The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-21

| lot OF harness stock and feed, and the new
stables.
FonEsf fires In Dinwiddie and adjoining
counties In Virginia spread over large
! area and did much damage. In some places
\ wheat fields were burned.
No new cases Of yellow fever were re-
ported at the Pensacola Navy Yard for the
week ending the 18th.
Ar Trinity, Texas, the other day. Major
81. B. Hurlock, q large mill owner, and bis
son w. H. Hurlock, twenty-five years old,
were shot by O man named Roseman, one
of their employees, aged twenty-three.
Young Hurlock is dead and the fathers
wounds were mortal. Roseman was re-
ported to be q desperate of the dime novel
order.
The Recommendations of the Naval
Court.martial, in the cases of Naval Cadets
Benjamin Trapnell, Archibald Campbell.
Ellsworth P. Berthoff and Franklin Noel
Ter, tried at Annapolis on the charge OF
hazing, that they be dismissed from the
service, have been approved by the Super.
intendent of the Naval Academy, and or.
ders dismissing them issued from the Navy
Department.
THE Signal Corps stationed at Smithville.
N. c., reported heavy windstorm prevail.
ing along the coast. For seven hours the
velocity of the wind was ninety.three
miles. Thirteen vessels and pilot boats
went ashore and sunk.
THE other evening as Miss Blacock, q
highly accomplished young lady of Rock.
dale County, Ca, with her five-year-old
brother, was passing through a piece OF
woods between her fathers home and o
neighbor, two men suddenly stepped from
behind tree, grasped the young lady and
carried her some distance to where close
carriage was standing and put her in it.
To prevent an alarm being given, they tied
the little boy, hand and foot, and gagged
him. The boy was nearly dead from terror
when found, and it was some time before
he could tell his story, No trace of the alb
ductors had been discovered.
NEAR Lovelady, Texas, the other night,
Thomas Smith, while slightly intoxicated,
went into church where religious meet
| ing was in progress and stepped on the
toes of one Brown, the clergyman's son.
| A few words passed, but the matter
dropped until after service, when it was
again taken up. Smith was stabbed and
instantly killed. Browns brother and Rev.
B. Brown, his father, were supposed to be
| implicated.
TUE Postmaster at Norfolk, Va, recently
resigned his position as Postmaster to &C.
cept the office of State Senator to which he
had been elected.
BARBARA MILLER, colored, was hanged
| at Richmon Va, for the murder of her
husband.
The town of Jacksonville, Ala, was al.
most entirely destroyed by a recent incen-
diary fire. H..
AT Atlanta, Ga, recently an agent of the
| New York Police Gazette was sentenced to
pay fine of 81 900 or serve twelve months
| in the chain gang for violating the State
law against the circulation of obscene pub.
LEGATIONS. The case was taken to the Su.
preme Court to test the validity of the law.
GENERAL.
The English Government has obtained
from detectives just returned from Ant.
werp important information respecting a
large supply of materials for making nitro.
glycerine, shipped from that city. - is
probable that witnesses will arrive from
Antwerp to testify in the trials at Liver.
pool and Glasgow against dynamite con-
| spirators.
THE spread of the cattle disease in nearly
| every portion of England caused the
greatest uneasiness. In some sections only
American beef was obtainable. Reports
from Scotland stated the disease had not
appeared there.
AUSTRIA and Germany have made re.
monstrances at st. Petersburg concerning
the action of the Russian agents i'm Bulgaria
| In Paris it was generally believed that
the Tonquin question will ultimately be
settled through the arbitration of England
or America.
| PARIS police frustrated a plot to kill King
Alfonso during his stay in that city.
| A SPECIAL states that at the Chinese Lee
cation and at the French Foreign Office in
Paris negotiations relative to the Tonquin
question are being conducted on both sides
with a. sincere desire of arriving at an
amicable solution of the difficulties.
English and American diplomatic repre-
sentatives in Paris confirmed the above
statement.
| THE Proteus, which was sent in search of
Lieutenant Greeley and party was crushed
by ice in the Arctic sea, and the expedition
was failure.
THE LATEST.
THE report of the Commissioners of I'M
migration of the State of New York showed
that 36S, 374 immigrants landed at the port
| Of 70
so, 1888, inclusive. The largest number
landed in any month was 69,593, in May,
1888, and the smallest, s,343, in January of
the same year. The duty imposed on the
Board of returning paupers and persons
unable to take care of themselves, to the
ports where they came from, had been care
fully exercised, and large number of I'M
desirable persons had been sent back.
THE Postoffice Department began the dis
tribution of the new two-cent stamps on
the 10th, and the requisition on the contrac-
| tors was the largest in the number of pieces
and value ever issued in one day. The or.
der was for 31,S79,S3O postage stamps,
7,13l,95O stamped envelopes tmost of them
being of the two-cent denomination), and
5,9S3,OO0 postal cards. The aggregate
of stamps, envelopes and cards ordered
was $780,
The other night Richard Brown, wife
and five children, of Pittsburg, Pa, while
at supper ate heartily Of canned corned
beef, and about an hour after all were
attacked with violent pains in the stomach,
accompanied by vomiting. A physician
was called in, who pronounced the symp-
toms those Of poisoning. Wesley Brown,
aged twelve, died, and the other members