The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-10
PERSONAL AHD GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Mary D1NHEN has recovered $500
damages from Detroit saloon keeper for
selling liquor to her husband.
THE town of Taylor, in Red River
County, Texas, thirty miles north Of Aus
tin, was visited on the night Of
the 3Oth by . terrific hail and wind
storm. The Catholic, Methodist and Pres
byterian churches were moved from their
foundations and badly damaged. Odd Fell
lows Hall was blown over and
demolished. Some thirty or forty buildings
were damaged, but very few persons were
injured, and only one, q young man, seri-
ously. The track Of the storm was about
mile wide, and crops within the limit
were totally destroyed and many fine sheep
were killed.
SOME weeks ago Lieutenant Bulls,
with Seminole scouts, crossed into Mexico
in pursuit of bands of Lipans, which
murdered the McLearan family. The Next
can Consul at Eagle Pass has written letter
asking on what authority United States
troops have invaded the soil Of Mexico, and
protesting against such invasion in the fu-
ture.
Ar Indianapolis, on the SOth, John
Enrich, dissipated German, shot his wife
and her father, William Hand, and then
put bullet through his own
brain. The two former were
not seriously injured. Enrich is dead. His
wife had sued for divorce on the ground
Of continued ill-treatment, and had gone
home to live with her father, where the
shooting took place.
A TRAIN on the Pennsylvania Road
ran into an open switch near Trenton, N. J.,
on the 30th. The Pullman palace-car only
kept the track. All others left the rails, and
one car turned completely over. Three per-
sons were killed, about dozen persons are
said to have been injured severely, and sew
eral others slightly.
The Barlow & Sanderson Stage was
recently robbed BY four unmasked highway
men near Poncho Springs, Colo, all the pas
sengers being compelled to hand over their
money, watches and other valuables. On
the same night the same gang took posses
sion of a store at Poncho Springs. They
compelled everybody present to hold up
their hands and ordered the proprietor to
turn over the contents Of the safe, amount
ing to about $3.50. They then departed. The
leader Of the band was recognized as Charles
Allison, former Deputy Sheriff Of .Conejos
County.
The Texas Pacific Railway is COM
~1o<n5 ds,x.~oo - ava, ,,,;los A.o,,, n>1
las, or about one-half the way to Ell Paso. It
is estimated that the latter place will be
reached some time between the LIST and 18th
of January next.
CAPT. PAUL BOTTOM has started to
swim down the Mississippi from st. Paul to
St. Louis.
COMMODORE WILLIAM j. KOUNTZ, of
Pittsburgh, was recently arrested at St.
Louis on an Indictment for criminal libel.
His alleged offense is the publication Of cir
culars rejecting on the characters Of the
owners of the Anchor Line of steamers.
The National Woman's Suffrage Con-
vention met at Providence, r. l., on the
3Oth. Many leading advocates were present.
Addresses were made by the President, Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Merriweather, Of Memphis, and
others.
The Illinois General Assembly adj
journed sine die on the Goth.
JOHN F. FITZPATRICK and E. T.
King, recently in the employ of the Iron
Mountain Railway Company, the former as
express messenger and the latter as brake
man, are under arrest for having in their
o1,,o1, IL ololo Io1o o;vo
to Gen. Grant and supposed to have been
stolen from his trunks, which were broken
open while the General was en- route to Mex
leo about April LIST. The two men got on a
spree and indiscreetly displayed the glitter
ing badges attached to their lapels, which
led to their arrest by detectives employed
by the Railway Company. 1t is not known
that Gen. Grant had ever discovered his
loss.
A DARING and successful robbery oc-
Cured at Nortonville, small railway sta
ton between Topeka and Atchison, in JET.
ferson County, Kans., on the night of the
3Oth. About 10 o'clock, as G. c. Mccarthy,
Postmaster and dealer in general merchant
disc, was preparing to close up his store,
three masked men entered the establish
ment, and covering Mr.. Mccarthy and his
clerk with their revolvers helped them
selves to the money in the safe and on the
counter, where Mr.. Mccarthy had just
laid the days funds, securing in
all about 81, 200, all of which, with the ex-
ception Of about $500 United States money,
belonged to the firm of Messrs. Mccarthy &
Layson. The work was quickly and quietly
done by two Of the men, the third standing
guard at the door Of the store. Mrs. Nc
Carthy and two other ladies were present at
the time, but the fellow at the door pre-
vented their escape OF the giving of the
alarm, and when they had completed their
work they quietly walked Of, and it is be-
lieved took the train South. The telegraph
was put in requisition to effect their capture,
but the rascals made good their escape.
E. L. STICKNEY, q mining-man, en-
tered . Denver tColo.) boarding house
while the inmates were at table and opened
fire on Mr.. T. Campan, a real-estate agent.
Two shots struck Campan, causing instant
death, and another pierced Mrs. Deversux
through the heart. The latter shot was ac-
cidental. The murderer is under arrest.
Campan's attentions to Mrs. Sickney were