The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-07-16

JOSEPH WEIssHAUER was arrested the
other day at New York charged with
bringing home food. cooking and eat
ing it himself and leaving his wife and
! two-year-old child to starve.
PHILLIP TAsHLEY, Dane convicted
| by the United States court of killing
John Sanders, United States soldier,
at Huachita, a year ago, was hanged
at Tucson, Ariz., on the 9th. He made
jocular remarks, danced jig and then
said, Let 'er go. Gallagher"
THERE were five deaths and 20 or
more prostrations in the two Kansas
Citys on the 9th. In st. Louis the
death list reached ten; Chicago re-
ported 16 deaths and ten cases critical.
Six died from the heat at Cincinnati;
three at Lafayette, Ind; seven at New
York; two at Indianapolis, Ind, be-
sides three more cases of prostration
considered fatal. Fatal cases were
also reported from other cities.
SOME time ago Atticus Thompson, a
negro, attempted to outrage a white
woman at Forest, Miss, but was frus-
trated in his designs. He eluded ar
rest until the 9th, when he was cap
tured by mob of unknown men and
shot to death.
THE bodies of man and woman, APP
parently dying, lying side by side on
a raft of logs moored to the shore near
the village of California, was found a
few miles above Cincinnati. Near the
raft the dead body of an infant was
a ho h. !
woman were alive but unable to speak.
Both their wrists were cut and bleed
ing and other wounds indicated an at
tempt at suicide.
AT Cincinnati on the Sth there were
two fatal cases of sunstroke and Louis
VILE, KY, reported one death and
many prostrations. Nine children
died suddenly at New York through
the heat. Two deaths also occurred at |
Indianapolis.
AT Darlington, Ok, the seat of the |
agency of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Indians, over 5000 red men and women |
were reported in secret council and |
people near them fear trouble. On |
July law was passed by the late |
legislature prohibiting polygamy
among the Indians and an outbreak |
may occur over the enforcement of the
new law.
FRED ROYAL. the professional high
diver, dived from car on the Ferris
wheel at Chicago the other night after
1t had reached height of f25 feet.
He miscalculated the distance and in
turning into the net used in breaking
the fall struck on his hips. Physicians
stated that he had received
a severe conclusion of the spine and it
was feared he might not recover.
Mrs. JANE GEORGE, of Hot Springs,
Ark, became partially demented,
caused by the extreme hot weather on
the 9TH, and jumped into a well 80 feet
deep, but was rescued by neighbors.
The reason she gave for the act was
that she wanted to keep cool.
JOHN SCOTT OLIVER, deputy sheriff
from Los Angeles, Cal, was held by
the Coney Island, n. Y, police court
On the charge of abducting 15-year-old
Stella Robb, of Brooklyn, and was put
n the prison van to go to Jail. When
The door of the van was opened he tot
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Tried to puncture his heart with a
'carfpin. He will recover.
The intense heat at Chicago on the
'th caused four deaths and % prostra-
ions, four of the latter being serious
Ind probably fatal. Six male prison
RS in the Bridewell went insane also
rom the hot weather and were sent to
he asylum. =.
DR.. L. A. BERGER, one of the most
prominent Kansas City, Mo, physi- I
.ians, was shot on the sth by John
'chlegel, grocer. He lived only Is
minutes afterwards. Schlegel said
hat he killed DR.. Berger because the
after had committed a rape on Mrs.
'chlegel, but the story of a criminal
lssault upon Mrs. Schlegel was dis
redited by friends of the dead man.
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