The Iola register., 1891-10-23
GENERAL REVIEW
OF the Worlds Happenings for
a Week, in Brief.
Foreign and Domestic Pointers About In.
divIduals-The General Course of
Events-The Condition oftFi-
nancee and Crops


cennes, Ind, for the alleged murder Q
her 2-year-old child.
From Beatrice. Neb., comes the rec
ord of the murder OF & 4-year-old chill,
by Christian science bealers.
Natural gas has been discovered OF
the river bank near Cairo, ILL.,, and /
causing greateycitement.
Sir Edward Arnold, K. G. |. Z. G. s
l., the great English poet, sailed from
Liverpool yesterday for New York.
Valuable silver deposits are reported
to have been discovered within sever
miles of West Superior, Wis.
Arrangements are being made to or
ganize the First regiment of Illinoi:
Sons Of Veterans at Springfield.
Elmer Z. Carpenter has been arrested
at Mulhall, o. T., charged with rapins
a l3-year-old girl, named Matte John
son
Mrs. Nina Mcbride has obtained di
vorce from Robert II. Mcbride, well
known newspaper man of South Dakota
Samuel w. Mennelly. travelling for a
Rochester, N. Y, shoe house. was as
phyxiated by gas in a Omaha hotel.
Cass Hite was placed in Jail at Provo,
Utah, Tuesday, charged with murder
ing Adolph Kohler at Green river, Sep
tember 2S
Farmer Smith of Wynnewood, l. T.
was called 20 his door Monday night BY
two strangers and shot dead. No clue
to the assassins.
Ella Martin was awarded $1,000 dam.
ages against Charles Collins of Evans
vile, Ind, for promising to marry her
and not doing so.
Three colored men were killed and
two white men seriously injured by the
falling Of the cage at shaft No. =, Mag
ara Falls tunnel, Tuesday.
Edmund Landers, a retired merchant
| OF Brockton, Mass, was strangled and
robbed on the grave of his only daugL-
ter in daylight.
DR.. Massie Of Owenton. KY, suspect
ed farmer named Jesse Hanover of ly-
ing about him, went after him with a
gun, shot him dead in his tracks and
then fled.
Fireman Ed Clark was fatally injured
by the ditching of a freight train on
the Atlantic and Pacific road near Nav
ajo Springs. n. NJ.
James Sullivan died at Council Bluffs,
Ia, from the effects of injuries received
during fight with A. K. Belgium. the
proprietor of low joint, about two
weeks ago.
Miss Mary Mclaughlin, while in a
state of somnambulism, walked off the
rear end OF a sleeper on the New York
Central, near West Batavia, n. Y. and
was killed.
Levi NJ. Bates, Who was drowned
while boating in New York bay, had
Q1nl 0nn l., =.
had recently applied for $4,000 more
A gambling house at Sebrees City.
KY, was raided by white caps Tuesday
night, and three men, accompanied by
three frail females. taken to the woods
and switched into Inconsistencies.
Mrs. Clara Wagner of Newark, Ind.
disappeared from her residence several
days since, and no trace OF her could be
found, but on Tuesday her body was
found in the cistern of her dwelling,
bearing marks Of strangulation.
Fine, foreign made dresses TO the val
ue of $4,000 were Seized for duties by
the customs ctucers at New York.
Actor curtis was held to the superior
I court at San Francisco, Cal, for the
shooting Of Policeman Grant several
weeks ago.
BY the bursting of mammoth steel
valve at Park Bros. steel works, Pitts
burg, Pa, Z. c. Ehling was crushed to
death.
There are only five murder cases be-
lore the criminal court at Lexington,
KY, and yet dram shops are licensed.
Frank Peaskonisky, a brutal Pole, is
in Jail at Brooklyn, n. j., for kicking a
woman in the stomach and causing the
death of her unborn child.
At GAINESVILLE, o., Mrs. Charles Har-
ris publicly horsewhipped VIM. Owings
for leading her husband into bad COM
pany.
A couple of affectiona1e Slavs got
drunk at Leith, Pa, and while kissing
each other one OF them bit off about an
inch off the others tongue.
Joe Anderson was arrested in Arkan-
sas City, Kan, charged with the mur.
| der of three men in Bell county, KY.
He is p years old.
Governor Francis refuses to commute
| the death sentence of Thomas 4. Will
! Hanson. convicted of murder at Seda-
lia, Mo-, and he will hang on the 3lst
| inst.
The president of the national republi-
can league has appointed the sub-exec-
utive committees. E. c. Little OF Kan
sas, is among the members appointed.
Jules Flores, a suspected Mexican
revolutionist. was found swinging from
tree, his body filled with lead, on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
The Holy Coat is still attracting Wis
itors to Treves, large number of
French pilgrims being on their way
now to pay homage to the gum pre-
served garment.
PLAYING tie races has separated Dave
Eckel, a young New York postoffice
clerk, from his wife and three children.
and PLACID him behind the bars for rob-
bing the mails.
Jake Bunker, bridge tender at the
Debrosses street, New York. ferry.
wound up a spree by jumping from the
bridge into the slip with an iron pipe
weighing sixty pounds attached to his
neck, which anchored him securely to
the bottom.
At St Louis the only business trans
acted at the Brewer Masters National
association convention, Tuesday, was
the reading Of the reports of the presi-
dent, secretary and treasurer.
Lucretia Elkins, the pretty 20-year-
old daughter of a farmer living near
Hancock. Mo-, sent her spirit to the
echoless shore by the revolver route.
No cause assigned.
The dead body of Daniel Wooten was
found lying in front OF his cabin at San
Lorenzo Springs Monday. He had
jumped Mexican claim, and the pro-
test was a bullet through Wooten's 5
heart.
The Keystone iron words at River
view, Kansas. the largest establishment
of the kind in the state, are closed un-