The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

At the annual session of the Grand Lodge,
l. o. o. F., of the United States, held at Bal
timore, the amendment to admit to member
ship civilized Indians of the Indian Territory,
was lost. An amendment requiring Of Lodges
per cent of the receipts on dues was adopted.
All amendments for the biennial sessions of
the Grand Lodge were indefinitely postponed.
All the sprague property in Kennebec coun-
ty, Maine, has been attached for $3.50, 200, by
VIM. Sprague, as trustee for Elmira Doyle.
The body of Augustus Green, a well known
and wealthy Englishman, was found in the
woods near his late residence in Chesterfield
county, Va. A dog, starving, was guarding
the body.
The Home Insurance company OF Columbus,
Ohio, has made an assignment. Assets $780,
600; liabilities unknown.
Twenty young men, for the most part de-
serters from the Austrian army, drew lots as
to who would throw bombs at the Emperor
Francis Joseph, during the reception at Trieste.
The leader attempted suicide.
The books in the Treasury Department
show that during the period of ten months
from November 1, 1882, to the first of the
present month, the following reductions have
been effected: OF the interest bearing debt,
s129, O35, 600; of total debt, less cash in the
treasury, S126, 60S, 294; of annual interest
charge, 81, 515,75
A fire at Red Cliff, Colo, destroyed fifteen
buildings, including the Merchants and Pa
cifc hotels. Loss, $4,000.
Peter Segner and Charles Coke were arrested
at Massillon, Ohio, for the attempted assas-
sination of prominent citizen named Henry
Burgh.
Mrs. E. J. Goodrich was killed while at
tempting to cross the railroad track at Union
City, Pa.
The value of domestic breadstuffs exported
during the eight months ending August 81,
was s110,015, O3, against $157, sos, 2O5 the
same time in 1881.
On the night of the 21st, frost was reported
in parts of Kentucky, and planters were
anxious about the safety of the tobacco
crop.
A bloody and fatal shooting ARRAY took
place at Hot Springs, Ark, recently, in which
Charles Matthews, editor of the Hornet news
was wounded. The fight originated between
Matthews and Col. s. W. Fordyce, one of the
proprietors of the Arlington Hotel of that
place, and in shooting at Fordyce Matthews
wounded Rugg, when the latter drew his
pistol and shot Matthews dead.
Heavy prairie fires have done much damage
in the Western part of Nebraska. On the
table land between the Platte and Republi-
can Rivers the destruction of hay and grass
was great, and North of the Platte heavy cat
tie ranges are reported in devastated state.
A special from Indianola says the citizens had
hard work to save the town.
AT Wyoming, Ont, a boy driving buggy
containing the two daughters of T. McKenna
drove into creek to water the horses, when
both girls were drowned.
The wife of Noah Porter was run over by a
freight train near Cynthiana, KY, and had
both legs cut off above the knees. She bled
to death.
The demented daughter of James Cleve-
land, of Nashville, Tenn, poisoned the whole
family of six, except the mother, recently, by
putting strychnine in the coffee. Mr.. Cleve-
land died and one daughter is in precarious
condition. The poisoner wandered off and. it
is supposed, committed suicide.
A terrible accident occurred in the Fourth