The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-02

FAIRLAwN. March 81. 18s

eoeial C0ffesponAence.
j FAIRLAwN, March 81, 1880.
| We take the following from the San
Francisco, Cal. Alta:
"An extraordinary suicide, the vic
tim being young girl, occurred on
Rfnc0n Hill, yesterday afternoon
Martha D. Mitchell, aged Is years, q
4 pupil of Rincon Hill school, had re-
NAMED at home to aid her sister Fan.
ME at some seamstress work, at the
direction of her father, ID. C. Mitchell,
Superintendent Of the Eastern Cider
Company. The two girls were alone
in the house. 118 Silver street, and
quarrelled, Martha reftlsi-g to work.
At 8 o'clock in the afternoon Fannie
left the house, telling Martha that she
was going to her father to lodge a
complaint against her. Martha babe
her good bye in an unusually despond-
ent way. Half an hour later Fannie
returned, and on entering the room
where she had left her sister, found
her lying uponsthe floor, dead. Blood
was OOzing from pistol shot wound
in the region of the heart, and near be
her lay single-barrelled breech load
ing pistol, discharged. The pistol be-
longed to the father, and had been ~
ing unlOaded in bureau drawer, a
box Of cartridges lying with it. Mar
tina was generally of a very lively dis
position, but for several days previous
to her suicide, had been in painfully
depressed spirits, and refused to state
the cause of her trouble. She had
made several Inquiries as to the region
of the heart, but they were not partic-
ularly noticed at the time. Evidently
she premeditated suicide. The quar-
rel with her sister angered her to firm
er determination. and her sisters alb
sence afforded the opportunity. In
all its phases, the suicide is particular
ly sad"
Nearly all the girls of lola remem-
Der Matte, Fannie and Sadie Mitch
ell, nieces Of George and Will Davis,
of the lola mills, who attended school
in lola some nine years ago. "Don"
Mitchell run a cider factory in lola ut
the time.
Our last good rain occurred on the
Sd of Dec, 1879.
COllett sold cotswold buck for $50
last week. We can boast of blooded
stock in Fair Lawn from white
mouse to bald eagle.
Mr.. Sell is building his house.
The wind storm Friday and Satur-
day blew down out-buildings and hay
stacks.
Oats all up-peach trees are bloom
ing:
Will Clothier has been visiting in
Crawford county, and tells of the fol-
lowing highway robbery scrape: A
man and wife named Williamson,
from Pike county, Ind, had bought a
farm of Mr.. Page, near Elsinore, and
when in Crawford county, their hired
man who had been with them for two
years, took off the nut that held one of
the wheels on and threw it away, I'M
beknOwn to Mr.. Williams. He was
thus obliged to go to town for new
nut, and while he was gone his hired
man drew his revolver on Mrs. Will
hanson and demanded her money.
She gave him SIG and told him she
had given the rest to her husband be-
fore he started to town. He fled to
parts unknown, failing to secure $50
that she had on her person in a belt.
Will met the woman just after the
robbery had occurred, and he rode
into town and told her story. Many
started in pursuit, but without sue
cess.
COllett & Son have full-blooded
Cotswold lamb thirty days old that
weighs 80 pounds. Who can beat it?
Our Sunday school will probably
elect Thomas Guillim for our future
Alex Wright is one of the few sue
cessful farmers of the west. He has a
new blue eyed boy at his house. The
old women of Fair Lawn look at him
out of the corners of their eyes and ex-
claim: "Law me! who'd a thought"
Rev. L. l.. Holden, ID. d., will
preach at the Oldfast school house
next Friday night, and at Fair Lawn
Saturday night and Sunday at IL a.
m. He will hold Baptismal services
on Sunday.
We often see emigrants pass through
here with six mule team. Yester-
day we noticed two portable steam
engines pass each other in our main
street. I. X. l..
SaVOnburs Chips.