The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-04

driving of the savages over the Canadian
border, An Indian chief was killed in the
eight.
THE Ohio Legislature abolished the Gin
cinnati Board OF Health and authorized the
Superior Court to appoint q Health Com
missioner, who should appoint all subor'
dinates. The Court announced that II
would decline to make the appointments
The Court held that the law was not man.
datory as to appointment by the Court, and
it was against public policy for the Court
to make appointments of this nature.
| A SPECIAL from Cree City, M. T., says
Chas. and Fred Wand, brothers, and neph.
ews of C. B. Farwell Of Chicago, were
found dead early the other morning in their
shanties near that place.
INFORMATION has been received at Albu'
querque, N. NJ, that on the 18th inst. Ger.
ovimo, Chief of Juh's Apaches, captured
Professor A. F. Bandalier, of the American
Archaeological Institute, s. F. Balder OF
Tucson, and Mexican, near the village OF
San Cristobal, in the State of Sonora. The
Apaches took the prisoners into the noun
tains, and it is nearly certain they have
been murdered. Professor Bandalier has
been investigating the Indian antiquaries OF
| New Mexico and Arizona for several years.
| His father and family reside at Highland,
Ills, few miles from East st. Louis.
| The Western Nail Mill at Belleville, Ills,
| burned to the ground . few days since.
Loss $4,000 to 500, 900; fully insured. The
mill ran sixty.three nail machines, and
employed 200 men. The old mill burned
i iuet n vasr rrovious In this fire.
JAMES DELoNG, residing near Leavitts-
burg, Ohio, asked the widow Griswold to
| marry him which she refused, when he set
tied the matter by numbering her and kill
| ing himself.
THE late frost did but little damage to
the fruit crop in Illinois.
In the trial of Charles Ferguson, in the
United States Court at San Francisco,
for counterfeiting, the Court charged
the jury that gliding the new five-cent
nickle is counterfeiting, and the jury con-
victed the prisoner.
THIRTEEN men have been arrested for
completely in the late Ward murders at
Creel City, Dakota, among them c. j..
Ulive and William C. Harrington, sons of
prominent st. Paul men.
CHAs. KRING, the famous murderer of
Mrs. Dora Broemer, in st. Louis, has been
admitted to bail in the sum of 5000. Kring
was lodged in jail in 1879, and has only
been out three times since, the first time
being in 1881, which was the first time he
saw light or sky in six years. This was to
visit a dying sister. He has had several
trials; once or twice sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary and once to be hung. When COM
mitted to jail his weight was 100 pounds.
He is now reduced to a skeleton, by con-
sumption and long imprisonment.
CHARLES W. FOSTER, father of Governor
Foster, of Ohio, died recently, aged SO.
LAST November the wife of Gustave Nord,
of st. Paul, MIMI, disappeared. He stated
that she had run away with another man.
The other morning her body was found in
Rush Lake with stone tied around her
waist. Nord was arrested.
AT Elgin, Ills, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry A.
Green were recently found at their home
suffocated from the effects of escaping gas
from an uncovered coal-stove. The hus-
band was dead and the wife dying when
discovered.
CAPTAIN MCGREGoR, of the First Cav
airy, reports to the War Department that
he has made a thorough investigation and
finds that the rumors of contemplated
outbreak among the Indians at the Will
lows, on the Columbia River, are totally
unfounded.
THE details of plot among the soldiers
of the Fourth Battalion of Infantry Mex
ican), stationed at Matamoras, to rise, MUIR
der their officers and desert to Texas, have
lately come to light. A short time ago
ninety recruits were sent there, part of
whom had been engaged in a revolutionary
rising some time ago in the State of CHA
pas. These men-the ringleader of whom
was herculean Campeche negro-made q
plot to rise on a given day, and had got
most of the regiment into it-even the men
on guard. The matter was discovered and
the Colonel of the regiment staid at the
quarters on the night of the expected rising
and prevented a general revolt. Some of
the mutineers escaped.
AN old mine, believed to have been
worked by the Aztecs, and from which
they obtained their tribute of gold to send
to the Montezumas, was recently rediscov-
cred near Pascula, District of Leapa,
Mexico.
A COLLISION occurred on the Grand Trunk
Railroad, near Olive, Mich, recently, be-
tween the regular passenger train moving
west and the freight train following it. Two
Pullmans were wrecked; one ground to
atoms. The killed were: P. j. Wall, Pull
man car conductor; j. Higgins, commercial
traveller, Detroit; Howard Frye, Superin-
tendent motive power of the N. Y, W. S.
g. B. Railway. Fifteen were injurned;
some perhaps fatally.
AT Middleton, Ohio, the other day John
O'Connell's little child fell in the n.y.
draulic canal. The father and mother both
plunged in to rescue it, and all three were
drowned.
THE SOUTH.
]. n. CLARK, of the firm of Clark &
Franks, of Stewartville, KY, was recently
shot and killed by his partner, j. 7. Franks.
He had accused Franks of stealing the
firms money, at which the quarrel arose.
Franks shot Clark five times.
LATER reports from all sections of Mis-
sissippi visited by the recent cyclone show
that eighty-three persons were killed and
about 800 wounded, many dangerously. The
loss of property is unprecedented.
Ar special election in Georgia Henry
ID. Mcdaniel was elected Governor to sue
coed the late Alexander Il. Stephens.
WYATT BANKS, colored, who assisted
Fred E. Waite and Daniel Compton in kill
ing Add. WISER, Deputy Sheriff of Robert
son County, May %, 1882, was hanged at
Franklin, Tex.
LATER reports from the Mississippi cy-'
clone state that French Camp, town of
800 inhabitants was completely demolished
and a number killed. A number were