The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

spirits. It's adoptl0n by me SENATE was
deemed positive.
GEORGE FREDERIcKs, of the Theatre
Comique, was shot and fatally wounded at
Kansas City the other night by o. II.
Stein, alias John Bell, city editor of the
Kansas City Erenisg Star. Cause,
woman.
The notorious Barber brothers, who were
lately captured by three farmers near
Waverley, Iowa, after desperate fight, in
which one of the farmers was killed and
the others wounded, were subsequently
taken from Jail by mob and hanged.
They died without fiinching or even asking
for mercy.
A HEAVY snow storm prevailed through
out Colorado June s. 1t had been pre-
ceeded by unusually heavy rains.
THE SOUTH.
A LATE tornado destroyed large amount
of property in Texas and Alabama. Sew
eral persons were killed.
In about one month a marble statue of
General Zachary Taylor will be unveiled
at the grave, eight miles from Louisville,
KY. All survivors of the Mexican war are
to be invited.
SOUTHWEST Mississippi is damaged by
severe drought. Cattle raisers have to pur
chase food for their stock, as the pastures
are all dried up, and crops are suffering
greatly from want of rain.
THE Grand Jury at Austin, Texas, in
dicted over fifty members of the Legisla-
ture for gambling. During the night fol-
lowing some one entered the Office of the
County Clerk and stole all the indictments
returned by the Grand Jury for violations
of the gambling laws, including those
against the members of the Legislature.
OFFICERS recently arrested a gang of five
counterfeiters in Van Buren, County, Ark.
Detectives had been at work on the case
for several months.
BY an explosion of the boiler of pile
driver engine on the Memphis & Charles
ton Railroad, recently near Lagrange,
Tenn, the engineer, Harry Roberts, and
the fireman, Lee Transcomb, were killed
outright, and Tom Farr, a switch engi-
neer, and man named Tom Atkins, seri-
ously injured.
DIR. WILLIS NJ. BARNES recently shot his
brother-in-law, Clarence Boyd, prominent
young artist, at Louisville, KY. Family
trouble was the cause.
A MOB at Denison, Texas, headed by the
father of Hattie Bayliss, who suicided a
few days ago, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to lynch Burke, the young man who
took her on an excursion, got her drunk and
debauched her, which led to her suicide.
Ebert NJ. STEPHENSON was hanged at
Lawrenceville, Ga, in the presence of eight
thousand people, for the murder of his
aunt a year ago last August.
THOMAS PARIS shot his step-father, Isaac
Adams, dead on Fairfield plantation, near
Skipworth, Miss, recently. Adams threat
ened to kill Paris, and followed the latter
to the house and knocked the door down,
when the boy shot him.
GENERAL.
THE customs authorities of Rio de ia
metro, Brazil, recently seized and confis-
Gated as dynamite large shipment of pc.
troleum or petroleum jelly. The agent was
compelled to pay heavy fine, although he
protested that the goods were not explo-
sives.
EDWARD HARRINGTON, editor of the
Kerry Sentinel, and the printers of that
paper have each been sentenced at Dublin,
Ireland, to imprisonment for six months on
account of the publication in the Office of
the Sentinel of a placard inviting the per-
sons who wished to join the Invincibles to
attend a meeting.
AT Alexandria, Egypt, Sulieman Daoud
and Mahmoud Sami, accused of setting
fire to Alexandria at the time of the British
fenced to death. Eighteen officers were
found guilty of completely in the same
crime and sentenced to various terms of
penal servitude.
The Porte recently informed General
Wallace, United States Minister at Con-
stantinople that the commercial treaty be-
tween Turkey and America would ter
inmate March 1G, 1884. The Turkish tariff
expired on the same date of the present
year. After the termination of the treaty
the importation of all American meats,
lard and similar produce will be pro-
hibited.
BUSINESS failures during the past week
were 1I3, as against Isl the previous week.
The New England States had twenty-three,
Middle twenty-five, Western fifty-six, Pa
cific and Territories seventeen, New York
City ten, Canada nineteen.
THE LATEST.
THE President appointed Calvin S. Brew
ster, of Laredo, Tex, Collector of Customs
at Brownsville, Tex, vice Payne, sus-
pended. Payne is the man who deserted
his post of duty last summer when the vel
low fever prevailed.
PAYMAsTER WATSON, who was recently
reported robbed in Texas, pleaded guilty to
embezzling from the Government when
placed on trial, and his friends have since
made the amount good.
AFTER thirty years. burial in foreign
land, the remains of John Howard Payne,
author of "Home, Sweet Home" were on
the 9th laid to rest in the soil of his native
land at Washington City. The ceremonies
were of an imposing character, participated
in by the military, civic societies, Presi-
dent and Cabinet, together with other off,
cials and citizens. There were in the pro-
cession fully fifty carriages containing
relatives of Payne.
The decree of divorce in the case of Major
o. H. Nickerson, U. S. A., has been set
aside and the divorce declared null and
void. Immediately upon receipt of official
information of the fact the General of the
army directed General Drum to issue pa
pers for the immediate arrest of Major
Nickerson, preparatory to his being tried
by court martial. 1t is thought, however,
there will be difficulty in finding him, as it
is the general impression he has left for
parts unknown.
TIMOTHY KELLY convicted of participa-
ton in the Phoenix Park murders, was
hanged at Dublin according to sentence.