The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-28

damage at Fort Collins was fully $4,000.
Mrs. Fred. Schwartz and her child were
buried beneath falling building and
probably fatally hurt.
By recent accident on the Burlington &
Southwestern Railroad near Pennington,
Mo-, the engineer was fatally injured and
several passengers hurt.
THE SOUTH.
THOMAS LOCKE and ]. N. Campbell were
recently arrested at Waco, Tex, on a
charge of counterfeiting silver coins.
Campbell is highly connected. He has
held number Of local places Of trust in
the past two years. He confessed to hav-
ing been a member of an organized gang
for several months, but claimed that he
was acting as detective.
SEVEN business houses were recently
burned at Corsicana, Tex. Loss, SOS, 600 |;
insurance, $4,000.
w. j. PEARSON, Postmaster at GAINESVILLE,
Ark, was recently found dead in his room
at the Barnum Hotel, in st. Louis. He was
reported to be short in his accounts.
E. E. CHENEY, for many years highly
esteemed citizen of Uvalde, Tex, recently
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver. He fired
two shots, the first one having failed in its
purpose. He had just bought mercantile
establishment preparatory to going into
business, and no reason could be given for
the act.
In Morgan County, KY, recently, two
brothers named Debusk, while working in
field, became involved in dispute, when
the eldest, aged fourteen, shot his brother,
killing him instantly.
AT Atlanta, Ga, Judge Mccoy recently
refused new trial in the Banks County
Kuklux case. Five prisoners, Jasper Gar.
brough, James Garbrough, Bold Emery,
State Lemons and Levick Streetman,
stated in open court that they were guilty,
but E. H. Green and Detmus Garbrough
pleaded not guilty. They were sentenced
to five years Imprisonment and to pay
$500 fine each.
A LONE horseman recently attacked the
stage, six miles south of Cisco, Tex, and
rified the mail bags. The same stage was
robbed in the same locality few months
since. r
A RECENT fire in the three warehouses of
the Baltimore (Md.) Warehouse Company
destroyed one warehouse and badly
scorched the other two. About two thou.
sand bales of cotton and other goods were
destroyed. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
Three firemen were severely injured.
THOMAS BUFoRD, who in 1879 killed
Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of
and was sent to the Lunatic Asy.
lum from which he escaped to Indiana, has
returned to Henry County, KY, and is
said to have threatened other members
of the Court. He is in desperate con.
dition and asserts that the Judges who
decided the case against him have some of
his money. The Judges were uneasy.
JIM GEORGE, colored, residing five miles
from Clinton, La, recently returned home
and found his daughter, aged seventeen,
dead, and another woman fatally wounded.
The latter has since died. The crime was
committed by man who called at the
house, found the women in bed and shot
them both. Suspicious were strong against
q negro man, who was arrested.
GENERAL.
A LONDON dispatch stated that the Glas-
cow dynamiters will be taken to Edinburgh
for trial, accompanied by police escort.
PETER WADE has been sentenced to be
hanged on the 10th of January for the muir.
Ter of Patrick Quinn, October last, at the
Rath Farnham, near Dublin (Ireland). !
The prisoner stated that he belonged to a
secret society, whose orders he obeyed in |
the murder.
The British Government has notified |
Egypt that Great Britain is unable to in. |
erfere in Soudan, but will try to induce !
he Porte to dispatch an expedition thither |
oy way of Suakim.
A STAGE while crossing the Grand Trunk |
rack, near Catarauqui, Canada, recently, |
vas run into by an express train. Mrs. |
Armitage, Mrs. H. Wartman and Mrs. |
jorrie were killed.
PABLO QUINTANA, Mayor of New Laredo, !
Mexico, has been arrested by a detach.
nent of the Fourth Mexican Cavalry, on |
he charge of instigating the recent train
-obbery on the Mexican National Railway. |
at Hung Hoa, twenty miles
above Sontay on the Red River, and at BAG |
Mini.
A GREAT storm recently caused much |
lamage to houses in the town of Abada |
Turkey. Six large ships and fifteen |
,oasting vessels were lost and the crews
drowned.
THE LATEST.
A RECENT fire at Stewartsville, No., de-
troyed eight business houses, including
he Independent Office. Loss, $4,000.
MEETING of the bar was held in the
supreme Court Rom at Washington, on
he 2lst, to take appropriate action in
aspect to the death of Judge Jeremiah
Slack. Senator Edmunds presided. Eulo-
istic addresses were delivered by Merrick,
Emery, Ashton and W. H. Smith, and
senator's Bayard, Vance and Garland, and
Hopkins. Appropriate
esolutions were adopted.
The east wing of the Lunatic Asylum on
Wards Island IN. " was recently
urned. Loss $4,000. There were over
welve hundred male patients in the build
ne. The fire caused great excitement
mong them, but all were removed to
laces of safety.
FIVE of the "dynamiters" were recently
entenced to life Imprisonment at Edin-
urg, Scotland.
ADAM HILL and George Snyder, young
len, were killed the other night at a dance
tx miles from Winchester, ILL., Their as.