The Iola register., 1880-12-03

an iron screw steamer of S2S tons gross, and
the Ortiga was of /, 1853 tons burthen. The
passengers on board the sunken steamer
were mostly poor emigrants from Catibrern,
bound for South America. 1t was thought
there was also number of American and
English tourists on board.
A VERY sad affair occurred few
days ago at the residence of Col. James J.
Dale, four miles from Kingston, in Roane
County, Tenn. A large and joyous party
had assembled to witness the marriage of
Col. Dale's daughter to Joel Hembree. Soon
after supper nearly all Of the guests were
taken violently i'll with unmistakable symp-
toms of poisoning, which resulted in
the death of six of the number, namely,
Robert Dale, brother of the bride, Mike
May, Albert Gallagher, Miss Matte Love-
lace. Emma Peters and Kate Lowery. Col.
Dale and wife were very low and their death
momentarily expected. The cause Of the
tragedy was using arsenic instead of salt for
seasoning of the chickens. Col. Dale pdr-
chased quantity of arsenic day or two
before to kill crows and carelessly left it in
the kitchen. A blundering servant mistook
it for salt and hence the fatal results.
The house of J. G.. Luker, at Summit
City, near Bradford, Pa, burned on the
morning of the 24th. Mr.. and Mrs. Luker
barely escaped in their night-clothes. Their
5-year.o .old child was rescued, but so badly
burned that he died within few hours.
Sixty laborers were buried in snow
slide near Chalk Creek, on the Kokomo ex-
tension of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad. on the 25th. They noticed the
pine trees trembling, and in an in
slant the slide came with loud
roar, tearing up the track for distance
of quarter of mile and burying the sixty
men. John Dine was killed, 10 men badly
injured and IL others slightly. The slide
carried the track over the heads Of the men
and most of the wounds are probably caused
by the iron striking them.
A BAND of cattle thieves in Grant
County, Arizona, were pursued by citizens
and overtaken. A fight ensued, and the
ringleader of the. robbers, named King, and
one of the band, named Smith, were seri-
ously wounded. Most of the stock was re-
covered.
AT Salem, Va, on the 26th, Marcus
de Lafayette Hawley was hanged for the
murder of Zachariah Hayes in June last.
On the day previous to his execution, Haw-
ley was married in his cell to a woman
named Minnie Hawkins, with whom he had
formerly susustained illicit relations.
DEMETRIo DOMINIQUEs, Mexican,
was hanged at Phoenix, Arizona, on the
26th, for the murder of Mr.. Thomas q year
ago.
CHARLES BROWN, a merchant of Mar
BILE Hall, few miles below Bristol, Va, and
his clerk, James Heck, were both found
murdered on the Thanksgiving morning.
The family carriage of James John
son, wealthy resident OF Lakewood, n. j.,
was struck by an express train and entirely
demolished, both horses being killed. The
occupants, Mr.. johnson, his daughter-in-
law and her infant child, were thrown into
snow bank twenty feet distant. Mr.. john
son and his daughter-in-law were both
probably fatally injured; the babe escaped
with few bruises.
AT Biddeford, Me-, the hook-and-
ladder house burned the other night and
James Welsh perished in the flames.
JOHN FULMER and his wife and Mrs.
George Halzel were killed near Defiance,
o., by being struck by the locomotive Of an
express train while crossing the track in q
wagon.
FIVE miners en- route from George
town, Colo., to North Park, were buried un-
der an avalanche while crossing the divide.
C. d. Eaton and Thomas Gray were killed; !;
the other three, Frazer, Nelson and Sander,
escaped with some broken bones and bruises.
The party had been out in the storm five days
and were nearly famished when the accident
occurred.