The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-02
THE WEST.


LII. A motion for new trial was denied.
THE WEST.
WILLIAM MOODY was arrested at Deca-
tur, H., on the charge Of fraudulently
casting ballot the 18th Of April. It was
claimed that he voted in the neighboring
Township of Warrensburg three weeks
previously. ..f
An attempt at jail breaking at Milwaukee
was frustrated by the jailer thrusting in a
bolt after he had been nearly blinded by
the prisoners throwing ashes in his eyes.
A SMELLING committee, appointed to in.
quire into charges of bribery against q
member of the st. Louis Council, discov-
cred perfect nest of corruption.
A JAPANESE was hung in the bell tower
of the fire department of Ogden, q. T., the
other day. He had shot and killed his
landlady, Mrs. Gudgell, which caused q
mob to invade the jail to which he had
been taken. After show of resistance
from the officers, the prisoner was taken to
the bell tower and hung.
WHITE BEAR, Two Kettles, Little No
Heart, and several other chiefs Of the
Dakota, and were anxious to have a meet.
ing at that place, about June 1, with the
Commissioners, to sign the treaty opening
the Sioux reservation.
THE Assessor and Collector of Salt Lake
County, Utah, was defaulter to the
amount of $4,000.
IT was reported that H. L. Taylor & Co.,
of Cleveland, while prospecting for oil in
Washington County, Tenn, recently, struck
a thousand barrel gusher. The well was
plugged to await q favorable opportunity
for further development of the new field.
THOMAS A. WILLIAMS, of Washington,
Ind, was arrested at Decatur, ILL.,, the
other night, and Sheriff Ward, of Davis
County, Ind, took him East. Williams was
wanted at Washington for the embezzle-
ment of large sum of money from differ.
ent firms by whom he was employed. Off,
GERS have been searching for him for sew
eral months. He was placed in irons.
AGGREGATE receipts at the auction sale
of seats for the May musical festival at
Cincinnati amour ed to ST., 900.
The prospect for plentiful supply of
logs and timber this season at Dubuque,
Iowa, was excellent. The cut of lgs in
the pineries along the streams emptying
into the Upper Mississippi was very large.
FRANK and Charles Jones, father and
son, were instantly killed at the bottom of
a coal mine shaft a. Dauville, ILL.,, recently,
several tons of coal falling upon them.
MAYS & CLARK, wholesale hardware
dealers, of st. Paul, Mimi, have sus.
pended payment. Liabilities, S135, 600;
assets, SIS, 200.
THE thirty days. weighing, at Indian
apolis, Ind, of the mail matter in transit,
closed recently. Thirty-three extra r. II.
S. clerks have been employed there and on
Indianapolis lines during the weighing.
The mails weighed much more than they
did four years ago.
A COLLISION occurred between two pas
senger trains on the Cincinnati, Washing
ton & Baltimore Railroad near Athens, o.
Conduc or John Dillon was fatally, and
several passengers slightly inju.ed.
IsAAcN. ARNALD, a well known barrister
of Chicago, died on the oath. e..
j. C. BURROWS, of Michigan, recently
nominated and confirmed as Solicitor of
the Treasury, has written to the President
formally declining the Office.
The American Oak leather tannery
burned recently at Cincinnati. Loss about
SaoO, 900, nearly covered by insurance.
TwELvE business houses were burned at
Wooster, O., recently. Supposed incen-
uiary.
The wholesale drug store of Rumble,
Cutter & Co., of Cincinnati was destroyed
by fire on the morning of the 18th. Loss
very heavy.
THERE was a report that the whole of
the whites on Mitchell's place on the Lower
San Juan River, in Southern Colorado, had
been massacred by the Utes. The whites
numbered fifteen persons. Troops were
Wingate, N. NJ, to the scene of the trouble.
The clol hing establishment of ]. Knox g.
Co, at Akron, O., burned the other morn
ing. Loss $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
RUDeER CLAwsoN, son of Bishop Claw
son, paraded a. a typical family, was in.
dicted at Salt Lake for polygamy, in hav
ing married two wives since the passage
of Edmunds bill.
THE SOUTh
THE Democratic State and Parish tickets
were generally successful in Louisiana at
the recent election. A light vote was
polled.
TEE Alabama State Mineral Exposition
opened the other day at Birmingham, in
that State, with ten thousand people pres.
ent. Governor O'Neal delivered an ad-
dress.
and Bill Hale, two desperadoes, engaged in
a shooting ARRAY. Finn shot Hale through
the heart, but before Hale fell be shot
Finn twice, from the effects Of which he
died in few hours.
j. DOUGLAS and r. B. Spencer, managers