The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-08-24

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struck his daughter a brutal blow on the
head. She was not expected to live.
Francis KERR, on his way from Trenton,
N. j., to Deming, N. NJ, was drowned in
the Missouri River at Kansas City.
THE WEST.
LIP. TAYLOR, JR., freight train conduc.
tor on the Union Pacific Road, died in
| Omaha, Neb., recently from blood poison
ing, caused by the bite of spider.
THREE boys, Robert and William Miller
and Earnest Smith, aged about fourteen,
while out fishing near Lincoln, Neb., took
refuge under a tree during a storm, when
| lightning struck the tree instantly killing
them.
| AT the farm of L. N. Carter, five miles
east of Kokomo, Ind, his boy, four years
old, set fire to the hay in the barn. The
barn was consumed and a girl three years
old burned to death.
THE Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch
Masons of the United States, in session at
Denver, Colo, elected the following off,
| GERS: Alfred F. Chapman, Massachusetts,
G. G. H. P; D. Lander, District of
| Columbia, d. G. G. H. P: David Day, New
York, G. G. K; Joseph p. Horner Louisi-
ana, G. G. S.; Reuben c. Leman, Ohio, G..
g. Treasurer; Christopher G. Fox, New
! York, G. G. Secretary.
FISH Bros. & HALL, of Duluth, Minn,,
| have failed. Liabilities and assets unknown.
BETWEEN $4,000 and 10000 people met at
Bowling Green, No., recently, to celebrate
| the second annual reunion of the old set
tiers of Pike County. The silver cup, offered
as medal to the oldest living resident,
| was awarded to Mrs. Relief Woods, who
was born in Pike County in 1911.
The call for the seventh Annual Con-
gress of the National Liberal League, signed
by T. B. Wakeman, President; Elizur
Wright, Vice-President. and 7. c. Leland,
Secretary, was recently issued. tsays:
"All the citizens of the United States who
believe in the fundamental principals of
our Republic, separation of Church and
State equality for all citizens before the
law without distinction of creed or race or
sex; justice for all, and privileges and
monopolies for none; need of universal
secular education, free speech and free
press, as basis of universal suffrage, are
| invited to join the National Liberal League,
and appear or to be represented in its
seventh Annual Congress at Milwaukee,
Wis, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sep
TENDER 81, % and % next"
AT Chicago the other day the Federal
| authorities seized the dresses and other
| wearing apparel of Mrs. L. n. Parish on
the ground that they had been imported in
defiance of the custom laws. The woman
has made twenty trips across the ocean,
| by her own confession, to purchase second
hand dresses from the nobility, and sue
ceeded in having her trunks passed free
of duty, offering the explanation that the
dresses were wearing apparel.
THE United States Rolling Stock com.
pany's shops at Chicago, five in number,
burned recently. Loss is estimated from
100000 to 100000. The shops were To-
Gated in South Chicago, western suburb
of the city.
THE Michigan Prohibition State Conven-
tion met at Eaton Rapids recently and
voted to raise 500, 900 as a campaign fund,
Endorsed the platform of the National
Convention at Chicago, and declared in
favor of constitutional and statutory pro-
hibition of the manufacture of liquor as q
beverage.
HENRY L. YOUNG, general agent in Gin.
cinnati of the Grand Rapids & Indiana
Railroad, recently fatally shot himself al
his office in that city. He had been in an
intoxicated condition a short time before
A letter found on his person purported to
be from a cousin threatening him for i'm
proper relations with the writer's wife.
A NUMBER of st. Louis cigar makers and
dealers decided to keep their shops open
on Sunday hereafter.
ABOUT sixty shoe lasters employed by
six manufacturers of st. Louis struck fol-
higher wages. About three hundred Other
workmen were thrown out of employment
by the action of the lasters.
The superintendent of the United State:
Rolling Mill Company's shops at Chicago
which were destroyed by fire recently, said
the loss would reach 500, 900.
A COAL oil company recently struck G
vein near Canon City, Colo, yielding forty
barrels of oil per day of the best quality.
A FAMILY of five persons were seriously
poisoned at Davenport, Iowa, by eating
canned corned beef for supper. Whether
the poison was contained in the meat it
self or came from the can could not be de
cided by the physician in attendance.
AN attempt at general Jail delivery
was made at Council Bluffs, Iowa, recent
", and eight of nineteen prisoners got ou
through hole cut in the floor. Four wer,
recaptured.
On the night of August s, the safe in tn,
depot at Republican Valley, Neb., wa.
blown open and 5000 in cash taken out
At the time the deed was done the official.
had no idea of the operators, but few
days later a young man was missing
Cards were sent out, and later NJ. o. Kah
Ter was arrested at st. Joseph, Mo-, upoI
the charge of being concerned in the rob
berry.
THE Second National Bank of Warren
Ohio, has failed. K. NJ. Fitch, cashier, il
reported defaulter to the amount of 500
or $50, 200.
A COLLISION occurred on the race cours'
at Charlotte, Mich, recently, between thu
trotting horses Raymond and Banker
Rothschild. Raymond was killed outrigh
and the other horse dangerously hurt
Eight thousand doIsrs had been refused
for the dead horse.
THE SOUTH.
PROCTOR KNorT's majority in Kentuck,
is about a. 900.
AT Luling, Texas, recently, Lawrence
Denman met Rev. r. G. Sewell on the street.
and shot him dead. The causes that led t.
the shooting were of a domestic nature
Sewell was q Methodist clergyman an'
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