The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
AT Ash Grove, Shelby County, H.,
Mrs. Nancy I. Forbes fell into m open fire.
Mace. holding her infant child in her arms.
The child was burned to death. and the
mother was very painfully burned about the
head and face. With her clothing nearly
burned of, Mrs. Forbes ran . quarter OF
! mile to her fathers house, where she died
in great agony.
DRoz, previously ce-President, has
been elected President Of the Swiss Confed-
Grafton in the place Of Anderwert, deceased.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at
stoddart's Agricultural works in Dayton,
O. Several workmen were carrying large
ladle containing I, 800 pounds OF molten iron
on truck, when it upset in some water,
causing a terrible explosion. The workmen
| were frightfully burned, and threw them
selves into the water in the street gutter to
| relieve their suffering. One Of them will
| die, and the recovery Of the others Is doubt
full.
ALARGE tract of land has been pur-
chased in Eastern Kentucky for a Swiss
colony. The advance guard of immigrants
have arrived in Frankfort, but the greater
April.
A BILL to fix the charges for railway
transportation is before the Legislature of
Arkansas. It divides the roads into three
classes, and makes the rate for passengers
three to eight cents per mile, the Iron Noun
tain coming under the lower classification.
THE remains of DR.. Kourden Harenz-
burg, an Indianapolis physician, were
cremated at the LIE Moyne Crematory at Wash
ington, Pa, on the 10Th. This was the tenth
cremation there and excited no local inter-
est whatever.
1T is understood that negotiations
have begun between General Colley and the
Beers, and it is expected q truce will soon
be arranged.
ALBERT BRUNEI, aged Is, died of
hydrophobia at New Orleans on the Goth,
having been bitten by dog six weeks pre-
viously.
WOMEN and children will not be ex-
empt from the operation Of the Irish Coer-
cion act, motion exempting them having
been rejected in the House of Commons by a
vote of $50 to 40.
The formal presentation of the Egyp-
tian obelisk erected in Central Park to the
City of New York took place on the 22d.
The boiler in F. w. Meyers soap
factory at Louisville, KY, exploded on the
22d, killing Meyer and injuring his son
| William.
I The National Association of the Veter-
| ans of the Mexican War met at Louisville.
Ky, on the 22d, about two hundred being
present.
Mr.. A. S. MITCHELL, an Old news
paper man, formerly of St. Louis, died at
Hot Springs, Ark, on the 23d, OF pneu-
monia.
| Mrs. JULIUS CLEMENS, of Northamp-
ton, Mass. victim of hereditary insanity,
rose from her bed in the night, went to the
barn, saturated her clothing with kerosene,
and, lighting q match, burned herself to a
crisp.
JOHN JACKSON and Frank Otto, en-
ployed in livery-stable at Nebraska City ,
were burned to death. The stable caught
fire, and, while attempting to rescue the
horses, the burning hay-mow fell on them.
HARRY MARTIN, aged Is, of Mount
Blanchard, O., fatally shot himself in the
stomach while showing his new revolver to
some friends.
Ex-Gov. HENRY D. Cook, of Wash
ington, died on the oath.
GLADSTONE met with quite q serious
accident on the oath. While stepping from
his carriage he fell, striking the back Of his
head on the carriage step, cutting it severely
He will be laid up for some time.
Four men were recently found killed
in a whisky howell between Bacon Springs and
Fort Wingate, n. NJ. There was evidence to
show that a card party had been in progress
which probably ended in general shooting
melee. The proprietor of the place having
left, no further particulars can be obtained.
ROBERT HADFIELD, an old and well
known resident of Buffalo, N. Y, formerly
connected with the press, while laboring un.
der a mental arrangement shot himself
through the head, causing instant death.
He was 81 years old, an Englishman by birth.
| and son of Robert Hadfield, the noted Lib
eral, who represented the Sheffield District
in Parliament for over 40 years.
JOHN C. MORRIS, a well-known resi-
dent of Indianapolis, committed suicide
while temporarily deranged.
SEVERAL more Chicago dealers in
butterine have been fined for selling their
adulterated goods without advertising it,
character. They appealed, and will make q
test case as to the validity of the ordinance
under which they are being SO vigorously
prosecuted.
The Seventy-frst New York Regiment
left for New Orleans on the oath to partici-
pate in the Mardi Gras festivities. They
stopped over in Cincinnati one night, where
they were entertained with public recep.
ton and q banquet.
A RAILROAD accident near Longview,
Texas, on the oath, injured twenty persons,
some of them seriously.
Two passenger cars on the New Jer.
sey Midland Railroad went down an EN-.
bankment near Ogdensburgh, took fire and
burned up. The passengers (some dozen in
number) and train men all got out alive
some slightly scorched, and all more or less
hurt, but none fatally.
THE French bark Fannie, from Phil.