The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GRNRRAL.
Mrs. DEBORAH MERRILL, aged 81,
living with her son Charles, aged q, at
Weeks Mills, in Kennebec County, Me-,
was recently murdered by the latter and her
body chopped in pieces. partially burned,
and then buried in manure heap, where It
was found some days later. The fnhuman
son has been arrested, and is now con-
fined in Augusta Jail, where he was
taken to avoid lynching. He confesses hav.
ing killed his mother by striking her on the
head with a hammer and then dispoeing Of
her body In the manner stated. Tho muir.
derer has long borne an unenviabler reputation
among his neighbours, and had frequently
quarreled with his mother, who was herself
something of a virago. There is an elder
Merrill, who was absent from home, en-
gagged In cutting wood at Moosehead Lake.
A NUMBER of prominent Chicago
physicians, interviewed for the Tribune,
gave it as their opinion that the disease
known as winter cholera, which has been
prevailing to an alarming extent in that city
during the winter, is traceable to the extern
sive use of butterine. Dealers In the unsay-
DRY article are being prosecuted for selling 1t
without being properly labeled. 1t is said
the cheap restaurants and boarding houses
are the principal consumers of butterine.
THE trial of the Sprague divorce suit
has begun at Providence, B. I.
GOVERNOR FOSTER committed to i'm
prisonment for life the sentence of John
Welsh, who was to have been hanged 1t FIRE.
mont, O., on the 4th.
BERNARD HOOVER, son of the late
Col. Wesley Hoover, Of Murfreesboro, Pike
County, Ark, died from hydrophobia
caused by the bite of q rabid dog received in
November last.
WILL LowREY, q young man, son of
wealthy widow residing near Bloomington,
ILL.,, was engaged in cleaning his revolver the
other day, when his sister, abeautiful young
lady of 20, passing near him, he playfully
pointed at her the supposed unloaded pistol
and pulled the trigger. To his un-
speakable horror the pistol was
discharged, and his sister fell to the floor.
Examination showed that the bullet had en-
tered beside the spinal column about eight
inches below the shoulder, ranging upward.
Surgeons were at once sent for and they pro-
nounced the wound fatal. The young man,
on learning the terrible result Of his foolish
ness, declared he would kill himself, and was
only prevented from doing SO by the inter-
ference Of those near him.
A COLORED woman living near Todd s
Point, Shelby County, Ky, locked her three
children i'm the cabin and went away.
During her absence the cabin burned with
its imprisoned inmates.
The Chicago boiler-makers, ship
carpenters and caulkers are still holding out
for advanced wages.
Mrs. ELIZABETH PERCEvIEL, pro-
prietress of the English Kitchen restaurant,
New Orleans, was shot and MORALLY wound
ed by her divorced husband, Richard Ste
vens, as the Mardi Gras procession was pass
ing her place of business.
Mr.. MICHAEL BoMPIT, partner of the
firm Of E. z. Simon & Co., Shreveport, La,
was killed on the I'd, while sitting in his
store, by the falling Of wall of an adjoining
building which had been partially destroyed
by fire short time previously. The falling
bricks crushed in the roof of the Simons
store, carried away the second floor, and the
whole mass fell upon Mr.. Bonpit as he was
sitting at his desk, burying him beneath tons
of debris. He was dead when extricated,
and was probably instantly killed.
CHICAGO has had another smallpox
scare, growing out Of the discovery of the
fact that for some time past five persons
have been down with the dread disease in
the building No. 2105 Archer Avenue, &C.
cupied by Henry Pickart as a beer saloon.
The matter was kept secret, as confessed by
Pickart, from fear of injhring his business.
The disease has spread to the adjoining
house.
WILLIAM COFFEE, aged Is, was acct
dentally shot and killed at Kansas City by a
companion named Miller, of about the same
age, while carelessly handling gun sup
posed to have been unloaded.
THE boiler in Charles Horrence's
saw-mill, at Melville, Henry County, Ind,
exploded on the Sd, killing instantly L. N.
Martz, and injuring several others.
THE work of the Forty sixth Con-
gress was practically completed on the Sd,
all the Appropriation bills having passed
both Houses. The House also passed the
Apportionment bill, on the basis of 367
Representatives, which the Republicans
looked upon as victory for their side of
the House, only twelve Democrats voting
for the bill. The Presidents message, Veto
ing the Refunding bill, was, on motion
of Mr.. Tucker, ordered printed and laid on
the table, which signifed there would be no
further action taken on the bill by the pres.
ent House.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
FEB. 26.-The Senate, after protracted