The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-29
THE WEST.

the Office was badly damaged by the fire
that followed.
g. H. WHITE, Civil Engineer of the DEN.
yer & South Park Railway, was murdered
by a tie cutter at Robson, Colo, recently.
AcYcLoNE swept through Oregon County,
NO., recently, uprooting trees and doing
much damage to property.
A FRAUDULENT scheme to make money OH
of tax payers was recently discovered in
the County Auditors Office at Cincinnati,
| O., in which two clerks of the former Audi
tor had been in the habit of increasing the
assessed valuation of property of certain
large tax payers, mainly incorporated COM
panies, and then offering for commission
to get the excessive taxes refunded.
JOE HAUcRINs, the notorious Pike Coun-
ty, Und.,) counterfeiter shot several weeks
ago by United States officers while the gang
was being arrested, escaped the other night,
as was supposed, by the assistance of
friends.
AT Manistee, Mich, recently, ex-Deputy
Sheriff George Flickenger and Night
Waterman Henry Kerback were caught in
the act of setting fire to j. Hanselman's
furniture store. They claimed that Han
selman employed them to do the job. The
three were arrested.
AT Portsmouth, O., recently, Post-office
Inspectors arrested George ID. Bauer, clerk
on the line between Columbus, o., and
Ashland, KY, charged with embezzling and
rifing letters.
Ar Mexico, No., John Schlosser, car
penter, took Trough on Rats" with suicidal
intent. He died several days afterwards.
RECENT heavy rains at Indianapolis,
Ind, flooded the northeastern portion of
the city, covering the first floor of hundreds
of small dwellings. 1t was thought the
damage would reach quarter of a million
dollars. "
JAMES DAVIS, Secretary of the London,
(Eng.,) and San Francisco bank, has alb
seconded. He embezzled 100000, including
one hundred and eight of the Oregon and
California railroad gold bonds of the value
of 100000. A warrant was issued, and
GOO reward offered for his arrest.
j. H. MCLINN, of Chilhowie, No., was re-
Gently killed by the cars at Sedalia.
The propeller Manistee was recently lost
on Lake Michigan with all on board.
AT Rushville, Ind, the other morning,
Edward Payne, cashier of the Nashville
National Bank, was awakened by a noise
in the kitchen and started down stairs. He
met burglar coming up who ordered him
back, threatening to shoot. Payne hurled
missile at him, whereupon the burglar
fired a shot which took effect in Payne's
right lung, infiicting wound which it was
thought would prove fatal.
THE prisoners in Jail at indianapolis,
Ind, recently attempted to escape by the
use of dynamite, and succeeded in blowing
a hole through the walls large enough to
crawl through. They We're, however, con-
fronted by the Sheriff with a cooked re
volver and ordered to their cells.
LAST February Patrick Ryan and wife,
of st. Joseph, Mo-, got on a spree during
which he smothered her to death with a
feather bed. For this jury recently gave
him six months in the county Jail.
KANSAS CITY was considerably excited
recently over the discovery of the fact that
some butchers were slaughtering and SELL
of loathsome disease. Several arrests were
made.
REV. NATHAN PRINCE, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, was recently tried by a
Church Court at Urbana, O., on the charge
of jealousy and ill-treatment toward his
wife, causing her insanity. The Judgment
rendered was that he was guilty of jealousy
and ill-treatment, but the court did not find
that the latter caused his wife's insanity,
though it might have facilitated it. He
was suspended. ..
Two women and three children were re.
ported drowned and much live stock lost
by the recent heavy rains and flood in
Reynolds County, Mo.
A SPLENDID reception was accorded Gen.
eral and Mrs. Sheridan recently, in Chica-
go, by the members of the Loyal Legion of
Illinois, of which General Sheridan is still
nominally commander.
THE other morning Jacob D. Crouch,
aged seventy-four, and his daughter,
Eunice White, her husband, Henry White,
and Moses Palley, young man from Mer-
Ger County, Pa, We're murdered in their
beds in Jackson County, Mich, by being
repeatedly shot through their heads.
Crouch was very wealthy stock man, and
it was reported had just received $4,000
from the sale IF ranch in Texas. Palley,
who was stopping with Crouch, had just
come from Texas with large sum Of
money to buy cattle. A young adopted
daughter of Crouch and a negro eighteen
years old slept upstairs, and said next
morning they heard no disturbance during
the night.
THE town of Piedmont, No., suffered Sc.
verely by the late rain and flood. Fourteen
houses were swept away and six persons
were reported drowned.
ANOTHER hundred sacks of mail matter
had accumulated at Portland, Oregon,
owing to the ineficiency of the mail SER
vice on the Northern Pacific road.
Mrs. JOHN NEIREIDER, residing near
Laclede, ILL.,, was recently standing with
her back to hot stove, when her clothing
took fire, fatally burning her before the
flames could be extinguished.
The house of T. W. Huston, a well-to-do
farmer, two miles from Unionville, No.,
was destroyed by fire recently. Mrs. Hus-
ton and two children persisted in the
flames. ...
THE SOUTH.
Ar the special election in the First North
Carolina district, Thomas G. Skinner, Dem
ocrat, was elected to succeed ". F. Pool,
Republican, deceased.
A DESPERATE whom the officers had been
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