The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-08

months ended August 81, 1889, s55,s1s,5 o7;
same time 1879, $25e,s5a, 65. The
excess Of imports over exports
Of gold and silver coin and bullion
WAS Is follows: Month ended August 81,
1850, excess Of imports, s., "a, $50; same
time In 1879, excess Of imports, s, 9S6, At.
Eight months ended August 81, 1880, excess
Of imports, 81. 484 ,616; same time in 1873,
excess Of exports, S1,e4s, 1856; same time in
1880, excess Of imports, $79, 459, 431. Twelve
months ended August 81, 1879, excess Of
imports, $655, 4S1.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Two Chicago children, aged three
and five years, have died from eating the
seeds Of weed known as thoIn-apple, or
jimson- weed.
AT Richmond, Va, on the 28th. as
the elephant known a. Chief, belonging to
John Robinson's circus, was being removed
from . freight car, the animal became en-
ragged at his keeper, John King, and crushed
him against . Car, causing injuries from
which he died within few hours.
G. L. SMITH, sewing-machine agent
at Warsaw, Ind, won the heart Of the hand
some daughter Of Morse Chaplin, wealthy
farmer living near that town, and induced
her to forge . check on her father in his faver
for $3.50. The money was secured before
the fraud was discovered, and both
parties were arrested and placed In
Jail. Smith was bailed out, but the
father refused to give bail for his daugh-
ter, fearing she would elope with
Smith. The following day Smith called at
the Jail and was allowed to walk with Miss
Chaplin in the back yard. They had not been
there long when tour pistol shots were
heard, and when the jailer's family reached
the yard the dead bodies of Miss Chaplin
and Smith were discovered lying side by side,
the smoking revolver still being in Smiths
hand. Smith had wife and two children
and was trying to get divorce.
FATAL results of blowing out the gas:
James Forester and wife, an aged couple Of
Laporte County, Ind, came to indianapolis
to attend the State Fair, stopping at the
Pyle House. The next morning both were
found unconscious in bed, but still breathing.
The husband died soon after, and there was
but slight hope that the wife would recover.
At the Burnett House, in Stroudsburgh,
Pa, James Hanna and male companion,
from Oakland. were found dead in bed.
Coroner's verdict, death from suffOcation,
caused by blowing out instead Of turning of
the gas.
A NEGRO was recently lynched near
Fort Mason, Fla, for killing white rail-
road boss.
ANNA STROKER, the Manitowoc Coun-
ty, Wisconsin, servant girl, under arrest for
the murder of her mistress, Nancy Hey
wood, has confessed the crime. She says
the deceased called her crazy, which "made
her mad, !" that she knocked her down, and,
seizing an AK, chopped her to death. She
then dragged the body out into the yard,
where she covered it with boards, and, re-
turning to the house, scooped up the blood
on the floor with her hands, scrubbing the
stains afterward with mop. She is but II
years of age.
LITTLE Eva Milward, aged four years,
daughter of Mr.. d. E. Milward, of Keokuk,
Iowa, was accidentally burned to death.
While playing with some matches, her cloth
ing was id some way ignited, and in q few
moments she was entirely enveloped in
flames.
THE dwelling occupied by Mrs. Julia
Hayes and her brother, at Buffalo, n. Y,
burned on the morning Of the 3Oth. Mrs.
Hayes first discovered the fire, and aroused
her brother. The latter leaped from win
dow to save himself. Instead of securing
her own safety, Mrs. Hayes went back to her
room, in the upper story, to secure some Of
her effects, and was cut of by the flames and
burned to death.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A LAW just passed and gone into eff
feet in the Chickasaw Nation imposes fine
Ut not less than $500 nor more than 81, 600
upon every native for every white man EN-.
ployed by him in taking care of and assist
ing in raising stock, with imprisonment Of
| not less than one nor more than twelve
months additional, ct the option Of the
Court. An act has also been passed estab.
fishing the price of license to marry ma
tive at fifty dollars.
IT has recently been developed that
some time ago package Of 5000 worth of
bonds was distracted from q desk in the
Chief Clerks room, Second Auditors De.
partment, Washington. An investigation
satisfied the Secretary Of the Treasury that
the bonds were appropriated by Chief Clerk
Herring, now dead.
THE Porte refuses to order the evacua-
ton Of Dulcigno and defies the Allied pow
ers. The condition precedent to any fur
Their negotiation is that the naval demonstra-
ton be abandoned. This has been refused,
and AZ soon rs Montenegro completes its pre-.
paration the battle will be opened.
POLITICAL agitation is rife in the
Scandinavian peninsula. The Norwegians
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