The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-10

and finally declared the Expositiono pened,
at the close Of which he pulled silken cord
suspended in front of him which put in
operation all the engines in the machinery
department..
SARAH BURNS, aged sixteen. residing
near FayetviIl, Ark, climbed to the top
| of barn, tied one end of rope to beam,
the other to her neck and jumped on.
When found she was dead. The cause OF
the act was the perfidy Of a young man
who betrayed her under promise of mar
rage.
In Hampstead County, Ark, recently, a
white man named Wyatt and colored
man had a difficulty which resulted in a
| fight in which the latter was worsted. The
negro subsequently collected a number OF
his friends, who attacked and killed Wyatt.
| The attempt to arrest the murderers brought
on small war of races. A fight was re-
ported as having taken place between the
posse and the negroes, which resulted in
the killing Of five of the latter and the ar
| rest of eighty.
| THE United States Marshal of Western
Texas recently arrested, in New Mexico, a
mail robber named Silsbee and lodged him
in Jail at Dallas, Texas. Silsbee was a
route agent on the Houston & Texas Cen
trail Railway, and in 1881, on one occasion,
while there was a wreck, robbed the Gov
eminent of about 5000. When captured
he was working as a stone mason on a
| Court House at Silver City.
| DAVID FERGUSON, the defaulting tax col
lector of Louisville, KY, who was a de-
faulter for over 100000, and was sent to
the penitentiary was recently pardoned by
Governor Blackburn. This act of the Gov
ernor was very severely criticised by the
people of Kentucky.
CHARLES HENRY LEE, colored, was
hanged at Richmond, Va, for the murder
| of Daniel Miller, another colored man.
Hon. MARK A. BLANFoRD of Columbus
was elected to the Supreme Court, of Geor-
gia, to succeede Martin j. Crawford, de-
ceased.
GENERAL.
AN order has been issued at Bremen to
| all captains of vessels arriving from Ameri-
ca with pickle pork as part of their cargo,
| to notify the custom authorities of the
| quantity they have on board, under pain
| of three hundred marks fine for neglect.
A NUMBER of Americans and English
were lost in the great earthquake near
Naples. The list of deaths has been swelled
by later reports to about 5000.
MOUNT VESUvIUs is in a state of erup.
ton and lava descending from the crater
| in the direction of the town of Tore del
Greso, southwest of the foot of the noun
| tain.
MEMBERS of Apollo Commandery Knights
Templar of Chicago are visiting various
objects of interest in Paris, France.
THE Emperor of Germany has directed
that the four hundredth birthday of Martin
Luther be observed by all Protestant
schools in his dominiOns.
THE total number of deaths from cholera
in Egypt since the first outbreak of the dis.
ease to August ], was II 900.
MISS SPINELY SIARY, one of the teachers
in the American ladies' college at Panama,
and recently arrived from New York, died
from yellow fever. Smallpox and malig-
nant fever, more fatal than yellow fever,
is raging on the coast of Guatemala. Vel
low fever is playing havoc among foreign
residents of Callao, Peru.
A LARGE building in Berlin, Prussia, used
in the manufacture of velvets, was burned
recently. Three firemen were killed by
the falling walls.
AMONG the victims of the late earthquake
| in Italy was Miss Van Allen, of San Fran
cisco.
THE steamer Pathar arrived at Melbourne
recently. kavanaugh, Joseph Hanlon and
Joseph Smith, informers in the trial of the
Phoenix Park murderers, who were on
board, We're identified and prohibited from
landing.
THE Emperor and Empress of Austria
contributed 5000 forms for the relief of
Ischia sufferers. The municipal authorities
of Vienna voted 1000 forms.
THE deaths from cholera in Egypt on
August were 102, including 1916 at Cairo.
In the trial of ten Jews at NyiregyhYaza,
Hungary, charged with numbering Esther
Salymosir, Christian girl, in the syna.
gogue at TisZa Eslar, in order to procure
her blood to mix in the Passover, a verdict
of not guilty was returned.
IT is stated that the informers, kava.
naugh, Joseph Hanlon, and Joseph Smith,
who were prevented from landing at Mel.
bourne, were so treated because plot to
murder them had been discovered by a
certain telegram about them recently sent
to a resident of Melbourne.