The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05

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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
BENJAMIN BRANDRETH, the veteran
pill -maker, is dead. He was y years old
and leaves wife and thirteen children (siS
sons and seven daughters) and fortune OF
between two and three millions. In twenty
years he spent over two millions of dollars
for advertising, to which he always gave
credit for his success in life.
WAsHINGTON's birthday this year
falling upon Sunday, Monday, the 23d, was
observed in many places by the suspension
ceremonies.
Mrs. MARY H. THOMAS, of ia
South Halstead Street, Chicago, was
burned to death on the night of the 22d
by the explosion Of can of kerosene
with which she was reminding the kitchen
fire.
DIPHTHERIA is raging in Central
Russia. 1t has carried off since last Novem-
Der over 40, 600 persons in the provinces of
Charkoff and Poltava alone, and in the neigh
borhood of Walk whole villages have al
most died out.
A MAN named Hartmann, with sew
eral aliases, has been arrested in Paris,
charged with having been connected with the
plot to kill the Car at Moscow. He is be-
lieved to be the same man who rented and
occupied the house from which the eXplO-
sion of the mine under the railway was OPP
Grated.
A BISMARCK dispatch of the 9th
says that the worst snow storm ever known
in the Northwest ragged there for two days.
Since Feb. LIST there has been succession of
storms, causing an almost total suspension
of travel.
DELEssEPs arrived in New York from
Panama on the oath.
CHARLES SMITH, a veteran journal
list, for many years connected with the Keo-
kuk Qowa) Constitution, died on the 22d,
aged g..
The House Committee in the con-
tested case of Bradley against Slemens, Ar
kansas, will report in favor of Mr.. Slemens,
the sitting member.
PRESIDENT HAYES, has refused to
grant a court-martial in the case of Gen.
Boynton against Gen. Sherman, on the
ground that the civil courts afford an ample
remedy for the acts complained OF.
A LARGE tenant-right meeting held
near Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland,
on the 25th, was attacked by three thousand
Orangemen armed with bludgeons, who
stormed the platform and dispersed the
meeting. Twenty tenant-righters were Sc
riously injured. The Orange party consid
cred the meeting to be of seditious charac-
ter.
PHILIP BOALTZ, a bachelor 62 years
old, said to be quite well of, who lived alone
on his farm five miles northwest of Milan,
Ripley County, Ind, was found murdered
in his house on the morning Of the 25th. He
was beaten to death with club. William
Strissinger, nephew of Boaltz, is under ar
rest upon suspicion of having committed the
murder.
ASSISTANT SURGEON ROBERT WHITE,
United States Marine Hospital Service, died
on the 18th. He was largely interested in
sanitary science, and was prominent mem
Der of the American Health Association.
The President has approved the joint
resolution authorizing the Secretary of
the Navy to transport contributions for
the relief of the suffering poor in Ire
land.
Hon. THOMAS FLETCHER, promi-
nent citizen of Arkansas, for two years Pres
ident of the State Senate, died on the 26th.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit has
recently been put in circulation in Chicago,
and probably elsewhere. 1t is a $40 legal
tender note, dated 1875, check letter C,
signed John Allison, Register, and Jno. C.
New, Treasurer; is rather dark in appear
ance, and printed on heavy paper. The
fiber which appears in genuine bills is imi-
tated by engraved lines, and the counterfeit
may readily be detected by scratching these
lines with pin, when the fiber will not ap-
pear.
ACCORDING to the latest news received
by cable, the alliance between Peru and
Bolivia has been broken off.
JOHN O'BRIEN and A. D. Parshall,
well known frontiersmen, were recently
killed by Indians, on the Redwater, in Da-
kota.
JAMES HOWARD MILLER was hanged
at Ozark, Ark, on the 9th, for the murder
of his wife about a year ago. A large crowd
Of spectators witnessed the execution. Miller
steadfastly denied the crime of which he was
convicted.
The President has nominated Percy
B. S. Pinchback for Naval Officer at New
Orleans.
VERA SAssULITCH, the famous femi-
nine Nihilist agent, who on the 9Th of Feb.