The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-31

struck in the back Of the party playing
breast OF the leaper and broke into one of
the fourth costal cartridges, which pro-
duced friction of the heart, perceptible to
the wounded boy as he felt the gradual
ooxing of blood ct each impulse. He ling
| cred twenty.four hours and died in great
| anguish. These facts were elected by the
| surgeon who made an examination after
| death.
w. E. CARNEY was recently shot through
the window of his residence at Uvalde,
Tex. For some time he had been guilty of
intimacy with Mrs. Minis, wife of neigh
boring steckman. Finally the woman de-
serted her two children, took all the house
hold effects aud went to live with Carney
in a disreputable neighborhood. Nilms is
supposed to have done the deed.
Ar a recent meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Masons at Louisville, KY, Grand High
Priest Farleigh bitterly condemned Pope
Leo for his decree against Masonry and
his insinuations that the tendencies of the
Order are either infidelic or at any rate
anti Catholic. He denounced all the
charges as absolutely false.
THOMAS WHITE, late cashier of the
Planters and Mechanics Bank of Peters
burg, Va, was recently indicted by the
grand jury there for making certain fraud
ulent entries in the teller's book whereby
Thomas White, the teller of the same bank,
was credited with 50, $50 as deposited Jam
uary Is, 1888, and $3.50 as deposited jan
uary 81, 1888.
ENGINEER COLE, of Galveston, Tex, re-
Gently lost his life by drowning, by jump
ing into the bay to save the life of a young
lady, Miss Laura LAMAR, who had acct
dentally fallen through a bridge. Both
were lost.
MISS FANNIE ROBERTSON, a beautiful
fourteen-year-old girl at Macon, Ga, re-
Gently disappeared in a very mysterious
manner. 1t was rumored that she was
murdered, and her father was suspected
of foul play.
A YOUNG lady giving the name of Julia
Lee was recently found dead beside fence
in Dallas, Tex, with a bullet wound in her
breast. She had been there but few days
and hailed from the Indian Territory. She
had evidently committed suicide.
A COW was recently observed digging
potatoes near Maysville, KY. After dig.
cling them with her horns she ate them.
FROM recent estimates it has been found
that the orange crop of Florida for this
year will exceed three million boxes.
THE old Bascombe race track at Mobile,
Ala, celebrated for forty years, but not
used since the war, is being renewed and
put in order. 1t will be used as a winter
resort by some seventy horses belonging
to Captain William Cottrell; to Louis
Martin, of Mobile; to s. s. Brown, the
Pittsburgh millionaire; to 7. j. Moore, of
California, and others. Arrangements
are being made for a spring meeting, at
which it is expected steps will be taken to
make it one of the most popular tracks in
the Union.
JAMES DUNCAN, of Dallas, Tex, recently
fell dead in a chair in saloon. A note
was found on him reading: 81 am fifty
years old to-day, and this is my last day
on earth. am tired of the world"
JOE GoFF, desperate Texas highway.
man, who some months ago robbed a man
of his money in a ravine near the city of
Fort Worth, and then made him strip off
his clothes, which he also stole, was sent
to the penitentiary for ten years few
days ago.
EDWARD o. FITZGERALD, Jr., of Rich.
mond, Va, was accidentally shot few
days ago while packing his trunk for his
fatal.