The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SHSDNAL AND 10&N&RAL,
AT Newark, N. J., Tie othsr evening.
Q number = children wsss Playing a tha
Sidewalk, when the son ef Leopold Graf, Z
wealthy shoo panufhctursr, fred Of Toy
pistol Stella Crane, aged eleven years, who
stood near hin, dropped 70 the sidewalk
dead. Investigator showed bullet hole IN
the corner Of her right eye. tho ball having
penetrated her brain.
NEW HAMPsnIRE has been shaken BY
IN earthquake.
TIE large woolen-mills in Iowa b.
longing T. the Amans Society, valued at
SIS, 000, have been destoyed by fire.
WILLIAM LEwELLEN, under arrest
at North Vernon, Ind, charged with pois-
oning his wife, jumped from second-story
window while undergoing examination, and
died Of his injuries within three hours.
The excessive rainfall in Arizona has
caused serious washouts on the Southern
Pacific Railroad. The town Of Maricopa Is
flooded.
A GREAT sensation has been caused
at Lancaster, NJ H., by the reported dis
covery that several deaths that occurred
there last year, supposed to be from diph-
liberia, were really caused by poison. DR..
Frank Bugbee and Mr.. and Mrs. Tewne, all
well-known residents, were among the vic.
tins. Miss Nellie Webb, now Mrs. Mayo,
lived with both families at the time tho
alarming mortality prevailed, and she il now
under arrest. Mrs. Mayo has always borne
q good reputation, and what reasons, if any,
exist for suspecting her Of the horrible crime,
have not been made public.
A SPECIAL from Socorro says the In
dian excitement continues undated. Scouts
from Pueblo and Magdalena Mountains have
just arrived and report the presence of large
alyzed and mining is in great measure
suspended.
DURING q bull fight at Marseilles,
France, several tiers of seats collapsed and
twelve persons were killed and 15O injured.
THREE negroes lay down on the rail-
road track near Tuscumbia, Ala, and fell
asleep. A freight train came along and
killed two of them and seriously injured the
third.
Two men were instantly killed and
two others badly mangled by a nitro-glycer-
Inc explosion at mining camp % miles from
Gunnison, Colorado.
THE Apaches are reported to have
swooped down upon small Mexican VIII
lage, eighteen miles from Rio Purca, q
point on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, and
murdered twenty out Of twenty-nine
inhabitants. The two Mexicans who made
good their escape were nearly exhausted
when they reached the railroad, and had
their horses shot under them before getting
out of reach Of the Indians.
INFORMATION has been received of
desperate duel fought in the Indian Nation
between T. o. Carpenter, Choctaw chief,
and Col. Amos Price, q prominent citizen of
the Greek Nation. Price was killed and
Carpenter fatally wounded. Considerable
feeling exists over the affair, as both were
among the most prominent men In the Ma.
ton.
MRS. MORRIS EPLY, wife of farmer
near South Bend, Ind, aged %, was bitten
on the ankle by q rattlesnake while gather
ing corn. She received prompt medical at
tendance, Notwithstanding which she only
survived few hours.
JOHN JENKINS, aged 60, q wealthy
farmer residing near Mount Vernon, o., was
set upon by an Infatuated bull which he was
leading to water, and so horribly gored that
he lived but a few moments.
WILLIAM BROOKS, q wen-to-do farm
er residing near Shelby, N. c., attempted to
shoot his wife, with whom he had quarreled,
and not succeeding he went and hanged
himself.
A PROMINENT physician of Cincin-
natl reports twenty weIl-defned cases of
typhoid fever among the four hundred En-
glish colonists at Rugby, Tennessee. A
corps of physicians and nurses have been dis
patched to the afflicted settlement. Bad
drinking water was the chief cause of the
epidemic.
GOVERNOR PORTER declines to call
an extra session of the Legislature Of In
diana.
A BERLIN dispatch says it is feared
Breslau will shortly be declared in state of
siege, because of the prevalence Of social ag-
itation there.
AT Bay St. Louis, Miss, a negro wife
murderer was forcibly taken from Jail by
mob of colored men and hanged.
SOME 700 men recently paraded the
streets of Stettin, Germany, uttering anti
Jewish cries. There were no troops in the
town owing to military maneuvers now TAX
ing place in Germany, and much anxiety was
evinced About forty of the rinpleaders
were arrested. During recent anti-Jewish
riot in Pomeranian town property worth
$50 900 marks was destroyed, and the num-
cipality must now indemnify the owners.
The Illinois Department of Agricul-
ture asserts that in quantity and quality the
wheat crop of the State is the poorest for
twenty years.
Two Americans we're assassinated
near Altama, Mexico, recently. Two persons
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