The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-14

ding-day was set and the preparations
were being made Tor the early day that
was to. make her . bride. A week before
the appointed day her lover disappeared,
and IL was commonly believed that he had
changed his mind and fed to escape marry.
ing the girl, who waited expectantly till
evidence Of her lovers perfdy could be no
longer resisted, when one morning recently
she was found dead in her bed, having
taken strychnine.
A SPECIAL from Astoria, Oregon, stated
that the steamer Queen Of the Pacific, with
the Willard party aboard, ran aground at
Clatsop Spit, inside of the Columbia bar.
The passengers were safely landed on the
tug-boats without serious accident. The
place where the steamer grounded was the
same bar on which the steamer Republic
was wrecked year ago.
AT Riverton, near Springfield, Ills, the
dwelling of John Everts was recently
burned. Mrs. Phebe Hyland, mother of
Mrs. Everts, aged sixty-eight years, and
two children of Mrs. Everts, boy aged
four and an infant baby, were burned to
death. Mrs. Everts was badly burned in
trying to save her mother and children.
Rev. THOMAS II. OAKLEY, general de-
livery clerk in the postoffice at Cleveland,
Ohio, was arrested recently charged with
stealing from prepaid parcels the stamps,
selling them and pocketing the proceeds.
THE grain elevators of Benedict Brothers,
and store and dwelling at Cedar Springs,
Mich, burned recently. Loss $4,000.
AT Louisville, KY, the other day, John
Stinson, young man who had just at
tanned his majority, was arrested while at
tempting to throw himself head first from
the top of freight car. He said he had
tried to make a man of himself and had
failed; was no good and wanted to die
He was taken to Jail and within fifteen
minutes had climbed to the top of the cor.
ridor and thrown himself to the stone flag
ging below, fracturing his skull and dying
in few minutes.
AT Gainesville, Texas, c. d. Sharpe, for
outrageously assaulting his step-daughter,
aged fifteen, was assessed by the jury a
term of fifty years in the Penitentiary, and
he is vet to be tried for similar assault
upon a younger sister of his victim.
AT Manchester, Clay County, KY, in the
mountainous part of the State one day last
week, Marshal Marcum, assisted by ex-
Marshal Hacker, attempted to arrest Jud
Links, when A. Stivers interferred and
mortally wounded Hacker. Links fatally
stabbed Marcum. As soon as they heard of
Hackers death, his brothers armed them
selves and shot and killed Stivers. Links
was also shot and slightly wounded and
finally arrested.
MOBILE and many other places in Ala
bama have raised the quarantine against
Pensacola.
NEAR Cisco, Texas, the other day the
stage was robbed by solitary horseman.
After taking few dollars from Mr..
Owens and his daughter, the only passen.
gers, and fifty cents from the stage driver,
the robber picked out the registered pack
ages and disappeared.
FIVE thousand acres of timber lands in
Hot Springs County, Ark, were recently
sold to an Iowa syndicate.
NJ. UssERY, one of the wealthiest men of
Luling, Texas, was recently shot and
killed by Samuel Brown, a young man who
was attempting to elope with Ussery's
daughter. Brown also attempted to kill
the wife of his victim.
THE Bemis lumber mill near Texarkana,
on the Texas side of the line, burned recent
ly together with six millions feet of lumber.
CADET RUMsEY, of the third class, was
sentenced by the court martial at Annapolis
to seven days. solitary confinement for at
tempting to haze Cadet Thomas C. Morgan
of the fourth class.