The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25

at the Saltwater, Mimi, penitentiary,
where he was serving out life sentence.
| 1T is reported from the Indian Territory
that Marshal Mershon, of Fort Smith, Ark,
and Constable Cutler, of Grayson County,
Texas, recently attempted to arrest, at q
point twenty five miles west Of .Caddo, In
dian Territory, three men named Carson,
charged with murder. The .Carsons resist
ed, fired on the officers, and after sharp
| fight, in which Marshal Mershon was
slightly wounded, all the alleged murderers
were killed and their bodies left lying on
the prairie.
The business block owned by W. II.
Woods, and the building Of the Hamburg
marble works at Hamburg, Iowa, burned
the other morning; loss Sd, 900; insurance
$4,000.
| Ar Ashland, Mo-, recently, while man
named Hull was quarreling with his wife
about whipping the children, lady neigh
Dor interfered in the interest of peace,
which so exasperated Hull that he struck
her on the head with brick, killing her
/ instantly. The murderer fed.
| JOHN BoUGH, of Belleaire, Ohio, went to
GAINESVILLE to attend circus and attempted
to steal a ride back on the railroad, but fell
off the train and was killed. His body was
found in a ditch three days afterwards.
The other day Charles Wickland, a con-
tractor, left Monterey, Mexico, to pay off
men at the terminus of the Mexican Ma
tional Railroad. On the way he was MUIR
dered by two young Americans nanred
Hauston and Mudd. The murderers were
arrested and turned over to the Mexican
authorities. Subsequently they were taken
from Jail by a mob and hanged.
MONTANA was shaken by tornado one
day last week. Much property destroyed.
AN old man named Smith was recently
shot and fatally wounded during row at
West Line, Mo. He was shot by a young
| fellow named Jorden, who, it is said, bears
anything but good reputation, and the
trouble grew out of an old quarrel.
AFTER a hard fight the Harper High
License bill, providing a license of $50 for
beer'and $500 for whisky saloons, was or
dered to a third reading in the Illinois
House.
THE Executive Committee of the cigar
makers of Chicago recently heard the testi-
mouy of six young girls employed by a
manufacturer Of that city. 1t was shown
that these girls worked from a. m. TO 9 at
night, three nights of each week, making
bunch cigars. The majority of them re-
ceive So per week, and in order to make n
profit off this scanty pittance, the firm
charged them a cent minute for lost time.
When the Health Inspector visits the place
the proprietor manages to secrete the chill
dren under age, employed. Other tyran-
nical practices are alleged, and it is
claimed the place is only type of others
in the city.
Mrs. BRIGHAM, of Long Pine, Neb., re-
Gently killed her two-year old child and
attempted to kill another. Two years ago
her husband ran off with her sister.
THE Garfield Monument Committee of
the Society of the Army of the. Cumber-
land held meeting at Cincinnati the other
day. Mr.. j. Q. a. Ward, of New York,
was selected as the artist to design and
complete the monument. A committee,
consisting OF Generals Barnet and McCook,
was appointed to visit Washington with
Mr.. Ward and select site for the monu-
ment. The committee authorized Mr.. Ward
to proceed with the monument at a cost not
to,exceed $4,000.
THos. WALSH, who whipped his wife to
death with leather strap, and pleaded
guilty, was recently sentenced by Judge
Barnum, at Chicago, to thirty-five years in
the Penitentiary.
The notorious Charles F. Kring, of st.
Louis, who for the past ten years has been
in Jail for murder and had successfully
fought his case through the courts after
several convictions and finally was re-
leased on bail few weeks ago, died in
st. Louis hospital the other day, pending
new trial.
Mr.. ]. Fl. SAUNDERS, of Chicago, men,
Der of the United States Treasury Cattle
Commission, leaves for Europe soon on a
special Government mission. 1t is under
stood his trip has particular reference to
the restrictions now imposed upon our ex-
port cattle trade with Great Britain and to
our pork trade with Germany and
other European countries He will be
also under instructions to examine into and
report upon the dangers of any form of
contagious and infectious diseases to which
our live stock is exposed by further impor-
tations from European countries; to visit
and report upon the International Live
Stock Show, to be held July next at Ham,
burg, and to make general survey of the
live stock interests of Europe as compared
with our own, under direction of the Com
missioner of Agriculture.
A CYCLONE struck Racine, Wis, on the
18th. Thirty-five to forty houses were
swept away. The loss of life was various
ly estimated; four were known to be killed,
md hor
Everything in the track of the tornado was
leveled to the ground. aa
THE trial of Jere Dunn at Chicago for
killing Elliott, the pugilist, ended in the
acquittal of the defendant by the jury.
THE locusts are SO destructive to portions
of Mexico that every man over sixteen
years of age has been ordered to work one
day in each week destroying them.
ERNEST ELVES, a grainer and varnisher
in st. Louis, recently attempted to kill him
self by shooting, but made a miserable
failure, whereupon he was arrested for dis
charging firearms without permit.
THE house of j. s. McAly, a painter of
Carthage, No., was recently struck by
lightning and his two children probably
fatally injured. .-
THE SOUTH.
Two brothers in Bourbon County, KY,
recently quarreled about the proper depth
to plant corn, when one shot the other.
THE other morning party of eight men
rode up to the house of Vaughn Hilton.
near Jacksonville, KY, and awakened
him, saying they were looking for horse
thief. While he was sitting on the edge of
the bed some of the men fired, killing him
instantly. IA e.