The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


for the coming year are by no means encour-
aging. SIN consequence Of the changeable,
damp weather." says the Mark Lane E1-
press, "the agricultural prospects at the be-
ginning of March were serious"
ED TURNER, a negro who committed
an indecent assault upon white woman,
was taken from the Jail at Mississippi City,
Miss, and hanged by mob.
A YOUNG daughter of James Connolly,
living eight miles from Fort Dodge, Iowa,
lost her way while returning home from
school during recent storm. When found,
after long search, she was frozen to death
and her body nearly concealed by the snow.
On the Panhandle bridge at Pitts
burgh, wild freight and yard train col
lided, throwing three cars down fifty feet.
Charles Carney, the conductor. was killed,
and Patrick Cullen, brakeman, fatally in.
jured. r. Harrison, q brakeman, had both
hands cut of.
Mr.. E. A. FORD, General Passenger
Agent of the Vandalia line, has been ap-
pointed General Passenger and Ticket Agent
of all the Pennsylvania Railroad lines west
of Pittsburgh.
JOHN SMITH, aged %, was killed at
Dundee, Monroe County, Mich, by the ex-
plosion of saw-mill boiler.
The United States of Colombia has
made contract for a cable north and south
from the Isthmus of Panama, to connect
with the International lines.
Two Polish children, left alone in q
house in Posen, Pressure Isle County, Mich,
. few days ago, were burned to death.
AUSTRIA has also forbidden the i'm
portation of all pork products from the
United States.
In New York City Emil Pauly was
shot by Ernst Stephen, who then committed
suicide. Pauly's wound is probably not IA
tai. The two men were natives of Germany,
and both wood-earvers. Pauly boarded
with Stephen, and the latter was jealous of
the formers attentions to his wife.
HIGHwAYMEN attempted to rob q
mail coach near Benson, A. T. The driver,
refusing to halt, was shot dead upon his box,
and one passenger was MORALLY
wounded. A detective who occupied q
seat by the driver fred several shots
at the robbers, but probably without effect.
The horses were frightened into run, how.
ever, and took the stage safe through to
Benson.
ALBERT KECK, aged seven, died of
hydrophobia at Memphis. He was bitten by
a rabid dog last Christmas. Several other
persons were bitten by the same dog.
The general outlook for the winter
wheat crop is considered favorable, with
prospective yield about the same as that of
last season.
JAMES ToLAN, of Marine, a small
village near Saltwater, Mimi, shot and in
stantly killed his wife in a fit of insanity.
He had for some time labored under the
hallucination that his wife was unfaithful to
him, but the neighbors say he had not the
slightest ground for suspicion, and that she
was most estimable woman.
A MYSTERIOUS tragedy has occurred
in the Eastern Penitentiary, at Philadelphia.
Two prisoners occupying the same cell were
found dead-one having evidently been
throttled to death by his companion, who
then hung himself.
RUMORs were current in Chicago, on
the 18th, of pending negotiations for the con-
solidation of the three great Railways of the
Northwest Chicago & Northwestern, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul and the
Northern Pacific. The report lacks con-
frmation.
AN immense elevator, to cost $780,
900, is to be built at Council Bluffs by
formed Of leading railway mana
gers.
DUBLIN kilograms of the 10th state:
Her Majesty's ship Valorous has taken pro-
and eighty policemen to the
Islands Littermullin and Flemish, belonging
to the Forster magistrate. The tenantry owe
f5, 900. Two hundred policemen have been
in all haste to Clifden District,
where disturbance has arisen between the
and Fleming relief expedition.
One man is reported killed. There is bit
ter feeling in the district because a large
number of processes were served. Justice
in opening the Kerry Assizes,
said 463 crimes had been reported the last
seven months, seven-fold Of the record the
same period the previous year.
SEVERAL additional cases of trichino-
sis have occurred in St. Louis.
A MAN giving the name of Williamson
was arrested at Jordan, MIMI, by the Sher-
iff of Freedom County and taken to the Al
bert Lea Jail. The charge against him is
farmers by the patent hayfork
trick, securing signatures to note repre-
senting it to be contract to act as agent.
Williamson is alleged to be member of
band operating in Iowa.
THERE is deficit in the Ashuelot Saw
ngs Bank Of Winchester, n. H.,
to over 100000. The
Treasurer of the bank, Mr.. Elleroy
Albee, has assigned all his personal
to make good the deficit. 1t is be-
ieved the defalcations have been in progress
or years and entirely unsupported. The de-
oosit- books have been called in and show
hat $3.50, 900 made to appear as drawn
nave not been drawn by depositors.
A COLORED woman named ANY
at Shreveport, La, was overhaul
ng trunk, and coming to a small derrin-
,er pistol therein, her little son, who
vas standing beside her, wanted it to play
With. The mother, not dreaming it was
oaded, picked up the pistol and playfully
pointed it at the boy, saying, "I'll shoot
-ou," when it went of, the ball entering