The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
TIE National Butter, Cheese and Egg
Convention held its first meeting ct Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, on the 18th, with 600 dele
gates from twenty-five States present
Large delegations from New York, Boston.
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago. 81. Louis,
Milwaukee and other points, and nearly .
thousand visitors, prominent business men
from oil directions, were in attendance.
AUGUSTA, the county-seat of Wood
run County, Ark, was almost destroyed by
fire on the night Of the 18th. Nearly oil the
buildings were wood and burned like finder.
The Post-ofice, -four and cotton mills, three
hotels, the Vidette printing-ofice and .
score of business buildings Of various kinds
were swept away like chaf. Only three
buildings out of a. many hundreds are left
standing. A number Of persons were In.
jured by falling rafters and walls, and It is
feared that many were fatally burned. The
total loss Is between $25O, 900 and $300, 900,
with but very small insurance.
THE ninth annual session of the
American Public Health Association began
at Savannah, Ga, on the 18th, with good
attendance.
The National Tariff Convention met
in New York City on the 10Th, with some
fifty delegates in attendance. Commissioner
Loring and Peter Cooper made addresses,
and letters were read from Secretary Blaine
York, was chosen President Of the Conven.
ton, with the usual number Of Vice.Presi.
dents.
A CRAZY negress at Indianapolis, Ind,
named Emma Haven, whose child died not
long ago, charges herself with poisoning the
infant. She claims to have done it because
q clairvoyant told her that her husband was
jealous of the color of the child.
Mrs. MILLER, living four miles north
west Of Cedar Falls, Iowa, while in q condi-
ton Of temporary insanity, killed two Of her
children and tried to kill third. She was
crazed by the death of her husband, which
occurred recently.
SMALLPOX is raging at McCauley-
vile, Wilkin County, MIMI, and surround
ing towns have quarantined against the in
tected district.
LEROY, the murderer of Gold, in an
English railway carriage, was hanged on
the 18th. He was silent on his way from the
cell to the scaffold, but his expression was
CHASTITY. The drop was nine feet, and death
was instantaneous.
The Wise County Courthouse, at
Decatur, Texas, burned on the 9th, with all
its records and other contents. Loss on
building 900, with no insurance. The
fire was incendiary in its origin, and as the
question of building q new courthouse has
been agitated considerably Of late, it is be-
lieved to have been the work of interested
parties.
The business portion of Kosciusko,
Miss, has been destroyed by fire. Aggre-
gate losses estimated at $50, 900, partially in
sured.
THE Prince Edward Island Bank, the
chief financial institution on the little Cana
dian Island of that name, has furnished .
rival to Baldwin in its cashier, Becker by
name, who lent between 500, 900 and 81 ,0O0,-
600 to unsubstantial parties and then fed to
avoid arrest when disclosure became in
evitable. The bank has suspended for three
ulOutuSs 4u0 DACCtO1o 1Hu otOChuVluCAo
will be called upon to make good the claims
or deposit0rs.
In the recent furious storm on the
Australian coast the steamer Boisbone was
wrecked on q reef, the steamer Balelutha
foundered between Melbourne and Sydney,
and the schooner Schoolboy, with all on
board, was lost near Jewes Bay.
DIR. JOHN BACON, Professor of Chem
istry at Harvard College, is dead.
The Irish National Convention as
sembled at Chicago on the Goth, with large
attendance. Hon. VIM. j. Hynes, Of Chi.
cago, was chosen President.
A DISPATCH from Odessa says: A
Jew.baiting mob stoned Sarah Bernhardt's
carriage as she was driving home from the
theater, on the ground that she was of jew
ish descent. They also stoned her hotel and
stopped the performance at the theater.
The President, Cashier and Directors
of the broken Citizens Bank of Augusta,
Ga, which went to pieces last spring, have
been indicted by the Grand Jury for feloni.
ously continuing the business and receiving
deposits after the bank became insolvent.
with penalty attached of not less than two
nor more than four years in the Penitentiary.
PAPERS have been fled with the
Clerk of the House of Representatives in the
following Congressional election contests:
Alabama-First, Second, Fourth and Eighth
Districts; Florida-Second District; Iowa
Sixth District; Louisiana-Sixth District;
Maine-First District; Mississippi Second
and Sixth Districts; Missouri-Third Dis
trict; South Carolina-First, Second, Third
and Fifth Districts; Virginia-Fifth and
Eighth Districts.
A TRAGIC love affair has occurred at
New Orleans. Henry MEME, stalwart
young blacksmith, was engaged to Margaret
Massey, an unusually pretty blonde of 10.
The girls mother had o higher ambition for
her daughter and forbade her lover the
house. The two thereupon determined to
end their existence. They met, according
to previous arrangement, to carry out their
tragic resolve. After q hurried en-
brace and few passionate words Of
love, the young man drew re.
volver, placed its muzzle against the
left side Of the young girls neck and
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