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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
SWAN THE RIVER.
Exploit of Deperado After Shooting
RrOthar-fu-Vau

Exploit of Deperado After Shooting HIS
Brother-in-Baw.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, June IS THURSDAY
night West Darlington became involved
in a quarrel with his brother-in-faw,
Robert Oder, one of the largest stock
raisers in this county, and the quarrel
ended in the shooting Of Oder
Darlington mounted horse and hur-
riedly rode from the scene of the trar-
edy, a small town called Cover, to St
Joseph, distance of eighteen miles.
He reached here about daylight and
rested himself and his horse by the
river side, waiting for the ferryboat to,
carry him to the Kansas side, where he
hoped to make his escape. The river is
very high and the boat only makes tive.
trips day.
Darlington did not know this, but.
waited until he was surprised by the,
approach of the sheriff and his deputies.
Jumping upon his willing horse as his
pursuers approached the murderer urged
the animal down the embankment and
into the water, while the officers looked
on in amazement. Into the river they
went, the rider looking anxiously
over the half mile of water sepa-
rating Kansas from Missouri. Each
moment they threatened to sink. The,
officers began discharging their revolv-
ers and ashasty search for boats was
made. When about . hundred yards.
from the other side the horse sank.
The man followed suit, but only for a.
moment Then both arose, and mount
ing the plucky animal Darlington lifted
his hat in derision and drove into the,
thicket- Nothing has been seen of him
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
CONGRESSIONAL.

sooS after meeting on the 2sd the Senate
passed the Agricultural bill. The conference
report on the Dependent Pension bill was
taken up and Senators Berry and German
spoke against it, and Senators Davis and
ingalls, favored it After other Senators had
spoken the conference report was agreed to
by vote of 81 yeas to IS nays After order
ing a conference on the Fortifcations bill
the Senate adiourned..... The day In the
House was occupied in Committee of the
Whole on District of Columbia business.
just before adjourning the HOUSE fciled to
agree to the conference report on the De-
pendent Pension bill but insisted on dis
agreeing TO the Senate amendments.
The Senate on the Path agreed 20 the con-
ference report on the Naval Appropriation
bill and considered the Post office Appro-
priation bill at some length and il finally
passed. The Diplomatic bill was then taken
up and among the amendments agreed to
were those increasing the salary of Minis
tiers to the Argentine Republic and United
States of Colombia from $500 to $4,000
and the Minister to Denmark from
5000 to $500, and the bill passed.
The Conference report on the Pension APP
preparation bill was agreed to and the Senate
adjourned. After routine business in the
House the Committee on Rules presented a
resolution for the immediate consideration
of the Silver bill, which was adopted. The
Chairman of the Coinage Committee (Mr
Conger) then presented the report of the
= committee recommending that the House
non-copcur in the Senate amendments and
ask for conference Mr.. Rland mo. ! moved
that the House concur. and pendinp debate
which was OF considerable length, the
House adjourned.
AFTER minor business in the Senate on the
18th Mr.. Cali rose TO address the Senate on
the subject of resolutions heretofore offered
by him, one in relation to the establishment
of Republic in Cuba and the other as to the
German ownership of a large proportion of
the bonded debt of Cuba but Mr. call was
cut of by a motion prevailing TO go into Sc.
cret session. The Senate then took up the
House bill for the admission of wyoming.
A lengthy discussion followed, Mr. Vest OBJ
posing the bill and Messrs. Edmunds and
Platt favoring it. No vote was reached. In
the House the conference report on the
Naval Appropriation bill was agreed to and
the Silver bill taken up. After debate the
House refused to concur in the Senate
amendments by a vote of Is5 yeas to 1872
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
THE CROSS TRIAL.
One of the Haymakers Gives a Different
Account of the Killing.

One of the Haymakers Gives a Different
Account of the Killing.
PARIS, Tex, June 27.-Frank Balsley,
one of the defendants in the Cross
murders case, was brought in from
Springfield, ILL.,, yesterday. He comes
too late to participate in the present
trial, and will probably be allowed 5000
bail.
McClelland Halves was one of the
haymakers and gives radically differ
ent account of the killing from his
brother, Keene Halves. He states that
there was regular fight; that the first
firing was done by the Cross posse, and
that the Hugoton people only returned
the fire when attacked by Cross as they
approached the camp and that there
was no shooting by Hugoton men
after they got into camp. The medi-
cal testimony, however, shows posi-
lively that the dead men were shot
once while lying down. He also states
that Tenny was wounded, but was sit
ting up and was offered conveyance
back to Kansas and refused it. None of
the Hugoton party were hurt The
testimony of the defense also tends to
establish that Cross went to the Strip
to prevent trouble. One witness, Don
Hyatt swore that Cross stopped at his
house going to the Strip at two o'clock
in the morning and told him that all he
Gross wanted was to get there first, as
his gun was as good as anybody's.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
THE LATEST.

The census of Chattanooga, Tenn,
and suburbs approximates $4,000, an in
crease of $50 per cent since 1880. The
figures are several thousand short of
what is shown by recent directory
census.
PRINCE FERDINAND signed the death
warrant of Major Panitza on board a
vessel while en- route for Vienna. There
were severe comments in the European
press on his absence from Sofia.
EUROPEAN financial matters were
quiet during the week ended June IS.
In London American securities were de-
pressed.
CHOLERA was reported increasing in
Spain.
A DISPATCH from Massowah says that
the allies OF the Italians have defeated
at Keren force of !, 200 dervishes, kill
ing $50 of them.
THREE distinct shocks of earthquake
were felt at Santa Rosa, Cal, on the
2sth.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended June 2s showed an average de-
crease of IS compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York there was a decrease of o.
The Senate passed quiet day on the
ssth. Several bills on the calendar
were passed and conferees on the Silver
bill were appointed. The House con-
tinued the debate on the Elections bill,
significant and heated remarks being
made.
MAJOR PANITzA, convicted of con-
spring to take the life of Prince FERN
and, was shot at Sofia on the 2sth.
TIE Earl Of Carnarvon, q noted En-
glish peer, is dead.
UNOFFICIAL figures put the popula-
ton of places along the Hudson river,
n. Y, as follows: Catskill, 4, 300;
Poughkeepsie, $4,000; Kingston, %, 500;
Newberg, $4,000; Hudson, 1O,65o.
Four Rock Island cars were over
turned and four persons killed by an
accident to the Council Bluffs passenger
train near Joliet, ILL.,, on the 2sth.
The young son of NJ. Collar, the Gov
eminent meteorologist for Oklahoma,
was drowned in the river at Guthrie
while bathing.
KING HUMBERT Of Italy has dissolved
the Municipal Council of Rome.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER thinks that
the population of the United States is
81, 500. 600 The population of the
United States by the census of 1850 was
SO, 055, 7SS.
A MOVEMENT is on foot In Guthrie,
Ok, to induce the present city govern
ment TO resign and have Governor Steele
appoint municipal government under
the Nebraska statutes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
IT Is positively denied from Bruins

IT is positively denied from Bruins
wick, Ga, that there has been any death
from yellow fever there, as had been re-
ported.
The cases against Muldoon. Cleary
and Donovan were called at Purvis,
Miss, when pleas of guilty were en-
tered. A fine of $3.50 was entered
against Muldoon and 800 each against
Cleary and Donovan. They were Access
series to the Sullivan-Kilrain fight.
AMMONIA exploded in the refrigerator
works at Louisville, KY. William Gall
lagher was dragged out barely alive.
TREASURER HEMINGWAY, of Missis-
sippi, has been found guilty of embez-
Element
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
THE EAST.

THE appeal in the Kemmler case came
up for argument in the Court of Appeals
at Saratoga, n. Y, on the Gath, when
the court affirmed the decision of the
courts below, which was that the war
den of Auburn prison was the proper
person to execute the death sentence.
The New York Court of Appeals has
affirmed judgments against the sugar
trnst
DELAMATER has been nominated for
Governor Of Pennsylvania by the Re-
publicans-
PITTSBURGH, Pa, estimates total OF
$50, COO.
The Yale-CorneIl-C fresh.
mems boat race on the Thames at New
London, Conn, was won by Cornell in
1l:16A, Yale second, time 1l:25; Column
bia third, time 11:29.
TIE match between the race-horses
Salvador and Tenny on the Sheepshead
Bay track, New York, was won by Sal
vator, the mile and a quarter being run
IN 2:05, the alleged best on record.
THE National Editorial Association
commenced its work at Boston on the
Gath.
The international Sunday school con-
ventioz at Pittsburgh, Pa, had figures
showing total of 10, S2s, 2es scholars
and teachers. The worlds convention,
1t was thought, would be held in Chi
cago in 1898 during the Fair.
The American Society of Civil En-
ginoers began It's annual session at Cres-
son Springs, Pa, on the Goth.
CORNELL defeated the Pennsylvania
University crew in the boat race at New
London, Conn, on the Goth by six
lengths
The striking building laborers of Bos-
ton have rejected the latest offer of the
bosses.
JACK WILLIAMS, one of the life guards
az Atlantic City, n. J., who has on sew
eral occasions distinguished himself for
bravery, has been found to be notori-
GUS burglar and sneak thief and has
been driven from the place.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
German Pork.

BERLIN, June 2S.-The Westphalis
Pork Packers Association, whose inte-
rests Bismarck thought to protect by
prohibiting the importation of Ameri-
can pork, has sent a deputation to the
general director of inland taxes, praying
him to inform the Government that the
protection scheme does not work in their
interest They will refrain from pro-
testing If the law be recalled The
director replied that it was not i'm
probable that the law would be re-
pea1ed. The Chambers of Commerce of
Halle and Weidenbreck, the most i'm
portant pork markets in Germany, in
dorse the request of the Westphalians-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Toupb Recomes a stir.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., June s7.-Cor-
oner Karsten last evening received a
telegram from Berlin, small town six
teen miles northwest, stating that Con-
stable fancy had shot and killed local
tough named Kerfoot The killing, it
was said, was done while resisting ar
rest and in self-defense. Kerfoot had
recently completed term in the county
Jail for attempting TO kill Constable
Bowen, former officer of Berlin, and
fancy was instrumental in efecting
Kerfoors capture, which is supposed to
have led to the tragedy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Killed at the Crossing.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, June 3O.-As
a carriage, containing party of four
ladies, young lad and the driver, was
being driven across the Midland track
at Ute pass. it was struck by the Mid
land excursion train and utterly demol-
ished. Mrs. Crosgrove, of Chicago, was
instantly killed. Mrs. Wolf, of Newark,
N. j., received injuries from which she
died in two hours. Mrs. Gill, of Chica-
go, had both legs broken, and Mrs. Will
son, of the same city, was severely
bruised. The driver and the young man
escaped. The ladies belonged to the
Travellers Protective Association.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Germans Complaiu.

BERLIN, June GA deputation of
merchants and manufacturers from
Rhenish Prussia waited upon Baron
Won Berlepsch, Minister of Commerce,
and lodged with him protest against
the Mckinley Tariff bill, which they
declared virtually excluded from tho
United States certain German goods.
The deputation requested the Govern.
ment to move, through the German Min
lister at Washington, in the direction of
obtaining a modification of the prohib-
tive provisions of the bill Baron Won
Berlepsh promised to give the matter
consideration.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
strike Ended.

CHICAGO, June 2S.-At the conclusion.
of a meeting which began early yester-
day morning and lasted until afternoon,
the Illinois Central strikers announced
that by vote of SOC to los they decided
to accept the concessions of the COM
pany and return to work.
The result caused general rejoicing
not only among the men themselves,
most of whom had begun to realize that
their actions had at least been precipi-
tate and that the cause was inadequate
considering the magnitude of the inter
est involved, but also at the general Of
6ces of the company.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Police Liable For Damages.

BANGOR, Me-, June a5.-City Solicitor
Mitchell has given an opinion that who
ever seizes beer or liquor in unbroken
packages is liable for the value of the
goods seized or damages resulting from
seizure. The police, it is understood,
will make no more seizures OF such pack
ages unless those obtaining the war
rants give bonds
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
THE SOUTH.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, is said to have a
population of IS, 700.
THOMAS KELLAR, warden of the con-
vict camp in Jefferson County, Ark, re.
Gently whipped prisoner, James Fitz-
gerald, to death.
JUDGE JAMES LAwRENsoN, who has
been in the postal service in the United
States continuously for seventy-one
years, died at his home in Baltimore,
Md, on the. Esd, aged eighty-seven
years he had sworn into office every
Postmaster General since the days of
President jackson.
WHILE boring natural gass we'll near
Glasgow, KY. escaping gas become ig-
nited, and William Topsint and Charles
King were fatally burned. Machinery
totally consumed.
Four murderers were hanged at Mem
phis, Tenn, on the oath, three negroes
and white man.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, plead
ed guilty to engaging in prize fight at
Purvis, Miss, on the oath and was fined
$500.
GENERAL J. d. c. ATKrys, Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs under Cleve-
lands administration, was married re-
Gently to Mrs Flora Crawford at Paris,
Tenn. General Atkins is sixty-five
years of age and the father of five grown
children.
WILLIAM HARRIS, son of Joel Chandler
Harris Uncle Remus) of the Atlanta
Constitution, is missing, and his father
and friends are very anxious. He left
Atlanta, and was to have arrived at
Washington on the oath to spend sew
eral days before proceeding to Canada
to visit relatives
The Louisiana House passed the Lot
terry bill BY vote of GO to 20.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
A Wahash Wreck

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, June 25.-The
passenger train, No. n, on the Wabash
road, due here at 1915 yesterday after
noon, was wrecked near Silver City.
The engine and rear passenger coach
went into the ditch. The only person
seriously injured was the engineer, w.
r, Rogerson, and the fireman. The
latter was fatally scalded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04

NEW YORK, June 99-Forty thousand
dollars will cover the losses caused by
an early fire this morning in the wall
paper establishment of Whiting & Son,
in West Thirty-first street. The district
is a tenement one and densely popu-
lated. The families were all gotten out
in safety from the adjoining tenements.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Wreck on the Mexican National.

LAREDO, Tex, June 26.-News has
reached this city to the effect that a
serious and fatal wreck occurred at
Dungeon bridge, forty miles from San
Miguel on the Mexican National, in
which Engineer Thomas, his fireman,
name unknown, and Mexican brake
man all lost their lives. 1t appears
that there was washout and the high
water had weakened the abutments to
the iron bridge across the shallow
Sandy river. The washout had been
repaired and the weak condition of the
bridge was not known. The train. a
heavy freight, pulled on the bridge and
the engine went down.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Hanged In dali.

PINE CRY, Mimi, June 2s. AT $50
o'clock this morning in the county jail
William BROKER was hanged for the
murder of William COMBS and his wife.
November 2, last Mrs. Coombs was
Brokers sister-in-law and the killing
grew out Of family quarrel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Agrarian Murder.

DUBLIN, June 25.-A farmer named
MacNamars was shot from ambush and
mortally wounded at Ennis yesterday.
The assassin used shotgun. The crime
was the outcome of agrarian troubles.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-04
Russian Omeers Arrested.

ST PETERSBURG, June 25.-Several
Bulgarian officers have been arrested at
Rustchrk and Shumla upon the charge
of treason against the Russian Govern
ment
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-04-04
Turned Into a PIN Cushion.

There is in Georgia a Confederate
General who was literally shot full OF
pins during the late war. He was ar
extemporIZed pin cusion, but the pins
saved his life. On one occasion the
General was lying IN his tent at night.
The Federals were near enough Ia
shoot into the camp.
II is said that he had just finished 6
letter home and had thrown himself
down for few hours rest before the
hot work that would begin in the early
morning. when ping minnie bullet
from sharLshooter's riha sped through
the tent and struck the General in his
left side. The blow stunned him, and
he lay as dead for few moments.
When be recovered consciousness he
felt stinging pain in his breast, and
tearing open his shirt, found that the
ball had struck a package of pins his
wife had give him, thinking they would
be needful in those days when there
was no one to Sew aid patch, and had
driven every one of them into his flesh.
They had saved his lie, but he was a
walking cushion. bristling with pin
heads.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-04-04
"Rabbits is Insects"

miss. you can't bring dogs into thi.
car" said New York Third avenue
conductor to young woman Who ten
derly held a wriggling little object
wrapped up in shawl.
"Taint a dog" snapped the young
woman. and the discounted conductor
retreated TO the rear platform amid a
general litter. He studied the case for
few minutes, and then, returning to
the young woman, said Miss, you
can't bring cats in, neither"
"'Tsin't cat" said the young wo.
man, ''it's rabbit;'' and the long ears
emerged in confirmation of her asser
tion. At this the conductor looked
puzzled for moment. and then said !:
We'll, that's sccordin' to the rules OF
this company; dogs is dogs and cats ,s
dogs; but rabbits is insects; so you can
stay"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-04-04
Musical Trees.

A foreign traveller tells of seeing a
musical tree In the West India Islands
and Ia Nubia. l. has a peculiar shaped
leaf aud pods with a split or open edge.
The wind passing through these gives
out the sound which gives the tree its
peculiar name. 10 Barbados there Is a
valley hlied with trees, and when the wind
oio"s across the island constant rnoan-
ing, deep toned " histIe is heard from n
which Ia the still hours OF the nigh,
mas a very weird and unpleasant effect
a species Of acacia, which grows very
aoundantiy in the Soudan is also called
the "whistling tree" by the natives
Us shoots are frequently by the agency
OF The larvae Of insects distorted in
shape and swollen into a gobular bIad.
der from one TO two inches in diameter
After the insect has emerged from a
circular hole in the side OF this swelling
the opening played upon by the wind
becomes s. musical instrument equal in
sound to sweet-toned flute.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-04-04
Carried Oh by Il Gorilla.

TIE natives OF Africa are towards in
war, said Carl SsecklemlC, the explor-
or. to reporter. They prefer To take
prisoners, and comparatively few of
their enemies are killed outright. They
are afraid to strike, for fear they will
receive a more damaging blow in re-
turn. They make slaves of their pris-
oners, and the captives have a sorry
time. OF all the enemies they dread
the gorilla most, and he is foe that no
man dare despise. He will fight at sight.
Numbers do not deter him. He is so
human and desperate in his defense
that the Africans have long learned
that fight with a gorilla is a fight to
the death.
The dreadful animal keeps to the
woods, as it is necessary for him to
grasp hold of the boughs as he walks on
his hind legs. a man is, therefore,
comparatively safe if he is on the prai-
rie. There are some extraordinary
things told of the gorilla. I will relate
one OF them. L had always heard il said
that gorilla would not harm a woman.
This is the common belief in some
towns.
One day we came to village in which
one hut had been built apart from the
rest. We inquired for the reason of this
and found that it had be en- dedicated to
a witch. This witch was greatly re-
yered. She had been the wife Of a gor-
lila. This woman had lived in a village
in house which stood on the edge of
the forest. A great tree oyerhung her
shanty. In The village all trees had
been cut down as a pIecaution against
the gorilla. One night one of these
animals came out of the forest, got up
into the big tree which overh dng the
woman's house, climbed down on the
roof, threw the roof Off, swung down
into the hut, seized the woman ,clim bed
up through the hole in the -oof, up in
TO the woods, carrying the woman with
him.
The gorilla's great strength made
this an easy thing for him to do. He
could hold her in one arm, and with his
two hind legs and his one free arm
make his way up and down trees or
through the woods. The woman was
gone Tor many days. The people saw
that her house roof had been torn off.
They LOOKED carefully around the house
and there We're no tracks whatever.
Then they knew that the dreadful
enemy had carried her Off.
one day she came back. She told a
wonderful story. The gorilla had car.
ried her for miles into the woods, and
finally climbed great tIee and depos-
tied her In his home. There he treated
her Very Kindly, brought her food and
drink, but would not permit her TO
leave. After Carefully va ching her
for many days, he 1nally Left her, prob
ably to return iu short time, convinced
that she would remain. The woman
came down 10 the ground, and, after
wandering in the forest for several days
made her way back to the village. The
people at first were about to kill her,
but they finally concluded that she Was
possessed OF extraordinary powers.
They, therefore. built her house for
herself, supplied her with every com
fort and looked Up TO her as a sacred
person.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-04-04

CLoUDs are good deal like mer-
they are harmless when alone. but they
make trouble when they get together.