The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-08
THE SOUTH.


OK Bear creek. Ark, recently the house
of W. j. Boden was struck by lightning
and a boy and girl, aged twelve and six.
teen, respectively, were fatally injured.
JOSEPH NEAL, a maternal uncle of Presi-
dent Cleveland, died at Baltimore on the
9th, aged eighty-on
FIRE in Deland, Valusia County, Fa., re-
Gently destroyed thirty business houses
causing a loss of 81, 90.
SLIGHT earthquake shocks were again
felt at Charleston, s. c., early on the morn
ing of the 2Sth.
AHURRICANE and heavy rainstorm swept
the lower portion of the Rio Grande several
days recently. At Brownsville. Tex, over
blown down. Great damage was done
along the coast.
A SWITCH engine on the Chesapeake
Ohio 4 Southwestern railroad ran over All
unknown white man at Memphis the other
night mangling him in a most horrible
| manner.
The four masted schooner E. D. Sudbury,
| of Mobile, went ashore seventy miles south
Of Brownsville, Tex, recently. She proved
a total wreck. The crew were saved
EIGHT persons in n Montgomery (Ala.)
boarding house recently drank poisoned
milk. They narrowly escaped death.
The grand jury at Richmond, Va, has
found indictments gainst the boycott COM
mittee of the Richmond Typographical
Union and editors, proprietors and pub
| fishers of the Labor Herald. The firm boy
cotted by the parties was Baughman Bros,
wholesale stationers and job printers.
THREE children were found dead and
dying recently in Covington County, Ala.
| They had been bitten by a rattlesnake
while playing near its hole.
Mrs. A. D. owens, of Cresswell, n c.,
hired three darkies to drown her husband
Their courage failed them, but one of them
while burglarizing Owens store shot and
| killed him and was in turn killed by the
| authorities while resisting arrest. The
other two aad the woman are under ar
rest.
PLEURo-PNEuMoNIA, imported from Chi
cago, is reported existing in three counties
| of Virginia
THERE is a movement among Southern
cotton planters not to sell oil-seed this
year to the American Cotton Oil Com
pany, which is q. monopoly. They will use
the seed as manure to replenish their lands
which sadly need it.
THE principal coal and iron companies
of the South, it is reported, will be con-
| solidated.
Ar Houston, Tex, the other day an I'M
known man assassinated Nike Hennessey,
chief of the detective agency.
THE Knights of Labor of the Sixth vir
Page for Congress.
A TREMENDOUS cavern occurred in the
Mississippi banks in front of Tsrnerville,
La, recently.
The Supreme Court Of Virginia has
handed down the papers in the case of T.
]. Cluverius, who stands convicted of the
murder of Lillian Madison. at the old res
erToir, Richmond, Va, with the indorse-
ment that a petition for q rehearing is
denied
The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
tunnel under Missionary Ridge, which
caved in last winter, has been entirely re.
built, and trains are running through on
schedule time.
I. S. Wilkinson has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the First
Louisiana district after 2S3 ballots.
The Republicans of the Third Louisiana
district have nominated j. Shirley David
son, colored, for Congress.
CONGRESSMAN SAMUEL W. PEELE has been
nominated for third term by the Demo-
Gratis of the Fifth Arkansas district
THERE were slight shocks of earthquake
in Charleston and SummerviIle, s. c., Oh
the lst, but 10 damage was done.