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The Iola register., 1889-05-17
AN AWFUL DEATH.
An Aeronaut Plunges Five Hundred Feet
to His Death.

An Aeronaut Plunges Five Hundred Feet
to His Death.
HOUSTON, Tex, May 13-Four thousand
people assembled yesterday in the fair
grounds to witness the ascension Of the
aeronaut w. E. St Clair in his balloon
and his descent in a parachute. There
was some trouble experienced in Initiating
the balloon, which was hot air one.
About six O'Clock it was cut from its
moorings and started on its voyage to.
ward the sky. About 100 feet from
the ground St Clair took OFF his
hat and jauntily waved adieu to
the crowd below. cheerily calling
out "good.bye." When he had reached
distance of 500 feet he cut the
parachute loose and commenced his
descent He fell fifty feet before it
opened, and when it did so the shock
and sudden resistance was so great as to
break his hold upon the rings, and with
breathless suspense the crowd saw his
body fall like a rocket to the earth. His
body fell 400 yards from where he started
up. He was found a mangled mass. He
gasped once or twice and all was over. In
his descent he narrowly escaped lighting
upon a paling fence. st. Clair has for
the last two years been giving these exhi.
billions throughout Texas. and few
weeks ago he got a severe fall from his
parachute in Galveston which laid him up
for two weeks. Ladies sitting on Mr..
Settegast's porch heard him mutter tc
himself in his rapid descent, Nearer the
end, nearer the end" His travelling com.
panlon took charge of his body.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
AN EXCITING TRIAL.

A Burglar Leans Forward and Cuts De-
tective's Head Half or and is In Turn
Shot to Death.
KANSAS CITY. Kan, May 13-Saturday
afternoon James Smith. a prisoner under.
going his preliminary trial on the charge
of safe-b,owing and burglary in the court
room of Justice Lewis on Minnesota ave.
nue., suddenly leaned forward and
plunged Il knife into Detective j. W. Gil.
ley's threat, cutting cash twelve inches
long and three inches deep, severing all
the muscles and laying bare
the carotid artery. The detectives
head was half cut off. but by asuperhuman
effort he staggered to his feet and, sup
porting himself against the Justices desk,
managed to put several shots into Smiths
body, who had turned to escape. Smith
had in the meantime plunged the knife
into Sergeant Meluney's hip, but the
wound is not considered serious. In a
few seconds after Smith had cut the de.
tective's throat the burglar was picked
up dead with five bullets in his body.
The detective was reported dying at half
past three O'Clock this morning. Giley
had been working up the case against
Smith and had incurred his most bitter
enmity. Smith was known as an all
round tough and very desperate charac-
ter
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
This snake story recently came all the

This snake story recently came all the
way from New London. Conn. in the
nature of a special dispatch: Directus
Perkins, a farmer living near Gungy.
wamp. a large and locally-famed swampy
forest near the town of Groton, walked
through the widest part Of the wood
the other afternoon underneath Gungy.
wamp ledge. He was on his way to visit
his sweetheart When near Snake den, q
small cave in the highest part OF the cliff,
Mr.. Perkins was surprised to find swarm
of blacksnakes which were thawing out in
the sun. In an instant they were all
around him. Gungywamp is famous
place for racers, a variety of blacksnake
which has a white throat and which
kills most Of its prey by lashing
it to death with its tail. Those which at
tackled Perkins were of this variety. He
is powerfully built young man and per.
fectly fearless, but was caught in his best
suit Of clothes and without q weapon in
his hands. Without hesitation, however.
he seized one of the largest serpents by
the tail and snapped its head of with a
quick jerk Of the wrist Then be used the
quivering body as a fail to pound the
others with. The snakes made every ef-
fort to get at him. and it was little trouble
for him to kill fourteen of them with his
singular weapon. Seeing SO many OF their
number dispatched, the remaining snakes
vanished in the surrounding underground,
and Perkins, having become hero, called
on his sweetheart without further dis.
turbance
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
FUNERAL OF THE KNOBBERS.
Last Scenes of the Tragedy Enacted II

Last Scenes of the Tragedy Enacted st
Ozark, Mo.
OZARK, No.. May 12-Business was vir.
tually suspended Friday, and at night
knots Of people gathered in the street
The one matter discussed was the awful
scenes of the execution. Men unhesitat.
ingly state that had the crowd known Of
the second hanging Of Will Walker IL
would have never occurred. Sheriff John.
son is strongly censured. He never saw
an execution before and had little idea OF
how 1t should be done. He says that he
offered to send to Kansas City for some
one familiar with the business, but the
prisoners insisted that he do it himself.
The tragic ending of the Walkers were
followed late Friday night with funeral
almost as remarkable.
Dave Walker went to the gallows firm
in the belief that his comrades of Sparta
Post G. A. R., would see that he had q
decent burial. At the last moment thai
post decided that it could not get sufficient
conveyances and there the matter dropped.
The family, depending entirely on the
post had made no arrangements for the
care of the bodies. A distant relative OF
the Walkers galloped to this city and
brought the news that Sparta post could
not see to the burial
Sheriff johnson had arranged the
corpses in their boxes and these lay out
under a shade tree from noon until nearly
three O'Clock.
Finally two members Of Robertson post,
@. A. R., of this city, became responsible
for the conveyance of the bodies to the
Sparta Cemetery. The Walker family
had prepared a grave
For three hours 800 people stood in the
Sparta cemetery waiting for the arrival
OF the bodies. 1t was after five O'Clock
when the teams drove into the grounds.
In the crowd of women were Dave
Walkers widow. his daughter, Mrs. Jones,
whose husband got two years in the peni.
tentiary for participating in the same
crime, and his other three children. When
the bodies were lifted from the wagons
three mourners gathered about the crude
coffins and the lids were removed.
Dave Walkers eyes and mouth were
wide open, and his face looked ghastly.
His neck was black and blue and so
swollen that the collar looked as IL it
would burst, and Will Walkers eyes and
mouth were closed. It was with difficulty
that the moaning women were gotten from
the coffins.
A grave sufficient for both coffins had
been dug. No ministers were present and
not line was said nor prayer uttered
as the coffins of father and son were low.
cred to the bottom of the grave.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
JONES INDIGNANT.
He theoretically Denies the Stories II
specting Him and His Deputies.

He EnerEetically Denies the Stories Re
specting Him and His Deputies.
Topeka, Kan, May a-United States
Marshal Jones has returned from Okla.
homa full Of indignation because of the
reports published concerning his alleged
participation in the land steals in the new
country. He said yesterday: II appointed
but nineteen marshals and knew every
man, and l will pay a handsome sum
to any person producing proof that
my appointments exceeded this mum.
Der. Seven of my men were stationed al
Guthrie, three at Oklahoma City and the
others i'm the smaller towns. Several did
resign at noon April % and ubtedly
took up claims, but if the entire nineteen
had done SO the amount of land thus
pre.empted wonld be comparatively
small. Marshal Needles appointed
but twenty deputies. and our combined
forces managed to keep the peace without
loss of life. The truth is that for days pre-.
vious to the opening day men sneaked into
Oklahoma by hundreds and concealed
themselves i'm the timber, and at noon ON
April % these were on the ground with
their lots and claims staked out. / have
not used my position to defraud the peo.
pie for the Government, and / sincerely
hope the Government will probe that mat
ter to the bottom. Careful inquiry will
certainly result in clearing my name OF
all suspicion"
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
Killed I'm the Mine.

PorTsvILLE. Pa, May 10-At Kaska
William Collery, near Middleport, last
evening a cage containing ten miners was
ascending the shaft when an empty car
was pushed over the top of the shaft by
two Huntington laborers. The car struck
the cage with terrible force, shat
tering it to pieces and instantly killing
every one Of its occupants, whose mangled
bodies were afterward found in the water
at the bottom of the shaft The victims
were Hugh Carlin. Patrick Mcdonald,
George Bendel, John Pottowisch, Frank
Stretkowisch, John Moore. Albert Dwyer,
Edward Kurtz, Stephen Watson, Foreman
Michael Boyle. The mine Is operated by
the Alliance Coal Company, and the shaft
is 500 feet deep,
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
An Overdose OF Morphine.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, May 10.-Walter
T. Logan, of the stock firm Of A. L. Nor
rison, Sons & Logan, was found dead in
bed Sunday morning last at the firms
ranch in Apache County, Arizona He
had taken an overdose of morphine in
mis- efforts to allay the pain caused
by felon on his hand. He was q
son of Thomas A. Logan, of Cincinnati,
one of the most eminent men Of the
Ohio bar. His aunts, Olive and Celia, are
we'll known in journalistic and theatrical
circles. He was a lawyer by profession,
but was for some time on the staff of the
Albuquer que Democrat He was only
thirty years Of age, married and had one
child
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
The Forest Fires.

ADRIAN, Mich. May 10.-Wood fires are
raging in this county. Stephen Carpenter,
aged sixty y-two, while fighting the flames
on his premises in Madison Tuesday
was overcome and died Of suffocation.
FARIBAULT. Mimi, May 10-Fire broke
out in the timber near Walcott Mills Tues
day night and spread rapidly over the
wooded country between there and Fair
bault destroying every thing The farmers
abandoned their houses and removed their
families and household goods to open
fields. The damage is estimated at SEQ, 0oo.
DULUTH, Minn., May 10.-Forest fires ara
burning in Northern Wisconsin east Of
Gogebic lake. Grea. wastes have bsas
burned
The Iola register., 1889-05-17

WASHINGTON, May 9.-There was great
rush of visitors at the White House yes
terday, due in a great measure to the ex-
pectation that many appointments would
be announced. Among the earliest
callers were Senators Henderson and
Paddock. of Nebraska, who urged
the appointment of l. A. Croft as
Interstate Commerce Commissioner,
c. P. Mason as Commissioner Of Railroads
and Irving j. Menatt as Minister to Greece.
Frank Palmer, the new Public Printer,
also called early and had a short inter-
view with the President He received his
commission, but will not assume charge of
his new office for several days yet He is
required to execute bond of $4,000
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
THE LATEST

REV. DIR. CLUTE has been chosen presi.
dent OF the Michigan State Agricult ural
College ut Lansing, Mich. He was pastor
Of the Unitarian Church at Pomona, Cal
THE score in the six days walking match
which ended at Madison Square Garden,
New York. on the 11th was: Herty, $50;
Cartwright, 532; Noremac, SIG; Hegelman.
$40; Hughes 5l5: Smith, 500; Golden, sos;
Adams, 456: Johnson, 450; Taylor 45O;
Sullivan, 356; Nolan, 345.
JAMES ID. FISH, ex-president of the
Marine Bank, was released from Auburn
prison, on the 11th, and in company with
his two daughters started for New York.
He was in the best of health and refused
to be interviewed.
HoN. HENRY A. FOSTER died at his
home, Rome. N. Y, on the 11th, in his
9Oth year. He was the senior United
States Senator. having been appointed in
1874. one year bsfore Simon Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania He was a delegate to the
convention which nominated General
Cass for President.
IT is said that the friends of Judge Ad.
vocate-General Swain, of the army. are
using their influence with President Har-
rison TO have the remainder of his sen.
tence set aside in order that he may be
restored to his position. 1t is understood
that they have not met with much success
A YOUNG man has died of yellow fever
in Wood County, O. He was recently
from the South.
bling institution of London, was raided the
other night Earl Dudley, Earl Paulett,
Lord Lurgan and other noblemen were
captured.
The resignation of Judge jerks. Solici.
of the DEPARTMENT. of Justice,
has been accepted.
The President on the 11th started down
the Potomac river on the Dispatch for q
couple of days outing.
The military fired on the Schleswig
riotous miners on the 11th and killed six.
Affairs continued threatening at other
points in Germany where miners were on
strike.
An Indian Territory special says the re-
fusal of Chief j. B. Mayes to convene tho
Cherokee Legislature at Tahlequah will
produce hitch in the purchase Of the
s OO0, 900 acres known as the Cherokee
Strip by the United States. There was
great opposition to the sale aud excite
ment was running high.
The report that band of Kurds re.
Gently attacked a wedding party at
Mouch. Armenia, and outraged and MUIR
dered the bride, is declared by the Arme-
nian authorities to be entirely without
foundation.
A FREE fight occurred in Gretna, oppo-
site New Orleans, the other day between
members of the Mechanics fire company
(white), and a number of negroes. Several
shots were fired aud knives were used.
The negroes finally fed in the darkness,
when it was found that two white men
had been seriously stabbed.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
A Street Fight.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, May "A driver
named Willford attempted to drive away
q little darkey who persisted in hanging
to the back end of his street car yesterday
morning when a gang of negroes began
throwing rocks at him, and, growing
bolder, rushed upon him. About this time
another driver named Parker came to the
assistance Of Willford The fight was
growing serious when Willford pulled
knife and stabbed one of the negroes,
George Harris, until he dropped. At this
moment a squad of policemen came upon
the scene. quelled the mob and arrested
Willford and Parker, and both are now in
iail
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
GENERAL.

RAILROAD building in Mexico is very
active.
The French Royalist leaders have an
nounced that they will not attend the fete
given by President Carnot in honor of the
opening of the Paris Exposition.
The great French Exposition was opened
at Paris by President Carnot on the 9th.
A RAILROAD train having on board 500
pilgrims to Rome was assailed by tre-
mendous crowd at Trieste recently and
bombarded with stones. The train hur-
riedly left the station to escape the show.
ers of missiles, but was attacked in similar
fashion at sew sral other stations. Twenty.
four persons were injured
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
SLY SWORD BEARER.
He Works a Pretended Miracle With Seid
litZ Powder.

He Works Pretended Miracle With Sefd-
litz Powder.
FORT CUSTER, NJ. T., May "a large
party of Pine Ridge Sioux. led by Grass
hopper, have gone into the Tongue River
agency to get up a sun dance among the
Cheyennes Grasshopper has eluded all
attempts to arrest him The Crow out.
break Of last summer had its origin in a
sun-dance gotten up by Grasshoppsr and
held at the place where the Sioux and
Cheyennes propose to dance next
week. 1t requir ed seven companies
of United States troops to break up
the dance and escort the Sioux in
a body back to their reservation.
From that dance Sword Bearer, the Crow
medicine man returned to his people.
bringing a wonderful white medicine that
caused pot OF cold water to boil when
thrown into it. Thus convinced of Sword
Bearers supernatural attainments, the
Crows followed his lead in open revolt
The Federal authorities will endeavor to
prevent another grand distribution of
mixed seidlitz powders among the Sioux
and Cheyennes, and should the dance
come off the attendance will be largely of
q military character.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
To End Electric Sugar

NEW YORK. May 1L-Judge Barrett in
Supreme Court yesterday granted At
torney- General Tabor permission to bring
suit in the name Of the people Of the State
of New York against the Electric Sugar
Refining Company for the dissolution Of
the corporation, ,annulment of its existence,
the enjoining of the corporation from act.
ing further and for the appointment of q
receiver of its property. The moving
papers were affidavits by Lawson N.
Fuller, which set forth that the corpora.
tion did not effect the purpose for which
it was formed within the prescribed time.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
PAYMASTER AMBUSHED.

An Arizona Band of Robbers Attack an
Escort of Troops and Secure $40, 900
Eight Soldiers Wounded.
Tucson, Ariz., May 13-Mnjor ]. w.
Wham, paymaster of the United States,
with Clerk Gibson and an escort of eleven
soldiers were on their way Saturday after
noon from Wilcox to pay the men at Fort
Thomas, when. in a narrow gorge few
miles north of Cedar Springs, they were
attacked by party of ambushed
men. A constant fire was kept up
for nearly a half hour, when eight
of the escort were wounded, five
dangerously. The robbers succeeded in
securing $4,000 and escaped in the mount.
aims. Major Wham was uninjured, but
Gibson's clothing was badly torn by shot
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
Bishop Hogan Sustained,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 1.-THE Coun.
Gil at Rome has sustained Bishop Hogan
Of this city in his controversy with Rev.
Father Hines, VINO was removed from
Peirce City, Mo-, by the Bishop to another
charge. Rev. Mr. Hines, backed by his
congregation, resisted the change and
appeal was taken to Rome.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
A Maniac muck.

STUTTGART, May 1L-An auctioneer
named Bosch, living in this city, suddenly
became violently insane yesterday. Be-
fore he could be secured he seized q
hatchet and killed his sister. and then
rushed into the street and killed passer.
by. He was finally arrested and locked up.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
THE WEST.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says he intends
to fast 100 days
A STORM swept across Fargo, Dak.,
the other afternoon and did considerable
damage. The upper story of the Silverson
block was seriously damaged and numer-
GUS dwellings were unroofed.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
ROilPff tine Bride.

PARIS May 9-The Correspondence st.
Petersburg says a band of Kurds at.
tackled a wedding party in the Moch dis
trict, mobbed the guests and outraged the
bride, whom they afterward boiled in q
pot, saying she would do for the wedding.
The Iola register., 1889-05-17

THE freight train which was transport.
ing the famous Libby prison from Rich.
mond to Chicago, was wrecked seven
miles east of Maysville, KY, by the break
ing of an axle. The remains of the war
relic were profusely scattered about and
people focked to the scene to secure old
bricks and lumber as mementoes. No one
was hurt.
REPORTS from all sections in Southern
Arkansas are that the farmers are con-
siderably alarmed by the ravages of cut
worms. In many places in Drew, Brad
lev and Desha Counties farmers have
planted cotton as many as three times,
and each time the plant has been destroyed
by the worms. Merchants are apprehen-
sive and business is paralyzed.
THE Scotch Irish Congress opened at
Columbia, Tenn, on the Sth. The exer-
cises Were opened with a mastery oration
by Proctor Knott Ex-Governor of Ken
lucky. He was followed by short speeches
from DR.. John Hall, the eminent New
York divine; Hon. James F. johnson, of
Alabama, and Judge Scott, of Illinois.
THE pallium was conferred upon Arch
bishop Janssens by Cardinal Gibbons in
the Cathedral at New Orleans on the sth.
GOVERNOR GORDON, of Georgia, was
rendered a reception at Elizabeth, n. J.,
recently by the Drake Zouaves and other
veterans of the Union army.
A DISPATCH from Little Rock, Ark, says:
Deputy Sheriff Oliver T. Bentley. Thomas
C. Hoovey, Charles Ward, Fred Gunter.
John Heard, Thomas and William Wells
have been brought in under arrest from
Morrilton. They are charged with impli-
cation in the ballot box robbery at Plum
merville on the night of November G. The
arrests created something Of a sensation.
SPOKANE won the Kentucky Derby at
Louisville on the 9th; Proctor Knott, 9;
Once Again, S; time, 2:S4h; distance, one
and half miles
GENERAL WILLIAM s HARNEY disd at
Orlando. Fla. on the 9th in his eighty
ninth year. He was the oldest West Point
graduate.
JOHN P. SALISBURY, Secretary of State
Of Delaware, died on the 10th at his home
in Dover. He had been i'll since his re.
turn from the New York centennial cele-
bration. He was the eldest son of Chan.
cellor Willard salisbury, who was United
States Senator from Delaware during the
war,
The Iola register., 1889-05-17
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Interstate Commerce Commission
has concluded its hearing in reference tc
payment of commission on sale of tickets
COMMODORE WALKER, it is rumored, Il
to give mp his post as chief of the bureau
OF navigation for the command of q
squadron with the Chicago as flagship.
CHAuNcEY NJ. DEPEw has been examined
by the Senate Committee regarding the
working of the Interstate law. He
agreed on many points with Commissioner
Fink and President King.
The President has made the following
appointments: Theodore Roosevelt of New
York, and Hugh 6. Thompson, of South
Carolina, to be Civil.Service Commits
sioners and Frank w. Palmer, of Chicago,
to be Public Printer.
J. SHAUN his wife and child, walked
from Kansas to Washington City, where
they arrived on the sth.
The War Department has completed and
published the allotment of the 500, 900 ap-
propriated by Congress for the equipment
Of the militia. The allotments are based
on the representation of the States In Con.
gress. For Kansas the amount is s., 943
and for Missouri SIS. 1888
GENERAL BADEAU was 5000 short In his
accounts when Consul at Havana, and
General Grant was his bondsman. The
Government has entered suit to collect
that sum from General Grants estate.
CENSUS COMMISSIONER PORTER an.
nounces that he will not make any more
appointments in his bureau for some time.
The President has appointed Asa Mat
thews, of Illinois, to be First Comptroller
of the Treasury, vice Dur ham, resigned.
He 10 the present Speaker of the Illinois
House of Representatives, which office he
has held for several terms. He was
Colonel of an Illinois regiment during the
war and subsequently held the Office of
collector of internal revenue for the
Peoria district.
MISS HELEN TRENHOLM, a niece of ex-
Comptroller Trenholm, of South Carolina,
eloped recently with Wilson W. Brenne-
man, clerk in a real estate office at Wash
ilgton. The couple went to Philadelphia.
Miss Trenholm was eighteen years of age,
and one of the bellies of West Washington.
SECRETARY TRACY has extended for four
months and four days the time allowed
the Union iron works in San Francisco in
which to complete cruiser No. (the San
Francisco). This is one of the large 1000
ton cruisers which was contracted for
October q. 1887, at a cost of 81, 42S, 900, and
was to be completed October % next.
REPRESENTATIVE LAIRD, of Nebraska,
who has been seriously ill for some
months at Washington has almost re-
covered.
Ex-SEcRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY
was presented in the British House of
Lords recently on invitation of the Earl
Of Dunraven. Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New
York, is a guest at Blenheim Palace, the
seat of the Duke Of Marlborough.
The progress of cotton planting as re-
ported for May by the Department of
Agriculture is 81 per cent of the proposed
area. This is one point earlier than the
average of a series of years
The President has appointed Elbert E.
Kimball United Stares attorney for the
Western district of Missouri, and George
E. Reynolds attorney for the Eastern dis
trict