The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-08-20

plete, less nine small districts, four OF which
are estimated, show the population of tn.
State to be810, 147. The final revision VII
increase the number slightly.
REPORTS received at the Department
Of Agriculture at Washington show that the
condition Of the cotton crop throughout the
Southern States Is unusually good, and an
unprecedented yield Is predicted. The black
rust has appeared, however, in certain Sec
tions Of Georgia, and it is believed that the
crop in that State will not reach the average.
I CINCINNATI is dissatisfied with its
census returns, and the police will make a
new enumeration of three districts in order
to determine what further action shall be
taken.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The engine of threshing machine on
the farm of Elias Mccain, near Lakeland,
Mimi, exploded its boiler, killing the fore
man and two men and wounding six or seven
others, some'of them seriously.
The various expedients undertaken to
recover the bodies of the unfortunate work.
men killed by the disaster at the Hudson
River Tunnel in Jersey City have SO far
proved futile, on account Of the difficulty in
clearing the pit of water. More elaborate
plans have now been entered upon, which
are likely to prove successful in the end. but
which will require several weeks time to
carry to completion. .
The Grand Jury of the United States
Court at New York have made presentment
in the case of the Sewanhaka disaster, charg-
ing criminal carelessness and negligence up
on the Government inspectors and the OFF,
GERS and owners Of the vessel. Indictments
were issued against the parties, and they
will be tried for granddaughter.
SNELBAKER, who shot and killed Of
icer Chumley in Cincinnati, has beenreleased
on S. 900 bail, the charge against him being
that of manslaughter.
I AT Montreal, Canada, from fifteen to
twenty boys, between the ages Of ID and 16,
were engaged in shoveling bran in the loft
of two-story brick building, when one of
the walls suddenly fell outward, burying
them all in the ruins. One was dead when
extricated and several others were badly in.
jured.
AT Newburg, Preston County, VIVA,
Mrs. Haltritter and Miss Halbritter were
walking on the railroad, when the fast line
came along and struck both of them, killing
Mrs. Halbritter instantly and INJECTING inju-
ries upon Miss Halbritter from which she
died in few hours.
The Red River steamboat, Bonnie
Lee, was blown up and sank at Lone Wall
Landing, on the 18th. JEFF. Persey, second
clerk, was killed, and McDermott Little's
son is supposed to be drowned. The Bon
ME Lee left New Orleans on the It'll with
full cargo of assorted merchandise.
THREE boys were drowned while
bathing at Chillicothe, NO., on the 18th.
Two of them were sons of Mr.. C. 81. Mason,
one aged nine, the other eleven; the third
was son of Mr.. Henry C. Manning, and
aged nine years.
JOHN G. REUTz, a German gardener
residing four miles south of Indianapolis,
who had become insane on account of pc
cuniary losses, locked himself in his house,
set fire to 1t, and was burned to death. He
leaves wife and four grown children.
A FREIGHT train on the St. Paul and
Duluth Railway was wrecked on the 18th by
q broken rail. Three boys, living at Mime
apolis, named Peter Martin, John Ervine
and George Adams, who were slowed away
in freight car to steal = ride, were killed.
The recent excursion train accident
on the West Jersey Railroad, between At
lantic City and Philadelphia, was much
more serious in its results than was at first
reported. Up to the evening of the 18th
eighteen deaths had occurred, and several
others were pronounced fatally injured,
while large number were more or less seri-
ously hurt. The excursion party was COM
posed of members Of st. AIMS Catholic
Church, Philadelphia, some 1900 in
number, and on account of the
length of the train it was
run in two sections. The accident resulted
from the rear section running into the for
ward one, while the latter was at a stand
still, the locomotive crashing through the
rear car, crushing, burning and scalding
nearly every person in it. The conductor and
engineer of the rear train have been arrested,
charged with manslaughter. The engineer
claims that the air-brakes were applied in
time to stop his train, but they failed to
work at the critical moment.
NEAR New Albany, Ind, on the 18th,
Roger Russell, an old and respected citizen,
shot his son-in-law, John Norman, with both
barrels Of double-barreled shot-g in
flicting mortal injuries, and soon afterward
took deadly dose Of poison. A family diff
Guilty was the cause of the tragedy.
A RECENT telegram from Fort Con-
cho says the Indians captured and entirely
destroyed one mail and killed two men and
one passenger on the stage east.