The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
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A VERY heavy storm occurred In Chicago
on the night Of the I'd. Five persons were
reported killed by lightning, and much
damage resulted from washouts, etc.
ANoTHER explosion Of dynamite occurred
in Denver on the I'd, the explosive being
placed under . stable. The people were
considerably excited and threatened to
lynch the perpetrators. The stable be-
longsd to Mr.. Davis, who owned Q -four
ing mill, and had been in difficulties with
his workmen.
r. NJ. REYNOLDS, late First Auditor OF
the United States Treasury, killed himself
the other morning at the Southern HOTEL
st. Louis. He either fell accidentally or
threw himself down the air shaft.
A YOUNG man named Champlin, at Gin
cinnati recently, attempted TO kill his
mother while under the influence of liquor.
DIR. E. E. Lay, a well.known physician,
living in the same house, defended her.
Shortly after Champlin procured a butcher
knife and attempted to murder the doctor.
The latter procured pistol and shot
Champlin dead.
THE troops following the renegade In
dian trail with scouts from Apache, on the
head waters of the ella River, were re-
ported to have captured the main portion
of the band, including squaws. 1t was
supposed that only about fifty all told got
away to Mexico.
SAM LANG, an aged Chinaman, threw
poison into the face of boy named Love,
at Grand Rapids, Mich, recently. He had
previously had an alteration with the
boys father. The boys life was barely
saved.
DIR. E. E. LAY, who killed Henry Champ
lin, his brother-in-law, at Cincinnati, was
discharged in the police court, the Judge
saying the testimony made out clearly a
case of self-defense.
THE Beaver Park reservoir, near Long
mont, COL, burst recently, carrying away
houses, barns and everything it came in
contact with. The reservoir contained an
immense body of water.
THE murderer of the Chinaman, Lou
johnson, at st. Louis, was Chy Pock, who
was arrested in Murphy sboro, Ala. Chy
Pock confessed the deed. He had been
paid by his countrymen at St. Louis to put
johnson out of the way.
Two citizens were reported recently
murdered by horse thieves in Powder River
Valley, Oregon.
THE Apaches on the San Carlos "a. IT,
reservation were reported as peaceable.
They had commenced harvesting.
The stock of -four in Cincinnati June l
showed greater amount than at any COR
responding time during the past ten years.
The figures were: Wheat flour, Al, $40 bar
rels: rye -four, l,522 barrels; total, 1924,
against total last year of only 81, 435.
EARLY on the morning of the 4th, burg
lars were discovered breaking open the
safe of Barley & Co., at Sedalia, Mo. In
attempting the arrest of one of them a po-
liceman named Fifer was shot through the
mouth and neck. Fifer succeeded in shoot
ing the burglar through the heart. The re-
naming three burglars escaped. The dead
man was discovered to be Edward Kerfoot,
formerly of Otterville, Mo.
In the Illinois Legislature on the 4th, the
bill was passed providing that after 1889
members of the Legislature should be paid
for the session 81 200, with ten cents mileage
and for the extra session five dollars per
day for the first thirty days and three dol
lars per day thereafter; any member alb
sent from the house to forfeit ten dollars
per day.
MYRIADs of young grasshoppers, levi
IDENTIFY just Matched out in the warm sand,
have made their appearance on the south
side of the Arkansas River, at Canon City,
Col.
DIR. CRAFTS, physician of Kansas City,
committed suicide recently by taking NOR
phine. He was in domestic difficulties,
having divorce suit pending.
FIN and Mans Rainsbarger were lynched
at Eldora, Iowa. The affair grew
out of feud in Hardin County, in which a
man named johnson was murdered. The
murder spirit was reported very rife in the
county.
GENERAL CROOK recently telegraphed
that the Indians had killed seven men near
Alma, five near Silver City, two near old
Camp Vincent, and three near Grafton, n.
NJ. 1t was also probable that the Apaches
had killed others.