The Iola register., 1881-09-16
NELSON F. DAVIS, la,e Tax Collector

NELSON T. JAWS, l3lc L 0A NO1CCtOT
at Houston, Tex. is found to be defaulter
for SlOO. 900. Suits will be brought against
his bondsmen, one of whom is Mayor Baker.
The Texas & Pacific Railroad has
been completed to point 449 miles west of
Dallas, and track-laying progresses at the
rate of two miles per day.
AMANUFACTORY of counterfeit nickels
has been discovered in the Ohio Penitentia.
ry, where it has been successfully carried on
for some time.
WALTER HARMON, an insurance swim
dler, now in Jail at Shreveport, La, is
wanted in Memphis and Jackson. Tenn,
and Sedalia, Mo-, where he went by the
name OF II. H. Howard in perpetrating his
vi;lainies.
FIVE hundred and fifty Mormons for
Utah are now on their way across the ocean.
Switzerland and Germany contribute the
greater number. Two thousand MOrmons
have left Liverpool this summer.
AT Jamaica, Long Island, John Kem-
pei, a saloon keeper, murdered his wife, set
fire to the building, and then hanged him.
self. Kempel quarreled frequently with his
wife, their differences being mostly about
money matters.
The Utes have been started for their
new reservation in Utah. The White River
Utes went peacefully, but the Uncompahgre
braves demurred to their proposed removal,
and were only persuaded to go by threat
to turn them over to the military. Settlers
have already begun to flock into the aban-
doned reservation in Southern Colorado.
Miss CORA BYARD, q handsome girl
of 16, committed suicide by shooting, at her
home near Dallas, Highland County, o.
Her trouble was that she had been slighted
by her lover.
A BALLOON s'professor' named Rog-
ers, during an ascension at Boston, fell from
his car at an elevation of 100 feet and was
fatally injured. The balloon collapsed.
AN explosion of nitro-glycerine at
Sawyer City, Pa, caused the death Of four
men and the serious injury of several others.
BENJAMIN SHoROCH, while playing
baseball at Paterson, N. j., was struck in
the stomach by ball from the bat. He died
from the effects few minutes after.
SERIOUS anti-Jewish riots occurred at
Stolp, Pomerania, Sunday. The rioters
threatened to storm Jewish houses, and
pelted the troops, who charged the mob,
wounding sixteen persons, several seriously.
THE news from Fort Apache is rather
meager, but all the reports received indi.
cate that Gen. Carr's command is threat
ened with no immediate danger. The red
skins are believed to be off to the southwest
of the fort. They give no quarter
to any whites who chance to fall
into their hands, and several murders
by them have been reported. The
troops are being pushed forward to the re-
lief of Gen. Carr, and the arrival of three
companies was reported on the Sth. Gen.
Wilcox telegraphs his belief that the hos
tiles are all north of the Gila River and
mostly in the White Mountains or Magallon
country.
THROUGHOUT the New England
States phenomenal condition of the at
mosphere prevailed on the 9Th. While the
air as viewed from a window or looking up
into the sky appeared to be free from fog or
mist, the sun was totally Obscured. The
grass presented a most unnatural appear.
ance, its livid green looking as though the
results of a coat Of paint. Gas jets, which
ordinarily show a yellowish light, burned
with white brilliancy that made them
resemble electric lights. In all directions
distances appeared to be shortened. A
learned Professor at Dartmouth ascribes the
phenomenon "to be something in the atmos-
phere which absorbs shorter and long wave
lengths, leaving only those which give the
color of yellow and green" He thinks it
may be owing to pollen from fir and pine
trees, together with smoke from forest fires
in Canada.