The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-10

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perience. The crop of potatoes. both Irish
and sweet, Is unusually fine. Crops Of fruits
and vegetables have proven abundant. Pas
lures are generally excellent and stock In good
condition.
About twenty-five men and BOYS partly In
toxicated, attempted to take the murderers
Craft and Neal from the officers at Cstletts-
burg, KY, for the purpose Of mobbing them
when, the State military that was guarding
the prisoners fired upon them wounding sew
erai. The prisoners and troops got safely on
board steamer when the mob seized train
and headed OF the boat At Ashland, KY,
where another attack was made. The troops
returned the fire, and killed and wounded
number Of persons, mostly people who had
collected owing to the excitement. Among
the killed was an infant in its mothers arms.
A mob broke into the st. Francis County
jail at Forest City, Ark, and rescued ex-
Town Marshal Henry Apperson, recently SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for killing Tate
Wallace, q brakeman on the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad. The mob undoubtedly
sympathized with Apperson.
A five-Year-old son Of Benjamin Smith, near
Dardanefles, Ark, died recently from sores
supposed to be caused by salvation. A post
mortem examination revealed the fact that
death resulted from what is known in that
latitude as screw worms, which penetrated
the skin and had literally honeycombed the
inside of the child's mouth. BIZ
In the Circuit Court at Frankfort, KY,
George Gaines was found guilty of the muir
der of Charles Penn last July, and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for life.
The store of George W. Wells, at Stone
Mountain, Ga, was entered by burglars, his
safe blown open, and about 5000 stolen.
The robbers made good their escape.
L. NJ. Vance, a leading citizen and Magis-
trate Of Franklin County, Ark, while on his
way to Ozark recently, with load of cotton, got
tangled in the harness, when his team ran
away and he was SC. fearfully mangled as to
cause his death in a short time.
Dick Liddil, lately convicted at Huntsville,
Ala, has had his sentence postponed and al
lowed bail because he is thought to be an i'm
portant witness against Frank James.
The mortality from yellow fever at Mier,
Mexico, is reported to be horrible, and the
fright SO great from it that parents have
deserted their afflicted children, and children
their parents.
Oscar Buckner, a Baltimore drummer, killed
himself at Griffin, Ga, recently.
GENERAL.
A secret dynamite factory has been dis.
covered at Charolles, France. .s.
Moonlight outrages are increasing in the
vicinity of Killarney, Ireland. Recently a
number of houses were entered by armed
and disguised men, who extorted money from
the inmates, but inflicted little personal in
jury.
Rowdyism is SO rampant and highway rob-
berries so frequent in Quebec, that the press
advises citizens to go armed, the authorities
being powerless to protect.
Gen. Lynch has imposed a new war contrf
button upon the citizens of Lima, Peru, for
the sum of $1,000 each, to be paid in eight
DAYS.
The Egyptian Ministry has adopted Baker
Pasha's scheme Of military reorganization OF
the forces of the Khedive, but with some
slight and minor notifications.
Accounts from st. Petersburg make men,
ton of strong revival of a nihilistic agita-
ton. A copy of revolutionary reprint an
nounces that the outbreak of a revolution is
imminent. Since the Cars return from Mos
COW fresh precautions have been taken for his
safety, and no one is allowed to know twenty
four hours in advance what the Cars move
ments will be.
The scare over the dynamite plots and
threats of the anarchists at Lyons, France,
is gradully fading away.
The Vienna papers state that the houses OF
the Jewish residents of the town of Co.'s, Hun.
gary, have been plundered by anti-Semitic
mobs. Other outrages accompanied this law.
less movement against the Hebrews. One
woman, the wife of merchant, was killed
during the trouble.
Placards were recently posted on the Eau
burg St. Antoine, in Paris, giving details as
to how houses could be burned down or blown
up with a view to bring the justice of the peo-
pie to bear upon their landlords. Since then
the cabinet makers have struck, and the au-
thorities entertained fears of riot in that
quarter.
A recent fire at Ottawa, Ont, destroyed
Eddy's three saw mills, one of which cost
So, Oco and had cutting capacity of nearly
60, 600 900 feet; sash, door and blind factory;
a mammoth pail and tub factory; extensive
machine shops and portions of match fac
tory. The buildings covered several acres,
and were said to be the largest of the kind in
the world. Also large Touring mill.
THE LATEST.
The Mississippi River Commission has sent
In its estimates for the sum needed for work
during the next fiscal year. They ask for the
same sum appropriated by Congress last year,
being about S4,25O,0OO for the Mississippi
alone. The indications are that the appro-
priations equal in size to those OF last session
will be required for several years to complete
the work as projected by the Government en-
gineers.
Frank II. Howe, Chief Clerk OF the Post
Office Department, has resigned to accept the
position of Assistant Attorney General.
Philip Mathews, young man of Bellville,
ILL.,, who murdered his sweetheart last Maybe
cause she would not renew an engagement,
has been convicted Of murder in the first
degree.
The wife of Daniel Gassett, miner of Vir-
ginia City, New, took her babe and two young
children off into the mountains and stayed
out all night in heavy snow storm. She re-
turned the next day without the baby. In
explanation she said the child worried her by
its crying and she cut its head off with
Ratchet. Her story proved true. She was
locked up as insane.
Quay, Secretary of State Of Pennsylvania,
on the 4th telegraphed his resignation to Gov
ernor Hoyt, on account of the latter having
come out in favor of the Independent Repub-
lican movement.
Incendiary placards were posted on the res
idence Of Gen. Mcmahon in Paris, threaten
ing his life.
Sam Law, an inoffensive Chinaman, was
murdered in Denver by j. w. Walker, a ranch