The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-02
Kansas Fairs.
miscellaneous Items.


bold attempt at robbery, which resulted in
the killing of the robber and the w6unding
Of an ex-policeman. The particulars are as
follows: EX-POliceman Harmon was sitting
in front Of Bears hardware store about 6
O'Clock, keeping watch over the premises
during the temporary absence Of the propri-
etor. He heard an unusual sound in the
rear part of the store in the region of tho
safe, and went back to see what was going
on. When he got in sight of the safe he dis
covered a burglar at work trying to pick the
lock. The burglar sprang to his feet and
fired at Harmon, the ball striking just below
the left nipple, making an ugly flesh wound
and grazing his arm. 4 second shot just
graZed the hip. Harmon ran out to the
street and called for the police. The thief
ran out right after him, and cutting loose a
horse that was htched near by, put him to
his best speed, closely followed by Harmon
and an immense crowd. The thief ran two
blocks north and then turned east toward
the Santa Fe Railroad. Officers Ellis and
Bowers, both colored, turned east one block
south of where the thief did and headed
him off at the Santa Fe track. When within
POO feet Of him they ordered him to halt, to
which he responded by two shots from his
revolver. The officers both returned the
fire, one of the shots striking the thief and
killing him instantly, the ball passing clear
through the heart. The man killed, by pa
pers discovered on his person, is found to be
named Murphy. He, with man by the
name of johnson, came from Kansas City
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Grove during the Musical Jubilee. Murphy
was about twenty years of age, smooth face,
light hair, rather of sharp face, prominent
nose, about five five feet eight inches high
and would weigh 12O pounds. The Coro-
ner's Jury promptly eXonerated the officer
who did the shooting.
A Kansas City dispatch says: For
some time it has been the talk among rail-
way men that the Atchison & Nebraska
Company were about to build an indepenent
line from Atchison, Kansas, to Kansas City,
as an offset to the Missouri Pacific extension
to Omaha. Engineers who have been in the
field some weeks are now near Wyandotte.
The proposed line of the new road is an air.
line from Atchison to Kansas City, passing
through Leavenworth, and will be AZ miles
long, built just far enough from the river to
avoid the long bends of that stream. 1t is
claimed that it can be built much cheaper,
and therefore can compete successfully with
the older road, which, following the wind
ings of the river, is six miles longer. The
work is already in progress, and the survey
ing corps will be Immediately followed by
the graders. No time can be assigned for
the completion of the work, as it will depend
greatly upon the nature of the weather, but
strong attempt will be made to complete
it in six months. The road will probably
strike the Kansas Pacific track west of Arm.
strong and come in on that company's line
to the Union Depot, as this is the only gate
way, the other being barred by the rival
road.
The Newton Kansan says: The Land
Department of the A, 7. & S. F. Il. K. is
now in correspondence with parties in
France, endeayoring to induce them to set
tie hereabouts and engage in the silk BUSH
ness. The department reports large guam
tity of cocoons now in the hands of the Men,
nonites who are tributary to this city, and
that these people are now prepared with
silk worms and mulberry trees to engage
much more extensively in, the business Of
raising silk cocoons and worms, providing
they can find market for their products.
And 10 this end is the land department Ia
boring 1t is just such manufactures as this
that Newton needs most, and we earnestly
hope the land department will be successful
In their endeavor.
Charles Benjamin Ellis, civil engi-
neer by profession, whose home is in Rob-
inson, Brown County, this State, went to
St. Louis last December to obtain employ
ment. Soon afterward he exhibited unmis-
taxable symptoms of insanity, his peculiar
hobby being belief that he was the Prophet
Elijah, sent by God to convert the world.
He was placed in the insane asylum for sew
eral months, where he apparently recovered
his mental balance, but upon being dis
missed few day ago, at the request of his
wife, in order that they might return to
their home in Kansas, his old halucination
returned and it was found necessary 10
again place him under restraint. He is said
to be man of unusual ability in his pro-
fessiOn.
State Treasurer Francis has made his
report to the State Superintendent of Public
instruction of the amount of annual school
fund in the Treasury, subject to distribution
as the second semi-annual dividend for the
year 1881, amounting to the sum of $l52.-
245.O3. This amount exceeds the last dis
tribution by 5,29o.31, and will be made on a
basis of forty -four cents to every child in the
State over six years of age and under twen-
ty-one.
Harry Beard, a brakeman on the
Santa Fe Road, was Instantly killed at Bur-
lingame, while coupling cars. His foot
caught in ''frog'' and held him so tightly
that he could not extricate himself before
being knocked down by a moving car, which
passed over his body.
Harper Couuty's corn crop is good.
Rev. D. P. Mitchell, for many years
prominent minister in the NJ. E. Church,
editor OF the Kansas Daily State Journal
the past four years, a leader Of the Green
back party of the State and its candidate for
Congress from the Third District one year
ago, and for Governor three years ago, died
of heart disease near Newton, on the train
from the West, on the morning of the 24th.
Mrs. E. Dearborn, of LaCygne, was