The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-13

(Fla.) Navy Yards, reports to the Navy De-
partment that an incendiary fire broke out in
Warrington, that State, when most of the
business part of the town was destroyed. The
Navy Yard adjoining he reported uninjured.
Frank James has been turned over to the
Marshal of Jackson County, Mo.
After deducting all expenses, there viii bs
net revenue of more than $500, 600 from the
business transacted by the money order divi
sion of the Postoffice Department during the
last fiscal year.
Arrangements have been completed for two
lines of steamers to run between Boston and
Antwerp and Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
At Pensacola, the 9Th, there were seventy.
one new cases of fever, and four deaths. The
total cases to that date were !, i'll, and deaths
103.
The steamship Atlantic brought to New
Orleans from Vera Cruz forty-seven sailors
from five Norwegian vessels, and four sailors
from one American vessel, Commodore Du-
pont. All were wrecked on the coast Of Mex.
leo during the gale of September 9th. Seven
vessels we're riding at anchor off Tampico,
Pueblo, Nuevo, Mexico; five of them went
ashore and were total wrecks.
At the fair grounds at Monroe, Maine. Abel
bert Kelley, of Newburg, was killed while at.
tempting to stop runaway trotter. The
horse came in collision with double team,
and one Of the horses was killed.
George j. Raymond, of Boston, caused the
estate of Edward Russell and others, proprie.
tors of the Mercantile Agency. to be attached
in the sum of So, coo, which Raymond claims
as damages to his business reputation because
of false and malicious rating as to his credit,
published by the defendants, causing his fail
ure and running his prospects.
Sells Brothers have brought suit for $50, 900
against the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Company for alleged damage for failure to
transport the circus and menagerie to certain
towns in Iowa, in July last.
Three ex-Commissioners of Lycoming Coun.
ty, Pa, have been indicted for forgery and
perjury; also in case of conspiracy as Com
missioners, and another against them as indi-
viduals
The Longfellow Memorial Association, of
Boston, has issued circular to "the children
of America" inviting ten cent subscriptions
toward the fulfllment of the plan of the Asso-
citation for the erection of a memorial statue
in front of the poets late residence.
James L. Heatherington, of Philadelphia,
was arrested at Albany, n. Y, on the charge
of being concerned in the robbery of $4,000
worth of paper from Howell Brothers, paper
dealers, of Philadelphia.
Soultan Pasha has received gift of 10000
as reward for his loyalty to the Khedive dur
ing the late unpleasantness in Egypt.
Henry Coons, member of the Louisville
Fire Department, was recently shot dead by
Policeman LAPEL at Portland. a suburb of
that city. The men renewed an old quarrel,
growing out of slanderfng the character of a
daughter of LAPEL.
A "lady clerk" in the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington, a young widow named
Miller, recently got-a pounding in the Office
where she was engaged, by an injured wife,
Mrs. O'Connell, wife of d. O'Connell, Chief
of the Stationery, Pay and Property Depart
ment Bureau of Statistics. The wife had been
watching the actions of the pair for some time,
and after being tn oroughly convinced that her
suspicious were correct, she swooped down
upon the guilty woman in manner that was
a terror to the other female clerks, and will
probably teach her that it is unsafe to be too
sweet on another woman's husband. The
offending but fascinating young widow was
not only frightened nearly to death, but Sc
verely pounded. One young lady tainted and
had to be taken home.
A murder was committed at Seytonville, a lit
tie town seven miles south of Richland Center,
Wis, recently. Arthur Van Deusen, young
man, killed his step-father, Ephriam Dougher-
ty, by shooting him twice. An alteration
arose from family difficulties. Dougherty
had threatened the life of the young man and
drew a revolver on him; the son was quicker
than the father in the first shot. Van Deusen
gave himself up. Public sentiment is in his
favor.