The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
THE EAST.

A PARTY of Wyoming cattiemen who
were preparing for a roundup
when the injunction of the Judge
was served upon them have re-
turned to Buffalo. and report the
finding of relic of the recent war be-
tween cattlemen and rustlers in the
shape of four human bodies swinging
to the limb of a tree. The bodies had
evidently been hanging there for sew
eral weeks and were dried and shriv-
eled to such an extent that it was impos-
sible to tell who they were. They were
dressed in the regular cowboy style with
their wide hats on their heads and their
spurs still on their boots and jingling
as the bodies swayed in the wind.
DIR. BUCHANAN was arrested at New
York charged with having murdered
his wife with poison.
MACKLEM & SLATER's large mailing
house at Suspension Bridge, n. Y, was
destroyed by fire the other day. Dur
ing the fire Herman Hirtel and William
Percy were at the top of a thirty foot
ladder which had been placed on the
roof of a shed about the same height
and adjoining the malt tower Joseph
Percy and Louis Flommert were stand
ing on the roof. Suddenly the roof col
lapsed and all four men were precipi-
tated to the ground below. William
Percy miraculously escaped without in
juries- Hirtel received a bad concus-
sion of the spine and was fatally hurt
inward. Joseph Percy and Flommert
were badly hurt. The fire caused loss
on building of about $4,000, with little
insurance. In the elevator were 20. 900
bushels of malt and the loss on this
will foot up 100000 covered by insur-
ance.
The colored citizens of Boston held a
mass meeting in fremont temple and
adopted strong resolutions denuncia-
tory of the alleged outrages upon mem
bers of their race in the south and in
New York, and demanding the punish
ment of the perpetrators: also that the
word white" be eliminated from the
Chinese exclusion bill Among the
speakers were Bishop a Grant, of
Texas, and George w. Bryant, of st.
Louis.
TwENTY-oNE tramps were arrested in
Oil City, Pa, and driven from the town.
They are suspected of robbing the dead.
Mrs. ROBERT T. LINCOLN. wife of the
United States minister to England, and
Mrs. Warner Miller were passengers on
the Inman line steamer City of New
York, which reached New York from
Queenstown the other day
Mr. LEWIS II. GREENE, acting presi-
dent of the whisky trust, has been ar
rested at Boston upon the indictments
recently found there against the'officers
of that organization and when required
TO give bond for his appearance at Bos-
ton refused TO do so. The United States
commissioner thereupon put him in
custody of deputy United States mar
shall. His attorney sued a writ of ha-
beas corpus, which was allowed by
Judge Jackson, of the United States
court.
LOUIS F. ANDERSON. for the last
eight years cashier in the Long Island
city Office of the Long Island Express
Co. is missing. So is a sum of money,
said by the company to be s.. POO, but
reported by his fellow employees to be
$1,000.
WoRKMEN excavating in the ruins of
the Bingheimer building at Titusville,
Pa, found the bodies of two children,
one that of a boy of years. partly
burnt and the other the remains of a
young child They were Jacob Binp-
heimer's youngest children. Two
bodies were buried in mistake by Bing-
heimer. who lost his wife and eight
children.
BEFORE Mr.. Blaine left Boston for
Bar Harbor, Me, he gave this commu-
nication to the Boston Journal: THE
resolution. energy and persistence
which marked the proceedings of the
convention at Minneapolis will. if
turned against the common foe, win
the election in November. All minor
differences should be merged in the
duty of every republican to do all in his |
power TO elect che ticket nominated"