
Burton and Holsted, on the Atchison, To- |
peka and Santa Fe Railroad.
Col. JNO. A. MARTIN, of the Atchison |
Champion, turned over the control of his
paper on the 9th to Ward Burlingame, and
entered upon personal canvass of the State
Tor the nomination for Governor.
A YOUNG man named James Wallingford,
IF Independence, recently attempted to
commit suicide but was thwarted by his
friends. He suffers intensely from an injury
resolved from falling of q horse during the
war, and declares he will kill himself rather
han remain in misery. a..E
Kansas City Markets.
KANSAS CITY, No., July 10.