The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-22

Mutt were still fresh in the memory Of the
people.
HENRY F. CRANE, travelling salesman for
the Jewell Betting Company, Hartford,
/ Conn, was found dead in led at the Pacific
House, Council Bluffs, Iowa, recently.
Among his effects was well written letter
stating that be had taken poison. No cause
was given.
BY the explosion of q vulcanizer In the
rubber works at Trenton, N. j., recently,
Thomas Culliton and Michael Hauk were
torn to pieces.
MORMON L. MUNRO, the New York pub
Usher has begun an action for libel against
James Gordon Bennett-damages 500, 900.
THE WEST.
THE funnel-shaped cloud attacked North
Vernon, Ind, the other afternoon, and de-
stroyed fifty or sixty dwellings and brick
church. No deaths reported. A train Of
ten cars on the Ohio & Mississippi was
blown from the track about seven miles
east of North Vernon. At Osgood several
houses were blown down and two persons
reported killed.
BENJAMIN F. PORTER, private secretary
to Chief Checoto and brother of General
Porter, military commander of the Creek
Nation, was found dead in the street at Ok
mulgee the other morning, having been
shot by unknown parties during the night.
! Four young ladies, aged respectively
| twelve, fourteen, thirteen and twenty
three, and young man named Yates, aged
eighteen, We're drowned in Provo Lake,
near Benjamine, Utah, the other evening,
by the accidental capsizing of a boat while
out with pleasure party.
GEORGE FREDERICKs, proprietor of the
Theatre Comique, who was shot by Ortiz
Stein at Kansas City, died two days after
the shooting.
CHARLES POLLOCK, the son of a wealthy
miller of Vincennes, Ind, after a prolonged
spree, recently went home after midnight,
retired to his wife's bedroom, after bidding
his mother and father good night, disrobed,
| and in half an hour shot his wife through
the breast and himself in the right side.
She ran to the end of the hall, where she
fell dead. He lived twenty minutes, but
neither spoke a word. He had been mar
ried only six months.
OFFICIAL information from General
Crook shows the most gratifying success
of his expedition into Mexico. He has re-
turned with his command to Arizona with
out the loss of man, having surprised the
hostiles in the Sierra Madre mountains
and after brief engagement in which
number of Indians were killed, captured
the entire camp.of nearly 400 men, women
and children and brought them as prisoners
to Tombstone. The captured Indians had
over 5000 in American money in their
camp. Five Mexican women and a child
were taken from the Indians, and little
Charlie McComas was reported to have
been taken off by party of squaws who
escaped when the camp was attacked. The
remaining Indians are reported to be anx-
ious for peace.
THE first train on the Northern Pacific
Railroad reached Helena, Mont, one day
last week.
ROBERT MCCLANAHAN, postmaster at
Sigourney, Iowa, killed himself recently
by shooting through the head with a pistol.
He had been postmaster at that place four
teen years. He was a man of considerable
properly and not financially embarrassed.
His postoffice accounts were in first-class
order, and no reason could be assigned why
he should commit the deed.
THE Ohio Greenback State Convention
met at Columbus and nominated the fol-
| lowing State ticket: For Governor, Charles
Jenkins; Lieutenant Governor, William
Baker; Supreme Judge (short term), H. A.
Chamberlain; Supreme Judge Qong term),
James R. Crogan; Clerk of Supreme Court,
William Bantz; Attorney General, Lloyd
G. futile; Auditor, J. H. Rhodes; Treas
urer, John Leitz; Commissioner Public
Schools, j. N. Case; Board of Pub
lie Works, John G. Scribner. The
platform charges both the great parties
with brides and corruption in securing
nominations and carrying elections, with
fostering monopolies, with extravaganza
in the taxing power, demands the abolition
of the national bank system, that rail
roads be required to reduce the present ex-
tortionate rates, and favors postal tele-
graph and the restoration to the people of
the public lands recklessly appropriated to
corporations.
A CIRCULAR was recently circulated
among the banks of Missouri requesting
contributions towards purchasing a fine
| watch and chain to be presented to Gov.
| ernor Crittenden as testimonial for his
energy in suppressing lawlessness. The
Governor wrote to the Cashier of the Gen.
trail National Bank at Boonville, who is
sued the circular, stating that what he had
done was only in the line of his duty as
Chief Executive of the State, and he was
no more entitled to special testimonials
than other officers of the law who had la
| bored earnestly to suppress robbery and
lawlessness. He therefore declined, " it'll
thanks, to accept any offering of the
character contemplated.
In the section of country comprising the
Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and
Dakota the cost Of the Star Route mail ser
vice for the year ending June, 1882, was
sos, OS2, the mileage being 6,S03,01S. The
cost of the service for the year ending June,
1888, was $685. and the mileage 1903, 7O7,
showing there has been a reduction in the
cost of service in the past year of about
$4,000, while the mileage has been in
creased over 1000.
YELLOW FEVER of a malignant type pre-
walls at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
JOHN B. SWEET, lawyer, and W. A. Hull,
dentists apprentice, of Lincoln, Neb., have
been arrested and. jailed for sending OBJ
scene circulars through the mails.
A REPORT comes from the Indian Terri
tory that early one morning recently
party of twenty of what are known as
Greek light horsemen made an attack upon
little settl ement of partisans of SPEECHES
living ten miles from Tulso, on the Arkan-
sas River, and killed one of them named
Pawnee, and wounded two or three others.
These men had returned to their homes