The Iola register., 1881-02-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Mississippi Railroad ran into construction
train near Owaneco, Illinois, on the Sth,
killing three Of the workmen and fnjurfng
several others. The names Of the killed are
Allen Jones, W. W. Tatlock and II. McPher-
son, all residents of the vicinity.
The people of Montgomery, Ala,
have subscribed nearly all the money required
to build the Southern Railroad to the Flori-
da line, through rich cotton section.
JAY GOULD, it is reported, has pur-
chased controlling interest in the Vulcan
Steel Works at st. Louis.
AT CUSTER CITY, D. T., the other
night, Abe Barnes, freighter, was asked to
drink by James Fowler. The former de-
clined and was shot dead by Fowler, who
was taken away by vigilantes and his body
found the next morning hanging to tree.
JAMES BUTCHER and G. w. Herring
were fatally shot in quarrel over cards at
Las Animas, Colo, on the night of the 9Th.
SEVENTEEN lives were lost by an ex-
plosion in the Whitefeld Colliery, Stafford.
shire, England. :.
A RECENT fire at Audubon, Dakota
dren of Tobias Oschner were burned to
death, while Oschner and the servant girl
were saved, has aroused the suspicion of
citizens, and an investigation Is being had.
1t appears that Oschner and the young
woman, who resided with the family, have
been on intimate terms for some time past.
It is also shown that the girl, Annie, retired
that night with her clothes on, as did Osch-
ner, who saved the girl from the flames,
though leaving his wife and children to
burn. Oschner is Swiss, Is years old, and
has been married five or six years.
A FIRE at Walnut, Iowa, on the Rock
Island Railroad, destroyed seventeen busi-
ness houses and residences, with most Of
their contents.
JOHN J. BERRY, late cashier of the
Bank of Bergen County, at Hackensack, N.
j., has been sentenced to five years in State
prison for embezzlement.
New ORLEANS suffered from an in
undation on the 7th, the high water and Sc
we're gale causing break in the canal levees
by which a district comprising 100 squares
was submerged. The Mobile Railroad was
washed away in several places some miles
out of the city, causing an entire suspension
of traffic.
JOSEPH w. THIBAULT was hanged
the murder of Charlotte Hill in September
last.
The Spanish Ministry have resigned,
in consequence of the Kings refusal to sane
tion a certain bill in reference to the finances,
and new Cabinet has been appointed with
Sagasta as Minister of the Interior and Pres.
ident of the Council. lt.. ..E.
THE five-story building of the West
ern Electric Manufacturing Company, on
New Church Street, New York, burned on
the 9th. Over 240 employees were at work
in the building at the time the fire broke
out, and the flames spread so rapidly that it
was necessary to rescue q number of the
women by means of ladders.
The town of Pass Manchac, La, on
Lake Ponchartrain, was demolished by
tornado on the 9th. Every building in the
place was swept away, but no lives were
lost.
IsoM CARTER and his daughter, of the
Choctaw Nation, were drowned while at
tempting to cross the river at Fort Smith,
Arkansas.
The steamship Josephine, from Hava-
ma to New Orleans, was wrecked on the 9th
near Ship Island. The passengers and crew
took to the boats and were picked up after
seven hours. They lost all their baggage.
THE Gum Block, at Denison, Texas,
occupied by the Daily Herald and the
wholesale grocery house of Marx Kuehn &
Co., was burned on the morning of the 9th,
with its entire contents. Losses nearly COW
cred by insurance.
JAMES HICKEY, noted thief and
desperate, was killed at Colliersville, Tenn,
while resisting arrest, having first fired at
the Marshal and second time at q young
man who came to the officers assistance.
Hickey was q stranger in Colliersville, but
was well known to the police Of Memphis,
st. Louis, Chicago and other cities, having
figured prominently in a number Of exten-
sive robberies.
Miss ELLA F. GILBERT, most esti-
mable young lady of Norwalk, o., who oc-
cupied the position Of Deputy County Re-
corder, was run over and killed the other
morning while crossing the railroad track,
on her way to the Courthouse.
CHARLEY HARPER, a colored man at
Fulton, Mo-, drank about one and half
pints of whisky at drugstore on wager,
and died soon after from the effects.
The Cleveland Bar Association passed
resolutions favoring the confirmation of
Stanley Matthews as Supreme Court Justice.
MEssRs. Dillon and A. NJ. Sullivan
addressed large Anti.coercion meeting at
Manchester on the 9th.
The Chicago Board of Health's re-
port for January gives $40 deaths for the
month. against III deaths for the same month
in 1880, and 664 in 1879.
FOUR thousand cotton weavers have
struck for an advance at Hyde, England, and
IL 900 looms are idle.
A TRAIN on the Central Railroad of
New Jersey was thrown from the track near
Communipaw, on the 10th. One car over
turned and caught fire. Thomas Daven-
port, of Bound Brook; Edward Reeves and
Miss Nellie Haynes, of Elizabeth, were all
probably fatally injured. Others were badly
hurt.