The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ily, Of Reading, Pa, were driving, the other
day, the horse became frightened and ran
away, breaking the carriage into fragments.
De Turk was instantly killed, his wife and
son and Mrs. H. II. Eall, q sister, seriously
injured.
AT Muncie, Ind. George Mackelfresh
was fatally shot by sister-in-law. he had
broken into his divorced wife's residence
and was threatening her.
IT is believed that the Egyptian cot
ton crop this year will be fully equal to that
of last year, when the crop was excellent.
In one province the destructive cotton-worm
has appeared, but its ravages will be limited
to that province.
EDITH and Lottie Low, aged ten and
twelve years, were run over by passenger
train on the New Jersey Central Railroad, at
Ashley, Pa. They were picking coal from
the track. The former was killed and the
latter SO horribly mangled no hope was en-
tertained of her recovery.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch says
Thomas Hook, a stock-raiser, at Tonic Bias.
in, shot his father dead on the 10th. The
trouble arose from a divorce of the parents
and a quarrel over division Of the property.
WESTERN Wisconsin has been nearly
inundated by terrific rainstorm that occur.
red on the 2lst. In Coon Valley, Vernon
County, a woman and six children, named
Jansen, were drowned, and young lady in
Pine Greek Valley met similar fate. Bridges
and mill-dams were swept away and much
farming property destroyed.
Mrs. MoLLIE HURT, q widow forty
two years of age, and mother of four boys,
eight to fifteen years old, keeping toll
house on the Franklin and Greenwood road,
half mile south of Greenwood, Ind, shot
and killed tramp who. demanded money at
midnight.
An engineer of a steamer plying be-
tween New York and Havana, named Read,
is charged with having roasted VIM. Kra-
nisch, fireman, to death.
PREPARATIONS are being made for
the coronation of the Gear at Moscow.
ELIZA hartley, colored cook in
the family of Thomas Killeen, molder at
New Orleans, put rat poison in dish Of
vegetable soup prepared for the family din.
ner, of which all partook freely and were
soon taken violently i'll. Physicians were
promptly called and administered antidotes,
saving the lives of all excepting one Of the
| children, girl three years of age. The cook
confessed that she put the poison in the soup
| ''in order to make the children sick, as they
had annoyed her greatly during the morn
ing,' but denied intending to cause the
death Of any one.
THERE are held by individuals in the
New England States $7O,972, $50 worth OF
registered United States bonds, in the South
ern States $13, 139, 800, in the Western States
AIS, $50, in the Middle States $279, zoos, $50,
and by banks, insurance and trust compa-
MES ,$227, 451,550
The conservation of the Right Rev.
DIR. McMullen as Bishop of the (Catholic)
Episcopal See of Davenport, Iowa, took
place at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, in
Chicago, on the 25th, with the usual i'm
pressive ceremonies.
The Eastern war in passenger rates
extended to Boston on the 25th, when
through tickets to Chicago were freely sold
at $500.
THE discovery of copper and silver
bearing ore near Fort Laramie, Wyoming, fl
creating intense excitement. Miners are
stampeding to the new district, which ii
about six miles wide and swarming with
prospectors, all of whom are making loca'
lions. The town site of Hartville has beer
laid out, and buildings are already going up
The total value of the domestic bread
stuffs exported from the United States dur
ing the twelve months ending June 30, 1881
was $3.50. SCI 1928, against $1S2, 132, 61S wortf
exported during the twelve months ending
June 80, 1880.
C. G. WHEELER, formerly assistan
General Manager of the Chicago & North
western Railroad, has accepted the genera
management of the Santa Fee Railroad, mad'
: vacant by the promotion Of w. B. Strong, a
q salary of $12, 900 year.
An earthquake has shaken all Switzer
land and the eastern part of France.
The statue of General j. B. Nc
Pherson was unveiled at Clyde, o., o.
the Odd, in the presence of twenty one Post
? of the Grand Army Of the Republic and
, large number Of soldiers and citizens. TIL
? statue is the gift of the Society Of the Arm
, of the Tennessee. Speeches were made b.
3 ex-President Hayes and others.
> A SHOCKING accident occurred a
Muir, Mich. on the 25th. A small hous
, occupied by Alonzo Derrick, his wife, an
< six children accidentally took fire and burne
l to the ground. The fire originated in a
? upper chamber, where three children, on
s a deaf mute, aged eleven, and two othe
: boys, aged eight and five years. were sleep
: ing, and it was impossible to rescue them
The irrecognizable remains were buried
: one coffin.
Two boys, George and Fred, childre
of Mr.. Gotlieb Kock, of Denver, Colo, wei
poisoned by eating the heads of matches
George, aged five years, died soon at er, an
. Fred, aged three years, was believed to
: beyond the possibility of recovery.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Ricl
mond & Allegheny Railroad jumped Il
= track near Bent Creek, Va, on the 18th. Tw
o laborers were killed; the engineer, condu'
e tor, and three other persons were wounde
a In Brooklyn. N. Y. Mrs. Catherir
y Behler was fatally burned by the explosit
!, of can of kerosene with which she endea'