The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-08-27

| Wer0 Killed. among tu0 victimS WeHo su9
wife and child of John Oakes and Mrs.
Wait.
AT Huron, Ind, recently Mr.. Davis,
agent of the Ohio & Mississippi railway,
discovered Q tramp carrying Of his CLOTHES,
containing Q large amount OF money,
gold watch, etc. Davis pursued the tramp
when the latter turned upon and stabbed
him to DEATH The murderer was pursued
by posse Of men, captured and lynched.
| FRED HALDERMAN, Of Avoca, Iowa, near
| Council Bluffs, accidentally killed himself
recently while working with q mob of pro-
hibitionists, who were seixing and destroy
ing stocks Of liquor.
The business portion of Tulare, Cal. was
burned the other night. Loss. $S50.OOO. In
cendiary.
| Ex-CoNGREssMAN THOMAS REED, of Obio,
met with q terrible death while returning
the other evening from the Twentieth Dis
trict Congressional convention at Akron,
ing from the window of . car, when his
brains were dashed out against girder on
the bridge near Peninsula
OwINs to the drouth the condition OF
cattle in Northern Montana is reported as
terrible. The animals will probably be
driven into Canada.
MUcH damage to crops has been done
about Decatur, ILL.,, by a storm. Light
ming destroyed q $4,000 barn and killed
several animals.
| COLONEL DAVID HENDERSON, Republican
Representative in Congress from the Third
Iowa district was recently renOminated by
| reclamation.
JAMES SCorT, q fisherman of Lewiston,
attempted to swim the whirlpool rapids at
Niagara Falls on the 10th in q cork suit.
His dead body was picked up at Lewiston
an hour later.
THE Irish National League of America
closed its session at Chicago on the 10th.
president.
The Missouri Democrats, at st. Louis on
the 10Th, adopted the State platform and
nominated the following ticket: Supreme
Judge, Theodore Brace, Of Monroe County;
Superintendent of Public Schools, w. f.
Coleman, of Saline County, present in
cumbent; Railroad Commissioner, John
Breathitt, of Saline County.
THIRTY saloons in Sioux City, Ia, have
been closed. There were no new develop
ments in the Haddock murder case.
The Indians, one of whose number was
killed by a man named Montgomery near
Clifton, Ariz., recently, declared that they
were ON hunting expedition when their
comrade was murdered.
LIEUTENANT SroREY's Arctic exploring
expedition has been heard from, a letter
| written last Christmas having reached San
| Francisco on the 18th.
JAMES F. WILSON and Henry V. Leslie,
the absconding officers of the Chesapeake
& Delaware Canal Company, are in Wind
| sor, Ont.
JUDsoN & Co., carpet dealers in Chicago,
have made an assignment, with $4,000 liza
bilities and assets of $4,000.
DURING the two weeks fires in Juneau
| County, Wis, ten thousand acres OF cram
berry marsh and timber land were burned.
| Many farm houses were burned ana stock
destroyed.
HUNDREDS of sparrows were killed BY
hail at Carlyle ILL.,, recently.
A SPECIAL from Sandusky, O.. says: A
disastrous incendiary fire occurred in the
Massillon Steel works, built in 1872 at
cost of $200,OOO No insurance.
WARDS shingle mill and five hundred
| thousand shingles burned the other night
at Leadington, Mich. Loss. $4,000.
MANAGER Lucas claims to have lost $780,
600 over the ST. Louis Base Ball Club. He
! says he has had enough.
R. W. PIERCE, of Milwaukee,, says very
little green pine was destroyed by the for
| est fires.
JuDsoN & Co. carpets, Chicago, have
failed for SIS. $50: assets, Sl34, So.
OK the 18th two more bombs, one gas
pipe and one round, were discovered on
| the Lake Shore tracks at the stock yards
| .Y,n Chicago, and taken to police head-
quarters.
THE Michigan Democrats resolved in ia
vor of the free coinage of gold and silver
at the present standard.
The trial Of the anarchists at Chicago,
after lasting several weeks, ended in the
following verdict: 1--WE, the jury. find the
defendants, August Spies, Michael Schwab,
Samuel Fielder, A. r. Parsons. Adolph
Fisher, George Engel and Louis Lingg
guilty of murder and conspiracy as
charged in the Indictment, and fix the
penalty at death. We also find Oscar
Neebe guilty of murder in the manner
atty at fifteen years imprisonment"
A SERIOUS gale ravaged Galveston on
the 10th. Six lives were reported lost.
WHEN the parade of Barnum's circus
was about to start at Madison, Wis, the
other day a Mrs. Ref, who was near the
panthers' cage, which contained four ami
mails and the keeper, had her hat blown
under the cage by a sudden gust of wind
and stopped to secure it. As she did so a
large panther put his paw out and caught
her by the hair and, with the other paw in
her face, lifted her from the ground. She
was seriously injured before being res.
cued.
INFORMATION has been received at Tomb
stone, Ariz.. that Captain LAYTON and
Lieutenant Gatewood would be home from
Sonora in q few days. Lawton found no
Indians in the Sierra Madres. Those seen
recently at Fronteras no doubt doubled
back between the commands of Lawton
aud Gatewood. Grass and water are now
plentiful everywhere in the mountains,
enabling the hostiles to move about at
their pleasure.
MAJOR A. j. HOLMES has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of
| the Tenth Iowa district.
JOHN A. LOVELY has been nominated to
Congress by the Republicans of the First
Minnesota district.
THE SOUTH.
DIR. EMANUEL DREIrrs, Of New Orleans,
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