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

tore and mutilated her in a horrible man
mr.. One ear was torn of, the left eye was
knawed out, her left arm broken and every
stitch Of clothing except part Of an under
skirt was stripped from her body. Her
face and head were badly disfgured. Hel
brother Roy, aged nine, Jumped over the
fence to rescue his sister. He. too, was
knocked down and slightly hurt. The
mother heard the cries of the children and
saved them from horrible death.
MRS. ELIZABETH IRVING was recently
hurt severely by falling from depot plat
form at Nokomis, Ill
| A FATAL accident, by which five men
were instantly killed, recently occurred al
81. Paul, Mimi. The boiler of thrashing
machine exploded with the above results.
The engineer was drunk, and the steam got
up to 100.
| THE body of Patrick Ash, aged sixty
years, was found floating in the Arkansas
River, near Pueblo, recently. He had been
an inmate of the Insane Asylum for long
| time, and was discharged few weeks be-
fore his death occurred. The old man had
left his coat on the bank and had tied to
his neck a large piece of Stag from smell
ter near by, weighing about fifty pounds,
| securing it by means of pieces of rope and
wire from baled hay. He was not known
to have any relatives or friends.
SEVEN business houses were recently
burned in McGregor, Ia, entailing loss
of SIC, 900, covered by insurance.
ALBERT ZIMMERMAN, aged three years,
was playing with a loaded shotgun re-
Gently at Altamont, Ill.,, when it was acci-
IDENTIFY discharged and killed him.
ALDERMAN FORD, of Kansas City, has
become the theatrical manager of young
Walker Whiteside, the boy tragedian of
Chicago. Their season is to open at Chi
cago.
WILLIAM JORDAN, a Waterman at Oak
wood Cemetery, Chicago, was recently
found dead in the cemetery chapel from
bullet wound in his head. It was supposed
to have been an accidental death.
OVER one thousand miners recently
struck in the coal mines of Colorado. A
meeting of miners was lately held at Wal
senburg, Col, and all the leading officers
of the Colorado Coal & Iron Company at
tended.
THE Steubenville Bottle Company lately
assigned, being pressed for the payment
of Judgment of $1,000. Liabilities, S10,-
900; assets, $1,000. Big concerns cutting
prices to freeze out the small ones was the
cause Of the trouble.
GEORGE RHoADEs was lately found gull
ty of highway robbery at Rockford, H., in
holding up and robbing ex-Mayor r. 81.
Tinker in 1888, and sentenced to the States
prison for four years. Last year Tinker
was on his way home when he was CARROT
ted and robbed of a large sum of money in
gold. Rhoades was suspected but he skipped
out and only returned recently. He is
brother of Ex-Mayor Levi Rhoades, and is
said to be the most notorious thief, thug
and burglar in the city.
AN immense fire recently occurred at
Milwaukee, Wis, by which the mammoth
dry goods establishment of I. A. Chap
man & Co., was destroyed. The building,
estimated at Sl50, 900, and the stock, esti.
mated at $4,000, were entirely lost, but
were fully insured. Stark Bros, also lost
100000 by the fire. The origin of the
blaze was mystery.
THE Western Freight Classification
Committee which recently met at Milwau-
kee, adjourned until the first Wednesday
in February. Over one hundred altera-
tions in freight classifcations were made,
to go into effect on the 10th of November.
JERE DUNN, the prizs fighter, lam
cuisines in the Chicago Jail, charged with
aiding and abetting prize fight. He can
not raise the =, 200 bail required.
RECENTLY while the employees of the
post-office at Centralia, ILL.,, were at the
fair, thieves entered at the rear window
and distracted $500 in postage stamps and
SS25 in cash. The city was full of confidence
men and thieves, attending the fair, and in
connection with those that belong in the
city, were "doing" the town with wonder
full success.
AT Palmyra, Harrison County, Ind, re.
Gently, a party of thirty women, disguised
in mems clothes, rode up to the liquor sa-
loon of William Bott, at a late hour Of the
night, and demanded admission of Bott,
whose residence is in the house with the
saloon. Enforcing the demand with drawn
revolvers they were admitted to the house
and at once set to work and broke all the
decanters, glasses and other furniture of
the bar, and knocked i'm the heads of all
the barrels and kegs, and poured out the
liquor. They then gave Bott notice that if
he reopened the saloon they would pay
him another visit and lynch him, as they
did not intend to tolerate the sale of liquor
in the town. Bott began to look for an
other location.
The post-office at Steelville, H., was re.
Gently robbed of 500 worth of jswelry.
A BLOODY affair lately occurred on a
Wabash train near indianapolis, Ind. A
drunken woman began the disturbance by
drawing out long knife and beginning to
slash passengers promiscuously. She was
arrested after dangerously stabbing some
half dozen people, among whom was the
conductor.