The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-26

Long was driving some cattle 70 Tombstons
and tho others were In his employ. Aparty
has been organised at Tombstone % avenge
the massacre.
Ar Pittsburgh, on the 18th. while !
force Of men were engaged dsmolishing q
old brewery, the door Of the third story gsv<
way, burying four men in the debris, and
killing John Finney instantly. Others were
seriously but not fatally injured.
An Arab fanatic ran amuck through
the streets Of Susa calling on Arabs to join
him in . holy war. He and his follower
were seized after they had murdered Z
Maltese. A British man.of-war landed 30(
men, but order was restored without their
help.
An Omaha servant girl lighted the fire
with kerosene. Result, house burned down
and girl frightfully injured.
NORRIS FREIBERG, of the dry-goods
firm Of Kobn & Freiberg, Memphis, attempt.
ed to rescue young Kohn, son Of his partner,
who got into deep water while the two were
bathing In the river. The drowning led
clutched his would-be rescuer about the
neck with death like grasp, and both went
down to watery grave.
FRANK NYE, the alleged chief of an
extensive gang Of horse thieves, and said to
be implicated in varisous swindles In vari-
Gus parts Of the country, has been captured
at Indianapolis.
A PARIS dispatch states yellow fever
continues to rage in the French colony Of
Senegal, South Africa.
That unreasonable old scoundrel,
whs, under the various aliases of Thomas
A. Marvin, Gen. r A. Moulton, Gen. Ken.
ningham, Arthur Merritt, etc., etc., has
within few years married dozen women
in various parts of the country, beside
swindling banks and private persons right
and left has again been captured, this time
at Lynn. Mass, and it is hoped will now be
effectually estopped from the further pur-
suit Of his favorite psstime Of despoiling
woman of her affections and man of his cash.
His last and most notable exploit was con-
summated few weeks ago, the particulars
of which have already been widely pub
lished. By means of an advertisement for q
governess, published in an Eastern religious
paper, he secured correspondence with q
number Of ladies, which led to personal
acquaintance with at least two of them and
q marriage with both after brief courtship
and within few days Of each other. One
of these victims was Miss Turpin, of Rich
mond, Va, a young lady of good birth and
excellent attainments; the other, Mrs. De-
Hart, young widow, daughter Of L. G.
Hovey, Presbyterian minister at Lakewood,
N. j.. His marriage with the New Jersey
widow took place on July II, and on the
Goth, nine days later, he married the Rich
mond lady. 1t is needless to add that he
made both speculations pecuniarily profta-
BILE, obtaining in each case, upon various
pretexts, and generally by means Of forged
drafts, liberal sums Of money. He will be
taken to Richmond for trial.
HARTMANN, the Russian Nihilist, has
returned to New York from Canada, and
has formally entered the declaration of his
intention to become citizen of the United
States.
LIEUT.. Il. FL1PPER, colored, of the
Tenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Davis,
Texas, has been placed under arrest charged
with defrauding the Government out of
about 81 900, which passed into his hands as
disburisng officer.
The Autobiography Convention, re-
Gently in session at Utica, N. Y. adopted
an address to the people, also a platform of
principles. The latter says: ''Farmers,
manufacturers and merchants alike demand
that they shall have all the advantages which
accrue to them from their favorable position,
and that railroads they have chartered and
endowed with privileges shall be operated
for their benefit and not for their ruin"
The abolition of free passes by railroad cor
porations to legislators is urged, and the en-
largement of canals and free tolls advocated.