The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-23

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
S. S. R1cKLEY, President of the Capt.
tai City Bank at Columbus, o., was shot
through the head on the 18th by Andrew
Eichenberg. The assassin then put bullet
through his own brain, causing
instant death. The shooting took
place in the Bank at noon, the
only other person present being Ralph
Rickley, the Cashier, who is son OF the
President. Eichenberg came in and asked
Mr.. Rickley to loan him $50 on some securi-
ties in his possession. The latter refused,
whereupon Eichenberg pulled out a revolver
and fired without any warning at hickey,
following almost instantly with the shot that
terminated his own life. The man is be-
lieved to have been insane. Mr.. Rickley is
seriously wounded, but may recover.
CHRISTIAN PECK, a young merchant
of Littleport, Clayton County, Iowa, blew
out his brains with a revolver because his
girl Tilted him and married another man.
A SINGULAR and horrible accident oc-
Cured on the Long Island Railroad on the
18th. A gravel train with thirty-five italian
laborers on board ran under heavy wire
rope by which the derrick near the track was
sustained, sweeping the cars and knocking
off the men. Many were manned in a shock
ing manner, and several had their skulls
fractured. Six of the number were not eX-
pccted to live.
PRENr1s NELMs and Tom Konkey,
both colored, charged with being concerned
in the murder of Rufus Armistead, near
Horn Lake, Miss, about two months ago,
were being conveyed from Austin to Her
nando, on the 10th, when q body of masked
men took them from the officers having
them in charge and cut their threats from
ear to car, besides mutilating their bodies in
most shocking manner. The citizens OF
Austin held a meeting and passed resolu-
lions denouncing the atrocious act and ap-
pointed committee of whites and blacks
to ferret out the murderers.
ANOTHER mining horror has occurred
in Wales. At an early hour on the morning
of the 18th an explosion took place in the
new black vein pit of the London and South
Wales Colliery Company, at Risca, six miles
from Newport. The pit is $50 yards deep.
The force of the explosion was so great as to
utterly destroy the ventilating fan in the up
cast air-blast, thus cutting of every hope OF
escape to the 12O men below, all of whom
were doubtless suffocated in short time.
| A number of explosions of q like fatal char
acfer have occurred in the same mine, one IN
| 1860 by which AS lives were lost.
A DOUBLE assassination occurred IN
Jefferson County, Mo-, on the 18th. An
drew Wilson and Martha Shultz were shot
and almost instantly killed while riding along
the road in wagon, by some unknown per-
son who was hiding in the woods. Wilson
was about thirty years of age, married
man, and was going with the girl Shultz to
secure her q situation when the deed was
committed. Wilson's brothers-in-law are
suspected of being the guilty parties.
CHAsT1NE Cox, colored, was hanged
in the Jail yard of the Tombs, New York
City, on the 10th, for the murder OF Mrs
Jane De Forest Hull, in June, 1879.
DURING q ratification meeting al
Frankfort, KY, one man was fatally shot
while leaning out of q window, another man
had an eye put out by a ball from Roman
candle, and another received the contents Of
q shotgun in his back.
The schooner Duval capsized on Lake
Michigan and all on board were drowned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE capture of africa by the Chill.
ans is considered death blow to the hope.
of Peru, but President Peirolas still urges wal
to the bitter end and is taking most energetic
measures.
IT was reported from New Orleans OF
the 18th that two more sailors of the bari
Excelsior, at Quarantine Station, had beer
taken sick, presumably with yellow fever.
AT S:15 on the night of the 18th {
shock of an earthquake was felt in Memphis
Tenn, its motion Migratory. coming from tn
northwest, and lasting several seconds.
THE anniversary of the taking of tn
Bastile, July IA, which, under the Republic
has become the National Fete day Of Franc
: in lieu of the Fete Napoleon, was celebrated
: in Paris with great magnificence. The Ca
thedral of Notre Dame was illuminated in