The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-21

HENRY A. TuDEN, youngest brother o1
Samuel J. Tilden. died ct New Lebanon, N
Y, recently, aged sixty.thrse.
G1oRGE TIFFANY, twenty years old .
son of the sbsconding postmaster, Of Ben
nington, Vt, has been arrested and ceu
fessed to stealing Government money. HI
is implicated in his fathers fraud.
FIFTY.FIvE bridges were destroyed be
tween Pittsburgh and Cairo during the
Ohio floods; estimated cost Of replacing
$4,000.
CLARK ROBINSON has sued G. e. Garri
son, of NewsYork, to recover $2,S95. $50
claiming that amount on account Of sale OF
bonds.
THE WEST.
THREE colored women attacked q negro
in Cairo, ILL.,, recently. He defended him
self with Ratchet. inficting. frightful
wounds. ar
The Chicago liquor dealers have resolved
to contest the high license law of Illinois.
Ar Coshocton, o., Helen King Spangler,
wife of Hon. e. T. Spangler, and author Of
''The Physicians Wife," and other well
known novels, was found dead in her bath
room from apoplexy.
ABRAHAM BREATH died in Alton, ILL.,, re-
Gently. He was one of the two or three
men who rallied to the support of Elijah P.
Lovejoy, editor of the Alton Observer, who
was killed November Z, 1887, in pro-sla.
very riot.
The convicts at Anamosa Prison, Iowa,
made an effort to escape, which failed.
RED sticks, the Greek call for war, have
been found in the yards of many Spieeche
full bloods, although things are quiet at
present in the Indian Nation.
The Advance Elevator, in East st. Louis,
burned with $4,000 bushels of grain, about
one hundred freight cars and a dozen frame
buildings.
The aggregate yield of lard during the
past season at Cincinnati was II, 900
pounds, showing a decrease of 1896, 600
pounds from the preceding year.
A FIRE started in the west side business
quarter of the village Of Allegan, twenty
FIVE miles northwest of Kalamazoo, Mich,
recently, and under high west wind swept
through the entire district to the river,
taking every brick store building in the
place except the Chaffee hotel and Peck's
bank building. The fire had run its course
in two hours. The aggregate loss is placed
by Allegan business men at from 100000
to 500, 900, probably high estimate. The
insurance is believed to amouSt to $50, 900.
The Chicago fast mail service will be ex-
tended to milwaukee and st. Paul.
A SPECIAL from Harrisburg, H., town
lying one hundred and twenty miles south
of st. Louis, says thatpersons coming in
from the south and southeast of
that town tell of terrific cyclone that
swept across Saline County, recently,
doing considerable damage.
A WEYAUwEGA, Wis, special says:
Frederick Vierks, German aged eighty
five years, was found dead near his barn
in the town of Lind, with his skull crushed
in. A mallet lay beside him but there's no
other trace of the murderer. Vierks had
considerable money about him before the
murder. 1t is now missing.
The Utah Legislature passed another
multiplying act, which was promptly vetoed
by Governor Murray.
HAILsToNEs an inch in diameter fell re-
Gently at Nokomis, Ill.
G. EGGENBERGER, merchant and saloon
keeper, of Odell, ILL.,, was murdered and
his body placed on the track recently,
supposed by tramps, who also robbed him.
A FIRE in Grand Rapids, Mich, destroyed
about 500, 900 worth of property recently.
THE mother of Moll Halbrook, the famous
shop-lifter, was found dead in a small
house which she had made her home in the
southern part of Chicago. The mother
was herself noted thief.
The Merchants Association of Milwau-
kee passed a resolution calling for the sus-
pension of silver dollars. .....
A wATERsPoUT broke on the farm Of s.
NJ. Elwood, near Nashville, H., flooding
everything, but causing no other dam
age.
The wheat crop in the vicinity of Effing.
ham, H., is reported seriously injured by
recent alterations of freezing and thawing
weather.
PRENTIss TILLER, the Pacific Express
robber at st. Louis, was arrested recently
at Milwaukee and 500, 000pf the money re-
covered. The arrest was due to his own
folly in leaving his Talise with the money
at trunk store to be repacked. His &C.
complete, a man named McFadden, has
also been arrested, at Sherman, Texas.
A SHOCKING case of cruelty has come to
light in Norwalk, o. Maggie Montgomery,
aged eight years, was taken from charita-
BILE institution by Mrs. Blinzly, who beat
her and starved her, fractured her skull
and burned her with hot poker. There
were but slight chances of the child's re-
covery. So incensed were the people that
they threatened to lynch the whole Blinzly
family.
THE Governor of Kansas has called an
extra session Of the Legislature to convene
at Topeka on Tuesday, March 18th, to take
action in regard to the cattle plague that
now prevails in the State.
A FIRE at Kansas City the other morning
destroyed Woodward, Faxon & Co.'s place,
1906 to 1908 Union avenue. The loss on
drugs, buildings and other property
amounted to nearly 100000. A young man
named Alternately was killed by lesping
from a fourth story window to escape
being burned.
Hon. JOHN TAFFE died at North Platte,
Neb., recently. He was q prominent citi-
zen, having represented Nebraska in Con-
gress for three terms, from 1866 to 1872. At
the time of his death he was Receiver of the
United States Land Office at North Platte,
which position he had held for several
years He was born in Indianapolis in 1927.
AUDITOR WALKER, of Missouri, has re-
ceived a letter from 7. c. Campbell, Il
Kirksville. informing him that the mouth
and foot disease had broken out among the
cattle in Northern Missouri.
The Aspen stage, which arrived at Lead
vile the other night, brought news of q
fatal snow-slide which occurred at Aspen
mountains. Three employees Of the Vallejo
mine, George Marshall, William O'Brien,
"a LII, xroro Hillod M;ko