The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

estate was So, 500, of which S35, 500 was spe-
cially appropriated for physicians and medical
attendance. The allowances for physicians,
etc, amount to $1,000 less than the amount
| appropriated, and the allowances for outside
claims are about s11, 900 less than the amount
available, thus making total balance of about
SIS, 900 out of the entire appropriation.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Joe Thomas was recently found guilty of
the murder of Charles NJ Murphy, editor of
the Rollingfork (Miss.) Rerieiu, and SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
Rear Admiral James II. Strong, retired,
died at Columbus, 8. c., recently.
DIR. W. Fl. Brown was recently fatally shot
at North Henderson, ILL.,, by Mrs. Stuart, the
wife of DIR. c. G. Stuart, the result of a family
fued Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Stuart are sisters,
and their husbands had difficulty about the
settlement of some business affairs.
George Smith in suit at Buffalo for dam
ages against the New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad, on account of injuries re-
ceived at crossing, owing to flagman not
being employed there, was awarded $4,000.
Rush H. Tevis, a well-known business man
of st. Louis shot Frank T. Iglehart in the
streets of that city few days since, few
moments after Iglehart had emerged from an
designation house with Mrs. Tevis, where the
guilty parties had been in the habit of meeting.
Mrs. Tevis, the false wife, is niece of Gen.
Sherman, Commander-in-C Chief of the army, and
daughter of Col Reece of the army. She
has one child about three years old, and had
been married to Tevis about four years. She
was with Iglehart at the time that her en-
ragged husband shot him, and as soon as she
realized her wretched attitude upon the
publicity of her guilt, she threw herself upon
the mercy of her father who, although crushed
by the knowledge, took her from the city.
Proceedings for divorce will be Immediately
instituted.
The annual report of the Treasurer of the
United States says: The receipts of the Gov
eminent shows an increase over 1881 of 81,
25l, O54 in revenue from customs, s11, 233 ,3O9
from internal revenue, 81, 551 ,217 from sales of
public lands, and Sc, 7O7, 416 from miscel-
laneous sources, making total increas in
net revenue of $40, 742, 512.2s Total net rev.
enue, s403, 535, $50. Net expenditures de-
creased from $3.50, IL, $50 to s257, 9Sl, 40 re-
duction of S2,13l, Az, which, added to the in
crease of receipts, makes an increase Of $45-,
474 405 in surplus revenues applicable to the
reduction of the public debt.
Two police officers appeared simultaneously
at the house of a negro waiter named Bill
Allen, in Chicago recently, for the purpose of
arresting him, one for assaulting neighbour
wife, the other for a numerous assault upon
another waiter. Allen shot the first officer,
Wright, in the heart, killing him instantly,
and retreated firing at the other officer. He
escaped.
The Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company's
steel mills at Scranton, Pa, have shut down
for an indefinite period. Over 900 men are
thrown cut of work.
George Ford, aged %, compositor in the
Louisville CO,uier-JOmndl Office, shot him.
self recently and instantly died. Trouble with
his wife was the cause.
Most of the Creeks in the Indian Territory
who fought for the Union during the rebellion,
are asking the Government for pensions.
At the Coliseum theater in Cincinnati Frank
Frayne, an actor, in shooting an apple off the
head of Miss Won Behren, missed the apple and
shot the girl in the head. She died in fifteen
minutes. There were 9, 800 people in the thea
panic. Frayne was arrested.
The scarlet fever epidemic is spreading to
an alarming extent at the Imbecile Asylum,
Columbus, Ohio.
Charles Crowell, of North Newport, Maine,
called at the school house, where Miss Nellie
Prillaya was teaching at st. Adams, and took
her in a buggy to North Newport to spend
Thanksgiving. Just as they reached the town,
three pistol shots were heard in rapid success
sion, and, shortly afterward horse attached
to carriage ran into the yard of John Dodge.
In the carriage Miss Nellie Prillays lay dying,
shot in the left temple. Charles Crowell
jumped from the carriage and dropped before
reaching the house. Crowell had a bullet
hole in the right temple. They both died in
side of twenty minutes. They were insensible
when found, and did not recover consciousness.
The supposition is that Crowell shot the lady
and then himself.
Nose Lockhart, colored, was hanged at
Edgefeld, s. c., for the murder, last spring,
of Nose Blalock, also colored.
The capture of three murderers, Walker,
Reynolds and Garder, near Darlington, Indian
Territory, is reported, after q sharp struggle,
during which they were nearly killed. They
had murdered q young man in Comanche
County, Tex.
William Hefferman, . master mason, was
killed, two persons seriously injured and
James Murray, q mason, supposed to have
been drowned in the Saranac river, at Platts-
burg. N. Y, all by the fall Of derrick while
bridge building recently.
The st. Louis and San Francisco Railway
has accepted the terms of the Choctaws, of
the Indian Territory, and will prepare to con-
struct their road through the Nation at once.
The Indians are becoming reconciled to rail-
roads.
One night recently the house Of Israel D.
Wagsr, q wealthy farmer living in Rockport,
Ohio, q western suburb Of Cleveland, was en-
tered by burglars, and money, notes and jew
elry to the value of nearly $4,000, carried
away. Only about $500 Of the booty was in
cash, and most of it was non-negotiable notes,
which could be Of value only to the owner.
Mrs. Burleigh, of Chester, Ills, some days
since, told her husband she was sick and de-
sired him to remain at home. He sat down by