The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-12

| thing. Ice formed half an inch thick, and
| all crops not killed by the September frosts
are now destroyed. Many grapes in the
Delaware Valley were frosted.s Buckwheat
and corn are total failures. The drought
made them late and the first frost has de.
stroyed them"
THE WEST.
THE station agent at Buckner, No., was
struck and killed by lightning during the
storm on the 1st.
THREE inches of snow fell in the northern
part of Franklin County, Mimi, on the
night of the 30th.
ANNA HELMS, eighteen years old, recently
committed suicide at her mothers residence,
in Indianapolis, Ind, by taking arsenic,
and the mother, upon discovering that she
had taken the drug, attempted suicided by
swallowing the froth as it poured from her
dying daughters mouth. A quarrel be-
tween the mother and daughter was the
cause of the trouble.
AS contractor named Henry McNichols
was working on a store at the village of
Rogers Park, a suburb of Chicago, the
other morning, the roof fell in, instantly
Mcdonald and another workman whose
name was unknown.
Mrs. BAILEY, forty-five years of age,
wife of a commercial traveller, and her
daughter, sixteen years of age, were found
dead in cornfield, near Monmouth, Ills,
recently. From a note found on herperson
it was evident that she had killed the child
with a razor, and then took her own life
with the same weapon. The daughter had
been demented since her birth, and the
mother had of late. given herself up to
brooding over her daughters condition,
which impelled her to the awful deed.
The other morning the body of tramp
was found in a side-tracked box-car, at
Hampton Station, Ills, where he, having
been sick, had died of starvation and neg
lect.
THE other night as Deputy Marshal
Young entered Lee County Jail, at Fort
Madison, Iowa, one of the prisoners threw
pepper in his eyes and another knocked
him senseless with stick of wood. All
the prisoners escaped.
THE Apache chief, Juh, it is reported,
was recently killed by falling from his
horse while intoxicated. Charley Nc
Comas is said to be in charge of his widow,
who dislikes to give him up.
THE Chicago Rail,oay Age showed in a
late issue the amount of main track added
to the railways of the country during the
nine months ended September 80. There
were 4,24 miles built, against S,075 miles
for the same period last year.
J. L. STRANGER, a young farmer from
Wayne City, Ills, recently visited New
York to learn the ways of the world, and
stopped at the Prescott House. When he
retired at night he blew out the gas, and
was found next morning nearly dead.
THE first annual meeting of the Lumber
Manufacturers Association of the North
west, which includes practically all the
wealthy and leading firms engaged in the
trade, was held at Chicago, recently. 1t
was adopted as the sense of the meeting
that a curtailment of log cutting should be
made from the double standpoint, namely:
That the forests cannot stand the present
drain, and that the present production
caused the market to become largely over
stocked.
THE business portion of the town of
Kirkwood, Ills, was recently burned.
THE priests and prominent laymen of
the Roman Catholic Church of Chicago
presented Archbishop Feehan with purse
of $1,000 on the eve of his departure for
Rome. He is expected to be absent till
May next.
CHRIST. BEGUHN, of Menominee, Wis,
was troubled by bear in his neighborhood
and went out recently to shoot it, seeing
what he supposed to be the animal, he shot
it and went back to get his neighbors. A
party went to the place next morning and
found the dead body of Beguhn's brother.
He had mistaken his brother for the bear.
A DISPATCH from the Indian Territory,
stated that party of four robbers, recently
broke into the cabin of Isoma, an Indian,
eighty years old, and tortured him to make
him tell where he kept his money, large
amount of which he was boarding. He
remained obdurate, when the'iends shot
him and plundered his house, carrying off
the money, stated to be several thousand
dollars.
SENATOR SHARON recently commenced
suit in the United States Court, at San
Francisco, against Aggie Hill, declaring
that the alleged contract of marriage be-
tween himself and her-claimsd by Miss
Hill to be in her possession-ls a fraudu-
lent document, that no such contract was
ever signed by him or promise of marriage
given. He asked the court - compel Miss
Hill to produce the alleged contract
and retain possession of it, that
the fraudulency of the document
may be proven. He denies ever having
been married since he became widower.
He states that the object of Miss Hill in
perpetrating the alleged marriage contract
is to lay claim to his estate in the event of
his death. Miss Hill, in answer, replied
through her attorney, that she will COM
mence immediate proceedings against the
Senator in a Superior Court and not await
the decision in the Federal Court.
JOHN DAVIS, a full-blood Choctaw, has
been arrested in the Indian Territory, for
the murder of William Bullock, in Red
River County, Choctaw Nation, las sum-
mer.
JACOB ELMER and Charles Hinsley, two
stage robbers belonging to the gaLg that
killed Messenger Collins on August 10, in
Arizona, were overtaken by Sheriff Paul