The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

of larceny, obtaining s. 800 on false repre-.
sensations, and was sentenced to two years
in the Penitentiary.
WIN. s. HARRIS, former wealthy resi-
dent of Pittsburg, Pa, committed suicide
recently at Louisville, KY, by taking
strychnine. He had recently arrived there
from Colorado, where he lost the last rem
nant of his fortune. He was in i'll health
and out of employment. His family was
with him.
THE Temperance Committee of Hicksite
Quakers met recently in New York and re-
ported their work the past year as satisfac-
tory. In the coming year they will unite
in work with other religious denominations
A temperance committee Of sixty was ap-
pointed. A committee was appointed to
consider the question of placing the First
Day Schools under supervision at the
general meeting.
The annual meeting of the Universalists
Publishing House was held in Boston re.
Gently. Reports showed the past years
business to have been the largest since the
organization. Total amount, $3.50; in
crease over the previous year, SASS.
THE WEST.
In q quarrel over a trivial matter be-
tweenJ. C. Fletcher and Leno Carbello, two
printers in the Upton (Mo.) Times office,
Carbello shot and killed Fletcher.
THE negroes in the Cherokee Nation have
drawn up a strong protest against the re-
cent action of the Cherokee Council in de-
claring that the large amount of money
received from the Government in payment
for lands shall be distributed only to Cher
okees by blood. There are over 5000 ne
groes in the Nation, who claim the same
right as the Indians.
THE riotous miners at Belleville, Ills,
when called upon by the Sheriff to surren-
der, answered the demand by a pistol
shot, when the militia fired a volley, kill
ing one man. The others then fed.
Eighteen strikers were captured and held
from the ground, and quiet for the time re-
stored.
A TORNADO passed over portions of Clay
County, Ind, the 10Th, near Clay City. Six
persons were killed by the destruction of
the house they were in and at another
point five were killed. A child was blown
so completely away as not to be found.
One person was also killed at Edinburg.
SENATOR LOGAN, in lengthy letter to
the Chicago Tribune, reiterates in detail
his denial that he located any lands in the
Zuni Indian Reservation, and asserts that
the lands located by his son-in-law, Major
Tucker, likewise are not within the reserva-
ton of those Indians.
LATER dispatches from Hermosillo con-
tradict the report that General Crook had a
battle with the Apaches on the 18th, and
say, if an engagement had occurred, the
authorities at that place would have heard
of it. The fact is, General Crook is keep
ing his movements quiet, and it will be i'm
possible to get any news from him until he
has driven the Apaches from their strong
hold and the Indian question of Arizona is
settled.
THE Globe Tobacco Warehouse, said to
be the largest in the world, was opened
with great ceremony at Cincinnati recent
ly. 1t is seven stories in height, with an
area in the center, lighted by glass roof,
and affords, with old warehouse adjoin-
ing, four and three-quarter acres of floor
space.
some time about the latter part of April
Miss Anna Bauerlein, aged twenty-six
years, left her fathers house in Kansas
City, No., ostensibly to visit a lady friend
few blocks off. This was the last seen of
her by parents and friends-who used
every means to find the young lady-until
a few days since when her body was found
floating in the Missouri River at Boonville,
about one hundred miles below Kansas
City. 1t was supposed that in fit of tenn
porary mental arrangement she committed
suicide.
A STORM in the Little Miami Valley of
Ohio recently did great amount of
damage.
The main gas meter of the Fort Wayne,
Ind, gas works recently exploded, killing
the foreman, John NJ. West.
The boiler in the Royal Gem Touring
mill at Staunton, Ills, exploded recently
and damaged the mill about $4,000. En-
gineer Davis was injured.
JAMES SMITH, twenty-eight years of age,
and an employee of Henry Kolkmeyer,
bridge repairer on the Missouri Pacific, was
run over by the train at jefferson City,
No., recently, and instantly killed.
The people of Iowa celebrated the semi
centennial settlement of the State at Du-
buque on the LIST.
The National Free Trade Conference as
sembled in Detroit, Mich, the other day,
consisting of number of prominent advo-
Gates of the principles of free trade, the
object being the interchange of views,as to
the best method to be pursued for the prop
agation of their distinctive principles. The
attendance was not large.
SARAH CULLoM, of Casey, Iowa, while
walking in the grove with her lover lately
ate the root of what is known as the wild
turnip, from the effect of which she died
the next day.
THE other night, as ex-Alderman Geiger
and wife, of Cincinnati, were returning
from a visit during a heavy rain storm,
they drove into culvert under the railroad
through which a swollen stream was run
ming, and were drowned.
MATT. LEWIS, who has been convicted
four times at st. Louis of numbering his
wife, and sentenced three times to be
hanged, has been granted another stay of
execution, from June Sth to June 18th.
The Export Association of Cincinnati, in
response to the inquiry whether the report
was true that the Canadian restriction on
the importation of liquors had been re-
moved, received dispatch from the Ca
madam Commissioner of Customs that no
change had been made in the regulations
restricting the Importation of liquors.
Two MEN suspected of having committed
a heavy robbery recently arrived at FIRE.
mont, Neb., by railroad, and were met by