The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-08-18
mISCELLANEOUS.

REV. FATHER MCDERNO1T OF Win0na
H., was found dead in his bed at the Mer
chants hotel in Peoria.
WHILE Louis F. Frink and wife of Pitts
burg were passing over the falls at Louisvill,
in skiff, the vessel upset and the woman
| was drowned. Frink was rescued by tn,
| life saving crew.
LADY applicants for positions in the In
terror Department under the recently au
| thorized increase in the clerical force, anC
who failed to receive recognition, held 81
Indignation meeting in Washington and or.
ganized " The Women's National Labor
Organization. After adopting severe reso'
lutions against those having power to ap'
| point, they declared they would call upor
the women of America and labor organiza
lions throughout the land to unite will
them in their honest efforts in behalf of wo'
men who work for living. They resolved
further to call upon soldiers to defend the
rights of soldiers "widows and orphans
who have been shut out by "this one maj
power"
THE Society of the Army of the Cumber.
land have determined to give national fail
and bazar and industrial art exposition, in
| the rotunda of the United States Capitol
Washington, commencing the 25th Of No.
vember, 1882, and ending the Sd Of De.
cember, 1882, the object being to raist
the greatest possible amount of fund:
to aid in the erection Of statue
at Washington to the memory and
honor of President Jas. A. Garfield.
AT Matamoras on the 9th there were fifty.
six deaths from yellow fever. The number
of cases was understandable, but there was
no abatement. At Brownsville there
was one death and decrease on the
new cases. Fort Brown is in strict quar-.
antine.
The nine-year-old daughter of James E.
Bouden, wealthy farmer near Sedalia,
No., was fatally injured while riding on 9
hay rake from which she fell while it was
in motion.
A SOMEWHAT spirited correspondence is
passing between Great Britain and the
United States with regard to the stoppage
of delivery of certain mail matter. 1t ap-
pears the British authorities not only pro.
hibit the circulation through the mail OF
certain American newspapers inimical to
the interests Of that government, but that
registered letters and packages suspected OF
containing seditious information or danger
GUS preparations are interdicted by the
same authorities.
MRS. HENRY GUENTHER, . young
woman married only two weeks ago, died
near Dayton, Ohio, from the effects Of poi
son taken in coffee. Several other members
of the family were affected by the same
cause, but recovered. The presence o!
poison in the coffee could not be accounted
for, though strict examination was made BY
the physicians. 1t is supposed to have
been introduced in the course of the manu-
facture of the coffee, there being nothing 10
indicate criminality.
A SERIOUS railway accident occurred
near ST. Paul, Mimi, by which forty men
were hurt, some fatally. A construction
train containing fifty lsborers started from
New Richland with the men who were
going to their homes in Wasrea. The en-.
CINE was running backwards when the
train reached the trestle.work, at point
known as Hog Back. The caboose con-
tanning the laborers was thrown from the
track and turned completely over and down
the embankment into the water Of a slough
below. The men were terribly cut up, and
number, it was thought, would die.
AN attempt was made a few nj ghts since,
Denver. He was shot twice but not fatally
injured. The assassin was supposed to be
man named Butell, who Root was instru.