The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-07


when theland is surveyed, and he is allowed
to do so. Whether he is or is not a tres
passer does not depend on how many trees
he cuts, but on the bona fide character of
the settlement. If he has taken land in
good faith, he is owner thereof to all prac-
teal purposes, although the title may re-
main in the Government"
THE EAST.
HENRY P. BUTLER, aged twenty-four,
Supposed to be from Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently suicided in st. Louis by taking
laudanum.
A BLOODY riot was reported as having re-
Gently taken place at the natural gas well
at Murraysville, forty miles east of Pitts
burgh, Pa, between the laborers of rival
gas fuel companies, resulting in the death
of one man and the serious injury of four
others.
WARRANTS were issued for the arrest of
the Weston party engaged in the late Muir
raysville, Pa, riots, including number of
prominent citizens.
SOME time ago, at Pittsburgh, Pa, Frank
Reed and Andrew Wilbert, neither over
eleven years of age, guarreled as to which
should furnish the fuel for fire which they
had built. Reed refused, and WIlbert,
using knife supplied by his older brother,
plunged it into Reeds side, from the effects
of which death subsequently ensued.
SERGEANT MASON, it is stated, will go
into the show business.
In making improvements on Coles Hill,
at Plymouth, Mass, recently, the graves of
the Pilgrims who came over in the May
Flower, and who were buried during the
first winter, were discovered. One con-
tanned the skeleton of a middle-aged man,
five feet nine inches in height. In another
grave the skeleton of an elderly man was
discovered. These were the only graves of
the first settlers positively identified.
Tablets will be placed to mark the exact
location.
Dr.. JAMES C. BUCK, prominent resident
of Craddock, Pa, was sentenced to five
years and six months in the penitentiary
for completely in the Gordon gang of high
waymen.
The Windsor Theater, in the Bowery,
New York, burned the other evening, soon
after the audience had left. A number of
adjoining buildings also burned. The
theater cost 100000.
AT the late annual meeting of the Penn
sylvania Peace Society, in Philadelphia, the
report of the Executive Committee re-
viewed the work of the year, and cited
number of cases where national difficulties
had been settled by arbitration. A resolu-
ton was adopted proposing arbitration as
means of settling all social disputes, and
that an International Arbitration tribunal
is the best substitute for war. A letter was
read from President Arthur in reference to
the suggestion that he ask the attention
of Congress to the subject of international
arbitration in his message. The President
promised to give it consideration. The
society resolved to telegraph the President
its wish that he urge the matter in his mes
sage. Mrs. Sarah T. Rogers, NJ. D., was
reelected President.
Rev. WARREN II. CUDwoRTH, pastor of
the Church of our Savior, Unitarian, dropped
dead while taking part at the union SER
vice in the Maverick Church, in Boston, on
Thanksgiving Day.
1T was feared at Worcester, Mass, that
six fishing schooners with seventy-five men
had been lost by the late gales.
THE Hotel Clifton, a fve-story brick
building, corner of Berwick Park and
Columbus avenue, Boston, burned the
other morning. The inmates fled in their
night clothes without accident. The fire
originated in the furnace-room in the base
ment, followed the elevator well to the roof
and spread through each floor into the
various rooms. The fire was stubborn
one, but was confined to one building.
George B. Taylor, the owner of the build
ing, loses $4,000. The occupants losses
were slight. The building was insured for
Sl25, 900.
TIE rear passenger coach os train on
the Boston, Barre & Gardner Railway, was
recently precipitated down an embank-
ment near North Worcester, Mass. Be-
tween thirty and forty passengers were
injured, fifteen quite seriously.
As Harry Castillo and his aged mother,
Of Butler, Pa. were driving home to spend
Thanksgiving the vehicle upset over an
embankment and both were killed.
W. J. KkoKz, proprietor of the Allegheny
<Pa-) Nail, was recently convicted of
criminal Libel and sentenced to thirty days
in jail and $500 fine.
IKE wooden mills at Saxonville, Mass,
burned recently. Loss, 500, 200; insurance,
t15G,oOo.
LAWRENCE FEExEY, aged seventy years,
1ecentiy starved himself to death at Sing
Sing, n. Y.
Rev. 7. j. CosAET, of Massachusetts,,
Treasurer of the Parnen Testimonial
FUND, recently transmitted to the Treas.
srer of the fund in Ireland Sl75l9. 1t in
clndes contributions from thirty-iye States
and Territories. The amount is not included
N the report cabled from London.
The coinage at the Phiiadelphia Mint
Turing November was 81 81, 40.
The machinery moulders employed by
Oliver Bros. e. Phillips. at Pittsburgh, Pa,
threatened to strike unless the notice of
ten pa cent. reduction in wages was with
drawn. 1t was thought likely similar re-
ductions would be made in other establish
ments, and that there would be numerous
striker