The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-05-07


and George Hughes, engineer. Eight per-
sons were injured. The building was total
ly consumed.
WIN. LIsHAN and wife, new settlers,
living four miles from Umatilla Agency,
Ore, were recently found murdered in bed,
their heads being chopped to pieces with an
ak. Robbery was not the object, all the
property remaining undisturbed. No clew
to the assassin.
MRS. Houston, living in the country
near Austin, Tex, on the 9th, in fit of in.
sanity, attempted to murder her five chill
dren by driving knitting-needles into their
brain through their ears. One was killed and
two others seriously injured.
JOHN S. HOOVER was taken from
the Jail at Buena Vista, Colo, on
the morning of the 18th, by twenty
masked and armed men, and hanged
from the window of the Courthouse.
Hoover shot and killed James Bennett last
April. He had secured two continuances of
his trial upon afidavits, and finally pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced
to eight years. Imprisonment in the Peniten-
tiary.
Four lives were lost by the disaster
in Madison Square Garden, New York.
The steamer Alice, from Pittsburg
for St. Louis, on the 18th went over the falls
and Government dam at Louisville and sank
forty feet from shore in eighteen feet of
water. Many of the passengers jumped
overheard, but it is believed only one, an
unknown man, was drowned.
A NEVADA murderer, Charles Wes-
ey Haymers, was hanged at Winnemucca on
the 9th.
MRS. ABRAHAM CARMAN, of Jersey
City, poured kerosene upon the kitchen fire
and was burned to death. She was the
mother of Mrs. Jennie r. Smith, who with
Cove Bennett has been tried three times for
the murder of her husband.
I. M. KALLOCH has been held for trial
without bail on the charge of killing Charles
De Young of the San Francisco Chronicle.
LUCIAN M. NOFTsINGER was hanged
at Gainesville, Tex. ,On the 3Oth, for the muir
der of Willis Cline in August, 1878. Noft-
singer was rejected by the woman who sub
sequently became Cline's wife, and in order
to satisfy his jealousy and obtain revenge he
murdered her husband. Ben Krebs and
James Preston, who were to have been exc
cuted at the same time and place, were saved
by executive clemency.
Two men were killed and several in
tured by the explosion of boiler in the fur
mace of the Bryan Hill Iron Company, ne ar
Youngstown, O., on the 3Oth.
SIX employees of drug house in
Aldergate Street, London, lost their lives by
the burning of the building on the 30th.
MISCELLANEOUS
THE United States Minister to Co.
lombia, who recently left for his post, has
special instructions on the subject of the
canal project. He will explain to the Presi-
dent of the Colombia confederation that this
Government exercises protectorate over
certain portions Of the isthmus, and that
the concessions recently granted De Les
seps by the Colombian authorities compel
the Americans to look after their own inter-
ests.
1T has been discovered that the Nash
vile and Chattanooga Railroad Company
owes the Government $160, 900 for arrears of
interest due on first mortgage bonds, which
matured in 1868. The detached coupons
have lain in the Treasury twelve years, very
curiously, without any ones attention being
called to the fact.
In accordance with the joint resolu-
ton of Congress, orders have been sent to
the Quartermaster of the Department of
Missouri to issue 500 tents for the use of the
| sufferers by the recent tornado in Missouri.
THE officers of the Constellation have
been banqueted by the Galway officials.
AT a Cabinet meeting held on the
3Oth, the threatened invasion of the Ute In
dian reservation for mining purposes was
the subject of q somewhat protracted dis
cussion. It was decided to send Gen. Nc
Kenzie and his forces into the reservation to
prevent collision between the whites and In
dams.
SIX ocean steamers arrived at New
York on the 3Oth, bringing 1885 emigrants
from all parts of Europe. Total arrivals
for April, 46,11S, the largest number ever
landed at Castle Garden in any one month.
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, had 100000
fire on the Both. The east block of the south
side of the Public Square, comprising if
teen buildings, was entirely destroyed. The
Post-Ofice was burned out. Total insur-
ance about $4,000.
Mr.. CLARENCE r. RALPH, Treasurer
of the New York Journal of Commerce
Company, arrived at St. Louis, March "a, on
his way to Colorado. He left his hotel, the
Planters, to visit dentist, having an at
tack Of the toothache, and this is the last
known Of him. His friends fear that he has
been foully dealt with. He was thirty EIGHT
years old, five feet six inches in height,
weighed 116 pounds, and had dark brown
hair, mixed with gray, and gray eyes.
SAMUEL SWEEPER, living near Mil