The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SMALLPOX and typhus fever are
alsrmisgay prevalent in New York City.
PETER McENrEE, aged 20. was killed
near Bath, Steuben County, N. T., on the
! 18th, by his nephew, John McEntee, aged
II, who says the old man treated him badly
TIE insurgent natives of the Zoolot
Isles attempted to surprise the Spanish
forces, but were repulsed with loss ct 1O(
killed.
TIE town of San Marcial, for severa
months past the terminal station Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, wal
almost totally destroyed by fire on the 18th
TIE Rock River flood has caused in
calculable losses. The lower part Of Ster'
ling, ILL.,, including the Fair Grounds, i,
submerged, and the distilleries, with hun
dreds of cattle, are on an island, the wate1
crowding dangerously on all sides. TIT
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad track fol
five miles is completely covered with water
and much of it is washed away. Two iror
bridges at Elgin City have been swept away
the ice-gorge in the Fox River having broker
and carried away the dams at Carpenters.
vile and Dundee.
The business part of Bound Brook
N. j., burned on the 10Th. Forty families
are homeless. Loss, $780, 900; partly in.
sured.
AT South Bed, Ind, on the Goth,
Matthew Lutzanovitch cut his wife's head
open with an AK and fatally injured her. He
is believed to be insane.
DE JARNETfE, who shot and killed
his sister in house of ill-fame at Danville,
Va, has been acquitted on the ground Of in
sanity.
THE unprecedented rise in the Des-
PLANES River caused the breaking of the
canal and the inundation of the entire dis
trict along Archer and Blue Island Avenues,
Chicago. A similar state of affairs exists in
Joliet and other towns along the canal. The
losses, both to the State and to individuals,
are very serious.
THREE prisoners in the Cook County
Jail, at Chicago, made desperate but in
effectual break for liberty on the night of
the 18th. During the melee colored pris-
oner, named James Coleman, who went to
the assistance of the guard, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Mckay, one of
the ringleaders in the emeute.
A DEAD body, supposed to be that of
Rev. Robert Matlock, was found suspended
to a tree on the mountains between
Calico Rock and Batesville, Ark. Matlock
was recently tried for the murder of Thomas
Miller, planter, of Independence County,
last year, but was acquitted, and the pre-
sumption is he was lynched by friends of the
murdered man. He belonged to the sect
known as "Sanctifcationists," whose teach
ings, it is alleged, are obnoxious to the
public welfare.
The north wing of the Illinois Hospi-
tai for the Insane at Anna, ILL.,, was entirely
destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th.
Estimated loss between $15O,O00 and $780,
600. The fire originated in bathroom, but
in what manner is not known. The patients
were all gotten safely out Of the building at
ter the alarm was given, but one of them,
an old man named n. Ferkle, from Monroe
County, returned unobserved to his room
and persisted in the flames. Two fire COM
panies from Cairo, dispatched by special
train, did effective service in quenching the
flames.
SHERIFF w. F. BEATTIE, of Critten-
den County, Ark, on the 21st was shot and
killed by negro named Hayes White, whom
he was attempting to arrest for having rob-
bed the store of Mr.. Trucker, at Crawfords-
vile, few nights previous. White had
been previously arrested, but overpowered
the officers and escaped, after having seri-
ously wounded Turner Hendricks, colored
constable, and Emmett SweptsoD, a white
citizen, who were taking him to Jail.
THE Sanitary Council of the Missis-
sippi Valley met at Evansville, Ind, on the
Goth, and discussed various matters relating
to the coming season Of epidemics.
The Dittmar Powder Works at Bing-
hamton, N. T., were destroyed on the 21st
by the explosion Of nitro-glycerine and TO-
600 pounds of powder. Buildings were de-
molished and property destroyed for miles
around. On the same day an explosion in
powder-mill near Bridgeport, Conn.,, shook
the city like an earthquake.
AT Aberdeen, KY, on the goth, Mrs.
Catherine Cannon, aged so, during the tenn
porary absence of her daughter, with whom
she lived, fell into the fire and was fatally
burned. She was dead when the family re-
turned.
A SERIOUS malady is affecting the
horses of Chicago. The disease is very
malignant one. 1t appears first in the feet,
just above the hoof, and develops very rap
idly. Veterinary surgeons describe it as a
swelling, followed by a suppuration, which
breaks out, producing a running sore. As
the disease grows, the limbs become swollen
and sometimes spreads to the body. When
this occurs it is apt to be fatal. 1t seems to
be sort of aggravated form of the scratches,
and is apparently caused by long and con-
tinuous exposure to cold and wet.
CYRUS Young, known as the "Coal
King of the Tuscarawas Valley" was almost
killed near Lawrence, O., by being
caught in the shafting of portable engine.
He was considered the wealthiest man of
Stark County, the value Of his possessions
being estimated at 81 100000.
FIVE men were drowned by the sweep
ing away of bridge over Rock River at
Milan, ILL.,, and five more we're drowned in
the same stream at Beloit, Wis, by the