The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
THE SOUTH.

| THE SOUTH.
WHILE Philip Bandeau and NJ. Odenr
were standing under the shade of a small
pine tree at Bay st. Louis, La, recently
dfsputing over a small account, both were
killed by lightning.
SAMUEL CARTER, an alleged pension
| agent, was arrested at Louisville, KY, OF
the charge of conspiracy to defraud the
| Government. He secured 81 1890 pension
for Emily johnson and good rich fee fol
himself by swearing Emily was her owl
mother.
THE monument erected by the women Of
Kershaw County, S. c., in memory of the
| Confederate dead was dedicated recently
by a grand military demonstration, il
which twenty companies participated
Senators Hampton and Butler and Other
distinguished men were present. The cere
monies on the unwilling consisted of al
artillery salute, dedicatory prayers and ar
| ode by the ladies and a memorial Grafton
by Senator Hampton.
| FIFTY members of the Texas Legislature
indicted some time ago for poker playing
settled their cases without trial, by pay
ment of fines and costs.
The dead body of Mrs. Fillmore Adams
was found recently in the woods neal
Charleston, Tenn, with her throat cut
Circumstances pointed to her husband as
| the murderer, and he was arrested.
HARRY Mccoy, a negro, was in a cabir
near Little Rock, Ark, recently, with two
colored girls when John Peoples, aged four
teen, went into the cabin and asked fol
some bread and butter. The negro ordered
him out, and when the boy again asked fol-
something to eat Mccoy picked up shot
gun and killed him.
The boiler of an engine attached to Q
threshing machine in Robert Williams
place, near Greenville, S. c., exploded re
Gently. Seven men were standing close tc
the machine, and all were seriously wound
ed and blown about the yard. The en-
gineer and colored man were fatally
hurt, and two others were expected to die
| AT GAINESVILLE, Ark, Cove johnson, jim
johnson, Mcdonald and Herndon were
hanged for the murder of Conductor Cair
while robbing the Little Rock & Fort
Smith train near Mulberry last March.
KYLE WALKER and Harry Reid, both
colored, We're lynched at Pulaski, Tenn.
for the murder of young True at Veto, Ala
A HELENA (Ark.) special the 23l said
that the Mississippi River was rising foul
inches per day. The water was pouring
through the old crevasse north of Friar's
Poin. on the Mississippi side, with great
velocity and inundating a large territory.
| From Apperson place, on the Arkansas
side, nine miles south of Helena, to the old
town, the water was spreading.
| GENERAL.
PIERRE ALLAISoFF, Russian Socialist
has been expelled from France.
THE representative of the Irish Land
League in Australia guarantees 5000 for
the Parnell fund from that country.
GERMANY continues to be afflicted with
floods. A large part of the town of Herscll.
berg is submerged, and houses in the ad.
jacent villages are flooded. The railway
near Salzberunn is washed away. Many
| cattle persisted. The rise of the river REESE
was greater than at any period since 1929.
Disastrous floods were also reported in Bo.
hernia and Moravia. The Danube was ex.
/ pected to overflow its banks as the river
Inn and the mountain streams were rising
rapidly.
THE Irish Times says the Government
has given James Carey, iuformer, the op.
ton of proceeding to one of the British
colonies or being released and allowed &c
remain in Dublin without police protection.
THE LATEST.
THE Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral has annulled the contract with John
r. Miner, to carry the mail upon the Mo
brara, Nebraska, star route. This action is
based upon the fact that the award of the
contract was made upon proposal re-
ceived in May, while the advertisement
was published in April, which the Depart
ment, after deliberation, has decided to be
contrary to statutory requirements.
THE sentence of Paymaster WATSON is
dismissal from the army, eighteen months
Imprisonment in the penitentiary and the
publication of the proceedings and findings
of the court-martial in tie Iowa papers.
A DEPUTATION of representative Irish
men waited upon President Arthur recent
ly and presented him the resolution con-
corning assisted emigration adopted at
the recent meeting of the National League
in Philadelphia. The President replied
that the matter had already been under
consideration by the Secretary of State,
rand correspondence been had with our
diplomatic and consular representatives,
and an investigation into facts is now being
made by them.
The Governor of Sonora, Mexico, in a
recent conversation regarding General
Crook, said that if the captive Indians were
put on reservation now and escaped into
Mexico, that country will hold the Ameri-
can Government responsible for all depre.
dations committed by them on Mexican
soil.
CHARLES T. GOODWIN, Cashier of the
Lake Shore freight department, at Cleve-
land, o., has been mysteriously missing
for some time. Auditor Leland said Good.
wins accounts with the railway company
are all straight, and friends could not &C.
count for his disappearance unless he had
become insane. Later reports say the body
of the missing man was found in the lake,
he having committed suicide.
A SPECIAL from Matamoras, Mexico, saws
$50 Revolutionists attacked Chiautta.
Mexico, and carried off two officials. Cav
airy pursued and the Revolutionists. being
pressed, assassinated their prisoners. They
We're overtaken by the cavalry, cut to
pieces and thirty killed.
OVER one thousand deaths, it is reported.
have occurred at Vera Cruz within the past
two months from yellow fever.
A RECENT tornado in the western portion
of Douglas County, Neb., wrecked several
frame buildings and damaged a large
amount of property.
RECENTLY fireworks exploded in the
store of i. A Mclonald Of Iaol-re..;lla