The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
Personal AND GENERAL.

GEORGE PARROT, alias /" Big-nose
George, famous border Desperate and
robber, has been sentenced to be hanged at
Rawlins in April. N SIX
The number of lives lost by the burn
ing Of the wallpaper mandatory at Buffa-
10, N. Y, is believed to be fifteen.
A TRUNK containing the remains of q
middle-aged man was found 1t Pittsburgh
on the 18th, having been checked through
from Philadelphia by passenger who prob
ably left the train soon after leaving that
city. It is thought the man was foully dealt
with.
FRANCIS TREvALYAN BUCKLAND,
better known as Frank Buckland, the we'll
known English writer on natural history. is
dead.
MISS CLARINDA MASTERS, q school
teacher, was run over and killed by train
on the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad, near
Elk Creek Station.
CHARLES SICKLER, of Scranton, Pa,
fatally poisoned. his wife by giving her car
belic acid BY mistake for chloral. he has
gone insane through grief.
A MOST horrible crime, and still
more horrible retributton, is reported from
Monroe County, Miss. A few nights ago
two brothers, named Miller, obtained per-
mission to remain over night at the cabin of
Brown Reding. While the family were
asleep che two men chloroformed them, rob-
bed the cabin and set it on fire, burning
Reding, his wife and child, years old, to
death. One of the miscreants was captured,
and, after being forced to confess, was sur
rounded by pine fagots and slowly roasted
to death. The same fate awaits his COM
panion should he be overtaken.
GRANVILLE HARRELL, colored, who
brutally murdered Mr.. David Simmons, a
welI-known citizen of Kinds County, Miss,
County Jail at Raymond by an armed mob,
on the night of the 18th, and hanged.
DIR. j. T. LIND, a visitor to Hot
Springs, Ark, who occupied cottage near
the Capital Hotel, was .assassinated on the
night of the 10th as he was going from the
hotel to his cottage, being shot down in cold
blood. The murdered man was from Ohio.
The cause of the murder is not even sus-
pected.
r. G. ADAMS, Chief Engineer of the
North Adams (Mass.) Fire Department,
and for many years Deputy Sheriff, has
startled the entire community by confessing
himself guilty of arson, in having set fire to
block of buildings which was burned re-
Gently. 1t is also believed that he is the
author Of many other fires occurring within
few years past, the origin of which has re-
NAMED a mystery.
CHARLES McADAMs and Philip Ryal,
two young men of Jacksonville, Shelby
County, KY, had shooting encounter
which resulted in the death of the latter.
The combatants were distantly related by
marriage, and the affair grew out of kind
of family quarrel.
AT Howe's Valley, Hardin County,
KY, David j. Carter and 'sBud" Harring-
ton, both well-to-do farmers, had lawsuit
about some outstanding accounts between
them, which led to a personal alteration.
Blows followed words, when Harrington
drew a pistol and shot Carter in the mouth,
the ball coming out at the back of his
neck. Young Carter, son Of the wounded
man, ran home and returned in few
minutes with double barreled shotgun,
both barrels of which he discharged into the
body of Harrington, apparently killing him
instantly; but old man Carter, notwith
standing his severe wound, seized a black
smiths sledge and beat Harrington's head
into jelly. He then fell over his body, ap-
parently in a dying condition.