The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-06-04
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Mary O'Connor, . servant, aged forty live,
attempted to kindle the kitchen fire with
kerosene. An explosion occurred, covering
her with the burning oil, and she ran wildly
into the street, tanning it into flames. The
flesh was literally roasted upon her lower
limbs and dropped OF in shreds.
An extensive oil fire occurred in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the morning of the 18th.
Several men were badly injured by the ex-
plosion of an oil tank.
JOEL FERGUSON, Town Marshal of
Murray, Galloway County, KY, was shot
and killed. on the oath by Dan F. Jones, q
saloon-keeper.
A CYCLONE struck the village of
Mitchell, Dakota Territory, on the evening
Of the 18th, doing much damage to life and
property. Jacob Luther, formerly Of New
Alamakee, Iowa, and Henry Smith, former.
~ OF Kane County, ILL.,, were killed. Fred
Francis, Mr.. Phelps, Fritz Badd and VIM.
II. Moth were badly injured. A number Of
buildings we're blown down.
ROBERT T. GRAY, commercial trav-
eler from st. Joseph, Mo-, committed suicide
in Kansas City on the 26th. His parents re-
side at Normal, Ill.
THOMAS o. THURsToN, who shot and
killed his partner, W. w. Embry, at Leav-
enworth, Kas., on last New Years Day, and
who was acquitted on the ground of self
defense, on the Goth attempted to shoot Mr..
D. R. Anthony, editor of the Times, as
the latter was passing along the
crowded street at MONDAY. Thurston
fired twice, both shots missing his intended
victim, but both taking effect upon other
parties. Lucien Baker, young attorney,
was pierced through the body by one of
the bullets, and very dangerously, If
not fatally, wounded, and John p.
Douglas, advertising solicitor of the Times,
was slightly wounded in the head. Thurs
ton was arrested, and for fear that he would
be lynched was taken to Fort Leavenworth
and thence to Atchison, where he is now
imprisoned. Baker was attorney for Thurs
ton in his recent trial and secured his dis
charge.
GEORGE w. PICKENs, an old settler
of Butler County, Kas., on the 23d was suf-
located in q well which he had been blasting
on his farm in Benton Township. Frank
Waite, q neighbours son, went down in the
we'll to the assistance of Pickens, and he too
was overcome by the deadly gas and fell
from the bucket to the bottom, fracturing
his skull.
JOHN EIcHBERG, a prominent citizen
of Memphis, either jumped or fell overheard
from the steamer Hard Cash and was
drowned on the 25th.
AT Piqua, o., on the morning of the
25th, q barrel of gasoline exploded in the
cellar Of the residence of Mrs. DR.. Jones,
causing a confagration by which the house
was soon consumed. Two boys, Charles and
John Perdue, brothers, aged respectively
ten and fourteen years, persisted in the
flames, and Miss Kate Newland and Mr..
Fred Amendt were badly burned. The
house, with it's furniture, which was COM
to $4,000.
AT Buena Vista, Colo, on the 28th,
James Reed and James Edwards had shoot |
ing bout in which both were killed.
Mr.. H. PLEMs, an ex-Alderman Of
Dubuque, Iowa, committed suicide on the
26th by shooting himself through the head. |
Family troubles.
Two executions took place in Ar
kansas on the 18th. Thomas B. Edwards |
was hanged at Ozark, Franklin County, for !
the murder of Julia Alsobrooks, his para |
mour, in johnson County, in July, 1873, and |
L. L. Ford was hanged at Marion, |
Crittenden County, for completely in the |
murder Of John Broadway, in October last.
On the same day Peter King was hanged at |
Woodsfield, O., for the murder of David
Trembly in September last; Charles Balling
a colored youth Of sixteen, was hanged
at Hanover c. H., Va, for an
assault upon white woman; and Henry
Hamlin was hanged ut Hartford, Conn.,, for
shooting Waterman Shipman while the Lat.
ter was trying to prevent his escape from
the State prison in September. 1877.
BILL DELANEY, a noted desperate of
Farley, Dubuque County, Iowa, was shot
and killed on the 18th by Byron Reynolds.
with whom he had provoked a quarrel, De.
lancy had been arrested for horse stealing,
arson, incendiarism and murder, but always
escaped any severe punishment.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Peruvians have recaptured Mo-
quequa and Arequipa.
A DUEL has been fought at Pesth,
Hungary, between Count Itchy and Count
Stephen Karolyi, in which the former was
it was thought fatally.
The Communists of Paris, to the
number Of several hundred, made demon.
stration on Sunday, the 23d, by endeavoring
to decorate with flowers the spot where the
Communists were shot in 1871. The police
and arrested several of the lead
ers. Their friends attempted their rescu.
and blows were exchanged.
A PORTION of Gen. Hatch's command
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