The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-20
THE SOUTH.

THE SOUIhs
A BOY named Morris, aged twelve, re-
Gently shot and killed another boy named
johnson, aged nine, at Plano, Tex. Morris
was trading an old pistol at the time, when
it accidentally exploded.
The bones of q mastodon were found re-
Gently in the Cherokee Nation, embedded
in the sand in the bed of the Arkansas
River, about three miles from Fort Smith,
Ark. They are said to be the largest ever
found, and will be sent to the New Orleans
Exposition.
TIE Cumberland River was reported
raging at and above Williamsburg, KY,
and many thousand logs and slaves were
floating off. Mace Owsley, colored, was
drowned in trying to save logs.
FORTY persons were affected recently at
Chattanooga, Tenn, by drinking water
from q we'll, which, it was thought, had
been poisoned.
FORD and Murphy, of New Orleans, who
were sentenced to be hanged on November
IS, for the murder of Captain Murphy,
have been granted respite for thirty days
by the Governor.
The committee which had been arbitrat-
ing between the Knights of Labor and the
Mallory Steamship Company at Galveston
adopted a resolution recommending that
Agent Sawyer, whenever he needs labor,
give the preference to the men who were
at work on the wharf at the time of the
strike.
THE grand jury at Edgefeld, 6. c., has
found a true bill against thirty zone of the
Culbreath lynchers and mo bill" as to the
two others.
A RANcHMAN who arrived in Ell Paso,
Tex, recently from the scene of the late
scouts who were employed by Crook form
q part of the band that murdered J. K.
Yeater and wife, of Sedalia, Mo-, and at
tackled ard burned the ranch residence of
John Shy. Their murder has created
widespread indignation. Mrs. Yeater was
outraged and mutilated beyond recogni.
ton.
JOHN L. HEcHMER, the defaulting Treas
urer of the Catholic Knights of America,
was recently tried at Grafton, w. Va, and
found guilty of forgery. He was charged
with embezzling $4,000 belonging to the
order in 1888. He disappeared and the
geries. He surrendered himself few
months ago.
The area Of the burnt district of Calves.
ton, in the fire Of the 18th, was about 100
acres. Over 400 buildings were destroyed
and 1000 families rendered homeless. No
public buildings were consumed, except
the Second District school building. The
loss amounted to about S., 0O0, 900, with
81, 000, 600 insurance.
THREE persons were killed in Hopkins
vile, KY, recently by the explosion of .
boiler in q -four mill. The loss was 5000.
GENERAL.
THE charge of indecent assault preferred
against Editor Stead and others in the
Armstrong case in London ended in ver-
dict of guilty and they were sentenced as
follows: Stead, three months; Rebecca
Jarrett. six months; Sampson Jacques.
one month; all without hard labor; and
Madame Louise Morey, six months with
hard labor.
A REPORT received by the Nicaragua
Government of the departure OF two yes
sells from Salvador with tho object of iu-
vading Nicaragua was verified by the fact
Of one of them disembarking arms ON the
island of Manguers and troops at Some.
tilla- On the approach of Government
forces at vianva, . village occupied BY the
invaders, the latter hed to Honduran ter.
ritory, where they were disarmed by the
authorities.
ADvIcEs from Melbourne say that no
credence was given there to the report that
the natives Of Fly River murdered all the
members Of the Sydney Geographical Az.
sociation's expedition to New Guinea.
TIE army estimates Of Germany show
an increase Of s.. 0o0. 900. The total expen-
diture Is estimated at S., 50O, 900, of which
R6,S75, 900 win be covered by loan.