The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-16
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4. w. Hasslock, reporter on the SleVeiano
(Ohio) Leader, is reported as having alb
seconded with 1000 belonging to his wife,
whom he left with only two dollars.
Y. E. Riggs, farmer living near Sturgeon,
Mo-, was killed recently by tree falling on
him while chopping in the woods. F
The premature explosion in the Evendale
coal mine near Canton, Ohio, recently, fatally
injured Justin Terrell and Louis Langley,
miners.
A life convict named Samuel Ulum has just
been pardoned out of the Michigan State Prison
where he has been confined twenty-nine years
Tor the murder of q man named Estabrook in
1853, it now having been discovered that he
was innocent of the crime.
Governor Crittenden recently pardoned
Clarence Hite, who was sentenced at the
February term, 1852, of the Davies County,
NO., Circuit Court to twenty-five years. i'm
prisonment for completely in the Winston
train robbery. The pardon was recommended
by the officers of the Penitentiary, including
the physician and Board OF Inspectors, on the
ground that Hite was dying with consump-
ton. Hte's brother-in-law Immediately took
him to his fathers home in Kentucky. 1t
The western part of Iowa was visited by a
heavy snow storm last week. ....
The three-year-old child of Fred Newman,
of Youngstown, Ohio, lately drank boiling
coffee from the spout of coffee-pot, which
caused its death.
At Springfield, Ohio, Martin Luther Helfs,
fifteen minutes after returning from church
with his wife, fired three shots into her and
then shot himself dead. His vile will proba-
bly, recover. ~ ~ IL
Seth F. Crews, member Of the Illinois Legs.
lature from jefferson County, was arrested the
other day on a warrant from st. Clair County,
whe he was indicted for obtaining money on
fraudulent securities. Crews asserted the in
dictment was instigated by malice for the pur-
pose Of extorting money. NJ ..
Major ". F. Downs, of Atchison, Kas., for
a number of years General Superintendent of
the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Rail-
way, and widely known in railroad circles
throughout the country, died recently at San
Diego, Cal. He had been in bad health for
two years past.
James Woods, of Madison County, NO., went
to the residence of a neighbor named Reed to
compel his wife, who had lett him, to return.
He was armed and Reed took his gun to de-
fend the woman. The two men engaged in a
struggle, when Reeds gun was discharged, in
stantly killing Woods.
A secret meeting of about $50 owners OF
lumber mills in the Northwest was held in
Chicago recently, the object being to form an
association limiting production, fixing rates,
etc. 1t is understood the only acton was the
appointment of committees on organization
and production.
The German Lutheran Church, at Logans.
port, Ind, burned recently with the parson'
age. Loss. $32, 600; no insurance.
A late fire at Buena VISTA Colo, destroyed
block of eight buildings, includ ing Heller q
Hallack's bank. Loss, $4,000.
The tow boat Oakland and barges, which
left St. Louis recently for New Orleans, tool
out 1O9,6 bushels Of wheat and 13l ,31s
| bushels of corn for Europe. ~
The Episcopal Convention recently in session
at indianapolis elected DR.. Isaac L. Nicholson
rector OF st. Marks Church, Philadelphia
Bishop of Indiana. 3d..
The Rock Island Paper Company's mill al
Milan, Ills, vas destroyed by fire recently
The company was bankrupt and the property
advertised for foreclosure sale. Loss, $40, 600
insurance, $50, 600. =e.
About $4,000 worth of property, which wal
stolen from j. c. Klaholt's jewelry store in
Springfield, Ills, recently, was recovered
The goods, which comprised all that was stoler
except the diamonds, were discovered by some
boys, buried in an unused graveyard within
the city limits. The diamonds stolen were
valued at from g, 600 to $1,000, and have moi
yet been found.
THE SOUTH.
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