The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GEORGE ARMOUR, mead OF the Well
known Chicago grain firm Of Armour, Dale
& Co., has Just died in England, where he
had gone for rest and recreation.
DURING the eclipse on the night OF
the 18th, about 200 men rode up to the Jail
at Greensboro, N. c., and demanded the
keys. The Jailer refusing to comply with
their demands, they broke open the doors
and seized John Taylor, negro confined for
an assault upon white woman, whom they
took off a distance of several miles and
hanged to tree.
The house of William Stout, q pros
porous farmer near Agency Ford, Buchanan
County, Mo-, burned on the 18th, and Mr..
Stout's mother, an aged and infirm woman,
who had been left alone on the premises,
persisted in the flames.
OFFICER THOMAS MAHONEY was shot
dead at Chicago on the morning of the 18th
by burglar whom he undertook to arrest.
An earthquake has devastated thirty
four villages in Armenia. One hundred per-
sons are reported killed and sixty injured.
OFFICIAL dispatches to Oran. Alge-
ria, state that General Detrie defeated a
body of insurgents, killing fifty. The French
had two wounded.
A HURRICANE destroyed several
houses and ravaged large section of coun-
try west of Galveston, Texas.
MICHAEL j. Houston, age IS, and
his son Michael, age 30, were suffocated by
foul air in well at Frederick City, Md.
At Maysville, KY. George Evans,
colored bootblack, aged II, went to see his
sweetheart, Ada Brown, a girl about his
swn age. During the evening they quar-
relied, and In fit Of jealous rage he drew q
pistol and shot her in the face, inhicting .
serious wound. He then ran to the river,
shot himself through the lung, and plunged
in. He was rescued, but was not expected
to live.
ANOTHER shock of earthquake at Scio
overthrow . minaret and injured two men.
A tremor in the valley Of the upper Rhone
extended as far as Geneva.
PROF. RILEY, of the United States
chronological Commission, says the locusts
now appearing in the West and South are
two distinct broods; one is the thirteen-year
and the other the seventeen year locusts, and
this is the first time they have appearedin
the same year since 1860. Prof. Riley says
these locusts can not do any damage except
to young fruit trees, in the limbs Of which
they deposit their eggs. He says the notion
that these locusts sting human beings is
fallacy; that species of digger-wasp feeds
on these young locusts, and people have
been stung by these wasps, from which the
belief sprung that the locusts sting. He
SAYS the locusts will suddenly disappear be-
fore long.
ALLISON, the scout, says Sitting Bulls
camp is about l75 miles north of the border
line, and comprises less than one hundred
persons. Those reds who surrendered last
winter have petitioned for new agency on
Grand River.
A SHOOTING ARRAY occurred at Heel
string Church, Ellis County, Texas, on the
10Th. Several shots were exchanged, and
one Of the assaulting parties was MORALLY
wounded.
A YOUNG German named Malapert,
son of the Baron Fritz Won Malapert, OF
Hesse- Darmstadt, committed suicide in Chi
cago by leaping from the top of the Water
Works tower, distance of fully 200 feet.
Cause undetermined.
LoRILLARD's Iroquois has carried off
another English prize-the Prince of Wales
stakes at Ascot.
SAM S. JONES and Dell Kribs, both
young men, went over the dam at MARSHALL
town, Iowa, and were drowned.
LUDINGToN, Mich, has been almost
destroyed by fire. The entire business por-
ton of the town is swept away. Loss about
500, ZOO.
A PARTY of armed men took posses
sion of the jail at Dover, Pope County, Ark. E.
on the 18th, and hung Cal: Emery, the wife
murderer, whose death sentence Governor
Churchill few weeks since committed to
twenty-one years. Imprisonment in the Pen
itentiary. Emery resisted and was shot in
the head. 1t was supposed he was dead
when hanged.
The jury in the Victoria disaster in
vestigation, at London, Ont, have found q
verdict censuring the owner, captain, and
engineer of the Inflated vessel. The Gov
eminent Inspector is also held to blame.
OWING to violations of treaty stipula-
lions existing between the Governments OF
the United States and Mexico, the Governor
of Texas has issued proclamation with q
view of putting stop to them.
Mr.. Give HERsEE, q well-known
member of the Soldene Opera Company,
committed suicide by jumping from bridge
into the river near Central City, Colo. His
matrimonial relations were unhappy.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, has been consti-
tuted port of delivery.
NEAR Weston, Platte County, Mo-,
| negro named Charles Didell assaulted q
young lady named Nancy Stilwell, and after
a violent struggle, in order to shield himself
from the discovery of his crime, cut his VIC
TINS throat. He was discovered by two Ia
dies passing by, who gave the alarm. The
| villain fed, but was pursued and captured
by psrty of citizens, forced to confess, and
| was then hanged to bridge, the brother OF
the victim adjusting the moose.
SILAs NJ. WAITE, until recently Pres
ident of the First National Bank Of Brattle-
boro, VT, has been found guilty Of fraud
and embezzlement and sentenced to six
years, imprisonment in the House OF Cor.
rection.
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