The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-19


and the church company, with its ministers,
Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone, emf
grated to Hartford in 1886. The anniversary
celebration was that of the first organiza-
ton in Cambridge.
THE WEST.
HENRY T. WRIGHT, defaulting Assistant
Postmaster, of Racine, Wis, was recently
sentenced to five years and one days i'm
prisonment at the Chester, ILL.,, peniten-
tiary and to pay fine of 5000, which was
the amount of the deficit.
The Irish National League of San Fran
cisco, recently received communication
from the Treasurer of the National League
in Dublin, returning sum Of money sub
scribed for the families of the men who
were executed for connection with the
Phoenix Park murder. The Treasurer wrote
that it would be impossible to give the
money to those to whom it was donated, as
the League would be adjudged as sympa-
thizing with murderers and encouraging
assassinations.
A RECENT cyclone did great damage at
Arcadia, Wis.
DURING a recent severe storm lightning
struck the barn of Joseph Mo, near Her.
man, Mimi, which was burned, together
with one hundred tons of hay, one horse,
two cows and a large number of agricultur-
al implements. One man was seriously
injured. The house of c. Hare was struck,
two children killed and another rendered
totally blind, and at Donnelly the house of
a blacksmith was struck, his wife killed
and two children badly injured.
A COURT MARTIAL has been appointed to
meet at Fort Huachuca, A. r., October 10,
for the trial of Lieutenant Colonel A. P.
Merron of the Sixth Cavalry, on the staff
of General Sherman, on charges of drunk
enness and conduct unbecoming an officer
and a gentleman, preferred by Brigadier
General Crook, commanding the Depart
ment of Arizona.
A FEARFUL accident recently occurred at
the farm of a Mr.. Northrup, near More
head, Mimi, in which four men were killed
outright and ten more narrowly escaped
with their lives. The men were members
of threshing crew, who had been thresh-
ing for Northrup the day previous, and
were sleeping in the lower story of the
granary, in the upper story of which were
400 bushels of oats. During the night,
while the men were asleep, the floor sud-
denly gave way, completely burying eight
men, who were sleeping at the end of the
building where the floor gave away. Six
men, sleeping at the other end, were par.
TALLY crowded through the side of the
house, which gave way to the sudden pres
sure, and they made their escape without
difficulty. After giving the alarm, they
set to work to remove their comrades from
underneath the oats. When the unfortu.
nate men were reached, four were dead from
suffocation, and some of the others so near
ly that it was a matter of doubt for sew.
eral hours if they would not die from the
effects.
THREE men were lately arrested at Grand
Forks, D. T., charged with counterfeiting,
Chambers, Walters and McGovern, all
residents of Canada. McGovern is known
to be respectfully connected, his brother
having held high municipal and Govern
ment positions in Canada. Chambers was
formerly in the employ of the Canada
Pacific Railroad, and reported to be a fine
penman. All the paraphernalia for counter
feiting was captured.
JACK ELLERToN, mail carrier between
Greenfield and Stockton, No., was recently
arrested for robbing the mail in his charge
of registered letter.
A RECENT collision between two freight
trains on the Chicago & Northwestern
road, near GAINESVILLE, Wis, wrecked three
engines and killed fireman.
The wife of Samuel Whitman, residing
near Pennville, Ind, recently hanged her.
self in her kitchen. No reason was known.
As Mr.. Trougent, section boss on the
Milwaukee & st. Paul road, his wife and
baby, accompanied by his daughter,
her husband and child, were riding
on a hand car near Waukegan, Wis,
recently, the hat of Mrs. Trougent blew of,
and in attempting to grasp it her baby
slipped out of her hands in front of the
car. The child caught in the gear wheels
and was instantly killed. The car was
thrown from the track and those upon it
were hurled some distance. Both women
were probably fatally injured, and the
other child would die.
GOVERNOR CLICK, of Kansas, a few DAYS
since received telegram from Hon. S. j.
Crawford, State agent at Washington, that
"all Indemnity Lands heretofore with
drawn for the Santa Fe road, and not certi-
fed, are restored to the market. This
opens to settlement over a million acres
between Larned and the west line of the
State"
AT Farley, Iowa, recently, Daniel Nc
Kendry, while eating his dinner, fell from
his chair and died before a physician could
be summoned. He was supposed to have
been choked with something he was eating.
He was sixty years of age.
GEORGE WEBB, resident of Tee Garden,
ten miles north of Plymouth, Ind, while
under the influence of liquor, recently,
killed his two-year-old child and then blew
out his brains. The husband and wife had
lived unhappily and the latter had applied
for a divorce.
IT was recently discovered that the
Circuit Attorneys Office at st. Louis had
been entered and the short hand records
of the last Grand Jury, which investigated
the Gambling ring, were missing. The
missing stenographic notes cover all the
testimony of some twenty witnesses to
the gambling investigation, and notes on
other important cases.
THE SOUTH.
WILLIAM STREET, policeman of Hunts.
vile, Ala, while recently attempting to
arrest two negro thieves, was seized by one
while the other killed him with an ak.
Two Deputy United States Marshals,
named Weatherford and Perry, who were
guarding Indian prisoners at Fayetteville,