The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

laws of that State. A Constable of Cal.
houn. Ill, determined to suppress
lit. The other night with q posse
he hailed fishing party OF
three and demanded their surrender. They
called on the Constable to read his warrant,
which he refused to do, so they started
down the bay. The Constable then ordered
his party to fire and the result was the kill.
| ing of william willoughby, the probable
fatal wounding of Henry Engle, and the
slighthly wounding of johnson Herman.
The floods in the Menominee River, in
Wisconsin, during the past week were I'M
precedented. The water was two feet
above the highest previous water mark. AT
Cedar Falls the dam was badly damaged;
the logs in the dam all broke away. twill
take five or six weeks to repair the damage.
At Prairie Farm the water cut way round
the dam, doing a great deal of damage.
Scott's dam, on Lightning Creek, and
Downs dam, on Hay River, were washed
away. At Rice Lake, it is reported,
the whole country was flooded and
considerable damage done. Middle dam,
on Moose Ear, was partially washed away.
At townsville, twelve miles below Memo
minee, the dam was partly washed away
and other damage done. The Chippewa
River Railroad was badly damaged its
whole length. The food seriously affected
very large portions of the numbering dis
| trict of Wisconsin.
THE sale of the Hannibal & st. Joseph
Railroad to the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy line is announced. 1t is said the
payment will be made in five per cent
bonds. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
will take the stock of the Hannibal & st.
Joseph at par. With the sale of the road
will go all Geographic privileges.
SEVEN HUNDRED recruits are on their way
| to strengthen regiments in the departments
| of Columbia, Arizona and New Mexico,
with view to the possible necessities of
an Indian campaign.
THE Ohio Democratic State Central Com
mittee decided to hold the next State Con-
| vention at Columbus, June 81.
LATE the other night as pusher engine
used on the Chicago & Alton Railroad on
the heavy grade about twenty miles north
of Roodhouse, Ills, was backing down
grade at great speed, it collided with the
Kansas City express, which left st. Louis
in the evening. The pusher was dashed to
fragments. Engineer Smith was killed out
right, and Jerry Mccarthy, fireman, had
both feet cut off, and will die. No one on
the passenger train was hurt, but it took
nine hours to clear the track.
NEAR Hannibal, No., the other night, six
drunken roughs went to the house of three
disreputable women, and being denied adj
mittance broke down the doors and COM
menced abusing and beating the girls, when
one of the women seized pistol and shot
her assailant, named Tierney, infiicting a
fatal wound. The women were arrested;
the roughs not.
REPORTS from the Agricultural Depart
ments of Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and
Dakota report spring seeding fairly under
way. The conditions for seeding were
never better. The acreage will be in
creased, and every indication of the spring
wheat in those States is that they will be
favored with bountiful crops.
Mrs. w. J. STEPHENS, wife of the Probate
Judge of Missoula County, NJ. T., recently
shot and killed a man named Smith, who
was attempting to enter her room through
window. Her husband was away from
home.
ApvIcEs from Mexico state that clubs are
organizing i'm Vera Cruz to promote the
election of General Diaz as President in
1884. Three shocks of an earthquake were
felt in Acapulco recently. Shocks were
also felt in other places.
FOUR drunken roughs named Barlow re-
Gently entered the store of Mr.. Normile,
Postmaster at Normanville, Kas., and COM
menced firing their pistols indiscriminate-
ly. Mrs. Normile, the Postmaster's wife,
was fatally wounded, after which the ruff
fans robbed the postoffice.
THE Secretary of the California State
Board of Agriculture reports that from the
latest and best information received the
State will produce full average crop of
wheat this year or 80, 600, 900 bushels. The
acreage is increased fully ten per cent over
last year, which increase fully compensates
for the actual damage by drouth. 1t is
estimated that there will be 10000, 900 bush
els fer export. Since the first estimate the
State has had bountiful rains, and the out
look for a crop is greatly improved.
THE Maggie Hennecke mystery at Mil
waukee, Wis, has finally been solved by
the discovery of her body in the river only
short distance from where her hat was
found, a few days after her disappearance.
She disappeared October "a, 1882. The
theory is that her body was caught by
projecting pile of the wharf and held down.
At the time of disappearance it was thought
she had been abducted and detectives all
over the country have been on the alert
| ever since to discover her captors.
KATE KANE, the female lawyer of Mil
waukee, Wis, the other morning became
| enraged in court and threw a glass of water
into the face of Judge Mallory of the Grim
inal Court, and was fined $50. She claimed
the Judge insulted her in word and action,
but would not say in what particular re-
spect. She refused to pay the fine, and
will stand committed.
The Associated Coal Operators at Braid
wood, Ills, having announced a reduction
of five cents q ton on all coal mined in that
district, the miners declared they would
not submit and strike seemed likely to
follow.
AT fire in Sacramento the wall Of an
adjoining building fell, burying number
of persons. Six dead bodies were recov-
cred and others were yet in the ruins.
A PAcKAGE containing 5000 deposited in
the American Express Office at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, by the Meridian National Bank,
for Kansas, H., was lately purloined by
clerk by the name of Vaughn.
GEN. CROOK, with 900 Apache scouts and
one company of cavalry, has moved into
the mountains of Mexico. The Mexican
troops will cooperate. Fears were enter