The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-13

front OF her parenIS' residence, was Snot
through the heart. Albert was arrested
and put in jail. The affair SO worked upon
the mind Of Frank, the other brother, that
he hanged himself.
THREE HUNDRED striking miners all well
armed, and possessing one hundred and
fifty kegs of gunpowder belonging to the
mining company, made q riotous demon
stration and threatened to destroy the
town of Ely, VT, when Governor Barstow
called out four companies of State troops
to quell the riot, the Sheriff being unable to
do so.
THE WEST.
OK the 18th of June Deputy United States
Marshal wilkerson while returning from
the West with q prisoner charged with
dealing in whisky, camped about two miles
from Bartlesville, in the Indian Territory,
and the next morning went to the village,
leaving the prisoner in charge of one of his
guards, named McWear. The same day
McWear was brutality murdered, as was
supposed by the prisoner, who made his
escape, taking with him the mule and pistol
of the dead guard. The Indian police
started in pursuit at once, but at last ac-
counts had not captured the murderer.
A HORRIBLE and fatal accident occurred
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railway, at winton Place crossing, near
Cincinnati, Ohio, the other night, whereby
six persons were instantly killed. The
Thunderbolt express, coming south on the
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway,
and half an hour behind time, struck a
huckster wagon, in which there was a fam
lily of six persons and driver. Every one
except William Bertsch, the driver, was
killed, who escaped with serious though not
fatal injuries. The wagon was broken to
splinters. The family were that of Mr..
Henry krocke, and they We're going to
their farm seven miles from Winton Place.
The names of the killed were Henry
Krocke, his wife and four children-John,
aged nineteen, Annie, sixteen, Maggie,
thirteen, and Lizzie, seven. The bodies of
the victims We're thrown in fragments in
the grass by the roadside, where they were
picked up by the light of lanterns and
taken to the city.
A DENVER dispatch states that the three
Commissioners and County Clerk of Grand
County, Colo, were all shot the other
morning by mob of masked men. Barney
Day and Mr.. Mills were instantly killed.
T. P. Weber and d. ]. Dean MORALLY
wounded. Grand County lays in the north
western part of the State, several miles
from any telegraph station, news having
to be conveyed by carrier and consequently
the nature of the trouble was not known at
the time.
AN outgoing train on the Chicago & Alton
road from Chicago, the other night collided
with street car near the southern limits
of that city, smashing it to fragments. The
lamps in the car exploded and set fire to it.
Of thirteen persons in the car only one
escaped unhurt, and it was believed that
two or three of the worst injured would
die. Several were badly burned before
they could be extricated from the blazing
fragments.
DURING the late tornado in Wisconsin
two men named Hazen were fatally in
jured in barn near Ladoga, which was
blown down. Six cows in the same barn
were killed. The total damage to property
by the storm was fully 100000.
THE Supreme Court of Missouri on test
case, decided the Downing High License
Liquor law to be constitutional.
SIXTY car loads of gold and silver bull
lion, 100000 pounds, from the Gregory
Consolidated Mine, were shipped from
Helena, Montana, recently by special fast
trains over the North Pacific by S. T. Han
sen, President of the First National Bank
of Helena. 1t went to Newark, N. j., for
refining.
Txyur II ~ nd
quent upon celebration of the Fourth in
| Chicago, was thirty-eight casualties all
told, including three deaths, five fatally
wounded, twenty more or less
MANNED for life, and five slightly injured.
The chief instrument of destruction proved
to be the toy pistol and small cannon in
the hands of children.
The State Treasurer of Iowa the other
day paid the last dollar of the State war
debt, in addition to which the State has no
| other Indebtedness of any character not
covered by funds now in the treasury.
TwENTY-sIx buildings were destroyed by
late fire at Evansville, Mimi. Loss about
S150,OOO.
Kansas, Ills, gave way on the evening of
the Fourth during a fireworks display,
seriously injuring and manning seven per-
sons, four it was thought fatally.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL, died at st. Mar
| tim Ohio, on the 4th in the eighty fourth
year of his age.
In the libel suit of E. j. Lehman against
the Chicago Herald the jury gave plaintiff
a verdict for 81, 900.
INFORMATION received at Springfield,
Ills, indicates that general strike of coal
miners will take place all over the State in
a very short time. The cause leading to
this action is a disposition on the part of
operators to ignore the law passed at the
last Legislature in relation to allowing
check weighmen, and also a general dis
position to reduce the price of mining half
q cent bushel.
Ar Otsego Lake, Mich, the other day
Alexander Perry entered the house of
Amos Bidwell and used insulting language
to Mrs. Bidwell, the husband being absent.
Later he returned and being warned by
the lady not to attempt to enter the house,
he persisted, when she shot him dead.
The Star Touring mills, foundry and
machine shops and two grain elevators at
Clyde, O., burned recently.
FORTY convicts in the Oregon Penitenti-
airy at Salem, recently made a daring at
tempt to escape, during which three were
killed, two fatally wounded and a number
of others hurt. The prisoners captured the
Warden and another officer and marching
them in front threatened to kill them if the
guards fired. This did not deter Guard
Stillwell from performing his duty, and he
commenced firing and succeeded in killing
three. During the trouble a desperate eff