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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
A Ghastly Deed.

NEW DIRK, CO. %.
Edward Gillespie was for years bos,
truckman for Fairbanks, Martin s Co.,
and was very steady, reliable man. Yes
terday at noon while sitting with hi,
helper, William Bird, he drew 8
razor from his pocket and cut hi.
throat. Bird grasped his arm and tried
to disarm him. Gillespie resisted saw.
agely The two men, both muscular.
rolled over on the floor of the truck, the
blood pouring from Gillespie's throat
over Birds face. Finally they rolled of
the truck, and in the fall Bird lost his
hold. Gillespie sprang up, stood erect
drew the razor across his throat, nearly
seyering the neck, and fell dead.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
A Painful Case.

ST. PAUL, MINI, Feb. 27.-Near San
born, Dakota, Mr.. Nelson and his two
daughters, aged ten and twelve years, lief.
home about an hour before the storm burst,
for the purpose of getting some hay, which
they had been burning as fuel, and have
not been heard of since. The hay stack
was about half mile from the house. A
searching party of neighbOrs went ont on
Tuesday and found that Mr.. Nelson had
been at the hay stack and had secured the
hay, which was tied in bundles for cOnyen.
fence in carrying, and that the two smaller
bundles, designed for the children, were
found about ten rods from the point of start
ing and still larger bundle was found at a
greater distance, but no trace could be found
of either girls or their father. Search has
proved fruitless. The mother and three
surviving children are destitute, their croTs
having been destroyed by fire after the
harvest ..,r .'tr., .-.s..rgf D. ..'
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
Missouri Murder.

MEXICO, Mo-, Feb 29-Calloway County
has again been called upon to chronicle a
murder, and one in its nature plan and exc
cutiOn, cruel and dark as death itself.
Robert Craighead, who lived three miles
south of Fulton, and was one of their best
citizens, as well as an intelligent, industrious
and honest gentleman, as he was enjoy
ing himself in the midst of his fam
lily, some one hallOOed at the front
gate. Mrs. Craighead raised wind
Ow and inquired who was there; a voice
responded giving the name of Collins, and
requesting Mr.. Craighead to come and help
get a team out of the mud, Just
down the road. Dir. Craighead got
his hat and fastened to the mans relief. As
the man and Mr.. Craighead passed down the
road to the north from the house, Mrs.
Craighead took seat by the window to
listen. Very soon she heard two pistol shots
i'm rapid succession, and again two more be
fore she had time to get out of the house.
On leaving the house she heard Mr.. Craig
head call for help, and running down the
road about one hundred yards she found her
husband in the agony of death. She smashed
him from the ground to her bosom; he
gasped once and was no more. A number
of clues have been discovered which,
no doubt, will lead to the capture of the
murderers. Mr.. Craighead was one Of the
best citizens I'm the county, and held the
Office of county assessor for years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
INA COLORADO SHAFT.
A Well-Known Engineer While Walk
Ing ON tho snow suddenly Gees
Down 20 His Death.

A Well-Known Engineer While Walk
Ing ON tho snow suddenly Gees
HOwn to His Death.
DENVER, COL, Feb. 29.-Another ap-
palling accident, occasioned by an open
shaft, the mouth of which was covered with
snow, has happened. The victim was James
r. Milburn, well-known surveyor of this
city. Mr.. MiIburn and Mr.. George Holland
were surveying q lease Oh Fryer Hill. and the
former left his companion for a moment to
procure stake. The snow was perfectly
smooth, with no sign of danger apparent
and nothing to indicate that there was an
open shaft in his path, when all at once he
sank down through the snow and went out
of sight. His assistant, George Holland,
who was some fifty feet away, saw him go
down and ran to the SPOT, thinking at first
that he had only fallen into snow bank, but
the delusion was soon dispelled when he saw
the yawning mouth of shaft more than
two hundred feet deep before him. Mr.. Mil
burn not knowing Of It's presence, or else
forgetting that it was there, had walked in
to the fearful pit without a moments warn
ing. Where he W ut through he made a
hole through the snow just large enough to
admit his body. 1t is said by
those who live in the neighbOrhood that the
shaft had been covered up, but the boys had
stolen the lumber and left it entirely un-
covered. Mr.. Milburn was one Of
the Oldest surveyors in the city,
having come here some six years ago.
He was native of Mary's County,
Md, and was Z unmarried. He had
many friends who will deeply mourn his
terrible and untimely death. The remains
were recovered and taken to the Morgue.
There were two or three scalp wounds, but
no other outward marks of injury. 1t is
supposed death was caused either by drown
ing or conclusion of the brain.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
Work of Revenue omeers.

RALEIGH, n. c., Feb. 25.-The Neacs aud
Observers Mofgantown special says: Two
Revenue Ofhcers named Rey and Audenston,
killed three men named Horton, Miller and
BurticksOn, and wounded another man
nsmed Burtickson, at work In the Mica
Mine in Mitchell County. a. - -
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
THE 6OUTH.

EXCITEMENT ran high in Hot Springs,
Ark. The citizens ordered certain of the
parties concerned in the late riot to leave
town. The sheriff wanted them as wit
nesses and organized q posse. Both parties
were armed and there were fears of col.
lision.
The Red River is very high at Shreve-
port, La.
ROBERT LANDERs, a noted Texas horse
thief, was arrested at Fort Smith, Ark.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07

ing in the Croton Reservoir at New York,
the other day, having been in the drinking
water for two weeks.
SrocKs in New York have shrunk to
nearly their lowest points. This is be-
wildering to those who have looked upon
the Gould-Vanderbilt combination Is .
surety against declines.
THERE is some reason to think that Salmi
Morse was murdered ut New York 1t was
at first reported that he had drowned him
self.
THERE is talk in New York Of having the
remains of Salmi Morse disinterred, In
order that they may be given Christian
burial. The body was buried according to
the Jewish form.
NELSON HINMAN, a penurious Connect.
cut farmer, died recently near New Haven,
when it was discovered that he had been
keeping his wife for thirty years in an iron
bound room.
THE directors Of the Boston, Concord &
Montreal Railroad Company voted to cut
down the wages from eight to ten per
cent. The engineers threaten to leave.
Mr.. EDMUND SMITH, an early Abolitionist
and associate of Garrison, died recently at
Boston.
THE time of the Republican State con-
vention at Trenton, N. j., has been changed
to April II.
A COMMUNICATION has been received from
the Berlin committee for the obseQuies OF
DR.. Edwin Lasker by Carl Schurz, chair.
man of the New York committee, express
ing the thanks of the people of Berlin for
the marks of honor and respect paid tho
memory of Lasker in America.
JAMES O'BRIEN, one Of the men arrested
for the murder of William Pugh on the
night of the 10Th inst, at Philadelphia,
confessed that William Carey, another of
the prisoners, struck the fatal blow.
A FIRE broke out on the third
floor of a frame building occupied by
Cornelius Van Ripen, his wife and three
children, and N. Connolly, New York.
Van Ripen and the three children were
suffocated and burned to death. His wife
jumped from q third story window and
was instantly killed. The damage to the
building was slight,
EXCEPTIONS to the Masters reportin the
case of j. N. Lusk ct al, against the Pitts
burg & Western Railroad Company and
others, were argued before Judge Stow, at
Pittsburgh, Pa. A quarter of a million dol
lars is involved, the Master decreeing that
the defendants pay plaintiffs that sum for
depriving them by fraud of their rights in
the New Castle & Lake Erie Railroad. The
decision is reserved.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
An Alabama Fire.

COLUMBUS GA, Feb. s5.--At fie al
Goodwater, Ala, destroyed twenty-four
buildings. Some substantial merchants were
burned out The loss is 500, insuraDca
Iiaing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07

Horses in Yam Hill County, Ore,
are afflicted with a disease that veter-
inariaDs call rheumatism. The disease
has been among them for year, and
thrcc-fourths of the horses in the coun-
ty have beaAme disabled or useless
from its efiectS SER -fr I'D
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
The story that Treasurer Spinner's

phenominally crooked signature on
grernbackS was made so by nervous
ness and fright on an occasion when
safe containing millions of money was
lci, unlocked over night is exploded by
baltimore -ilacrfcdn correspondent,
who has in his possession the Generals
autograph. written nearly forty years
ngo, ami showing the same wcll-known
popularity.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
ATCIIsoN, TOPEKA, q SANTA gFE R'Y1
Co., OFFICE OF TRAFFIC MANAGER,

TOPEKA, KAs., Feb-22 q, 1854.
On the evening of the 22d day of Febru-
ary the honorable Board of Railroad Com
missioners issued an order to this company
slspending the rules which they ordered
into effect upon the morning. Of the 10Th OF
February. The honorable Board of Railway
Commissioners has also advised Us that on
the 5th of March they will proceed to
readjudicate q new system OF rates for this
line. The system of rates thus quickly
suspended by the honorable Board of Rail-
way Commissioners represented the result
reached by them after one years considers
ton of the freight questions, and after the
decisions and rehearing, we. are advised by
counsel that the order. Of February 90,
suspending the rates of February 10, may
not be legally operative. However this
may be, the freighting public will see that
it is impossible for this company, be-
tween this time and the 5th Of
March, to formulate any new tar
iii to take the place of that sus-
pended by the Commissioners nor would it
be useful to do so. for, owing 10 the varied
conflicting decisions Of the honorable Board
of Railway Commissioners, 1t is impossible
for the Company to tell what may be the
decisions reached by the honorable Board ON
the Sth Of March until some definite con-
clusiOn shall have been reached upon the
whole subject. There is but one safe course
in law for the Company to pursue, namely:
To continue in effect the system of rates
ordered by the old Board of Railway Com
missiOners- on the 10Th of February. This
Company desires to assure the people living
on its line that as sOon as these questions
have been legally determined, or as soon as
the rate making power shall have been
again entrusted to the Traffic Department
of this road, we shall use every reasonable
measure in our power to give satisfaction to
our patrons.
[Signed sBi J.T GopDAr:p.
Traffic Manager ,
(Approved] A. E. ToUZALIN,
Vice President
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07

He stole horses from the Stock Association
were offered for him. When arrested he
was fixing for . raid on the wealthy stock
msn of the Indian Nation.
A SPANISH campaign paper, published
Of Brownsville, Tex, tells tho rural Mexi.
cans that the United States has passed .
law authorizing them to cut the pasture
fences of Captain King and other large ca
tie men.
RECENT evidence in the Copiah County
case has been the impeachment Of the
characters of the witnesses examined.
A BUST of Longfellow, by Brock, viii be
unveiled in Westminster Abbey soon. It
will be placed between the busts Of Chaucer
and Dryden. Gladstone has been invited
to unveil it.
FENCE CUTTING is on the decrease In
Texas, due, it is said, to energetic measures
taken by the State authorities.
IT is said the sca6old on which John
Brown was hung for the raid on Harper's
Ferry, has been found in Charlestown, JEFF
ferson County, Va. The scaffold was spir.
tied away at the time. Recently, in tear.
ing away the porch Of a residence he had
bought OF widow, Colonel John NJ. Coyle
noticed numbers on the lumber, and In fit
ting the boards together they formed a
scafrold. Developments show the scaffold
to be the identical one on which John
Brown was executed.
AN agent of lottery company was sem
fenced to Jail for five minutes at Peters
burg, Va, recently. Hs...
GREEN CLAYTON, Wash Burke and Law.
renee Clayton were killed and Floyd Burke
wounded in Marion County, KY. 1t was
alleged that Lawrence Clayton had insulted
the daughter of Wash Burke, when, after
some hot words, general shooting COM
menced between the two families with the
above result. r.#..-.. .... .... .
The widow of John Brown, of Harper's
Ferry, is dead. l . -7a. sEa r.- r.
N. T. POLK, the defaulting State Treas.
urer, of Tennessee, is dead. 500 ffs
A SPECIAL from Franklyn, La, says: W.
Moore, colored, was hanged for the murder
of Lee Arman, Chinaman, last spring.
After Moore had been hanging about half
minute it was discovered that the rope
was too long and the feet of the culprit
rested on the floor. He was raised to the
platform, the rope shortened and the trap
again sprung. He died of strangulation.
The Red River food is at a stand at
Shreveport. For one hundred miles above
aud below the city the river plantations
are overlooked. .,# ...r ..- ...
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
: Mr. Kenlr now announces that bis

gG- Mr. Kccly now announces that bis
motor is ut last complete almost. He
has only got to arrange screw or =
thing bob, or a dummy, or some
,hing OF that sort. and the thing will be
done, Oh. that, keelyis a gcnius-a l-
most Boston Transcript. d" fhk
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
Three Young ladies in Sacramento

Three young ladies in SACRAMENTO
sat on an awning. Pretty soon the
awning caycd in. and young man who
was passing by was fattened out so
that his mother didn't know him. He
will recover in time. The girls ran
away.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
THE EAST.

FIVE or six fires occurred at Philadelphia
on the 18th, destroying about $1,5Oo,0O0 of
property. The most disastrous was the
chemical works of Powers & Weightman,
the largest of the kind in the country
which were totally destroyed. The loss at
this place viii be over 100000. At one
of the fires Mrs. P. B. Kelly, who jumped
out of a window, had her skull fractured
and was killed.
WHILE New York parties were expert
mentiRg on the tug boat Maggie Sargent
with dcombination of alcohol and water
for use as fuel, some four hundred gallons
of alcohol poured into the boiler, took fire
and resulted in $4,000 damage to the yes.
sci, which falls upon the owners of the new
system.
THE Cunard steamship Cephalonis ran
down tug of Robins Reef, N. Y, re-
Gently. Two of the crew of the tug were
drowned.
THE dead body of q man was found float.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
WARRINGTON NOTES.

THE Post-offics Appropriation bill as pre-.
pared by the subcommittee, which has
been considered by the full committee,
appropriates S45,O71, 900. The estimated
revenues for the next fiscal year are ST.
1O4, 900; the amount asked for by the de.
partment, So, O62, 1s9; appropriation for the
current fiscal year, 81, 4S9, $50.
THE House Committee on Railways and
Canals ordered favorable reports on Mr.,
Hoblitzell's bill, appropriating $1,000, 600
for the construction of the Maryland and
Delaware ship canal. Mr.. Wenple's bill,
providing for the appropriation of 81 ,0OO..
900 annually for ten years for the perman.
emit improvement of the Erie canal, and Mr..
Brent's bill providing for an appropriation
for the construction of a ship canal from
Union Lake, W. T., to Puget Sound.
EULoGIES on the late Representative
Haskell were pronounced in the House OF
Representatives recently. Mr.. Belford de-
livered the principal address.
An application has been received at the
Post-office Department at Washington fol
the appointment of Miss Lizzie Mutt as post
mistress of Uniontown, Pa. She is sister
of young Mutt recently acquitted at Pitts
burgh on the charge Of numbering Dukes
REPRESENTATIVE BREWER was directed
by the House Committee on Manufactures
to report favorably his bill to impose fine
of not more than one hundred dollars OF
punishment by Imprisonment for three
months, on any person interfering in any
way with a commercial traveller selling
goods by sample.
A VERY exciting and unfortunate contro
versy occurred in the Senate recently be-
tween Senators Butler and Vest. 1t grew
out Of discussion on the pending Naval
bill. Senator Butler, whether intentional
or not, cast upon Senator Vest what the
latter thought unjustifiable reflections. Sen
ator Vest resented it, and in Language
vigorous and pointed. At one time per
sonal encounter seemed imminent
The remains of General Ord have been
inferred at Oak Hill Cemetery, w ASKING
ton.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07
THE w EST.

NEAR Sun Prairie, Wis, Lena Spaight,
aged fifteen, was outraged by two young
men, brothers, named Peckham. She suf-
fered terrible injuries. -
The st. Louis elevator men have held q
meeting and decided to post grain the mo-
ment it is discovered to be damaged.
MEASLES have decimated the Zuni In
dams of New Mexico.
The detectives now claim to have
evidence which viii surely convict the
murderer of Fora Burns.
FACTS have developed showing that the
body found behind some lumber at Elev-
enth and Central streets, Kansas City, was
that of an infant thrown there alive at
night into an obscure corner to perish from
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-07

by naval esprit du corps it can not fail te
substantiate the charges l make. There
are several survivors who, were they moi
choked off, as they express It, and com
PEELED to answer simply yes and no
could have changed the entire complexion
of the testimony given in before the
court OF inquiry. They are anxious
to be furnished an opportunity te
tell all they know, and 1 intend thai
they shall do so if there Is any such thing
as justice. 1 am free to say that the
death of my brother, belong and hi.
party should be laid at the door of Chic
Engineer Melville, and am prepared tC
prove every assertion l make"
Delta chief., 1884-04-09
Caution to Fat People.

The following Caution to Fat Men,"
from the 81. James Gazette, is going
the rounds Of the press: Fat men
resolntely bent on bringing down their
weight should read the report of DR..
Vulpian, on the causes Of the digestive
disturbance which was the rori0in Of
the malady to which the Comic de
Chambord succumbed. The Count, It
must be remembered; was, in his early
days, thrown from . horse, with the
twofold result Of tanning him and des-
troying his nerve. He was unable In
consequence either to walk or to ride
and, having exhibited . taste even
passion for hunting, he caused rides to
be cut in the forest Of Frohedorf, along
which, driven in carriage, he was
accustomed to pursue his game. This,
during the last few years Of his life,
was the only form in which no toek
exercise, and as natural consequence
he became Unfortunately stout. He had
recourse to Bantingism. and the dietary
system he adopted had the efTect--as
he first and DIR. Vulpian afterward be-
lieved-of bringing about the condition
Of stomach which at last killed him.
Some four or five years ago. says DIR.
Vulpian report, the Count, urged by
desire to diminish his stoutness, sub
mitted himself to the Banting system in
all its rigor, and in few months had
lost nearly fifty pounds Of his weight.
This rapid emaciation had produced
weakness and At the same time perhaps
disgestive troubles, and several people
have told me that was the case, and
have even traced to the same date the
first attack Of the malady.' The i'm
mediate effects # severe BantinQism
seemed TO have passed OF, but later on
the Count was twice attacked by ac7te
indigestion, and was obliged to subject
himself to severe treatment ON each oc-
casion."
Delta chief., 1884-04-09
Artificial Oysters.

Artificial eggs are beginning to be
quite well known In tho market in
some portions of the country. but now
It seems that artificial oysters arc the
latest things In deceptions, and mum.
bers Of ''manufactured bi-valves' are
said to be passed of on tho Paris pub
lie. Hitherto, although the oyster IL
self could be well initiated. II had been
found found Impossible TO make the
substance adhere TO tho she'll like ma
ture, but An ingenious parsonage has
invented . glue which overcomcs AL
such difliculty, Tho exact compost
tion Of the imitation IL not stated, but
copper Is . prominent ingredient.
Delta chief., 1884-04-09

25, 1884: Murray, c. H., Leadville, hot air oil
lamp, 295, ,666 Roth, E. D., Fort Collins, cut
ting apparatus for harvesters, 395, 1913 Roth,
E. D., Fort Collins, lubricating device for cut
ter bars, 295,s14. Sergeant, H. c., Denver,
rock drill, 295,6s2.
The purchase of Middle Park ranches
by company Of Eastern capitalists has COM
comenced in dead aInest. Hilery, Harris, H.
Duquette- andiJo Kinsey have already dis
posed of their property. Harris received $27,-
500 for his property. Urban Blickly refused
900 for his. Other sales will probably soon
be made, the owners only holding on for bet
ter price.
The other day, Sam Gill, the Gunni-
son banker, was towing with . revolver. and
while attempting to turn the cylinder, It wont
OF. The ball passed through the wall into
the Tabor House billiard hall, striking the
pool table and then glancing up 70 the ceiling.
The revolver Few up striking Mr.. GIL IN the
forehead, making an ugly flesh wound. It was
alclose call.
The Central Gold Mining Company
have ordered plant Of machinery for their
aalena mine, onlCentral City hfll, which i
warranted to have . capacity for hoissing one
thousand pounds form depth Of one thossand
feet Under the contract The machinery i 70
- in operation Sy he losh Of April. The
company advcrtisss contract 70 let the stnk-
hgof tie main shaft O theiz property N 3D.
diao.al 100 feet, Ne shafs nou being 100 fess
deep This company, since NJ reorganization,
neaas bssinssA and propose developing
Their psspesty fer III II = worth
Tho fourth annual convention Of the
0olsrado sunday-sehool Associates, enhrac-
ing Colorado and New Nsxiee, vill b bsld n
The Central Presbyterian church, IN the city
Of Denver, eommsneing Tuesday, Nay q 1854,
at . p. m, and eontinuf.g wednesday and
Thunday, Nay III snd SsA. Each Sunday
school In The State h expected 70 ssad two
dslegates- Schools having more thar one
hundred members arc entitled 70 sa additional
delegate for each Afty Denbsn after the
Ant. Ths railroads wn flr,isA attendants
upon The convention With . round-trfp ticket
for fare and lftA Of the present regular
ratea.
Tho building 1t La Jara for tho
ersaDesy association win b 1z46 test, two
stesfss, fr1me, sdooe lf.ed. and Win Q Port
md cement 1oor. II vm b. finished IN sbout
. month, md b that tins tAsi, :sev NJ
chiAssy vfll Be ready 70 put in. TAsss wfll b
stsan engine a.d Do Laval sepansos, .
.sw invention By which tAe asaa = ssparssed
hen The milk In vesy shot tina, ready for
ehsrning. This ersanssy assoeisssos, con
sisling q D. 3. Neveooh, J. l. MeNeil a.d
Harry Schiller, b backed b smp,e capital,
ed b sse Of Tie soaid institutioas Of sosth-
wsst Colombo. and bs1s fair - bsssns - q
~ lsnist Il NJ hind - Ne vest.
Delta chief., 1884-04-09

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and are mild and gentle in their opera
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Liver Pills are email and as easy to take
as sugar. One pill . dose. Price 25
cents.