The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-19
PERSONAL AND aE,nRAL.

PERSONAL AND GE,lERAL.
Two suspicious vesseA, the Diogenes
and the Socrates, have been seized by the
German Government Af Kiel. They are va
riously reported q being designed for the
American Fenixns, tho Russian Nihilists, OF
for the slave trade.
THE verdict in the case Of Cadet
Whitaker has not yet been made public,
but the finding IL said to be unanimous that
he 10 guilty of having committed the alleged
outrage upon himself, and recommending
that be be dismissed the service. -
GEORGE ALGEsCHIEN, of Washing
ton County, Ore, in q fit of rage, shot his
daughter, inflicting a painful, though not
dangerous wound, but thinking he had
killed her he fed to the woods and commit
ted suicide.
/ AT Oroville, CAL, on the 7th, j. T.
Noakes was taken from Jail by body Of
masked and armed men and conveyed a
short distance from town and hanged to a
tree. Noakes murdered an old man named
A. j. Crumat at Chico, recently, by kicking
him to death.
ORvILLE L. GRANT, only brother of
Gen. q. S. Grant, died at the Asylum for the
Insane at Morristown, N. j., on the 9Th, 4S
years Of age.
The Irish laborers' strike has as
sumed large proportions, and there is q
general agitation for an increase of wages.
The employers, with few exceptions, resist
the demand.
A SECRET conclave of prominent
Irishmen has recently been in session at
Chicago. There are various and contradic-
tory rumors regarding the object Of the
meeting and the results arrived at. f
WILLIAM GALE, the English pedes-
TRAN, has completed in New York his phe-
nomenal feat of covering G, 600 quarter miles
in 6, 200 consecutive ten minutes, and con-
tinued on the track until he had added four
teen additional quarters to his wonderful
record. The fastest quarter was made in two
minutes seven seconds, the slowest In three
minutes twelve seconds.
GEN. ROBERT PATTERSON, hero of
three wars, and at one time the largest cot
ton manufacturer in the United States, died
recently at his home in Philadelphia. 1,
A TERRIBLE railway accident hap
pened in England on the sth. The express
train from Manchester came in collision
near Blackburn with the Liverpool and
York express. Five persons were killed and
twenty mine severely injured, many Of whom
were not expected to survive.
AT Austin, Texas, as Mrs. Sneed, an
estimable lady, wife of s. g. Sneed, Chief
Clerk in the Comptroller's Office, was stand
ing on chair filling the reservoir of gaso-
line cooking stove, the hem Of her dress ig.
nited at one of the Jets. She fell from the
chair to the floor, splitting the inf1ammable
oil, which at once ignited and instantly en-
veloped her In sheet of flames, and she died
soon after. t
ROBERT OSBORN and his son were
riddled with buckshot while on their
way home few days ago in Weakly Coun-
ty, Tenn. Both were instantly killed. Their
murderers are unknown, but it is sug.
gestive fact that about month previous the
Osborns shot and seriously wounded Frank
Pate and his son Willis, and were out on
bail, their trial being fixed for the 18th inst.
The dwelling of DR.. William Bowen,
in Scituate, Mass, burned on the 9Th. The
family were aroused in time to save their
lives. After the house burned fire broke
out in the barn near by, but the flames were
.extinguished. The fire was caused bv an
internal machine operated by clock-work.
DIR. Bowen has been very active in enforcing
the law against liquor selling and has before
suffered in consequence.
NEAR Oxford, Ala, the other day, Otis
Mattison, his father and brother were struck
by lightning. The former was instantly
killed and the others probably fatally in
jured. '".. . '.Ea.
Miss LENA Holman and Mrs. Farber
were killed by locomotive at Pleasant
Plains, Staten Island, N. Y. Miss Homan
attempted to drive across the track, when
the horse baked and the engine struck the
carriage. r... ...-.... ....-... &c.,
AT Lake Village, N. H., the Coroner's
Jury in the case of the three children of
Chas. Moody (colored) who were burned on
the evening of July returned verdict that
the children were murdered and the house
burned to conceal the crime. Moody and his
wife have been arrested.
A. G.. WHEELoCK, confidential book
keeper of the firm of j. c. Wolcott & Co., AZ
Broad Street, New York, has absconded
with money and securities to the value of
over $50, 900. He was known as being fast
young man. II is supposed he sailed for
Europe.
PAwNEE CITY, Neb., has been swept
by fire. Nearly all the business houses were
destroyed.
JUDGE JAMES D. Colt, of the Massa-
chusetts Supreme Court, was found dead in
his office at Pittsfeld on the 9th. Suicide
with revolver. -,
The boiler of a steam hresher on the
Young farm. near Columbia, St. Clair Coun-
ty, ILL.,, exploded on the 9th, with most dis
astrous results. Ten men were working on
or about the machine, six Of whom were in
stantly killed by the conclusion or scalded or
burned to death, and the other four were so
badly injured that there was no possibility
of their recovery. The wheat and straw
stacks took fire and were totally consumed,
and the probability is that some Of the vic.
Tins, who were merely stunned, were liter
ally roasted to death. The names Of the six
killed are: Christian Diehl, lessee Of the
farm; Joshua Morgan, Charles Stewart,
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