The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-02-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
At cambridge, Lancaster County,
Pa, Levi Lane, aged "a, murdered his wife
and one child, consigned another infant
child to death from starvation, and then
committed suicide by taking poison. A little
boy, aged 3 years, was for some
unaccountable reason spared the fate
of the other members Of the fam
lily. When discovered by the neighbors the
little fellow was nearly dead from starva-
ton and cold, his feet and legs being go badly
frozen as to necessitate amputation. Lane
was lazy and worthless vagabond, who
lived by doing odd jobs and spent the most
Of his earnings for liquor. Mrs. Lane was
an intelligent woman, Of good. family con-
nections, and it is said eloped from home to
be married.
At Brule City, Dakota Ter, recently,
Jim Somers, known from Yankton to Bis
marck as lawless and dangerous man, had
an alteration with his uncle, NJ. Somers,
which resulted in both being shot dead.
By the explosion of a boiler in Barton
& Babcock's distillery at Peoria, H., on
the 18th, John Sill, fireman, and an I'M
known man who had just come in to inquire
for work, were instantly killed; Benz. Bah
cock, one of the proprietors, and John Rich
ardson, an employee, were fatally injured,
and three others were badly hurt. The ex-
plosion was caused by pumping cold water
into the boiler, which had been allowed to
get nearly dry.
The boiler in John F. Thompson's
steam mill ut Randolph, N. H., burst on the
18th, destroying the mill and killing Eden
Page, Roger johnson, Mr.. Prescott and a
French workman, and badly injuring S. F.
Hewey.
Notwithstanding the PRESIDENT proc
lamation, it is said that an organized invasion
of the Indian Territory from Southern Kan
sas will be made at an early day.
The officers and members of the Ter
ritorial Legislature tf New Mexico made a
pleasure excursion over the newly completed
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to
Kansas. They were publicly entertained at
Atchison, Topeka and Leavenworth.
Page Wallis, colored, who was under
arrest for committing an indecent assault
upon white woman, on the 18th was taken
from the Sheriff at Point of Rocks, Md,
carried across the river to the Virginia shore,
where the offense was committed, and
hanged by mob, after which his body was
riddled with bullets.
A passenger train on the Bellaire and
Southwestern Railroad ran off trestle
thirty-five feet high, nine miles southwest
of Belaire, O., on the evening of the 10th.
Some twenty passengers were injured, sew
eral fatally, as supposed, and most Of the
others severely.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Turkey.
Thomas J. Dougherty and John F.
Cassidy, firemen, were killed by the fall
ing Of the roof of burning building in
New York City on the night of the Goth.
Advices from Rio de Janeiro state that
from eight to ten persons are dying daily
from yellow fever. There is also much sick
ness on shipboard, and vessels are conse-
quently removed from the docks and dis
persed throughout the harbor.
Mr.. Benefits princely donation of
500, 900 to the famished people of ireland
has been splendidly supplemented by the
Bank of Nevada, which sends to Mr.. Ben
nett u check for $25,OOO-the largest sum
ever contributed to any moneyed corpora
ton in the world for a charitable purpose.
Mr.. Mackey, one of the five proprietors Of
the bank, had previously sent to Mr.. Ben
nett, on his individual account, $40 900.
H. G. WRIGHT, one of the editors
and proprietors of the Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle and Constitutionalist, died on the
22d, aged twenty mine.
A shooting ARRAY took place near
Princeton, ILL.,, on the 10th, causing
the death of two persons. A. D.
Garvin, an ex-soldier of unsavory
reputation, having trouble with
his sister, Mrs. kessick, agreed for money
consideration to leave the country. He re-
turned shortly after and attempted to kill
Mrs. Kessick, but was prevented by a daugh-
ter, who received the bullet in her own body,
causing instant death. Garvin then shot
himself through the head, inflicting wound
from which he died next day.