The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was discovered in dying conoI'ion'
ocross the Lake Shore & Michigan Soutnefn
tr.ct at fremont, Ohio. Foul play Is sus:
cested by all the circumstances.
FREIGHT train on the ColumDla q
Port Deposit Railroad was wrecAeu n.al
Sara Uarbor. Pa. by landslide. Inc ~
comotiye and six cars were tnro"h ~.
the susouehanna River, and the remain Iom;.
oomnlete,v wrecked. The body OF Ellis
Onet engineer, was believed to be under tne
a,o;ne in the river. The fireman was seri'
ously injured. ..o ;o;,
..I.h.non Ky.. on the 31st, passing out
through the tunnel.
CHARLES JONES, colored, who COM
ro;tted an indecent assault upon respecta-
HE white married lady, was hanged ny
mob near Spadra, johnson County, ARK.
NEAR Beanettsville, Marlboro Coun-
~ 6. C.. the wife of planter named smith
was set upon and horribly maltreated oy
negro while returning home from ne'sn,
bor,s. Her husband pursued the orute anu
shot him dead in his tracks.
SAMUEL KENYON, well-to-do farmer
residing near Black River Falls, WIS., was
shot down the other night while returning
from the we'll with pail OF water. iheie
is no clew to the assassin.
MRS. LUCINDA TUCKLEY, aged o.,
respected widow lady residing near Albany,
Athens County, O. was horribly maltreated
nv a negro. Her skull was fractured and she
received other injuries which it was thought
might prove fatal. Her assailant was cap
tired and locked up, and the neighbors
threatened to lynch him.
SEVERAL Danville Ql.) fremen are
under arrest charged with incendiarism.
, There have been many mysterious nres
there recently, and it is now confessed Dy
one of the malefactors that they were KIN
l died for the purpose OF waking the autnori'
D ties I'D to the necessity Of having PAID nre
Y department.
n The Kentucky authorities were in
formed some time ago that the James boys
had taken up their quarters in Logan Coun-
ty and had planned the capture OF tram on
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. A
). well armed posse were dispatched to the
Il alleged rendezvous of the famous bandlts,
= but no trace of them could be found.
Il The Mayer & Bachman Brewery
Clifton. Staten Island, and block Of build
J. ipgs burned on the 31st. Loss estimated al
IS half million dollars. The Schmltt q Giaoe
st Brewery, Chicago, went up in flames on TN
W same day. Loss, $loO,Ooo.
te The Rev. j. M. Spargrave, OF Pitts
k, buro. committed suicide in the State Hos
ce pital on account of financial troubles.
THE Pennsylvania Central Railroa'
., has put on fast train Of palace cars De
- tween New York and Chicago-time, TWEEN
'o tv-six hours. The New York Central nov
NC announces its determination to reduce tn
NJ time to twenty-four hours.
DANIEL H. GERCI, apostal clerk run
~ ming between Kearney and Sidney on tn
Union Pacific Railway, is under arrest 10
stealing a registered money package cor
mt tanning $1,000. He has confessed and turne
NJ over $3.50, all he had left OF the stole
,at money. Robert Rich, mail messenger be
Tor tween the Post office and railway station
nd Burnside, KY. has also been arrested L
he stealing and rifling registered letters. ID
le- depredations amount to over 500, 900 in IL
re- last six months.
THE new limited express on the PEN
sylyania Road, running at high speed ne
d. East Liberty, Pa, crushed the life out
ar two men on the track.
Oh w. s. Brooks, a well-known me
=, . chant of Wheetley, Ark, has suspend'
rs. with liabilities of $6O, ZOO, placed chiefly
,"' St. Louis and Memphis.
zar AYOUNG man named Edward Doug
lis ertv, employed by farmer near Dubuqu
Iowa. was shot through the heart and Kill
instantly by Miss DAILY. He had been Q
SCI shooting, and returned with rifle loade
ar The girl picked up the rifle and playful
at snapped it at him, supposing it to be u
eh' loaded.
rk- ps NIcpurpsoN walked into t
VI Kimball House, at Atlanta, Ca, on the
.ne and after talking short time with m"
'ei' Der of gentlemen, moved to the middle
soh the floor, drew pistol, and raising 1t o.
his head, said, cts there now, and n
tho it's here" with which exclamation ne pla'
10y, the barrel against his right temple and hr
.,.n. diving in an hour. Mcpherson was about
nav wears of age, and was as we'll connected
any young man in Georgia, being the graz
, son of Campbell Wallace, one OF the III
us road Commissioners and President OF
en-. Mechanics Bank of Atlanta.
% in PASSENGER train on the Misso
met Pacific struck broken rail about four m
m of west of Jefferson City on the I'd, and Sc
made coaches and the engine were deralled.
,ncv. car turned complete somersault. No
paid iuries save a few slight bruises were
cent. tanned by any of the passengers.
and JACOB ECKHERDT, ex-member OF
10th Wisconsin Assembly, dropped dead in
|. street at Milwaukee.
FIVE workmen were seriously lnJu
with by boiler explosion at Stephens Brar
orts- Ky.
its in BRIDGET MURRAY and Thomas
Ath- lone died from burns received at fir
ss to Lowell, Mass. Policeman O'Donnell,
Vest. jumped from a window, is thought t.
u 'oV fatally injured.
ing THE Wabash will put on a limited
Mayo press between St. Louis and New
opie' time SS hours and 40 minutes.
~ for The annual report of the Pension
stems reau shows that on the 3Oth of June,
less a there were 26s,s3O pensioners; net Incl
or,