The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-01

! lar forces representa- the srmy and navy.
Altogether New York and Brooklyn were
supremacy happy.
Ar the recent Synod Of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg, Pa, the
Committee ON Temperance reported reso-
lutions pledging themselves to secure con-
stitutional prohibition, and announcing the
use Of tobacco in any form.
| TIE veto Investigating COMMITTEES OF the
| Massachusetts, Legislature in making their
report to the HOUSE divided on party lines.
All the Republicans held that the Governor
vas absent from the Commonwealth from
February "a to March 2, while the Demo
Gratis and Butler members took the oppo-
site view.
The Everett House, at Deerield, Mass,
owned by Everett Brothers, burned recent
~. Loss, SO 900; insurance, $1s,6O0.
The steamer Prussian arrived ut Boston
recently with 1,O6o steerage passengers,
most of whom were assisted emigrants. :.
THE dwelling of Henry w. Moody, in
Lynn, N. H., was burned the other day
and Lunian Moody, aged eighty, was
4burned to-death.
THE WEST.
RECENT rich gold discoveries in Lower
California have caused great excitement in
Mexico. - -
The other day as the local freight on the
Chicago & Alton Railroad at Marshall,
No., was making a running switch, Mrs.
Mary Jane Hurst, while attempting to
cross the track. was knocked down and in
stantly killed.
MARC P. KAY, Deputy Auditor of Ala
media County, Cal, who embezzled $4,000,
was sentenced recently to fourteen years
in the State prison, the full penalty for the
crime. sEEffEF .Ss
WALTER DUNpsEN shot and killed Mrs.
Nellie Dodson the other afternoon at Jer-
seyville, Ills, and then shot himself, but
only inflicted slight wound. He is in
jail Fti Dss4UTG.
MRS. R. ], McMILLIE, OF Londonville,
Ohio. while in TT of temporary insanity,
recently drowned her two children, aged
six and two years, in a well and then took
poison herself. FTf5s
A CHIHUAHUA dispatch states that sixty
Indians from the, United States, passed
near Oarman (Mexico) on the 18th. AT
Magnes Pass they killed and beheaded one
man and threw The head away after carry
ing it some miles. They killed Mexican
at San Lorenzo, one at Buenaventura and
two at San Rinazo. --
a-LIKUTENANT STEELE, of Fort zMaginnis,
NJ. T., while recently out scouting with a
corporal, ran into band of twelve Cana
dian Cree Indians near Musselshell, on the
Missouri River. Finding themselves COW
cred by the Indians guns, they withdrew,
and returning with achievements, cap
tured band of ffty-two Indians under the
Cree chief Tabor. ~
ONE party looking after wrecking at Ra-
cine. Wis, after the late tornado, picked up
over seventeen wagon loads of broken
chairs and bedsteads.
ALEXANDER GRANGER, the United States
Express Company,s money carrier, at
Cleveland, O., RECENTLY received sundry
packages. of money and other valuables
from the east bound Lake Shore train at
the Union depot and put them in buggy
outside. Somebody, from the ice room
called to him, and no one being in sight he
stepped little way from the vehicle to as
certain who called Returning he drove to
the express, ,company's, main office, and
there discovered that bags similar 10 the
company pouches, but filled with paper,
had been substituted for two containing
money. The robbery had been carefully
planned byYexperts, and executed at the.
moaent Changers attention was diverted.
Tbeamissng pouches were said to contain
id the neighborhood of $4,000 in thirty
packages of remittances from railway sta
lions on the Lake Shore road between Chi
cago and Toledo to headquarters. Much of
the remittances were thought to be in bank
checks and certificates Of deposits.
JUDGE CHESTER a., KRUM, of st. Louis,
recently mysteriously disappeared, and no
information can be obtained from his fam.
lily or friends as to his Whereabouts.
An immense discovery of silver is re-.
ported twenty-three miles south of Pres
colt, A. T., in the Turkey Greek Valley.
The ore, it is said, assays $4,000 to the ton.
Consul willard, of Guayrnass aavises per-
sons not to 60 to the reported gold fields of
Lower California.
A VERY heavy wind and rain storm swept
through Howell County, No., last week, do
ing great damage to farm and other prop
erty. Part of Howell Valley was flooded,
and bridges and embankments on the Kan
sas City, Springfield & Memphis Railroad
were swept away or badly damaged. The
little town of Moody was destroyed; every
house in it being blown down. Farms in
that vicinity also suffered very severely. -
A LATE arrival from Sonora reports that
General Crook had an engagement with a
large body Of Indians near Guacanope, in
the Sierra Madres, last week. Crook had
sent forward portion of the San Carlos
scouts, who were surprised by the hostiles
and driven back to the main body. A gen.
eral advance was then made by the entire
force driving the hostiles from an in
trenched position and killing thirty. The
remainder broke and fed.
THE boiler in the bfickyard 5f Bly, &
Cranberry at Bismarck, d. r, exploded
the other day instantly killing John Hason,
fireman, Joseph 0ulette, carpenter, and
fatally injured Joseph Oulette and BADLY
scalded Daniel Lyons.
THE steamer Pilot, which has been run
ring for some years past In opposition to
The steamers of the San Francisco and
North Pacific Railway Company, blew up
the other morning, near Lakeville, Cal.
Eight persons were Killed, seven wounded
and ten missing. Mrs. George p. McNear,
q passenger, was found about a mile and
half from the scene of the explosion. She
was standing in mud, still alive but uhcon-
scious, and died soon after. It was thought
she struggled that distance in search of
relief. =
A. a. PETRIE & Co.'s saw mill at Mus
kegon, Mich, yalped at SS5,o0o, was burned
recently Bledgett & -ByznsN lost lumber