The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-04-25

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ANNIE WAGNER was fatally shot by her
aunt, Mrs. Maher, at Harrisburg, Pa, who
didn't know the pistol was loaded when
she playfully pointed it at her niece.
New HAMPSHIRE and Maine towns re-
port heavy floods. A pier Of the Maine
Central Railroad bridge at Orenio, Me-,
was considerably damaged. Saco River
was higher than since 1870 and rising. At
Union, on the st. Croix River, the New
Brunswick pier and two spans of the bridge
have fallen. 81!
The Excise Commissioners of New York
refused to renew the licenses OF Harry
Hill, the notorious sporting man. and
Billy Madden, formerly hacker of Sullivan.
-.p THE WEST. H'
WApswoRTH, New, was completely des.
troyed by fire recently. ga. ...s-.'. e.,
A RICH strike of gold was discovered
near Silver City, N. W. T. 1t was said to
be equal to any in America. Great excite
ment prevailed. e" .-...'. s..'' 90
THE first fast mail train East from San
Francisco, left on the 18th. 49,. .f....
AN ignorant fellow named Guzmann in
dorsed stolen draft at Appleton, Wis,
and was jailed. He then confessed that
himself and a companion stole q mailbag
at Menasha, and rifed the letters.
SADIE REICH, of Chicago, who killed a
hotel waiter for circulating false reports as
to her character, has entered a plea of
guilty of manslaughter. ...
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Tacoma, W. T. Nine buildings, forming the
principal business blocks of the city, We're
completely destroyed. Loss, $1,000; in
surance, estimated, $4,000.
LATE advices from Vera Cruz, Mexico,
say the yellow fever prevails there, and
that thirteen deaths occurred in one day
last week. Among the deaths was that Of
an American named C. E. Powers, formerly
connected with the Mexican Central Rail-
road. The American Consul, who had the
fever, has recovered.
Two farmers living near Wabash, Ind,
had battle, in which the thumb of one was
entirely bitten of by the other. The in.
jured man will begin an action against his
opponent for 5000 for the loss Of his
thumb. ..s,....-. .,.. 10
The Republican State Convention of H.
linois at Peoria nominated Richard j..
OgleSby for Governor.
A. r. VoN MARTELs, Judge of the Gin
cnnati Police Court. died recently.
JOSEPH GRIFFIN was arrested one night
at Milwaukee while attemp ing to burglar
ize the premises of No. 90 Broadway. The
butcher-shop of Gus Hanback, occupied the
he ell
he was effecting an entrance over the tran
som, and seized him as he dropped inside
FRANCIS MURPHY and his son Thomas,
just from England, were announced to
speak at the Opera House at Freeport, H.,
the other nigh, but the elder Murphy fell
down on pavement and sustained serious
injuries His son, however, delivered an
address on temperance, as did also Rev. Z.
W. Drew.
The Marine Railway & Dry Dock Com
pany, of Cincinnati, has assigned. Liabili
ties, 100000. or.
DURING storm recently, lightning struck
the depots of the Milwaukee & Northern
Road at Forest Junction and Greenleaf,
Wis, destroying them. The total loss was
abou, 5000. A.. .
BLACK RIVER has risen seven and a half
feet natural rise at Black River Falls, Wis,
obvisting the growing fears Of lumbermen
that the log crop would be delayed in reach
ing the mills. The condition of logging
matters on the Chippewa was not very
hopeful. j"'r
The Mexican Government is making ne
gotiations for a loan of ~, OO0, 900 from the
FraRco-Egyptian Bank.
THE performance at Chicago for the ben
eft of the Actors fund Melted 81 800. Miss
Fanny Davenport sent a check for 500 in
lieu of performance at Baltimore. At Bos-
ton the performance Melted 81 1863.
EDWIN F. SMITH, Secretary of the State
Agricultural Society, thinks the wheat crop
Of California this year will exceed that of
1880. ."Hl '.f. -..'.s
KILLER, HALLocK & Co., bankers of
Buena Vista, Col, have assigned; available
assets estimated at 5000, liabilities $50
900. The immediate cause of the failure is
said to be the expensive litigation of the
Nest Egg mine, In which the concern was
largely interested. .. .. ...
REV. FATHER SANsHEz, last of the
pioneer Franciscan missionaries to Cali
fornia, who arrived there in 1S41, died
recently, aged seventy-one. H'
THERE was great excl ement in mining
towns of Colorado owing to rich gold finds
near Pixies Peak. ...sf. ... ..
THE Lathrop, Cal, levee broke the other
morning, and the San Joaquin River was
spreading rapidly. If the break cannot be
repaired 10000 acres of wheat will be de-
stroyed. ...- .-.s.s.. .... .-.., ...
By the neglect of a telegraph reporter at
Steubenville, O., to deliver the proper train
orders, two freight trains on the Pan-Han-
die collided near Wheeling Junction. Bob
engines and ten cars were completely
wrecked. no a,.f; .-. ..... .-..s ... --.-
THE SOUTH. . ...
THE Breathitt County, KY, Jail was
broken open by the enraged populace re-
Gently and two murderers lynched.
SHIELDS, the murderer who escaped from
prison at Charlotte, n. c., has been recap
tured. .... g.. --.. .. ...
BILL EPPs, a desperate, who has been
operating in the country some time, and
Underwood, of the Sam Bass gang, were
placed in Jail at Gainesville, Tex, recently.
A FIRE at Carlisle, KY, destroyed the
whole of business block. 1t originated
from Mrs. McCracklin's millinery store.
Loss about 100000.
WILLIAM STRONG, with a strong posse Of
his ''gang," some seventy-five in number,
was in possession of jackson, KY, and
said he would hang seventy-fiye of the best
citizeus in retaliation for the hanging of
Ben. Strong and Henry Kilbourne, one of
WHAT promises to be a valuable tin mine
has been discovered about three miles from
Glenwood, w. Va. Assays show eight to
ten per cent. tin and ninety dollars silver
per ton. A company has been formed to