The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16

the room. The gun was discharged, the
contents entering Mrs. Howard's body pro-
ducing death In an hour.
TIE dwelling and barn on the farm Of
Fred Wettening, Ave miles south of Elgin,
H., burned recently, together with thirty
i've cows and four horses.
Tn large new barn Of Andrew Hardway,
q farmer living near Martinsville, NJ. was
burned to the ground the other night, while
the family were at church. Ton horses,
full set of farming implements Of all kinds,
thirty tons Of hay, large quantity OF
grain, wagons and other implements were
destroyed making total loss Of nearly
$4,000, with no insurance. Thought to be
incendiary.
Mrs. JONATHAN LAUDIo, Of Wells Coun.
ty, Ind, suicided recently by hanging. She
was supposed to have lost her mind, owing
to the late death of her husband and son.
KELLOGG, SAWYER & Co.. lumber manu-
facturers Of Kalamazoo, Mich, made an
assignment recently. Liabilities, $275, 900;
assets, SAT-, 900, besides individual property
of $40, 600 to $40, 900. The failure is directly
caused by Endorsements for Frank CHECKER
ing, of Grand Rapids, to the extent OF
$4,000.
SEVERAL cases of the contagious disease
known as swell-head have developed among
the cattle at the stock yards in Chicago.
The first scientific examination of this dis
ease in this country was made recently,
under the direction Of the United States
| Treasury Cattle Commission. It was de-
cided that the disease is result of the
Judgment of microscopic plants in the
teeth. When the disease extends to the
jaws it nearly always proves fatal. 1t can
be communicated to man.
| JOSEPH BURsINGER, brewer, Of Water
town, Wis, failed for 100000, with only
$35, 900 assets.
| GENERAL GRANT has addressed letter
to General Fitz John Porter, in which he
says: GAS long as 1 have a voice 1t shall
be raised in your support without any
reference to the effect upon me or others.
Your restoration to the army simply, I
would regard as very inadequate and I'M
just reparation. hope for your thorough
vindication, not only by Congress, but in
the minds Of your countrymen."
| The other night the mail between Malta
Bend and Mount Leonard, in Saline Coun-
| ty, No., was robbed about one mile from
the latter place. The mail carrier was at
tackled by three men, two of whom covered
him with revolvers, while the third made
| away with the mail pouch. The two men
| who had guarded him ordered him to pro-
coed on his route, and threatened him with
death if he gave the alarm, but he gave the
alarm as soon as possible, and officers
| 81 fol 10, ha
| found cut open short distance from the
scene of the robbery, and all the letters
were lying in the pouch, not one having
been opened, except registered letter
| containing $175, which was gone.
ABOUT four hundred miners, who have
been on strike at La Sale, ILL.,, since the
| beginning of July, went to work the other
morning and the shafts are all now in full
operation. The leaders of the strike have
been black-listed, and several were making
preparations to seek work elsewhere.
GEORGE WEST recently shot and killed
| Williams, editor of the AdrOcdte, at Lo-
gansport, Ind.
HENRY C. MCGEE, well.to-do farmer,
residing near Independence, Mo-, recently
killed his wife and daughter and then him
| Sclks NC SuOb Ills NlCti"S Will q uOuDlc-
barTeled shotgun and completed the affair
by swallowing poison. The tragedy was
not discovered until his four other children
returned from school and found their
mother dead-dressed as if about to 60 out
visiting. MCGEE was from Kentucky and
had been quite wealthy, but had met with
some reverses within the past few years.
| He was reported to be q stern, exacting
husband and father.
| THE entire roof, inside wall, iron and
stone columns of the new south wing of
the Capitol at Madison, Wis, fell the other
afternoon, burying abont twenty-five work
men in the ruins. Bernard Higgins, Will
| liam Edgar, Michael Sewank and William
G. Jones were killed, and about twenty in
jured, some fatally.
| CHAs. E. DIX, Cashier Of the Savings
Bank at Council Bluffs, Iowa, shot himself
through the head the other day and died in
stantly. He was twenty.nine years old.
No cause for the act could be assigned, as
his accounts were reported straight.
JUDGE HOFFMAN, of the United States
District Court, at San Francisco, recently
decided that Chinese who went to China
prior to the passage Of the Restriction act
are entitled to land.
THE Executive Committee of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Method.
list Episcopal Church, at its late annual ses-
sion at Des Moines, Iowa, voted to raise
900 for the establishment of the first
woman's periodical in India.
HENRY MCGEE, a Sheriff, made an at.
tempt to arrest drunken man named
Parker, at Mohimingo, /. T., recently, when
Parker drew a revolver and killed him at
the first fire. Kneeling beside the dead
man, he blew his own brains out.
A RECENT fire at Troy, O., destroyed a
portion of Beedle & Kelly's foundry and
corn-planter factory. Loss, $4,000; in.
surance, 1880.
A SPECIAL says that Mrs. Susannah Mel
son started from Anderson, Ind, to Ne.
braska, September 6, and has not since
been heard from by her friends. She had
large sum Of money with her. Marshal
Coburn recently made known to her
brothers that he had found fire insurance
policy, issued to Mrs. Nelson, in the woods
near Terre Haute, where some time ago the
badly mutilated body Of a woman was
found by hunters, He claimed to have
proof that Mrs. Nelson was murdered.
Ar one O'Clock the other morning, Mr..
Spiedel, baggage-master at the depot at
Forest, O., was called, with the Marshal, to
arrest a burglar in NJ. W. Gales store.
Spiedel entered the window and was shot
by the burglar and fatally wounded. The
burglar was arrested and recognized as
Maurice Hally, q rusident of the town.
The Illinois Central Railroad manage
ment has decided not to adopt the new