The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16

By q decree of the Supreme Court of
Alabama, the Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail-
road, from Selma to the Georgia line, has
been ordered sold June 18th, at minimum
price of 81 500, 900.
A DISPATCH from Atlanta says Presi-
dent Newcomb has made q satisfactory
agreement with Presidents Brown, Alexan.
der and Wadley, whereby the Louisville and
Nashville and the three great railroads in
Georgia unite for mutual benefit on all
through business. Savannah and Charles
ton are to be the ports. An Officeis to be
established in New York and grain eleva-
tor erected in Atalanta.
HINsoN & CUNNING, a prominent
cotton commission house in New York, have
failed with large liabilities.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE steamer Dariti was sunk by
collision on the river Danube. Sixteen per.
sons were drowned.
EZRA BECKER and William Schum,
firemen, were killed by falling wall at the
burning of Thompson & Co.'s Touring mill
number of other fremen were badly hurt.
The walls was thrown down by an explo-
sion.
AMOS WooTEN was hanged at BEN
nettsville, s. c., on the 9th, for the crime of
arson.
SAMUEL ROBINSON, colored, was
hanged at Leesburg, Va, on the 9th, for the
murder of Edward Thomas, last October.
AN explosion occurred on the 9Th in
the Preston Colliery, one Of the largest in
the Scuylkill region, by which five men were
badly injured, three fatally.
Albert SCHELL, late city editor OF
the Cleveland Anzeiger, committed suicide
on the 9Th by drowning himself in the lake,
previous to which he had cut his throat. He
was dissipated and in pecuniary straits.
LOUIS KEENAN,, aged "a, night
Waterman at Her & Co.'s distillery, Omaha,
Neb., fell into large tub of scalding slop
and was found there in the morning, literally
cooked to death. s-.. ....,
JOHNSON C. WHITAKER, the only
colored cadet at West Point, on the morn
ing of the 9Th was found bound hand and
foot in his room at the barracks, with
piece of one ear gone and otherwise bruised
and battered. He said that during the
night three masked men attacked him while
in bed and committed the outrage. It was
at first taken to be an atrocious case of haz-
ing by his brother cadets, but an
investigation by the commandant satisfied
the authorities that no member of the corps
committed the crime. Some suspicion hay-
ing been created that the affair was "put
UP job' on the part Of Whitaker for ute
rior purposes, at his request court of in
quiry has been granted to fully investigate
the matter. .. s..r.
A NEGRO tramp boarded train on
the Bee-line Railway at Sidney, O., on the
9th, and having no money the conductor put
him off at Hardin Station. As the train
started he got on the platform and fired
through the window, presumably at the con-
ductor, but the ball struck and killed a
passenger, Joseph NJ. Lehman, ,of Houston,
Shelby County, o. The negro escaped.
The night-express train from Boston
to New York on the 9Th was thrown down
an embankment near Meriden, Conn.,, and
several persons were badly injured.
A NEGRO cabin twelve miles north of
Memphis burned on the night of the 4th,
and three young children who had been
locked in by their parents while the latter
went to church persisted in the flames. The
fire originated from coal-oil lamp. I'D
MAMIE FAHIE, aged Z, was fatally
burned at Cincinnati, on the morning Of the
9th. Her mother had gone out early to
market, and during her absence the little
one got up and attempted to light the fire,
in doing which she set fire to her clothing
When the mother returned she found her
writhing with pain, but still conscious,
though she died in about an hour after
ward.
AT Santa Fe, N. Mex, on the night
of the 5th, VIM. Robinson, while intoxi-
Gated, shot Policeman Sunday twice, knock
ing off two fingers. Sunday returned the
fire, killing Robinson instantly.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GEN. HATCH has had another fight
with Indians, supposed to be Mescalero
Apaches, in the San Andres Mountains.
The Indians fled, leaving behind their dead.
number not stated. Colonel Hy. Carroll,