The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| leader OF INC gang anu jesse my c1os us
companion, were overtaken by posse Of
citizens at place called Campbell's Switch.
and refusing to surrender both were shot,
THE former being killed and the latter prob
ably fatally wounded. Frank Brown, the
third memberof the gang wss subsequently
| captured and lodged in jail. The headquar-
tiers of the outlaws was in New Madrid
County.
The Danish Supreme Court has con-
| firmed the sentence of death passed by the
West Indian Commission on thirty nine ne
groes convicted Of participation in the Santa
Cruz revolt.
JoHxTHoMAs, 3 noted desperate and
mail robber, escaped from Jack Wharton,
United States Marshal, near Hazlehurst,
Miss, by jumping through an open car win
dow while he was handctlffed and the train
going nearly thirty miles an hour.
In response to urgent appeals, q large
force Of constabnlary hastily collected in the
counties of Dublin and Wicklow, Ireland,
have been dispatched to the disturbed dis
trict Of Limerick. - 90 Sc E@s1~a y
A BOAT containing four boys capsized
I'm the North River, New York City, and two
of them, Peter keenan, and Baker, were
drowned.
3 DR. C. L. YORGEY, of Pottstown, and
A. De Haven, of Monocacy, Pa, havebeen ar
rested on q charge Of conspiring to insure
the life of one Daniel .Gehris, who died re-.
Gently at the age Of 81. The insurance was
effected two days before Gehris died, q
policy for s., 600 being obtained in Harris
burgh company, as alleged, through false
representations. DR.. Yorgey has been ar
rested before on asimilar charge. Other ar
rests are expected to follow. 2s,,y b{A
A DISPATCH from the River Du Loup
to Quebec says pilot schooner, containing
pilot, three apprentice pilots and cook,
was sgwsmped the other t'q day, and all were
JOHN CLIFFORD, aged Is, was drowned
while bathing in the Little Miami River at
Frost Station, near Xenia. Ohio. .oE ~
GEORGE B. Hunt, a telegraph opera
tor, was killed while riding on St. Louis
street-car.. A derrick crashed through the
roof, cutting off the rear PLATFORM O'[y
A DISPATCH from Copenhagen an
pounces the arrest Of Jorgensen,; editor Of a
Socialist paper, on a charge of melting to
murder the King and establish q commune.
L. r. HATToN, Patrick O'Hara and
J. W. st. John were terribly burned at an
oil-well near Bradford, Pa. An unexpected
flow of oil and gas came in contact with the
boiler fire and enveloped derrick and men
in an instant. O'Hara' injuries will prove
fatal.
The boiler in Risk & Co. g foundry at
Memphis exploded on the oath. killing W.
II. Halder and Edward Hopkins and seri-
ously injuring three other men. The boiler
was an old one and, it is said, known by the
owners to be unfit for use. The Coroner's
Jury declared them culpable for the dis
aster. y a. ~c7g-@'E gNE "a s7s -
The greater part Of Pinsk, Russia, has
been destroyed by The. losses are
enormous, and the inhabitants are in great
distress. e Eh
The body of Miss Frank NJ B. Ken
dali, of Madison, Ind, was cremated at
Washington, Pa, the other day. The lady
was well known as q writer for various pub
locations. 90
FIFTEEN barrels Of Danforth's fluid,
stored in cellar in st. Joseph, Mo-, explod-
ed on the night Of the23d. The main door
Of the building was occupied as negro sa-
loon, and twenty persons, all colored,
were enjoying themselves at the time the ex
plosion occurred. The building was almost
entirely demolished in an instant, and the
debris wrapped in flames. Three persons
were killed outright, it is believed, and their
bodies cremated, and dvewere badly burned,
one at least fatally. x =
ROBERT LANGHORN and Robert Point
started in askin to cross the river at Le-
Clair, ten miles above Davenport, Iowa.
not noticed to be intoxicated. When In mid
stream the skiff sprang leak and both went
down before help could reach them.% b
AT Fsyette. Miss, the fve-year-old
son Of Capt. Stephen e. ,Ramble mounted
the balustrade at the head of the winding
stairs for the purpose of sliding down, when
he lost his balance and went crashing head
long to the bottom, his head striking the
post at the foot of the stairs. Nearly every
bone in his body was fractured.
WASHINGTON BENSON, aged IS, q
wealthy farmer from Midland County, Mich,
started with his family with private convey
ances on pleasure trip to Iowa. While in
camp near South Bend, Ind, Mr.. Benson
was leading . spirited stallion to water,
when the animal attacked him in q savage
manner, biting and crushing him to death.
IT. is believed the losses incurred
through the failure of Robert A., Bakers
Bank at Fond du Lac, Wis.,, WIN aggregate
$780, Baker, the President, and Bur-.
roughs, the Cashier, are both under arrest.
The city will lose about $40, 600, running the
City Treasurer, C. j. Pierson.g Everything
indicates general crookedness on the part of
Baker and Burroughs.
AT Watkins N; " Helen Gray,
aged q, shot herself with revolver during
temporary alteration of mind consequent
upon III health. She was : graduate Of FL
mira Female College. 49, 41' 'Na7f N'sr-s--
THE Farragut statue was presented to
the City of New York on the 18th. Joseph
H. Choate delivered the Grafton, and Rev.
DR.. Taylor epfonoqneed Sthe henediction.
there was d large REPRESENTATION 81 military
and naval officers present, besides detaeA.
ments Of United States sailors and soldiers.
LINTON. B. CROFT, Postmaster at