The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-04-24

1 snts an assault upon VIGOROUSLY bad
white woman who associated with the In.
dams, by an old squaw.
| MARSHAL NOAH VEST, of Buckner, No.,
was shot in two places, recently by con-
cealed assassins. He was thought fatally
injured. A few days before an attempt
had been made to poison him. The affair
was supposed to have grown out OF the
Marshal having killed desperate named
Ackers. who resisted arrest.
| BARYEY MCAULEY, the actor made IA
nous by his approximations of Uncle Dan
| tel, in "The Messenger from Jarvis Sec
tion," was sentenced at Cleveland, O., re-
Gently, to thirty days in the workhouse for
| drunkenness.
FURTHER particulars make it probable
| that the murdered body found in box at
| the Southern Hotel, st. Louis, was that OF
| man named Preller, wealthy English
man, and that he had been murdered by
his companion, a DIR. Maxwell, also an
Englishman. The s'traitor" paper found in
the box was thought to be merely blind.
Preller had been murdered probably nine
or ten days before the discovery of the re-
mains. A clew existed as to the where
abouts of Maxwell. 1t was thought that
Maxwell had robbed Preller, the latter be-
ing in the habit of carrying considerable
money.
JOHN L. CURTIS, the Mayor-elect of
Grand Rapids, Mich, got himself into such
disfavor for refusing to vote in the State
Senate on a resolution of sympathy with
General Grant in his sickness, that an in
dignation meeting was held and he was
asked to resign all his trusts.
THE Cigar Makers International Union
has withdrawn its contribution for the
maintenance of the cigar makers at Gin
cinnati who have for a long time been out
strike or lockout.
NEARLY the entire business portion Of
Bloomer, Wis, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
ST., 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE other morning a small boy started a
fire accidentally in the Leander Reed
Building, Chicago, which resulted in
damage of about S250,000 to the building
and contents. Several of the occupants
and firemen barely escaped with their
lives.
In the Illinois State Senate the bill in
troduced by Mr.. Streeter to reduce railroad
fare to2h cents per mile was defeated.
AT the quarterly meeting of the Illinois
State Board of Health held at Chicago on
the 10th, DR.. Rauch, the Secretary, spoke
of information he received from private
sources that the Asiatic cholera had ex-
listed in Paris up to January 10th, and that
it had appeared in Valencia, Spain, in
March.
ONE man was instantly killed and five
fatally injured by an accident recently on
the high line division of the South Park
construction train containing sixty other
workmen, when it was struck by an ava
lanche of snow and boulders.
A BLUNT, OAK, special says: j. Fl. Bell,
who murdered f. G. Small at Harold last
December, has been lynched.
THE Lincoln Ull.) Coal Company's shaft
caught fire on the 10th, imprisoning several
men. An immense amount of property was
destroyed. The fire was caused by the ex-
plosion of torch in the oil room. The men
escaped.
Cut III Vic oistiiNo oSo-
sen amounted to 100000 feet against
200, 100000 feet last season.
MADDUX Bros, wholesale gTocers and
dealers in tobacco and cigars, Cincinnati,
have made an assignment. Assets esti-
mated at $50, 600: liabilities, $4,000.
Z Two masked highwaymen stopped the
stage from Vulture to Phoenix, A. T., the
other night and obtained an express box
containing $500.
Two railway trains collided at the cross
ing at Plymouth, Mich, the other day,
killing large number Of cattle and block
ing the roads until noon.
Two Italians named Capron and Santore
were hanged at Thomastown, Me-, recently
for the murder and robbery of a fellow
workman on the railroad about eighteen
months ago.
In the United States Court at Cincinnati
Hon John F. Mckinney, of Piqua, o., was
convicted of having received excessive fees
for collecting pensions. 1t was proven that
he received $3.50 for obtaining pension OF
81 200.
INDIAN AGENT McGILLICUDDY, of the
Pine Ridge agency, at his own request. has
been granted permission to go TO Washing
ton to reply to the charges made against
him by Red Cloud.