The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-24


Guided the canvass Of votes cast in the Ninth
Congressional District. and they give DR.. ].
Fl. Mclean, Republican, majority of 81 over
James O., Broadhead, Democrat. Broadhead
sued out writ of maDdamus to compel the
city Register to count . number of ballots
cast for him but which had been rejected as
informal. 'iP s3''Ni'f ait' iii' "a
A construction train on the Chicago 6 Al
ton Railroad was wrecked on the 14th near
Grain Valley, about twenty five miles east OF
Kansas City, BY a hand car upon which some
section men were riding.j'A number of Ia
borers were ION the construction train, many
Of whom attempted to save themselves by
| jumping as the train went into the ditch.
Barney Corcoran, brakeman, John Hamilton
and Henry Dase, section men, were instantly
killed. Frederick Graham, Phillip Leon and
Henry Larkin were, fatally injured, and nine
others more or less hurt. '''''i.''i
Brave Bear, the Sioux Indian chief, con-
victed of the murderof Joseph johnson, near
Fort Sully, May Is, 1873, was hanged at Yank,
ton, D. T., the 18th, in the jail yard. He made
no confession, but did not deny the deed for
which he was convicted. He asked the inter
prefer to send word to his people to make no
attempt to avenge his death, to Kill no horses,
and omit all customary mourning exercises.
Jasper Spaulding, a wellto-do farmer, re-
siding near Raub, Ind, lately killed his wife
and child and then himself during aft of In
sanity.T,I .tit -agu4..c 400.
Early on the morning of the 14th two noted
gamblers Of st. Joseph, Mo-, named Markham
Davis and Joe Hughes, were shot and killed
near singleton's Hotel, in that city. The par
ties had been in Cudmore's saloon gambling
until few minutes before the shooting. Two
unknown men had been playing with them
and these men went out slightly in advance of
the gamblers. One of the strangers was said
to be heavy loser, and left the saloon in any
thing but pleasant frame of mind. Soon
after the parties left the saloon the shots were
heard. Hughes was found with bullet hole
through his head and one in his left side near
the heart. Davis was shot between the eyes
and in the mouth. When the bodies were
found none of the money won was upon their
persons, and the superstition is that the men
had been killed by their victims at gambling.
The merchants and clubs in the wholesale
part of the city of San Francisco, have recent
ly been quietly subscribing to the stock of the
Nicaragua canal The subscription was started
by the Board of Trade. About 100000 had
been subscribed in two days.
A stock train on the Chicago. st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Road, was stopping for
water at station about twenty miles east of
Hudson, Mimi, when freight train dashed
into the caboose, in which sat O'Con-
nor, the conductor, brakeman named Gov
ern, travelling engineer named Finn, and the
owner of the stock. The engineer and fire
man of the freight jumped in time to save
their lives, but those imprisoned in the ca
boose were in trap, from which escape was
next to impossible. Govern managed to crawl
out from under the wreck, but his right arm
was torn from its socket, and he died from
loss of blood within an hour. O'Connor was
burned to death, and nothing but his bones
were recovered. Finn was badly injured in
the back but may recover. The stock man
was not injured, this being his second expert
ence of the kind inside of a week.
Ex-Indian Agent J. C. Tiffany has been in
dicted in Arizona Territory for embezzling
money and Government property aggregating
about 5000 and held to appear at the open
ing of the United States District Court in
Tucson, Arizona Territory, the first Monday
in February.
Information received by the Knights Temp
lar committee of the Garfield Monument Fair
indicate general attendance from all parts
of the country of communicates to take part
in the exercises of the 30th inst, Knights
Templar day. Several costly and elegant do
nations viii be contested for by the Knights.
A man named Aslag, while going home in
sleigh one night lately near Wolcott, Dakota,
broke through the ice in slough and was
found next day frozen to death.
Glowing accounts have reached Duluth,
MIMI, of recent rich discoveries Of silver ore
the Canada side of the International boundry
line. Gen. Wilde, who has been prospecting in
that region for three years, in company with
Frenchman named Dannat and d. McPhee,
with the aid of Indians, succeeded in finding
what is reported to be the richest silver vein
ON the continent. .- ....,.
A boiler in the premises of Peter Reuhl &
Co., picture frame manufacturers of Cincin-
natl, exploded on the 10th, causing panic
among the occupants of the upper stories of
the five story building. The building was set
on fire, besides having the floor above tie en-
CINE blown to pieces and a portion of the
wall blown out. Louis Meyer, helper for the
foreman, was thrown into the street and IA
tally injured. Frank Bettner, one of the en-
ployes, was badly scalded, and number of
other persons were injured.
Another heavy strike of lead is reported near
the town of Everton, Dade County, NO., on
the line of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Gulf Railroad.
Navigation on the upper Mississippi is vir-
tually closed. Nearly all the steamboats, have
gone into winter quarters. The records at
the draw of the bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at Keokuk show that the number
of boats passing through the draw of the
bridge during 1852 is 1917, barges sol, RATS
40, decrease from 1881 of boats, S29, barges
1,3l1, increase of RATS is. t.''s =.."-..si
At the meeting of the National Grange in
Indianapolis reports were received from va
rious Masters as to their condition in tie sew
eral States, which showed the Grange to be
growing both in members and influence
Master Clifford of the Dominion Grange, of
Canada, stated there were over 800 Oranges
in Canada with membership Of 10000. They
have secured legislation favorable to farming.
interests; established an agricultural College
and Experimental Farm and increased the ed
ucational facilities Of the people. .-'i- ,.
In the United States District Court at st.
Louis, Samuel Leveair, letter carrier, was
found guilty OF robbing the street mail boxes,
and sentenced to three-years imprisonment in
the Chester, Ills, Penitentiaty. "a"
Merrill & Wagner's store, at Hinckley, H.,
which is also q postofice, was recently en-
tered by masked men, who bound and gagged
the clerk, who slept in the store, blew open
the safe, getting money, postage stamps and
jewelry to the value of $3.50, stole horse and