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

endeavOrod to subduo the 0Ameo, but Was
overcome by smoke, and before help could
reach him his body was burned to crisp.
His daughter-in.law was also seriously
burned about the head and shoulders.
PARKER, Q guide in the Adirondack
region, New York, committed heinous as
sault upon the wife Of New York mer-
chant whom he was conveying to the camp
of some friends. The villain ned, and was
pursued and finally overtakeu, but refusing
to surrender was shot and fatally wounded.
AT Lincoln, Neb., Miss Minnie VIII
liams, daughter OF Prof. williams, Of Has
tings, committed suicide by drowning in Salt
Creek. Cause, depression Of spirits.
A TRAINING-sTABLE on the race
course near Lexington, KY, containing six
teen valuable horses, burned the other
morning. Bowers Carrie Hanson and
Eagles gray colt Knox were burned to death,
and the others were greatly injured by DASH
ing madly around the course.
THE large woolen-mills in Iowa be-
longing to the Amana Society, valued at
SIS, 900, have been destoyed by fire.
The Parry House, a summer hotel at
Beach Haven, N. j., burned on the night Of
the 10th. Two hundred guests lost all their
clothing and effects, and were compelled to
go to Camden clad in bathing attire.
ANOTHER fatal boiler explosion occur
red on the 9th, on the farm of Fritz Dol
linger, near Troy, Madison County, Ill.
Christopher Schultz, owner of the steam
thresher, was killed and his body burned.
Two others were badly injured, but it was
believed not fatally.
GREW, large village in the Canton
of Grisons, Switzerland, has been destroyed
by fire.
A RECENT terrible storm in the North
Shetland Islands caused the loss of sixty.
three fishermen.
THE business portion of Trafalgar,
johnson County, Ind, has been destroyed
by fire.
A Party of ladies riding near Collins
vile, Ala, were caught in storm and
sought shelter in an old shed, which was
soon demolished. Miss Heard was killed
and Miss Cook crippled by the falling tim
bers.
GEORGE H. LONG, President, and
Charles R. Howard, Secretary and Treasur-
er Of the Alliance Insurance Company, Bos-
ton, which has of late been closing up its af-
fairs for the alleged reason that its business
had proven improbable, have been arrested
and held to bail upon charge Of embezzling
the funds Of The company. Their deficit is
placed at $4,000.
Crow Doc, who shot and killed Spot
ted Tail, has been confined at Fort Niobrara
to answer the charge of murder, to which he
is amenable under "white mans law" The
killing seems to have been coolly premedi-
tated and without any other provocation
than jealousy. Spotted Tail was about
starting for Washington, having been des-
ignated AZ one of the representatives of the
Six Nations at the coming conference.
E. r. WILLIAMS & BROTHER, prom
inent Toledo grain firm, have failed for from
sec, 900 to 500, ZOO, and gross Irregularities
in their business have been discovered.
Both members Of the firm have absconded.
AT Benton, Howard County, Mo-, a
deadly conflict took place between one Lang
ford and his wife on one side and Jackson on
the other. Langford attempted to chastise
Jackson for an alleged insult to his wife.
Jackson drew knife and was getting the
better of his assailant, when Mrs. Langford
interposed with a revolver and shot Jackson
through the breast. Both men were thought
to be MORALLY wounded. Mrs. Langford re.
ceived a few slight cuts.
MANY towns and villages in Western
Prussia have recently suffered much from
incendiary fires. The fact that the inhabit-
ants are Jews leads to the conclusion that
the incendiaries are Jew-haters. Anti-Jew.
ish disturbances have again broken out in
West Prussia and Pomerania.