The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THoxAs MAJOR committed suicide

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Chicago by poison, on account OF the death
Of his wife while giving birth to child.
which also died. All three were buried in
one grave. Major was Frenchman by
birth, foreman of large Woodworking es-
Enlistment.
Col. DUNKINs, of Austin, Fish Com
missioner of Texas, and Chief Engineer oil
the New York, Texas & Mexican Railroad,
died from the effects of injuries received
in railroad accident, both his legs being
cut of.
BEEF is being shipped in refrigerating
cars from San Antonio, Texas, destined for
the Paris markets.
A CORRECTED list of the victims Of
the Vienna Ring Theater fire has been is
sued by the police. 1t gives the total num-
Der Of victims 794, Of whom only IA have
been legally identified.
MARGARET JACKSON, an elderly wo-
man, and her daughter Nancy, were killed
instantly near Hanlon's Station, O., on the
Panhandle Road, by being struck by an
engine while crossing the track.
PETER ZERBEs, aged IS, died in
Chicago of hydrophobia, on the 18th, having
been bitten by Spitz dog seven weeks pre-.
viously.
The President has adopted rules for
the reception of visitors at the White House.
The President reserves Saturdays and Sum
days for himself, and on those days will re-
ceive no one. He will hold his first public
reception on New Years Day.
A TERRIBLE explosion of dynamite
occurred on the 18th at Mount Union, Hunt
ington County, Pa, by which an entire
family, save one little one, were blown out
Of existence. John A. Ingram, q miner,
upon preparing to go to his daily work at an
early hour in the morning, found the can OF
dynamite used in the mines was frozen, and
placed it upon the stove to thaw out,
which it seems is the ordinary way of
doing it and not supposed to be
fraught with any danger. In this instance,
however, for some reason not explained, the
can exploded, completely demolishing the
house and killing Mr.. Ingram. his wife and
four children, the latter being in bed over
the room where the explosion occurred.
One little one in some way escaped unhurt
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explosion was felt from one end of the town
to the other. Nothing remains of the
house, and hardly enough of the family over
which to hold an inquest, the fragments Of
bodies being collected in baskets.
The Atlanta Cotton Exposition will
close with the year. 1t is said to have been
very successful.
DILLON has been indirectly informed
that he can at once obtain liberation by
promising to leave Ireland. He refuses to
give the pledge.
A LITTLE son of Mr.: Christian Bar
tholomew, Of Jefferson Township, near Go.
shen, Ind, fell into tub of boiling water
and was scalded to death.
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD son of Paul
Swanson, a farmer living near St. Croix
Falls, Wis.,, hanged himself in hay.loft.
When found his knees rested on the hay.
No cause is assigned.
A ROUND-HoUSE at Bismarck, on the
Northern Pacific Railroad, burned to the
ground on the 10th. Five locomotives were
damaged to the extent of 500, 900.
D. 81. HASKELL, once manager of the
banking and express house Of Adams & Co.
at salary of $40, 900 q year, died in San
Francisco almshouse. He gave all his means
in an effort to save the bank, retired in pow
erty, and took to drink.
A DISPATCH from Charlestown, W..
Va, says Capt. VIM. Vandegriff, noted
ex-Confederate officer, was shot and killed
by Henry Legg, with whom he had quar-
relied. The murderer was arrested.
LEOPOLD BOWER, French, As years
old, once a wealthy St. Louis merchant,
committed suicide by hanging in a New York
City police station, where he was confined
on charge of forgery.
Mr.. DRAPER, a merchant of Ham.
mond, Ind, 40 years of age, died in Chi
cago dental Office while under the influence
Of chloroform administered by DR.. Louis
Dodge in extracting teeth.
ALBERT MOWER and a companion,
driving q blind horse at night near East
Dubuque, ILL.,, lost their way and went
down q twenty fve-foot embankment.
Mower was killed and the other badly in
jured.
Two boys, William and Frederick
Korn, Of Watertown, Wis.,, broke through
the ice while skating and were drowned.
James Campbell and VIM. Rust, of Allen.
ton, Pa, were drowned by the upsetting of
a boat.
THE jury in the case of Geo. M. AL
sop, who murdered Constable Harrison. of
Jefferson County, KY, last August, returned
q verdict of guilty, and fixed the sentence at
imprisonment for life.
Four persons were killed and several
injured by the explosion of gasometer in
the Northern Railway Station, Vienna.
WIN. CRAWFORD, special agent of the
Department of Justice, was fatally shot in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, by either
Franklin Ward or Jay Elliott. He formerly
served on the stats of Generals Buell. and
Mckenzie. Ward is in Jail, but Elliott Is at
large.
REINDoRF STEELzER, q resident of
Pfqua, O., shot his wife, killing her Instant
", aud then took his own life. Steelzer was
about fifty years of age, and had at one time
been an inmate of an insane asylum. Re-
Gently he had been drinking to excess.
FREDERICK A. PALMER, City Auditor