The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-18

brick buildings were Destroyer. ANS iose
was estimated at s., 800, 900.
TIE second trial, In New York, Of the
libel suit of James Francis Malloy against
James Gordon Bennett of the Herald ended
with . verdict of $4,000. Malloy got q
verdict Of $40, 900 in the first trial.
The Pennsylvania Senate lately passed q
bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale and
use of any article, device or invention for
the purpose of surreptitiously destroying
human life and injuring property by expio'
sion or fire.
ANDREW j. SMITH, President of the Man
haitian Fire Insurance Company, was re-
Gently arrested in New York, and held to
bail in the sum of 5000, charged with per-
Jury in swearing to false returns in the an
nual report of the company for 1882 to the
New York Insurance Department.
MEASLES and scarlet fever in o malig-
nant form have broken out near Lockport,
n. Y. Sixty cases had developed in the
town Of Burgholtz. The disease was CON-
municated by Prussian emigrants.
JOHN EAGAN, ex-Speaker of the New
Jersey Assembly, was recently lodged In
the Essex County Jail, having been ar
rested on an indictment of the Grand Jury
charging him with an attempt to bride As
semblyman Armitage during the session OF
the New Jersey Legislature.
G. E. HURD, ex-Sheriff of Schuyler Cum
ty, N. Y, committed suicide in jail re-
Gently. He was under sentence for five
years for an attempt to kill a deputy
Sheriff. 1t was thought his wife furnished
him with the revolver to commit the deed.
AT sale of Jersey cattle in New York
the other day, 'King of Ashantee" sold for
$500, the largest sum ever obtained at
auction. Sixty-one head brought So, OSo.
q Mrs. GRANT, the mother of ex-President
Grant, died suddenly the other day, in
Jersey City, N. j., eyed ninety-four.
THE WEST.
FABoUT a dozen business houses and resi-
dences in East st. Louis burned recently.
THE official canvass of the Michigan
State election held the first Monday in
Aprilto elect two Judges of the Supreme
Court and two Regents of the State Uni
versity, just made, gives the result on the
Judges as follows: John w. Champlin,
Fusion Democrat, 1873; Austin Blair,
Republican, 1859; Thos. r. Sherwood,
Fusion Gfeenback, 2I,SS9; J, 0Bffen, Re-
122, $780,. The result Oh Regents
was about the same. The Prohibition vote
was over $4,000.
JUDGE VAN WAGNER, of the st. Louis
Criminal Court, lately charged the Grand
Jury that,if the law against dueling had
been violated it was their duty to indict the
e., ~ 81 - 10. h. ~.
by when this semi-barbarian custom can
be either tolerated, or vitalized into re-
spectability, and the offender deserves no
more mercy than any other criminal"
This charge was the result of a late chal.
lenge between two attorneys of that city.
A TERRIFIC hail storm recently visited
Denver lasting an hour, Every living
thing was forced to seek shelter to escape
the pelting hail-stones. TE
The Minnesota Republican State Conven-
ton has been called to meet at st. Paul
June q.
GEORGE GAVIN, after serving as Secfes
tary to the Board of Police Commits
sioners of st. Louis for over twenty years,
was suspended recently, pending the exam
nation of his books, on Suspicion Of being q
defaulter. He has disappeared His short
age, SO far as known, is said to be only
about $50, which he could easily have paid,
and which, no doubt, was the result of care
less bookkeeping. ~
A NUMBER of the members of the Dakota
Legislature have been indicted for accept.
ing brides in the Capital Location bill.
Several other members testified before the
Grand Jury that they had been offered
brides.
GRIMES & Co.'s mill at Vermontville,
Mich, burned the other morning, and two
or three men, including the proprietor, were
burned to death.
AT General Sheridan's headquarters the
rumored disaster to General Crook is not
credited.
THE other morning an accident occurred
on the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad, four miles east of Nor
folk, Neb., by which freight train was
wrecked at the bridge, which had been
undermined by heavy rain storm during
the night. Six freight cars and the engine
were completely demolished. The engineer,
Sam Reed, was perhaps fatally injured
ahu Ii dhCLhdh hCdSdHl
THE Illinois Department of Agriculture
has Just completed report covering LOGO
townships in the State, from which the es-
innate is made that the crop of winter
wheat will not exceed forty per cent of the
crop of 1852.
THE High License bill has been practi-
cally killed in the Illinois Legislature.
ONE patient died and two others came
near dying at the st. Louis city hospital
recently, from the effect of choral being
administered through mistake of the hos
pital druggist.
THE striking bricklayers of Chicago re-
Gently discharged their arbitration commit
tee appointed to confer with the master
builders with view to a compromise. The
strike, therefore, appeared no nearer an
end than it was a month ago. The interiors
of most of the new buildings were about
completed, and it was estimated that IN
less the bricklayers' strike ended within
two weeks, 10000 men of building trades
plasterers, carpenters, painters, etc.
would be thrown out of employment, be-
cause there would be no buildings to work
on.
The imports of coffee at San Francisco
for the first four months of the year were
49, 400 bags, the smallest quantity in that
period during several years; 10000 bags
less than last year, 10000 bags less than
1881, $1,000 bags less than 1880. The differ
ence is said to be largely due to the les
sened receipts of the Costa Rica crop,
which is said to be short.
Ar Grand Rapids, Wis, Martin Fenner
was convicted of murder in the first degree
for killing John Hesler, and sentenced to
imprisonment for life. The first three DAYS
Of every year are to be passed in solitary