The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-26


Grand Jury at Washington, on the charge OF
endeavoring to corruptly influence Edwin d.
Doniphan of the Star Route jury in the first
trial in favor of 8. W. Dorsey.
THE EAST.
A recent FIRE at Albany, N. T., destroyed
the Tweddle Hall block including the Opera
House, Albany Bank and number Of stores.
Loss $500, 600; insurance $4,000.
A bill has been introduced into the Penn
sylvania Legislature, making it q misdemeanor
for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
members Of the Legislature to accept passes
from railroad companies.
The Maine Legislature reelected w. p.
FRYE United States Senator.
The Massachusetts, Legislature reelected
George F. Hoar to the United States Senate.
Joseph Butler, aged twenty-seven. OF North
Adams Mass, married. was lately sentenced
to the Penitentiary for life-ten DAYS solitary
confnement-for an outrageous assault upon
his niece, aged eleven years.
crazy man named Tyler recently stabbed
four persons at ball in Bangor, Maine.
| The Cincinnati Express train going East on
the New York Central recently dashed into
the rear of freight train on the main track
east of Syracuse. Harry Stamp and Harvey
Emmons, brakemen, were both injured fatally.
The accident was caused by the switch tender
being asleep on duty.
Harvey Taylor, Of Rch6eld Springs N. Y,
crazy man, recently killed his wife and
mother-in-law and then hanged himself. When
| found the women had their heads crushed in.
| They were regularly laid out on the floor,
their hands crossed and their faces washed
| and feet tied. Taylor was found hanging in
the cellar.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
have made twenty-five cents the maximum
rate for messages Of ten words between any
of its offices in the New England States and
New York City.
THE WEST.
Mr. Cyrus Thomas, of Sullivan, Ind, took
his wife out in sleigh. Just as he started
the lady rose up to adjust her shawl, when the
horses by a sudden movement threw her out.
She exclaimed 81 am hurt" and died in
stantiy. Her neck had been broken.
Right Rev. j. c. Talbot, Bishop Of the Epis-
copal church of the Diocese of Indiana, died
of paralysis, at Indianapolis recently.
Ex-Congressman Fort few days since
tainted and fell from his buggy while driving
near Peoria, Ills, and was dragged some dis
lance, receiving injuries from which he died
in few hours.
George Scheller, proprietor Of the Newhall
House bar, has been arrested at Milwaukee
charged with setting fire to the hotel, the
burning of which was attended with such hor
rors last week. f.
The Illinois Legislature in Joint Convention
elected Cullom United States Senator by a
vote of 107 to 95 for Palmer, Democrat. The
North Carolina Legislature reelected Senator
Ransom.
Miss Zerelda Garrison, whose reported
abduction recently created such SEN
sation in st. Louis, has been taken
East by her uncle, o. L. Garrison, by
the advice sof the family physicians, to be
placed in an asylum for treatment for nervous
diseases. Doctors G. s. Walker and c. W.
Stevens published card in which they state
that full examination of her mental condi-
ton showed the young lady to be deficient in
the development of her mental faculties to
such an extent as to make her irresponsible at
times for her actions.
Peter Behl, of Fon du Lac, Wis, whose
daughter died on account of her fathers i'll
treatment, has been arrested on the charge of
manslaughter The complaint is sworn out
BY Mrs. Behl, who witnessed the scuff1e be-
tween father and daughter. The prisoner
went to Jail in default of $1,000 bail.
The Ohio, and Mississippi train from Cincin-
natti, for st. Louis, met with an accident
about mile from Lebanon, Ill, recently. The
train struck a broken rail, and the engine, two
express cars and the baggage and postal cars
passed over safely, but three passenger
coaches ran off the track, the first being upset
completely, but the others only derailed. One
passenger, Charles Hoffman, of Maryland, was
killed and eight were injured.
Scheller, who was arrested at Milwaukee
upon suspicion Of burning the Newhall House,
was recently removed from the Jail in that city,
it being feared that the high excitement of the
people might lead to mob violence. When
the safe of the hotel was opened the failure
to find the register or any other books which
would show who were in the hotel the night
of the fire caused considerable surprise, and
many theories were put forward as to
what became of the books. 1t had been
reported and expected that the register
and transfer book had been put in the
safe when the fire was discovered, and hun
dreds of persons all over the country were
waiting for the register to be recovered SO
that it might be known who were the guests
of the hotel on the fatal night. When the
safe was opened, no books or papers to show
who were employed in the hotel, or who the
guests were, were found, but only blank books
and a lot of unimportant papers.
The boilers of the steamer Josephine recent
ly exploded while it lay at Seattle, Washing
ton Territory. The explosion occurred while
the passengers were at dinner. The crown
sheet went straight up through the forward
cabin and the pilot house, carrying johnson,
the man at the wheel, high into
the air. causing his death. Capt.
Bailey was on deck and was lost. Neither he
nor Purser Turner were seen after the explo-
sion. The stewart and his helper, David
Sparks, were instantly killed while waiting on
the table. Kavanaugh, the fireman, was not
seen afterwards and undoubted was killed.
s. E. Cannon, commercial traveller repre-
senting Bates, Reed & Cooley of New York,
was killed, and some half dozen passengers
were more or less injured
The Prohibitory Amendment has been de-
clared invalid by the Supreme Court Of Iowa
upon the ground that the Journal Of the
House did not show that the amendment had
passed that body.
At FIVE O'Clock on the morning Of the 18th,
fire at Atchison, Hans, destroyed the Cham
pion printing Office, Yates drug store and
several Offices. The loss on the Champion
building was estimated at 81, 500; on material
and furniture, S4,O00. Insurance on building
fully covered the loss; on material 81, 500.
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