The Iola register., 1885-08-14

~. c. JOINS, sx-Warden of the ststs
Penitentiary, has been appointed United
Htates Marshal for Kansas, vice Ben Sfmp-
con, resigned.
PERRY BHos., jewelers., of Chicago, have
made IN assignment. Liabilities $40,00O;
assets. S6O.00e.
TIE village of Milford, wis., was almost
destroyed by fire the other night. It wa
the fourth FIRE in . short time and waa
thought to have been an incendiary.
The Civil Service Commission, after In
quiry, exonerated Aquilla Jones, Post
master Of Indianapolis, Of the charges pre-
ferred against him.
JACK McDKRMoTT, arrested at Ashta-
bula, O., several weeks ago for burglary,
proved to be Charles Williams, alias Con-
fidence Johnny, wanted in st. Louis for
the murder of Henry Moran ON june 9.
EARPn BARKHEAD, young Greek out
Law, was executed at Eufaula. l. T., re-
Gently in Indian fashion, being shot to
death by the Greek light horse guard, sit
ting on his coffin in the principal portion
of the town, near the Missouri Pacific eat
ting house. Sarpie was q slender youth,
only eighteen years old, but had long been
o hardened criminal and defied the author
titles. He murdered family, and his Chief
refused to mitigate the sentence.
THE Consul of Guatemala In San Fran
cisco, has received instruction from his
Government 20 enter formal protest with
Postmaster General Villas against the Pa
cific Mail Company for having refused to
carry the Guatemalian mails on their
steamers, according to contract.
In the case of Thomas A. Parker vs.. Fred
erick G. Castle, from the Huron Land Dis
trict of Dakota, the Secretary of the Inte-
rior reversed, upon review, his predeces.
sor's decision of February 10, 1885. Mr..
Lamar holds that it must be affirmatively
shown that due diligence has been shown
to produce personal service before an order
for publication can be allowed.
The other night John c. Brady, of
Scottsburg, Ind, was murdered in his
house by an unknown burglar, who es-
capped.
IT is stated that some of the cattlemen
declare that If the President concludes to
order the removal of cattle from the Chero-
kee strip the lessees of land in that section
of the Indian Territory will contest his
action in the courts. They claim that the
Cherokee Indians have the right to lease
their lands under their treaty with the
Government and if the lessees are disturbed
they will make a contest.
A SEVERE hail storm occurred the other
morning between Elba and North Loup,
Neb., destroying corn and other crops in
strip of territory ten miles wide. 1t broke
all the windows in a passenger train on
the Black Hills Branch Of the Union Pa
cific.
YELLOW fever has appeared at Mazatlan
and Tehuantepec, Mexico. At the former
place the disease is not violent and the
physicians have good success in treating
it. At Tehuantepec efforts are being made
by the municipal authorities to stamp out
the fever.
MYRTLE Ross, handsome and respecta-
BILE young lady of Cleveland, made arrange
ments to wed Samuel Smith recently. The
guests assembled, but Samuel did not ap-
pear. 1t has since been learned that he
fed the city and that he had a wife in Me-
dina, N. Y.
CoFFEY COUNTY, KAN, has been much
exercised over the mysterious disappear
ance of the County Treasurer, D. V. Mott.
He was reported to have had $4,000 on his
person when last seen in Kansas City, July
g, when he was supposed to be on his way
to Topeka to settle the June accounts with
the State Treasurer. A cursory examina-
ton of his books was reported to have
shown deficiency of $4,000.
MRS. SAMUEL MCELRoY with her two
little boys recently started from st. Clairs-
vile Junction, O., to walk along the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad track towards Bell
aire, and while they were on a bridge near
the latter place, the east-bound fast pas
senger train came around a bend and
caught them before they could reach the
other end. Mrs. McElroy was shockingly
mutilated and instantly killed, one of the
boys fatally hurt and has died since, and
the other boy was SO badly injured that he
can not recover.