The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-02

q rope placed around his neck, the other
end made fast to the horn Of q saddle, and
the murderer dragged to death.
THoMAs DEAvrrT, q stock-shipper, was
killed the other night while trying to board
a moving train Of cars near the Wabash
freight yard in Kansas City.
SAMUEL BErHL, a young tramp, committed
suicide recently at Kent, O., by jumping
head first into glass retort at the glass
works of Day, Williams & Co. The furnace
was heated to a high degree of intensity in
order to melt the sand and other substances
used in the composition of window glass.
The switchmen of the various railroads
leading into Kansas City struck for higher
wages recently. About two hundred and
fifty men are employed in the yards of the
different roads.
COMPLETE official returns from the late
election in Iowa were as follows, for Gov
ernor: Sherman (Rep.), 164,1s2; Kinne
(Dem.), 139,093; Weaver (Greenbacker),
23,039; Sherman's majority over Kline,
25,0S9; over Kline and Weaver, 1850.
THE SOUTH.
REV. NJ. T. ROGERS, a colored Baptist
clergyman, having occasion to perform
some ministerial functions at the upper
end of his parish, boarded freight train
at New Iberia, La, before daylight, the
other morning, intending to take free
ride, and made himself fast to the end Of
the car with a rope. He lost his grip,
however, and fell and was dragged long
distance before his dead body was found.
AT Flemingsburg, KY, recently, Charles
Mccartney, an editor, was attacked by
James T. Tenwen and Frank L. Thompson,
who felt aggrieved at a publication, when
Mccartney drew a revolver and shot both,
killing Tenwell and mortally wounding
Thompson.
The heirs of Sampson H. Morgan, of
Texas, who died during the late war, have
brought suits to recover 100000 acres of
land bordering on Red River and stretch
ing through thirteen counties of that State.
1t is alleged that the lands were sold by
the Administrator, who never qualified or
gave bond. The county seat of Jones
County is involved. The tract has been ex-
tensively improved.
AN accident occurred the other morning
on the Louisville & Nashville Air Line
road, when the train had nearly reached
East st. Louis, by which two crowded cars
were capsized and dragged some distance.
Thirty-seven passengers were injured, one
fatally.
A FIRE at Annapolis, Nd, recently de-
stroyed several stores and dwellings. Loss,
about $4,000. After leaving his house
Charles Legg rushed back to save his aunt,
Miss Lizzie Walters, who was about eighty
years old, and the floor gave way and both
persisted.
THE eleventh annual Convention of the
National Association of Fire Engineers
met in New Orleans, recently, Chief Joseph
Bunker, of Cincinnati, presiding. Repre-
sentatives were present from nearly every
State in the Union.
THE late city election in Baltimore, Nd,
resulted in the election of Latrobe, Demo
crat, over Heiskell, Independent Democrat
and Fussionist, by 3,54O majority.
In the section of country around Green's
boro, N. c., it is thought diphtheria has
carried Off no less than three hundred
children. So alarming was the condition
of affairs for time that there was a
quarantine by the people in some counties.
LOUIS CHAPMAN, Chief Clerk in the
freight office of the st. Louis & Iron Noun
tain Railway, at Little Rock, Ark, was re-
Gently arrested for the embezzlement of
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