The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


shot and instantly killed BY General B. K.
Scott, formerly Governor Of South Carolina,
but for some years resident Of Napoleon.
SCOTS son, in company with . party Of
other young men, had been celebrating
Christmas eve in convivial manner, andnot
desiring to 60 home in his semi-inebriated
condition, he accepted an invitation from
Drury to share his bed In the drugstore.
Some time after midnight the elder Scott,
ascertaining his sons whereabouts, went
to the drug store. He was admitted
by the clerk, but upon attempting TO enter
the bedroom Drury protested against it,
whereupon Scott drew . revolver and shot
the former through the head, killing him In
stantly. he then got his son and went to
his hotel, where he announced what he had
done, saying it was accidental. Scott was
arrested and taken to Defiance for safe keep
ing, there being some threats made oflynch-
ing him. Drury was most estimable young
man and was to have been married the fol.
lowing week.
A. NJ. CoNKLIN, editor of the Socorro
IN. Mex.) Sun, was shot and instantly killed
on Christians night By young Mexican
whom he had elected from church festival
where he was an usher, for an alleged insult
to young lady present. The murderer es-
capped.
A SEVERE snow-storm prevailed east
of the Alleghanies on the 18th, accompanied
by disastrous gales along the coast. Rail-
way trains were generally blockaded by
snow-drifts.
A sLEIGHING party of six, crossing
the railway track on the London, Huron
and Bruce Railway, near Claudeboy Station,
Ont, Christmas night, were struck by .
train at full speed. James McGrath, his
wife, and brother Matthew, and Ellen Blake,
q cousin, were instantly killed. McGrath's
child, Ii months old, was dangerously hurt.
but may recover. Annie McGrath saved
herself by jumping.
Miss ADA HEBDEN, aged %, daughter
Of the rector of an Episcopal Church at
Hamilton, Ont, but for the past six months
visitor at the house of her brother, Robert
Y. Hebden, at Chicago, on Christmas day
committed suicide by shooting herself
through the heart with small revolver. She
was handsome and accomplished girl, and
no cause is known for the act.
Two young negroes, named Sam and
John Campbell, were lynched near Rowlett's
Station, in Hart County, ky., for the rob.
berry and attempted murder of Esquire John
A. Gardner.
The Lockwood Hotel, at Parsons,
Kans., burned at an early hour on the
morning of the 26th. Several of the inmates
were injured, but all escaped with their
lives.
A PROVIDENCE Or. ~ dispatch says
the Sprague divorce case, which is expect.
ed to come to trial in few weeks, is caus-
ing great deal Of excitement there where
all the parties are well known. Gov.
Sprague's friends say he will make . vi9or-
GUS defense to the suit, and there seems lit.
tie doubt that he will prefer counter.
charges against his wife of similar charac-
ter to those alleged against him in her COM
plant, which, as is we'll known, are Of a
most scandalous nature.
The house of the Widow Anthony,
two miles from Weston, O., burned on
Christmas eve, and her daughter, aged IA,
and niece, aged II, persisted in the flames.
The Chilians expect to attack Lima
with a force of 81, 900 men, who have been
given permission to pillage the city. The
principal families have departed, with all
their valuable property. The Peruvians are
rapidly concentrating their forces, one bat
TALON having marched 900 miles.
THERE are reports of great destitu-
ton and suffering among the Irish colonists
recently settled in Big Stone County, MIMI,
under the supervision of Bishop Ireland.
Provisions and supplies have Deen sent from
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
A WAR on emigrant business has been
by the New York trunk lines,
which promises a s to W Materially the tide Of
JOSEPH L. PIKE, a prominent stock
man of Onaway City, Iowa, committed sui
eide on account of financial reverses.
THE boilers in Dodge & Co.'s shoe
factory at Newburyport, Mass, exploded at
noon on the 9th, killing instantly John Har-
rington, engineer, and John Fl. Basley, fire.
man, and fatally injuring John Teel and o.
car Satkins, all of whom were in the
boiler-room at the time of the explo-
sion. The disaster occurred, fortunately,
during the dinner hour, or the loss of
life among the 500 operatives must have been
fearful to contemplate, as the boiler-house
was. blown to atoms and the debris scattered
In all directions, while one Of the boilers was
landed 200 yards away, crushing everything
in its path. The cause Of the explosion is
not known, as the boilers are said to have
been nearly new and Of the best quality.
A MOVEMENT is making in Northern
Dakota to have the Territory divided into |
two parts.
RAILWAY employees in Great Britain |
have begun q movement for . reduction of
working hours.
A COLLISION of trains on the Mobile !
and Ohio Railroad occurred on the morning
Of the 18th at the State line, sixty miles
from Mobile, causing the death of both en-
yineers and firemcn and the injury of several |
other employees as well as passengers. The |
names Of the killed are Savage, Heuchey and |
Moody, one not being given.
The steamer City of Peking from
China brings An account of the burning Of |
heater in Nomhoitner, Province Of Yuchun,
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