The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-05-21


shrapnel shells from Fort McHenry. and in
breaking them up, just outside the Fort,
one of the shells exploded, instantly killing
six men and boys and severely wounding
two others.
A MATINEE performance by q COM
pany of amateurs was announced to be held
at the Opera house in Atlanta, Ca, on the
18th. A number of young ladies were to
appear in a fairy scene as angels, with wings
made of cotton, and while dressing for their
parts, one of them came in contact with q gas
jet and the cotton flashed up like gunpow-
der, instantly enveloping her in flames and
communicating to the others similarly
attired. A number of gentlemen rushed in
and succeeded in quenching the flames. bus
not before several of the ladies were seriously
burned. Miss Maggie Chapman was not ex-
pected to survive, having inhaled the flames,
and Mrs. Abbie Hammond and Miss Minnie
Bellamy were both badly burned about the
neck and shoulders.
A MOB composed of about one hun
dred masked men, on the morning of the
18th forcibly entered the Jail at Osceola, St.
Clair County, Mo-, took out three prisoners,
w. r. Smith, Charley Pierce and John
Parks, all of whom were awaiting trial for
murder, and hanged them within four hum
dred yards of the Jail.
ISRAEL BRANDT, Josiah Hummel and
Henry Wise, the three men who murdered
Josiah Raber in order to obtain his life in
surance, were hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on
the 18th.
EDWIN HAYT was hanged at Bridge
port, Conn.,, on the 18th, for the murder Of
his father, George Hayt, in June, 1878.
Rev. L. NJ. HUNT, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at South Haven, Mich,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head while in a state of mental
depression caused by i'll health.
THOMAS WHITE, white man, was
hanged at Spartanburg, S. c., on the 18th,
for the murder of Pet Hawkins, a colored
man, in January last.
At Corpus Christi, Tex, on the 14th,
mother-in-law and his sister-in-law, and
then shot himself dead. His mother law,
Mrs. Barnard, was fatally wounded. There
had been family quarrel, ending in Mrs.
Burr's return to her fathers home.
TWO of the ladies burned at the
Atlanta Opera-house have died of their in
juries.
THREE men were killed by the caving
in of shaft of the Lumberman Mining Com
pany, at Norway, Mich, on the 18th. Thir-
teen other men who were working in the
drift were rescued in half-suffocated con-
dition after several hours confinement.
CARL ,MANKE was hanged at Buffalo,
N. Y, on the 18th, for the murder Of John
Atloff, in April, 1879.
MISCELLANEOUS.
EX-SENATOR CHRIsTIANCY, Minister
to Peru, has begun proceedings for divorce
in the Washington courts. A cross bill will
be Immediately filed by defendants attor- |
neys.
The House Committee on Indian A. |
fairs will report favorably the general allot.
ment bill which provides for the settlement
of all Indian tribes upon agricultural lands
in their reservations, and authorizes the
Secretary of the Interior to grant them lands
in severalty.
A PRIZE-FIGHT which was planned to
come off at Long Point, Ont, on the 18th
was necessarily postponed by the action Of |
the Canadian authorities, who sent strong
force Of civil officers, backed by militia, to
prevent the pugilists from landing. The en-
tire party, comprising four boat loads from
Buffalo and Erie, returned home in q most
exasperated condition.
IT is reported that the Indian Terri
tory squatters, under command of Captain
Payne, have been cut off from their supplies
and badly harassed by Lieut.. Pardee's com.
mand of United States troops. The troops
are to be kept stationed in the Oklahoma
country, and will keep that section thor.
oughly secuted and arrest all squatters who
refuse to vacate.
A Tucson dispatch, 18th, says Victo-
rio lost eleven killed in the recent fight with
Kramer. The latter lost Sergeant Griffin,
killed; and P. Craig, Deputy Assessor of
Apache County, and James Richmond, his
were killed by Victories band at
Stevens's rancho.
SENIOR HIPOL1TO DE URIATE; Span.
ish Consul at New York, received an in.
fernal machine through the mails. In tear
ing open the apparently harmless paper box
in which it was inclosed, the affair
exploded, burning Senior Uriate slightly
on the hand and setting the carpet on fire.
1t was charged with most deadly explosives,
and that it did not do greater damage was
because of its imperfect construction.
FOREST fires of most alarming ma
ture are reported from Monroe and Pike
Pa, and from various sections of
New Jersey.
A VERY sensible shock. of earthquake
was experienced throughout Middlesex