The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-20

200 deaths have occurred within eixty days.
Not . family has escaped. Twenty pupils in
one school district have died. One day three
children were lying dead in one house.
At the West Virginia election the Republi-
cans gained the election of one member OF
Congress, Gof, Republican, being elected in
the First District.
Hon. VIM. NJ. Lowe, q member Of Congress
from the Huntsville, Ala, district, died on
the 18th.
The greatest excitement prevails at Leba.
non, Va, over the beating and robbing OF
Cashier Rise, from whom highwaymen took
$50, 600 in bank notes. The reward for their
apprehension has been increased to 5000.
Rise, though badly cut and bruised, will re-
cover.
VIM. Austin was hanged at Lancaster, KY,
for the murder of Betsy Bland, his great aunt
Bob Taylor, one of three brothers who muir
dered the Sheriff and his deputy, Of Hamilton
County, Tennessee, last September, and for
whose capture rewards aggregating $l6,OOe
were offered, was recently killed by the Sheriff
Of Laclede County, No., near Lebanon, while
resisting arrest.
At Upton, Ga, a small station on the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, serious
shooting ARRAY occurred recently, between
Green Mayo and Martin Harrell, turpentine
producers. Between the two men and their
friends forty or fifty shots were fired. Both
principals fell MORALLY wounded. One of
Harrelrs supporters, named Jordan, was
instantly killed, and q man named Vickers
seriously shot.
GENERAL.
The military tribunal, in session at Balta,
Russia, for the trial of the anti-Jewish rioters,
condemned one leader to two years, and five
others to from sixteen to eighteen months
imprisonment.
William, the youngest son of Bismarck, has
been raised to the rank Of Government Coun
sellor.
The officers Of the Irish National Land
League of America have issued circular de.
nying that the League has ceased to exist,
and declaring that, with Parnell and his CO.
laborers at the head, it will continue Its mis-
sion until 1t is accomplished.
Considerable dissatisfaction is said to exist
among the officers and men Of the other Brit
ish regiments in Egypt at the singing out by
Gen. Wolseley of the Royal Irish for special
mention in his dispatch Of September 18th to
the War Office, giving his report Of the battle
at Tel ell Kebir.
Preliminary inquiries thus far all tend to
support Arab Pasha's assertion that the out.
| RACES perpetrated during the rebellion were
| committed against his will. The Egyptian
authorities are guilty Of permitting disgrace.
full indignities to the imprisoned chiefs. Re.
Gently one of the chief eunuchs of the Palace
entered the cell of Abdul CATER, apolitical
prisoner, reused him from sleep, spat in his
face and inflicted other indignities on him.
The eunuch proceeded to Arab Pasha's cell
and acted in a similar manner, but with great
violence. Several officers of the Palace are
accused of completely in these acts.
Montreal was recently shaken up by an
earthquake.
The difficulty between Turkey and Greece is
regarded as terminated.
At Quebec, Ont, John Albert, the county
constable who. shot boy he was pursuing,
was found guilty of murder and sentenced to
be hanged.
Oscar Wilde was arrested at the instance OF
| the Young Mems Christian Association, oil
| st. Johns, Y. B., on the grounds of breach of
contract. Oscar settled the case by paying
| 800.
Later accounts from Vuelta Abajo show
that the recent cyclone in Cuba caused con.
| siderable loss of life and great destruction Of
| H.
/ stroyed. At Herradura 800 huts and
houses, including greater number of to-
| bacco-drying establishments, were demot
| ished. Two thousand palm trees were blown
down. Seven hundred and sixty houses were
destroyed at Consolation del Sur. The bodies
| of fifteen persons, drowned by the overflow OF
the rivers, were recovered. Many more per
! sons are missing.
1t is stated that the Chinese Government is
| about to request that certain intelligent lads
be admitted to the Naval and Military Acsde-
mics of the United States.
| Prince Bismarck, in a recent interview, said
he believed England intended to secure ma.
jority of the shares of the Suez Canal Com.
pany, so as to Gust NJ. De Lesseps. She could
do this by simply passing a law empowering
| the trustees to invest trust moneys in the
canal shares. The London Times considers
these suggestions to be unfounded, and be
lieves that NJ. De Lesseps is more reasonable
than might appear from his proceedings dur.
ing the war.
A late cyclone IN Cuba did great amount
of damage. The tobacco crop suffered great
| ly. Two coast steamers were lost on the South
side of the island, but the passengers were
| saved.
THE LATEST.
Fhe evidence given before the Coroner's
Jury at st. Louis, as to the killing Of Col.
Slsyback by Col. Cockerill, was extremely con-
Trajectory. Mr.. Clopton, who accompanied
Col. Slayback to the Post Dispatch Office and
participated in the melee, swore that the latter
was unarmed, ard that the shooting was
deliberate. On the other hand, John NJ
McGufin, business manager, and Victor T.
Cole, foreman of the Office, who were present
and witnessed the whole affair, both swore
positively that Slayback drew . revolver as
soon as he entered the room and advanced
! towards Cockerill pointing it at him.
McGuf1in further testified that he wrenched
Slayback's revolver from him in the scuffle
that ensued, and produced an ivory handled
six-shooter in Court, which he swore was the
weapon with which Slayback was armed
CockerilPs revolver was lying on his desk
when Slayback entered, and he had but to
reach out his hand and grasp it, which all
agree that he did. Col. Slayback leaves a
wife and several children. He was
born in Marion County, Missouri, in
1888, served in the Confederate army during
the war, and has since practiced law in St.