The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

over the right eye at o'clock this morn
ing. He was fifty years old aud leaves u
wife and three daughters. He had had q
bad night with the asthma, and sent his
wife down stairs for something. She sus-
pected him Of something desperate, and
sent her daughter up 10 report. Before
she got there she found him dying, still
alive, but unconscious. The revolver was
q tbirty-two caliber. The bullet lodged in
his head.SEg.. ss---.-s,asl-5.-- -.-.a
AT Harris Station, Mo. John Jackson and
wife went to church and left their four
children locked up in the house. On their
return the house was In ashes, aad
their children had persisted in the flames.
| A. SPECIAL from Brook6eld. Mo-, June
eth, says: -Four masked men, heavily
armed, with false boards, robbed the Bank
of Brookfield this afternoon about 4 o'clock.
While one man held the horses three OF the
men entered the bank, and leveling their
weapons upon John Ford, the cashier, and
Miss Carrie Scott his assistant, demanded
the money, Of which between $4,000 and
81, 900 was handed over. The robbers were
fred upon by citizens and pursued.
THE reunion Of the Army Of the Potomac
will occur at Detroit, Mich, June 18th and
18th.
A DISPATCH from Moorhead. MINI June
5th, SAYS: The bodies of two murdered
men, Mr.. Washington and Fred Fehrbach.
were found in Red Eye, seventeen miles
north of Perham, Saturday. Washington
was killed with buckshot. Fehrbach had
his throat cut and q bullet wound in the
left cheek, and wound from club.
Washington was surveyor. and lived at
Bay City, Michigan. Fehrbach lived near
here. John Trebbet, aged fifteen, Is sus-
pected of the murder.
A SPECIAL from Brookfeld, Mo-, June
9Th, says: Parties returning from the
chase of the bank robbers have brought the
news OF brisk fight last night near the
Winnegan ford, thirteen miles northeast Of
Brookfield. They state that nine or ten
armed and determined men, composing the
posse In advance, crossed the creek about
dark and were fired upon by the dtsmount.
ed robbers concealed in the brush on the
roadside. This sudden and unexpected fire
scattered the pursuers for time and killed
the horse of Ike Marshall. A bullet passed
through Marshal's hand into the breach of
his musket. No other injuries were received
at that point. Resuming the trail this
morning it was found that the robbers had
procured foed at the house of Mr.. Price. q
farmer, living four miles further on. They
also went through the hamlet Of Winnegan.
near the Sullivan County fine. Late news
from kirksville states that they have been
followed to their rendezvous, thirteen miles
west of Kirksville, and the populace are out
en- masse, intending to completely sur.
round the bandits tonight.
IT is feared that the Southern Colorado
Utes are ready to 60 on the war-pash, and
into state Of rebellion. A gentleman who
recently came from Ignacis, Colo, says the
Southern Utes have put ON their war-paint.
A half breed from Durango reported at Ig-
nacis that the whites had murdered some
Indians between Durango and Fort Lewis,
and the Indians became greatly excited.
The agent does not credit the report of the
murders, and endeavored to disabuse the
minds Of the Indians.
AT Chillieothe Charles Shelby shot Fred
Tucker, the Hannibal & st. Joseph telegraph
operator. Tucker received one wound in the
cheek and one in the hand, neither of which
will prove fatal. Shelby was pursued by
posse and caught in the woods about six
miles from town. He was lodged in Jail.
MARY SEYBOLT, wife Of German baker
In Chicago, in fit of insanity, poisoned
took fatal dose herself. When the hus-
band and father returned to his home he
found the three youngest children laid out
on q table, dead, Is If prepared for burial.
They were neatly dressed in white, trimmed
with blue ribbons. Their hands were crossed,
and In each the maniac mother had
placed, with q strange fancy, q bouquet Of
flowers. The eldest child, Matilda, was
writhing in horrible AZ onies In . bed in the
adjoining room. After pointing out the
terrible sight to her husband, the mother
sank to the floor herself, in COMMISSIONS,
and before medical aid could be brought to
their assistance both were dead.
JAMES McHAN was lynched by . mob at
Pecos about thirty miles south Of Las Vegas,
n. NJ, for shooting John Graves. Both
were section hands on the railroad. Nc
Han was from East Saginaw, Mich.
A DISPATCH from San Bernardino, CAL,
June 1etf, says: j. Taylor and j. A. Peter
son. partners in the burning Moscow mine
in this county, quarreled this forenoon at
the corner Of G and third streets about the
conduct Of the mine, when Taylor drew q
pistol and fired three shots at Peterson, ali
taking deadly effect He then fired At . by
standef who attempted todisarm him, with.
out effect, when, running few steps, he
deliberately Shot himself in the breast Pc
terson died In . few minutes, and Taylor is
MORALLY wounded Some mystery is At
tached to the affair. the men having been up
to the moment apparently upon the most
friendly terms.