The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-05


tions. John Pooler was killed by the falling
of an iron pipe. Loss, 700; insured. q,
Twelve hundred firms and individuals Of
Congress against the passage of the Bankrupt
act.
THE WEST.
A late powder explosion near Berkeley, CAL,
resulted in the death of two men, and the
serious injury Of another.
During the absence of Mr.. Barker of Estfl-
line, Dakota, from home, his wife left three
children, aged six month, three years and FIVE
years, respectively, in the house while ehe did
work at the barn. Before Mrs. Barker re-
turned, the house burned, and two OF the
little ones were charred corpses, and in rescu
ing baby, which afterwards died in her arms,
the mother received burns supposed to be
fatal.
Jacob Blitz suicided by shooting himself In
his room at Kansas City, on Christmas day.
The only witness to the deed was his mistress.
Blitz was musician of some local celebrity.
and was soon to have been married to
wealthy young lady of st. Louis.
Col. j. L. Pace has completed the purchase
Of over 1000 acres of valuable coal land in
Walnut township, Bates county, Missouri, the
purchase being made in the interest of the
Emporia and st. Louis Railroad, which it Is
thought will soon be pushed to completion.
Polish Catholic priest at Bay City, Mich,
was convicted of libel in civil suit for dam
ages there one day last week, and two hun
dred and fifty dollars awarded the plaintiff.
The libel consisted in his denouncing one Of
the members of the church from the pulpit as
not good Catholic and warning his flock not
to do business with him.
One evening lately heavy trunk fell from
the truck that was taking it from the train at
Galesburg, Ills, and burst open, disclosing
the CORY body of a man with his throat cut
from ear to ear. A man on the train was dis
covered holding a check tallying with that on
the trunk. He was detained, but refused to
talk. The trunk was checked from Chicago.
The East-bound passenger train, which left
St. Louis at $40 o'clock on the Wabash road,
the oath, collided with an engine and caboose
from Decatur, ILL.,, on q curve one and one
half miles from Carpenter. Both engines
were knocked of the track and George Sis
bee, the engineer of the passenger train, and
Hank Dresser, conductor of the engine and ca
boose, were killed. Capt. Hyde and Ed. Bramble
were dashed against the postal boxes in the mail
car and severely hurt, and several passengers
somewhat injured.
The motion for a new trial in the murder
case of Teresa Sturla was not pressed when it
came up in the Criminal Court at Chicago, and
the prisoner received her sentence Of year in
the penitentiary with jaunty, self-possessed
air. She made little speech explaining why
she accepted the sentence and arraigning the
character of the jurors who stood out for her
conviction.
Mrs. Myra j. Osborn and her son Ollie,
aged seventeen years, were found dead in
their sleeping apartments in Greencastle, Ind,
few mornings since. 1t is generally sup
posed the mother poisoned her son and then
committed suicide.
Chris. Hanson, of Lebanon, Mo-, aged
about thirty years, blacksmith few months
direct from Denmark, died recently from the
effects of q spree, during which he drank
half pint of alcohol at one drink. He left
$500 which he brought with him from the old
country.
At Pioneer Cal, a few days since, William
Hartley stepped up to the bar of saloon to
take a drink, when Thomas Kerr, without
provocation, knocked him down, and drawing
a pistol shot him dead. Kerr was disarmed,
and Jury of twelve held an informal trial.
Kerr asked for an hours time to ar
range his business, sat down and with per-
feet GOODNESS wrote to his mother at Lexing-
ton, H., requesting all his effects to be given
to her, and then asked for several drinks. The
citizens then took him out to a sycamore tree,
when he requested that his boots be taken OF
as he uid not wish to die with his boots on.
He was then promptly hanged.
The first open hostilities Of the Creek In
dian war in the Indian Territory, occurred on
the oath, fifteen miles west Of Okmulkee. A
band Of Checote's men, under Jim Larney, were
going west, when about 2 O'Clock in the even
ing they were attacked by some 200 Of Spice
hee's partisans under the command of Nc
Checote's mel fell back, but kept up . run
ming fight for ten miles. Bob Carr, Dave Bar
rett and wife and man named Walsh are re
ported killed. The loss on the other side is
unknown The whole country is reported to
be rushing to arms. On receipt of the news at
Muskogee detachment of forty United States
soldiers was ordered to the scene, and they
overlook and disarmed $50 Of Checote's men.
This will be continued till the men engaged on
both sides are disarmed.
The operators of the Massfllon, Ohio, dis
trict coal mines have agreed to reduce the
price Of mining from ninety-five to eighty-6ve
cents a ton, and have appointed a committee
to confer with the miners.
Peter DesYaron, carpenter, Of Rockford,
w. T., recently shot his wife and himself
through the head. Cause, jealousy.
Messers. Harris and Watson, men of ex-
perience in the newspaper business, and hay
ing capital, have been in consultation with
Capt. Payne, at the Office of the Oklahoma
colony in Wichita, Kas. They design &C
conpanying the Oklahoma colony from that
point on the first day of February next, and
win establish q new paper called the Oklaho-
ma Var Chief The first two numbers will he
published in Wichita, the next number upon
the territory line, and the next and all subse-
Quent publications from the Oklahoma town
site on the North Canadian River. These
gentlemen 1t is reported, have already obtained
about 200 subscribers tor their paper. Payne
says that there are now lo,000 wagons ready
to start for Oklahoma. IL -.
I Henry C. Kissell, City Treasurer of Tucson,
Arizona, and agent of the Budweiser Beer
Company Of St. Louis, has gone to Mexico, q
defaulter for s., 100 The city, the Budweiser
company and several parties are the losers. A..
The Chicago Lumbermen's Exchange, in thes-