The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-01-02

tory of West, Bradley & Cary, on West
Twenty ninth Street, New York, burned on
the night of the 22d. Twenty women were
in the building and barely escaped with their
lives. Four Of them were severely injured
by jumping from the windows, and two fire.
men were badly hurt by falling debris.
Matthew Gleason's house at Ayers
town, n. j., burned on the night Of the 22d
and his three children persisted in the flames.
The revolutionary army entered San
Domingo on the 18th OF November, President
Guillermo having previously fled. Peace
has been entirely restored.
At Christmas-tree festival in the NJ
E. Church at Pataskala, O., on Christmas
Eve, a young man named George Lynn, who
persOnated Santa Claus, was dressed in a
costume covered with loose cotton. In some
manner the cotton caught fire and young
Lynn was very badly burned before it could
be extinguished. The affair caused panic
in the church and several people were in
jured.
A most horrible murder occurred at
Delphos, O., at an early hour on Christmas
morning, the victim, Mr.. Bernard r. Picker,
being a well-to-do and estimable German
citizen, residing nearly in the center of the
city. Mrs. Picker gives the following ac-
count of the affair: "My husband was
aroused from his slumbers by a heavy knock
ing at the front door. Getting up, he opened
the door fearlessly, and was instantly
seized by three masked men, who demanded
his money or his life. He, needless of their
threats, made a desperate resistance, and
was only overpowered when he was shot
through the head by one of the ruffians and
instantly killed. / rushed from the bed to
assist my husband, and was seized and
threatened with the same fate. 1, however,
screamed at the top of my voice, but was
finally overpowered by being tied and gagged.
They again demanded the money and re-
fused, and they then placed me against
red hot stove and tortured me so badly that
1 could not endure any more pain, and l fin
ally gave them the mony, amounting to ST.
500 in currency, the savings of years. They
then took their departure" Mrs. Picker's
injuries were quite serious, and possibly
fatal.
Willis Hall, the main building of
Carleton College, Northfield, MIMI, was
burned on the 23d. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
ST., 800.
The severest weather known for years
prevailed throughout Minnesota just before
Christmas, the range of the thermometer be-
ing reported at from 10 to So degrees below
zero. The weather throughout the Pacific
slope has also been almost unprecedentedly
cold. Stock has suffered severely and there
has been some damage to fruit.
f. G.. Voules, confidential clerk to
Huston e. Co. of Cincinnati, contractors for
the New Southern Railroad, absconded re-
Gently, after having squandered in fast living
a large amount of his employers money
He was traced to New Orleans and found
in company with an abandoned young
woman, one of his former Cincinnati
favorites. When the officers attempted to
arrest him he hastily took from his pocket
bottle of prussic acid and swallowed the con-
tents, from the effects Of which he died in a
short time. Voules was an Englishman by
birth, about so years of age.
The Spanish Senate has passed the
bill abolishing slavery in Cuba.
The Bayley Hat Factory at Newbury-
port, Mass, employing 200 hands, burned on
the 25th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $780, 900.
At Paris, Ky, on Christmas night,
Mr.. Jaynes was personating Santa Claus at
a children's gathering, his costume being of
white muslin covered with raw cotton. In
some way the cotton took fire and MI.
Jaynes was fatally burned, dying before
morning.
At Fargo, D. T., on Christmas Day,
the thermometer registered 80 degrees
below zero; at Pembina the Government
thermometer indicated 80 degrees below.
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