The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-17

fares to and from st. Louis will be made
The annual parade Of the Yelled Prophets
will come Of on the night Of Tuesday, the
9Th.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
By the capsizing of boat belonging
to Prince Galitzin of the coast of Finisterre
viscount Fleury, Mrs. Hennessy, an Ameri-
can lady, and two English people were
drowned.
ANOTHER sensational suicide occur
red at Niagara Falls on the evening Of the
9Th. George w. Knapp, resident of Utica,
N. Y. went to Tugby's Bazaar, just south Of
the bridge which spans the rapids to
Goat Island, and, coolly divesting himself
of his coat, vest and hat, mounted the railing
with pistol in his hand which he fired at
his head and then sprang into the seething
rapids below. A young lady was sitting
near by and witnessed the whole perform
ance.
Two children, Jesse Hill and Carrie
Beers, one aged eight and the other five, were
fatally burned at Titusville, Pa, while kind
ling fire with kerosene.
A GALVESTON Nescs special from
Navasota says man named Peoples, return
ing from Mclean, where he had sold cotton,
was waylaid, killed and robbed by Taliafer-
70, negro. Taliaferro was captured near
Independence, and while on the way back
some men, disguised, overpowered the
guard and carried of the prisoner. It is
supposed he was lynched.
THE night passenger train on the In
dianapolis and st. Louis Railroad was
thrown from the track four miles west of
Terre Haute, Ind, on the morning of the
9th, while going at high rate Of speed.
The train was ditched and George
Morris, the conductor, was instantly
killed and several passengers were
injured. The accident was caused by the
removal of q rail with the obvious intention
of wrecking the train, and the place selected
was at the end Of high bridge over ravine,
into which it was doubtless expected the
train would plunge.
AT Salt Lake City, on the 9Th, DR.. e.
B. Snedaker shot and fatally wounded R.
T. Smith. The latter then shot his assail-
ant twice, causing instant death. Both were
gentlemen Of good social standing. Smith
charged Snedaker with having ruined a
young lady, a sister of his intended wife,
and on a former occasion had assaulted
Snedaker when the latter was unarmed.
A sTAGE-COACH was captured by hos
tile Indians near Fort Cummings N. NJ, on
the 9Th. Alex. Lebeau, the driver, and two
passengers, Isaac Roberts, of New York,
and A. II. Madden, son of Capt. Madden,
of the Sixth Cavalry, were killed. There
have recently been several sharp skirmishes
between the troops and Victories band, but
with no decisive result.
AN explosion occurred in the Seaham
Colliery, near Durham, England, on the
9Th, by which all three shafts were blocked
and some $50 men cut off from escape.
Sixty-six of those working in the upper
seams were rescued, after great labor, by
relief parties; it was believed that few of
the remainder would be taken out alive.
LYNN BROOKS, aged 81, living near
Muncie, Ind, Tilted by his affianced because
he took another girl out riding, blew out his
brains with revolver.
A CREEK Indian was executed at Eu-
fala, Indian Territory, on the It'll, by being
shot. The crime of which he stood con-
victed was the shooting of another Indian
whom he suspected of being too intimate
with his wife.
THE steamer ANGELA, from Antwerp
to New York, came into collision with the
British bark Frougale on the banks of New
foundlsnd and was sunk. Ne lives lost.
Hon. SILAs RICHARDSON, a promi-
nent citizen of Waukesha, Wis.,, in q pre-
sumed moment of absent mindedness blew
out the gas in his room before retiring, and
was found dead in bed in the morning.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE railroad was watched night and
day by {, 1000 peasants and 10000 troops dur
ing the Russian Emperor's recent journey to
Livadia.
TIE Sioux Chief Big Road, direct
from Sitting Bulbs camp, came into Fort
Keogh with four followers and surrendered
on the 9Th. His entire party of 100 braves
were expected to arrive day ortwo later.
MOBILE has suffered by destructive
fire which reduced to ruins and ashes sew
eral large business buildings and their con-
tents, besides damaging many more. The
loss is placed at $3.50, 900, and the insurance
$4,000.
SIX ice-houses and portion of the
stove works of the Excelsior Manufacturing
Company at St Louis were destroyed by ire
on the night Of the 7th. Two firemen, Mike
Lynch and Ed. Sanders, were killed, and
several others injured by falling walls. The
total loss is about $166, 900, fully covered by
insurance.
AT the request of the Uncompaghre