The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-09
THE sOUTH,

A REGULAR OnZZ0rd struck Columbus,
Miss, on the night OF the 18th and the
ground was covered with snow.
Miss KATE WOLF, living in R&Vfnna, Tex,
was burned to death the other evening, her
clothing catching fire from fireplace.
TIE Ragsdale House at Merideu, Miss,
was burned the other night Lass, S7O,OOO;
insurance, 81, 100.
WILLIE ROBINSON and Charles iRosberry,
two boys, aged twelve and fourteen, drove
into the Trinity river at Fort Worth, Tex,
recently to water their horse. The horse
stepped beyond his depth. and the current
swept wagon, horse and boys down the
river. Robinson was drowned, ,but Ros-
berry was rescued.
JUDGE E. B. TURNER, of the United States
Court for the Western District of Texas.
was reported at the point Of death, at Aus
tin. HIS sickness was Bright's diseaae.
The other night at Clinton, ny, Sam
Price, q white man, who killed U sheriff.
and Bill Reams, colored, who shots farmer
named jackson, who caught him nm the act
OF robbing his hen roost, were talsen out of
jail by . mob Of fifty masked men. end
hanged.
COLONEL E. b. CASH, the famoUs dpelist
and fire eater" who killed Colonel WILL
lam N. Shannon, q prominent lawyer, in q
duel in August, 1850. and who subsequently
defied the State to arrest him, died in
Chesterfield County, s. c., recently, of
paralysis, aged sixty-six years. He was
buried beside his son, Boggsn Cash, a
young desperate who was killed by a
sheriff s posse while resisting arrest for
the murder Of the town marshal OF Cheraw
Before the war Colonel Cash owned several
hundred slaves.
CITY MARSHAL FARMER, Of Fort Worth,
Tex, has received q telegram from Onicer
Evans, dated Rosenberg, TO the effect that
w. L. Beason, the man arrested for nhe
fearful Gainesville crime Of July Is, ls67,
had tried to escape by jumping from the
train and was fatally injured. The murder
was . horrible one, Miss Genie Watkins
being murdered and Miss Bostick mutt
lated.
AT q settlement known as the Span IN
camp, about sixty miles from Houst0.
hex, composed Of Mexicans, negroes and
desperate whites, negro cabin was set on
IRE and the occupants brutality shot dowa
as they ran from the burning house. Five
we're killed outright, one severely wounded,
And two others consumed IN the burning
dwelling. Another negro was also found
BANGED. The negroes had recently gained
possession OF the property IN = lawsuit end
this was thought to have occasioned the
hcteherv.
TEAM No. 2 north bound on the ST. Louis.
Arkansas 4 Texas was robbed by three
men near Kiugslaod. Ark, on the morning
Of TIE 18th. About>slO, 600 was taken from
the express.
EkR MARTHA BUscH, the missing Ken
lucky heiress, has tkrned up in Nicholas
vile. thas State, but has not accounted for
her absence.
TEE Sapreme CourtN Of Alabama has de-
cided the Aet establishing Q colored uni
versity to be unconstitutional, on the
ground that the money appropriated was
part OF fuRd which had been declared BY |
he Constitution to be for common schools,
and which could not be used for Q univer- |
Iity.
EIGHTEEN OF the twenty FIVE prisoners |
a0nfined in the parish jail q Shreveport,
L., made their escape the other morning.
All Of them could have escaped, Is all the
els were broken open. but those who re-
NAMED preferred to do 90.
EDWIN BARBOUR, son OF Hon. James Bar
,our, recently shot and killed Ellis Viii. l.
Jams. It Culpepper Court Jouae. Va. The
hoot.ng grew out Of q ne Sstaper contro-
ersy. Barbour is q nephew Of Cntted L
states Senator-elect Barbour.
Two small children OF Thomas Jones. COL
red, Of Hampton, Va, were burned TO
cath recently.