The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-09

recommended for the river below Cairt
can be applied as far as st. Louis
that above this point the most serious
difficulties will be encountered. The mem.
bers of the Commission who have been il
communication with the Department, eithel
by letter or in person, favor active worl
during the present season to cover the entire
river, SO as to be prepared to submit com.
prehensive report to Congress in December
and thus close up their entire work against
probable contingency.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NEAR Des Moines, Iowa, four-year.
old son of George Wheeler got hold of q
loaded revolver and shot his two-year- old
sister through the head, killing her instantly
TIMOTHY HART, wealthy stock
raiser of South Texas, started to go to Bee.
Vile with 81, 600 in his possession. He is
known to have stopped over one night with
a party of MeXicans in camp, but never ar
rived at his destination. 1t is believed he
was murdered by the Mexicans and his body
secreted.
The steamboat Seawanahaka, which
ran from Peck Slip, New York, up the Sound
to Glen Cove, L. l., took fire on the after
noon of the 2Sth, while of Randall's ISL
and, East River. The fire was occasiOned
by an explosion in the engine-room, and the
middle of the steamboat was soon in flames.
Capt. Charles Smith, who was acting as
pilot, remained at his post until he was
nearly burned to death and succeeded in
Bleaching the vessel in sunken meadow ad.
joiningthe island. Many persons sprang over
board and were drowned. Many others in
the stern of the vessel could not get off and
were burned to death. OF 5O0persons sup
posed to be on board, fifty are believed to
have persisted. George Chase, the owner Of
q private yacht, went to the assistance of the
passengers as soon as he discovered the
steamer to be on fire, and by the eXertions
of himself and companions nearly forty lives
were saved.
Two gamblers, known as " Hoodoo :"
Brown and "Curly" Frank, had dispute
over game of cards at Buena Vista, Colo.
Brown was shot twice in the breast and in
stantly killed; his adversary was likewise
to recover.
JOHN B. CRAWFORD, engineer, and
NJ. A. Shriver, fireman, were instantly killed
by collision on the Pennsylvania Railroad
near Petersburg, on the 10Th.
THE Grand Jury of Orange County,
n. Y, have indicted Beaumont Buck, the
Texas student who shot and badly wounded
John G. Thompson, Jr., at Highland Falls,
near West Point, some weeks ago.
CHARLES ULRICH, the notorious coun-
terfeiter, who recently completed ten years.
term in the Ohio Penitentiary, is supposed to
be the author of the dangerous 500 counter
felt bank notes now in circulation.
AT Kennebunk, Me-, Mrs. Sylvester
Chick took her only son, eight years old, to
the river, undressed him and held him I'M
derneath the water until he was drowned.
She then attempted to drown herself.
The steamer Mary, on Lake Mime
tonka, exploded her boiler on the LIST, kill
ing the engineer, VIM. Chadwick, j. r.
Plattenburg, of Canton, Ill.,, and G.. A.
Games, head waiter at the Hotel St. Louis.
The pilot, John Steward, was fatally in dred,
The explosion occurred at the wharf at the
Hotel St. Louis, where the boat had stopped
on her way to another landing to take on
board party of one hundred eXcursionists.
The Mary is said to have been considered I'M
safe for some time. Her boiler is the third
of the same make that has exploded on the
same lake in the last three years, each time
with fatal results.
Mr.. D. WADE LINCOLN, President of
the Boston and Albany Railroad Company,
and the wife of DR.. w. Appleton, of Boston,
were both instantly killed on the LIST by an
accident on the New London Northern Rail-
road. Mr.. Lincoln and a party of friends
from Springfield had come down to New
London in a special car, which was at
tached to an excursion train. to
witness the regatta. In starting up the train
Mr.. Lincoln and Mrs. Appleton, who were
seated upon a flat-car at the time, were |
thrown between the cars.
A COLORED man in the Jail at Nor
he murder Of Christian Smith, was taken |
,ut by a mob and hanged and shot to death. |
THERE were seventy-nine fatal cases
" sunstroke reported in New York City for |
he twenty-four hours ending at noon on the |
st.
DIR. SAMPLE, somewhat notorious
character Of Cincinnati, formerly a temper
nee lecturer, but more recently degenerated
nto common bar-room loafer, attempted
o drown himself in the Ohio River, but was
ished out and locked up for safe keeping.
Upon being let out he Immediately pro-
eeded to get drunk again, was sent to the
Vork-house, and here succeeded in ending
lis miserable existence by hanging himself.
MISCELLANEOUS.
DIR. TANNER, of Minneapolis, who
laims tn have ACCOMPLISHED the annarenflY |