The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-15
THE WEST.

AT JerSeyvllle, ILL.,, Mrs. john w. Slater
recently fell dead at the piano while play
ing an accompaniment for her son, who was
playing the violin.
The other night Deputy Postmaster
Shuler was shot on the street at Union
City, Mich, by James Lay, while the latter
was drunk and boisterously expressing a de-
sire to "shoot somebody" Lay fed.
COLONEL BoUpINor and Captain Pike
appeared before the House Committee on
reiterated their charges concerning
the receipt by ex-Congressman William A.
Phillips of 81, 900 from the Cherokee IN
dams upon the pretext that this sum was
to compensate Secretary Teller and Sena-
tor Dawes for their influence in securing
$3O0, 200 appropriation for the Indians at
the last Congress.
THE rise in the Ohio River continued to
create alarm at Cincinnati and other
points.
A SHOCKING tragedy was reported from
the Indian Territory. Two men named
Lane and Rayburn encamped on the
Washita River and during the night Lane
murdered his companion, robbed him of
about 5000, the proceeds of the sale of
land, and several horses and escaped.
1T is stated that many farmers in the in
terror of Ohio are out of corn and are buy
ing it from the warehouses for feeding pur-
poses. In some of the best corn-growing
districts load after load may be seen going
from the towns back into the country.
Numbers of farmers have sold their hogs
because they could not afford to feed them.
NEAR Freeport, H., recently, the Illinois
Central mixed train for the West struck a
broken rail and the caboose and seven
freight cars loaded with live stock were
thrown down sixty-foct embankment.
Three train-men were injured, Conductor
Gordon seriously. There were seven Ger
man passengers in the caboose, all more or
less injured, two having arms broken. The
passenger coach, containing five passen-
gers, was saved from the frightful plunge
by lodging against tree near the track.
AT Lindale. O., John Kramer, freight
conductor on the Bee Line, recently crawled
under the tank car, which had contained
gasoline, to inspect it. The lamp ignited
from gas still lingering around the tank.
The car was torn to fragments and Kramer
killed.
4 GERMAN farm laborer employed near
Millersburg, Iowa, recently shot Mary
Shuster, daughter of a widow by whom he
was employed, because the girl refused to
receive his attentions. He then killed
himself. His victim was not expected to
live.
THE stage of the Ohio River at Cincin-
natl on the 9th was over sixty feet and
still rising two inches an hour. The flood
equaled that of 1882. The gas-works had
been closed and the water invaded hun
dreds of houses. At Athens, O., the river
was within five feet of the great flood of
1915, and rapidly rising.
FINANCIAL troubles recently caused .ae
wife of John E. Baughman. well-to-do
farmer living near Doylestown, O., to be-
come insane and cut her throat with q
butcher knife.
THE region of country about Silverton,
Col, suffered recently from the most de-
structive snow storm of the season. The
snow was several feet deep on level, with
was at stand-still. transportation blocked
and snow slides reported numerous.
REPORTS from the Upper Elkhorn coun-
try in Nebraska were that Kid Wade,
leader of a band of Niobrara outlaws and
horse thieves, had been hanged by Vigi-
lantes. 1t is stated that the Vigilantes
have headquarters at place called "The
Pen," at the mouth of the Long Pine, and
have arrested large number of men in
various parts OF Northern Nebraska and
taken them to "The Pen," where they were
tried and disposed of in some manner. 1t
was said to be positively known they had
lynched eleven men and equally sure that
others had met the same fate.
Two burglars entered the house of
Samuel Norman, at Chillicothe, o., the
other night, when Norman shot one dead
and the other was arrested.
The rise in the Ohio River on the 18th had
reached the point attained last year and
the river was still rising. The Ohio Valley
was flooded and much damage done. Pitts
burgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville
and other points suffered severely.
THE recent arrest Of Dennis DowneT at
Detroit, Mich, led to the discovery that