The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

eminent VIII be required to repay large
amount of money.
Newhall & Thatcher, Of Boston, dealers in
hides, sheepskins, ETC., recently failed; In
debtedness, $l46, 600; assets, &S9,OO0 The
firm offers fifty cents on the dollar.
r. D. Wood & Sons foundry, at Millvfle,
N. j., has resumed, after prolonged idleness.
They give employment to 600 hands.
New York manufacturers Of clothing, hand
kerchiefs, furnishing and upholstering goods,
urge the passage Of the tariff law on the basis
of justice to all, and repudiate desire OF hav-
ing higher duties imposed on the finished pro-
ducts of foreign countries.
Albert Ball and Elmer Anderson, each aged
twelve years, were arrested at Three Rivers,
Mass charged with cutting mail bag at
the depot and stealing letters.
THE WEST.
A late fire at Quincy, Ills, destroyed $685.
600 worth Of property.
One afternoon recently the south bound
pa ssenger train on the Dayton and Michigan
Railway and local freight, both running at
full speed, collided near Kirkwood, Ohio.
Engineer Trueman Of the freight and his fire.
man were instantly killed. Engineer John
Moller of the passenger was fatally injured.
Several passengers were severely injured.
Chas. Waite, Sheriff of Sherman County,
Neb., recently shot and killed his mistress,
Mrs. Ryan, bearing house keeper, and then
suicided. Jealousy was the cause.
Last week the Governor of Minnesota made
a requisition upon the Governor OF Missouri
for Frank James, charged with murder at
Mortified in that State. Gov. Crittenden
declined to accede to the demand while James
was under indictment in Missouri for similar
offenses. E.
The bogus grain brokers of Chicago, deliv-
cry of money letters to whom was stopped by
the postal authorities, it seems carried on
their swindling operations upon large scale.
They not only received money from farms,
towns and villages all over the country, but
also from Canada. and even some points in
England and Scotland. Sums transmitted to
them for investment in grain futures reached
into millions, and it is intimated that certain
respected and highly connected persons Joined
hands with the recognized gambling element
in working the scheme.
The main building of the Hamlin Univer
sity, situated midway between Minneapolis
and st. Paul. Mimi, erected in 1875, at
cost of 100000, and owned by the NJ. E.
Church society of the State, burned one morn
ing last week. A school Of 100 pupils was in
session at the time, but all escaped. The
library was saved, but all the other school
furniture was destroyed. The total loss was
$65, 900; insurance SIS, 900.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, recently
issued a warrant upon the requisition of the
Governor of Illinois for l.. NJ. Brown, who
robbed his father of $500 and horse and fed
to Missouri.
Three Cinnamon living on ranch near Fort
Bayard, N. NJ, were found murdered one day
last week. The Mexicans undertook to rob
the Cinnamon, and upon their resisting all
horrible manner.
An engine boiler exploded at Boone, Iowa,
recently, instantly killing George Fleming,
engineer, and Joseph James and fatally injur
ing John Johnson. Two horses were killed.
The engine room and company's coal office
were blown to atoms.
The Colorado Legislature appropriated
S21 900 for the entertainment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, who hold a national
encampmeut there the coming summer. The
citizens will donate So, 900 more.
A correspondent who has Travelled through
Central and Southern Illinois telegraphs the
Chicago Tribune that the pea oh crop Of Cen
trail and Western Illinois and part of Missouri
is practically wiped out, but that in the south
ern part of the State fruits are all in excellent
condition.
An explosion in Andrew Smiths restaurant,
at Norfolk, Va, killed the cook, injured sew
eral persons. and injured, the property consid-
erably.
A late fire at st. Paul, Mimi, destroyed two
| blocks on Fifth street, occupied by Hull d
Hemingway and Newke Bros, -four and feed
dealers. The loss was $4,000; insured for
half the amount.
Another freight wreck happened on the Wa
bash road one day last week, and at almost the
same point at which one occurred a few days
previous. A broken rail was struck by a
freight train about two miles west of Moberly,
Mo-, and frightful wreck ensued. The train
| was loaded with cattle, and a number were
killed outright and a good many others Sc
verely injured. On account of the wreck, both
| the west-bound Chicago and st. Louis express
| trains were delayed eleven hours. 81,
| Recently, while officiating at marriage at
Peru, Ills, Rev. Geo. Bronson, pastor of the
| Congregational church of La Sale, fell dead
at the feet of the couple, just as he pro-
nounced them man and wife.
| Official dispatches received at Gen. Pope's
headquarters state that Captain Payne, the
| Oklahoma boomer, was captured south of the
| Cimarron, by Lieutenant Hevens, the party
being on their way to Oklahoma, QUILTED
| with one hundred wagons. Captain Carroll
commanding the troops in the Oklahoma
| country, will take the entire party to Fort
Reno.
| A most horrible discovery was made at 8
| tenement house in St. Lonis few days since
Henry Drees, German teamster, had cut hii
wife's throat with razor and then his own
The two corpses were discovered in
| the middle of the three rooms which
the family occupied. Five little chill
dren slept in the room, one in the bee
! with the couple. One of the children got up
took the baby out of the bloody bed in which
its mother lay, into its bed, changed its dress
and then went to sleep. The cause Of the
tragedy is supposed to be jealousy.
| The steamer Gem was recently burned or
the Pacific coast near Port Madison. T. C
Vickery, a school teacher, and his wife and
three others were drowned.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, few nights since
the eastbound train being late, the mail wal
carried into the baggage room at the depot
and while there the pouches were ripped oper
and $40 registered letters taken out. The
amount of loss is unknown. One letter con
tanned 81, 600 bill and . 500 bill, being thu
amount Of Postmaster Smiths monthly re
mittance to the department. There was M
clue to the robbers.
One night last week two robbers broke int
| the House of Vim. McGreeor q farmer. sever