The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
JOHN STEWART, well-known resi-
dent of Scott County, Ark, who run farm
and general store near Waldron, and Billy
Massingale, a visiting friend from the viii
lage, were both shot and instantly killed a
few nights ago by two men named Fulsom
and Hobbs. The four men on the night
previous to the murder had made up game
of poker, at which Fulsom and Hobbs had
been heavy losers. The next night the two
men returned, and rousing up Stewart, who
had gone to bed, asked for some whisky. AS
he was in the act Of drawing it he was shot
through the heart, falling dead. Masslngale,
hearing the shooting, came out OF the house,
when he too was shot through the head, fall
ing dead at the feet of Mrs. Stewart. who
had run in her night-clothes to the door.
The murderers escaped. heading for the In
dian Nation.
A GENERAL strike of switcbmen, yard
men and trackmen on the Western Di-
vision of the New York, Lake Erie & Wes-
tern Railroad, has caused almost complete
blockade of freight traffic. The strike is for
an advance of 10 per cent. in wages, which
the company refuses to grant.
A wELL-KNowN Republican poll
tician, named Jos. E. Murray, aged about 30
wears, was found dead in his bed at Lake
Providence, La. Investigation by the Cor
oner's Jury revealed the fact that he had
committed suicide by taking an overdose Of
morphine. He was native of New Haven,
Conn.
ALICE LAMONT, a variety performer,
died in a st. Louis hospital the other day
from the effects Of poisonous cosmetics.
OREGON expects to have surplus of
30O, 600 tons of wheat for export this year.
L. B. HUTTON, farmer about 80
years of age, living four miles from Aurora,
Neb., was instantly killed by kick from a
mule, the animal hitting him just behind the
ear. He leaves wife and several small
children.
POsTMAsTER-GENERA JAMES has is
sued an order calling the attention of Post
masters to the necessity of effectually can
ceiling the stamps on mail matter. Neglect
in this matter has caused considerable loss
to the Government.
AT Pittston, Pa, on the 23d, DR.. w.
Mel. Ostrander, a wealthy and well-known
physician, committed suicide by hanging
from gas fixtures.
Two workmen, Henry Barnum and
Fitzgerald, were burned to death at Phila-
delphfa. They were in the top story of a
burning warehouse at the time and failed to
reach a place of safety before the flames
burst through the roof.
A FREIGHT on the Ohio Southern Rail-
way collided with passenger train on
side-track near cambridge, Ohio. The fire.
man and passenger were killed.
UNKNOWN parties entered the Jail at
Monroe, La, on the 23d, and took out Perry
Mason and Alexander Wilson (colored),
charged with murder, and hanged them.
IT is rumored that a general strike of
railroad employees throughout the country
is contemplated soon. The strike already
inaugurated on the Erie is said to be the
precursor of the movement, and was brought
about somewhat prematurely by local infu-
ences.
A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico
dated the 23d says of recent disaster at
Mazatlan: One hundred and fifty pounds of
powder blew up. First thirty corpses were
removed; the following six days four or five
daily, when the authorities interdicted the
further removal, considering the work dam
gerous All the windows in the town were
demolished.
IT is reported from Geneva that the
Socialists have addressed threatening let
ter to the Federal Tribunal in regard to
their,appeal from the decision of the Grand
Council OF Zurich prohibiting the Social
Congress there in September. The letter
warns the Judges Tribunal that they will
be the first to be blown up, and states that
the Socialists have enough dynamite to blow
up half Of Switzerland, and that it is in
Switzerland that a conf1agration will begin
that will burn up the world.
IT is expected that the project of es-
tablishing double line of telegraph between
St. Louis and Chicago will soon be carried
into execution.
RECENT advices from St. Petersburg
state that additional arrests of prominent
persons continue to be made. Although the
prisons are filed with persons accused of
political crimes, very few are brought to
trial.
Col. JAMES G. BENTON, of the United
States Ordnance Department, since 1866 in
charge of the Armory at Springfield, Mass,
is dead.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS has writ
ten a private letter announcing that he is
very busily engaged in writing book in re-
ply to the recently published work of Jeffer-
son Davis.
ANDERSON PITTS, wealthy farmer
at Rutherford County, Tenn. who recently
had divorce trouble, was shot and killed
in his melon patch by some persons I'M
known.
A CASE of yellow fever is reported
from Key West, Fla, and the National
Board of Health is officially informed that it
is believed to have originated there.
THE American Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation met in Kansas City on the 23d, with
a representation of about one hundred mem
bers.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, has had $780,
600 fire. One fireman was killed and two
others badly injured.