The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Gently from Canada had been suffering from
what had been considered dropsy. Twenty
gallons Of water had been taken from her at
different times. her strength rapidly wan
| ing, and death seemed inevitable. The Kan.
| sas doctors decided that the cause Of her
suffering was an ovarian tumor, by removal
of which her life might be saved. She sub
mitted to the operation, an outgrowth
weighing fifty mine pounds was cut away,
and she began to recover.
The total running expenses of the
Penitentiary for the month of December
amounted to 1852. 4S, and the earnings
turned over to the State Treasury in cash
were $6,S5S 70. The number of bushels Of
coal mined was IS, 81S, of which 80 1913 BUSH
els were furnished State institutions and
Is, 800 bushels were sold: The amount col
lected from sales of coal in December was
81, 1851. The cash receipts for coal since
the opening of the mine, July 1, 1881, to De-
cember 81, were $4,000. During that time
there were furnished to State institutions
| Dc, 900 bushels. The total expense Of work.
ins the mine in December was - 200.
A case of smallpox recently discov-
cred in a Topeka hotel caused no little ex.
element. The Board of Health at once hired
building on the outskirts of North Topeka
for a pest house, but before the city au-
thorities could get possession the business
men of the First Ward hired the building
over again, paying the rent in advance,
which the city did not do. They then noti-
fed the authorities that they could not have
the place for small pox hospital, and that
any attempt to bring the patient over the
river would be resisted by force, armed men
being stationed on the bridge. Acting
Mayor Angle, fearing bloodshed, revoked
his order authorizing the establishment of
pest-house.
Margaretta Ehle, of South Leaven-
worth, petitions the District Court for d.
vorce. She states that for long time past
Christopher, her husband, has beaten her
and applied to her the grossest and most
indecent language and has driven her from
home. Last December he knocked her down
and kicked her until she was nearly insen-
sible. He then procured an ak and was in
the act of killing her, when their daughter
interfered, and, after struggle, succeeded
mothers life, whereupon he grabbed her
by the hair of the head and tore large por-
ton out by the roots; at the same time he
struck her terrible blow on the side Of the
head, which has injured her hearing. On
the 18th of last month this brutality culmi-
mated in another inhuman attack. She
states that on that day Ehle deliberately
broke her right arm, from which she has
suffered the most excruciating pain, and
that he said he would kill her, and was only
prevented from doing SO by neighbors and
friends.
C. w. Lund, an Independence drug
gist, has had information filed against him
Of 1l6 counts for violating the liquor law.
One of the prisoners in Salinas Jail is
q woman indicted for violating the Prohibi-
ton amendment.
Fredonia has been shipping three
times the number of fat cattle rolled away
about this time lastyear.
John B. Wells, convicted of murder
in the first degree, the first conviction Of the
kind in Leavenworth County for years, and
who has a motion for a new trial pending, is
alleged to be insane.
While Mrs. Alfred Hitchner, of Ne
maha County, was playing upon the cellar
door with her children. her feet caught and
rescued by her husband.
Topaka's ''Rogue's Gallery" already
has pictures of several "wanted" persons,
and descriptions of many others.
Cotton raised last year by farmers in
Montgomery County paid from SIS to $50
per acre.
The Wyandotte Republican says the
number Of divorces granted in that county
last year was one to every three and three
tenths marriages.
A party of three hunters from indie.
pendence killed three hundred wild tur-
keys on a recent hunt Of three weeks in the
Indian Territory.
The new Opera-House at Junction
City is of brick, 40 by 70, with 600 chairs.
The stage has an opening of q feet. 1t cost
$4,000, exclusive of stage and appointments.
Surveyors are locating the line for the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe branch road
from Chouteau to Leavenworth.
Jacob Geiger has taken legal steps to
compel the Lawrence School Board to admit
a son expelled for refusing to declaim.
junction City claims the champion
hog. Its length is feet; girth of neck 1-2
feet; girth Of chest, 1-2 feet; girth Of GEN.
ter, feet; width across the hips, 30 inches;
weight, 1852 pounds.
Leavenworth is to have q new Union
passenger depot at the foot Of Cherokee and
Choctaw streets.
A Lawrence crank wants money to 60
to Washington to put Guiteau out of the
way.
1t is rumored at Leavenworth that
General Sheridan will establish at that point
the headquarters of the division of the Mis-
souri,.
Some colored troops who disturbed
the peace of Hays City the other day were
all arrested and held for trial.
The ice question is getting to be a Sc
rious one.
Judge Prescott offers to give $500 for
the establishment of public library in
Saline