The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28

conduct unbecoming an officer and gentle
man. Cadet Thos. I. KERN, Of the sam,
class, has been suspended with loss Of pay
until July 1, 1884, for violations Of the rules
Of the Military Academy. =.
AT conference of Maine Greenbackers
at Lewiston, recently, resolutions wers
adopted indorsing the Chicago platform
instructing the committee to call Stat3
Convention the first week in May, and de
claring opposition to fusion with either
party.
TIE New York Republican State Con
vention nominated the following licked
Secretary Of State, General Joseph b
Carr; Comptroller, Ira Davenport; Stats
Treasurer, Pliny T. Sexton; State En-
gineer and Surveyor, Silas Seymour; At
torney General, Leslie W. Russell.
LAWRENCE BRAINERD, A. o. Brainerd and
G. Wyman, Of the st. Adams (Vt.) Trust
Company, were recently indicted by the
Grand Jury for the violation of penal
clauses Of the charter. They were held tc
bail in heavy sums.
ONE hundred prisoners in the State
Prison at Wethersfield, Conn.,, were re
Gently taken sick suddenly. 1t was sup
posed they were poisoned by corned meat
THE WEST.
VICTORIA vrDoR, of Alpena, Mich. has
| been arrested upon the charge of poison.
| ing her husband, in order to marry another
man.
AT Barry, ILL.,, during recent circus
performance, storm suddenly came up
which swept away the tents and caused
the greatest CONSERVATION. The elephant
made dash for his car, wagons were up
set, animals roared, women and children
screamed, and the rain, hail and wind
added terror to the scene. No one was
killed, but several were hurt, and every
one desperately frightened.
THE extensive sash factory and planning
mill of Campbell & Breckenridge at st.
Louis, occupying about a quarter of a
block, burned recently. Loss, $4,000; in.
surance, $1,000.
In addition to those already reported,
Cadet E. B. Baird, of Wisconsin, was re-
Gently dismissed from the Naval Academy
for hazing.
NEAR Gallon, Ohio, recently, freight
train was wrecked, a brakeman killed,
Conductor Charles James had both legs
broken and the fireman was badly injured.
THE other day General j. B. Weaver Gre
ated sensation in Des Moines Uowa)
street car, crowded with ladies and preach
ers, by assailing Rev. D. R. Lucas, a noted
political preacher. Weaver assailed Lucas
in great violence of language, accusing
him of disappearing his record on the
amendment. For time the scene was
lively.
DEsPERADoEs have become SO bold at
Tucson, A. T., in their outrages that the
Governor of the Territory has been called
upon to suppress them, the citizens fearing
to attempt it themselves.
SEXTON, the biIliard-player, had his
championship badges stolen. after the close
of his late tournament at st. Joseph, Mo.
GEORGE WARD, one of the owners of
Antelope Springs stock ranch, in Arizona,
was recently killed, and Amos Williams, a
boy of fifteen, who was the only person
with him, reported that the murder was
committed by squad of Apaches. 1t was
strongly suspected, however, that Williams
was the real murderer.
The man, who brutally attacked his COM
panions in a wagon, one night recently near
Cheyenne, Wy. T., killing Wengel and
wounding Knight, was taken from Jail at
Cheyenne, few nights later, by masked
men and hanged to telegraph pole in the
heart of the city.
MONTE MCCORMICK, aged seventeen, en-
Mo sn & neS
printing office, in Kansas City, was recent
ly caught in the machinery and killed.
JAMES H. VAUGHN, a farmer, was re-
Gently killed by the accidental discharge of
a gun in the hands of his son, near Spring
field, Mo.
Ar Glasgow, NO., the other day, Agnes
Ralt, twenty-three years of age, German
girl, committed suicide by lying down in
shallow water until she drowned. A love
affair was the cause.
MRS. EMMA FISCHER was arrested at
Cincinnati, Ohio, recently, charged with
numbering her husband, Adam Fischer, by
poisoning. Henry Kaiser, with whom Mrs.
Fischer was infatuated, was also arrested.
In a running fight at the village of Ute
Creek, N. NJ, between storekeeper named
Don Macedonis Aragon and five cow boys,
Aragon killed two and wounded third,
and died himself soon afterwards from
wounds he received.
ATthe recent annual meeting of the Broth.
erhood of Locomotive Firemen of the United
States and Canada, in Denver, Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, who was in the city, made
a speech. and was warmly applauded.
The town of Benson, Arizona, burned
recently. The railway depot, Wells &
Fargo express and the postofice were
saved. 1t was the work of incendiaries.
In an encounter at a trial before JUS
tice of the Peace, at st. Paul, Ind, recent
ly, James McCool shot and mortally
wounded Silas Fravors. McCool escaped.
THE Lutherans of Shelbyville, Ills, and
vicinity celebrated the 400th anniversary
of Martin Luther with grand basket din
ner and celebration.
G. A. WARD and Charles Johnston were
accidentally poisoned at Camp Point, ILL.,,
recently. They procured what they sup
posed to be quart bottle of bitters at a
drug store to be drank as beverage.
Drinking freely of it they both dropped
dead in short time. The third man who
drank VIII tuciu was SeiZeu Will SpdSuS,
but, it was thought, would recover.
SUIT was recently brought in the United
States District Court at Omaha, Neb.,
against Lew E. Cropsey, formerly United
States Consul at Chemnitz, Saxony, for the
embezzlement of Government funds
amounting to $500, while he was Consul
about eight years ago. Cropsey is well
known throughout Nebraska, and for two
or three years past has been connected with
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road.