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

Church, was arrested, charged with shoot
ing with intent to kill JEFF. Meals.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, has been visit
ed by most terrific thunder storm. Mrs.
Snyder, farmers wife, WAS killed while
standing in her door. A dozon houses and
| barns were struck and fired.
BENJAMIN ISRAEL BUTLER, eldest son
of Gen. B. F. Butler, is dead, aged q. He
was graduated at West Point and served q
year as Lieutenant of the Ninth Cavalry, in
Texas, but subsequently resigned and enter
| ed upon the profession Of law. He was q
young man of high promise and genial ma
ture.
Two men were killed by the explosion
of a benzine tank in fertilizing factory in
New York City on the LIST.
A PARTY of boys at Shiloh, O., were
returning from cunning expedition, when
Lester Uhler, one of the number, playfuily
pointed his fowling-piece at companion,
Irwin Rase, and pulled the trigger, sending
a full charge of shot through the latter's
head. He died without struggle. 1t is
perhaps unnecessary to add that young
Uhler "did not know it was loaded.''
A MEETING of leading distillers was
held at Springfield, ILL.,, ons the 1st. The
proceedings were secret, but it is under
stood general understanding was
reached that the distilleries be run on half
time, the price of corn being so high as to
render it impossible for them to compete
with the import trade when running to theil
full capacity.
THE strike on the part of the Associ-
ated Cotton Laborers of New Orleans caused
a temporary stoppage of the cotton presses,
but new men were procured from Mobile
and elsewhere to supply the places Of the
strikers, and work was partially resumed on
the LIST.
AN explosion in the gas-house of ho-
tel at Grand Haven, Mich, tore the build
ing to atoms and probably fatally injured
Chas. Cutler. Two others were badly hurt.
BRADLAUGH has issued manifesto to
the English people in the shape of an ad-
dress to his Northampton constituents. He
announces his intention to go to the House
of Commons again next session, and he asks
the English people to protect him against
unlawful violence.
VIM. NYE, of Lebanon, Conn.,, at
tempted to murder his wife and mother-in-
law, but his pistol was out of order. He
succeeded, however, in killing himself.
SIERRAvILLE, CAL, has been almost
entirely destroyed by fire. The total loss is
placed at $3,O0O,OO0.
FOUR young men of a party from
Terre Haute, Ind, who were seining for
fish in the river about twenty miles below
the city, got into deep water and were
drowned. The names were Emory Gillespie,
James Rudesell, Henry Bucaw and Marshall
Terrell.
CAPTAIN HowGATE, whose official
defalcations now foot up Sic, 200, with the
back counties yet to be heard FROM" has
fled to Canada, it is believed, leaving his
bOndsmen in the lurch and his wife and
daughter absolutely penniless. He was ac-
cOmpanied by the young woman who has
played so important part in the scandal
which finally led to his downfall. His prop
erty in Washington has been seized on at
tachment taken by the Government, but it
will not cover one-half the amount stolen.
EUGENE WEBB, an assignee in charge
of store at Silent Shade Landing, Holmes
County, Miss, shot and killed Arthur Bee
man, claiming that he did it in self-defense.
A DISPATCH from Salem, ILL.,, reports
terrible accident in Fayette County, west
of Patoka, caused by the explosion of a
steam boiler attached to a separator. Six
men and one woman were killed.
AN attempt was made to throw an
express train from the track. near Colfax,
CAL, for the purpose of robbery. A rail
was removed and a portion of the train
ditched. No one was hurt, and the at
tempted robbery was unsuccessful.