The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

stefan and druggist, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was recently shot and instantly
killed by DR.. E. D. Cross. He was on his
| way home to supper when he met Cross,
| with whom he had for some time been on
| unfriendly terms. A few angry words
passed which resulted in the shooting.
The jewelry store of F. Ralshover, of
Detroit, Mich, was recently robbed of
Sic, 900 by burglars.
SEVERAL heavy failures in New York
recently created financial furry in Wall
Street.
SLoUGH's carriage shop, Hendricks tene-
ment house and Weaver g. Nance's livery
stable, at Brazil, Ind, burned recently.
Loss, $15, 900; insurance, $1,000.
Two boys were recently sentenced to
death at Mount Vernon, Ind, for murder.
THE ceremony of receiving Sitting Bull,
the Indian chief, into the Catholic Church
was indefinitely postponed, because he
would not give up one of his wives.
AT Lincoln, Mo-, Thomas r. Brassfield
was sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary for seduction.
THE Nebraska Republican State Conven-
ton, nominated NJ. B. Reese for Judge of
the Supreme Court.
THE War in rates on railroads leading
out of Chicago eliminated the other day in
tickets being sold from Chicago to Indian
apolis for five cents; and Cincinnati for 1886.
Tickets to Louisville sold as low as eighty
five cents. ,sE.i
THE National Woolgrowers' Association
met at Chicago on the Goth. Vermont, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Wis
consin, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas,
Colorado and West Virginia were, repre-
scented. Hon. Columbus Delano, of Ohio,
was elected President. Resolutions passed
as the sense of the Association were that
the tariff rates on imported wool should,
at the earliest opportunity, be restored to
what they were before the late reduction:
that State, District and County Associa-
tions, and woolgrowers in all States, should
use every endeavor to secure the efforts of
end, and that Congress be called on to
make restoration. 'H ..
NEARLY four hundred veterans attended
the recent reunion of Crocker's brigade, at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Postmaster General
Gresham, General Streight, of Washing
ton, General Macarthur and others made
short speeches. Governor Sherman, a
member of the brigade, made the address
of the evening. A dramatic scene was the
presentation of the battle flag of the Elev-
enth Iowa to its old commander, General
Saunders, by ex-Confederate General
Govan, whose command captured the flag
before Atlanta, July 90, 1868. Govan then
assured the audience should war again
a. n, foJa ha
fighting with the ex-Union soldiers under
the old flag.
A FIRE the other evening in the tin shopof
Fairbanks Canning Company, at the stock
yards, in Chicago, did considerable damage
to line of valuable machinery on the floors
above the tin shop, which were used as the
mandatory of butterine. Two hundred
barrels of oil were consumed, the liquid
running downthe narrow cutters in streams
of fire. Loss to stock and machinery, $751;
600.
OWEN UTTERBECK, a prominent farmer,
of Pike County, NO., was shot and killed
on his farm the other day. Footprints in
the cornfeld near by We're tracked to the
and Utterback there was bitter feeling.
Collins was arrested.
PATRICK MCCAMBRIDGE, a coal miner,
was shot and killed at Edwardsville, ILL.,,
recently, during a row at the Wabash
House, from which he was trying to extri-
cate two of his sons. ....
COLONEL GEORGE KNAPP, senior proprie-
tor of the st. Louis (Mo.) Republican, died
on the 18th, on board the steamer Pentland,
en- route from Europe to New York.
COLONEL FRANK DAVIDSON, late of the
firm of Marmaduke, Brown & Co., of st.
Louis, suicided recently at Van Buren,,
Ark, where he had been editing paper.
The other morning, near Boonville, No.,
one section of train containing a circus
jumped the track and three cars were over
turned. A couple of valuable band wagons
were used up, and two brothers named
Thomas, who were sleeping in the wagon,
We're badly hurt. Twelve horses were
killed and other stock injured. The es-
timated loss was nearly $4,000. ...
THE other afternoon Cephus Atkinson, a
wealthy farmer residing near Lafayette,
Ind, left home on business, taking
his family, except a daughter, eighteen
years of age. Upon returning about six
o'clock, the family were Mortified at finding
the body of the young lady lying in pool
of blood in an upstairs room, with her
throat cut from ear to ear, while many
knife wounds were found on various parts
of her body.
By recent collision of two freight trains
on the Minneapolis e. st. Louis Railroad,
at Sbakopee, Mimi, the engineer, fireman
and brakeman of one of the trains and
cattle man were killed, also whole car
load of cattle.
AT Saguache, Colo, the other afternoon
Captain Hawkins and two little girls were
out driving, when all three were thrown
down between the horses, and Blanche
Cort, six years old, instantly killed by
kick from horse. Captain Hawkins was
picked up horribly mangled, and in a dy-
ing condition.
INTENSE excitement was created in st.
Louis recently, by the report of the Grand
Jury, who brought in several indictments
against well-known parties. As result of
investigation, the Grand Jury said: "a
well organized ring undoubtedly exists in
this city in the interest of professional
gamblers and lottery dealers, who are
really willing to pay large sums of money
to secure immunity from police inter
ference, and who to this end have aided
notorious individuals whose audacity is
equalled only by their ability, SO far as to
keep themselves and their employers, with
few exceptions, beyond the reach of in
dictment. Prominent officials have been
directly and indirectly approached and
threatened, and the Chief of Police Colonel
Campbell, has been especially marked for
removal, solely because hehas proved him
self to be most efficient, fearless, incorrupt-