The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-13
THE EAST.

fwENTY-oNE assisted" immigrants were
returned to England on the steamer Fur
nessia last week.
AGNES L. WYNNE, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
was fatally shot recently by her husband,
James II. Wynne. She was nineteen years
old and her husband one year younger.
They were married eighteen months ago,
and have one child three months old. He
had been drinking heavily, and when he
went home a quarrel took place. He
threatened to shoot her, and she answered:
sI dare you to do it" when he drew pis-
tol and shot her.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, of Massachusetts,,
sent to the House his veto of the bill to levy
State tax to the amount of $1,000, zoe. He
does not believe in raising money before
needed and letting ii lie in bonds at three
per cent, while poor people who pay taxes
must borrow at not less than five per cent
to pay them with. He reviewed the finances
of the last four years and said that tax of
$1,000, 900 is unnecessary and unreasonable.
81 1000 ample.
The VERY REVEREND THOMAS WALSH,
Vicar General of the diocese of Hartford,
Conn, died recently. His death was en-
tirely unexpected. He was ffty-four years
of age, and was born in Ireland.
NEW YORK, New Jersey and several of
the New England States had a small sample
of Western tornado on the I'd. Houses,
fences and trees were blown away but no
fatal results were reported.
WIN. II. SEAMAN, aged twenty-four, shot
and killed his sister Fanny, aged twenty
eight, and then killed himself at Throggs
Neck, Westchester County, N. Y, recent
ly. He was insane.
The contract with the Lee Marble Com.
pany, of Massachusetts, to furnish marble
for the construction Of the Washington
monument, has been annulled because of
the inability to meet contract requirements.
Advertisement for proposals for supplying
1900 feet of marble have been issued.
II. II. LUDLUM, fell from the trapeze of q
balloon q distance of forty feet at Scranton,
Pa, recently and received fatal injuries.
As a street car was crossing the track of
the Manhattan Beach Railroad in Brooklyn,
N. Y, recently, a train was seen approach
ing. The fagman waved his hat, but the
train crushed into the car, killing one wo-
man and injuring the driver.
A FIRE in the Harrisburg, Pa, Aims
House, caused the death of two female in
mates, Mrs. Getty and Mrs. Rooms, each
aged seventy years.
Ar Norristown, Pa, recently, James
Jack while drunk strangled his wife to
death. He was arrested.
AND now ]. Armory Knox, the funny
man Of TEXAS Siftings, is advertised for a
duel with d. B. Sheahan, the sculptor. The
place was said TO be Stamford, Conn. Both
men were reported determined to fight and
the police willing that they should do so.
HEAVY storms in the East since the
Fourth did large amount of damage. At
Dover, N. H, one of the store-houses of the
Cocheco print works filled with prints ready
for shipment, was flooded and 40 cases,
containg 1850 yards each, valued at $780,
900, were submerged and badly damaged.
A large stock of gum and colors were de-
stroyed. Lightning struck seven houses in
the vicinity, causing a large amount of
damage and killing Martin Frost, l. n.
Elliot and Oliver w. Browlton.
COMPLAINT was recently lodged with the
Superintendent of Castle Garden by the
Hibernian Society of Philadelphia, that
Hannah callaghan, who arrived in New
York as an assisted immigrant by the
Anchor line, and has been employed g