The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Ar Hot Springs, Ark, the other day,
colored boy committed an assault on Mrs.. j.
w. Parker, . lady nearly seventy years Of
age. He was arrested and lodged in Jail.
Next morning party Of masked men re-
paired to the prison with view OF lynehing
the culprit. The colored people got the news
aud were hid in the woods. As the
masked men approached the colored men
fred upon them about one hundred shots.
A few lkhots were fired At random by the
white men, who were compelled to with.
draw. About one-half Of the colored men
broke and ran. One white man was
wounded.
THE St. Louis Railroads on the 10th
adopted rate of $12 to New York and $l3
to Boston, and . proportionate rate to other
Eastern points, in order to meet the Chica.
60 cut.
/. RICHARD s. JEFFREYs, one of the
most prominent criminal lawyers Of Geor.
gia, recently committed suicide at the resi-
dence of his brother At White Sulphur
Springs, Ala. He had long suffered from
distressing nervous affection.
The Eastern Line steamer Columbia,
bound from Chicago to Collingwood, Cana.
da, foandered of Frankfort, Mich, on the
night of the 10th, and fifteen persons were
drowned.
A LAND-sL1P is reported near the vii
lage of Elm, Switzerland. Two hundred
persons were killed and thirty houses de-
stroyed.
A MOB numbering nearly q hundred
men rode into Dardanelle, Ark, the other
day, and, surrounding the Jail, where two
murderers, Taylor and Bruce, were con-
fined, overpowered the guards, secured the
keys of the prison, and taking the prisoners
out, hanged them to a tree.
The greatest excitement prevails at
Limerick, Ireland, on account Of recent dis
turbances. Some 600 police have arrived,
under command of an Assistant Inspector.
General OF Irish Constabulary.
THE strike of the New Orleans cotton
handlers had assumed such q belligerent as.
pect on the 18th, that at the formal request
of the Mayor, Acting Governor McEnery is
sued proclamation ordering the militia un.
der arms and assigning Major-General Ben.
ham to their command. All persons sub.
ject to military duty were ordered to enroll
themselves, and q call for volunteers was
made. The strikers mustered in force, and
by intimidation and actual violence in sew
eral cases compelled all draymen and work.
men engaged in loading and unloading ves-
sells to suspend work. The Administrator of
Police is himself President Of the Cotton La.
borers' Union, and it is claimed the manage
ment of the force has not been such as to
most effectually quell the riotous proceed
ings. Under the Governors order the po-
lice are made subordinate to the military
authorities. Fortunately there was no occa-
sion for the exercise of the military force
thus called out, as on the 18th an amicable
adjustment of the troubles was arranged
between employers and employees, each side
making some concessions.
ADvIcEs from the west coast of Afri-
ca state that the King Of Dahomey, with his
army Of Amazons, had raided and destroyed
the towns Of Ignona and Okepo. All the
who were unable to escape were
taken to the capital for sacrifice at the great
"custom."
SITTING BULL and his band, number
ing 175 persons, have been removed from
Rock Agency to Fort Randall. The
old Sioux was 10th to &C, and said he would
rather die than submit to the removal, but
by the judicious employment Of the militia
~ at the post the entire band Was got upon
the boat without any more serious result
than the knocking down of old Bulbs
nephew with the butt end of q musket on
account Of his refusing to go on board. A
squaw of the band, made desperate by the
killed her child and tried to com.
NIT suicide.
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion occurred
on the 18th at the dry-dock at the foot of
Essex Street, Jersey City. Capt. Decker
and James Tammany were instantly killed
and three others fatally injured. The boiler
was blown 600 feet up the street. In its
course it cut down lamp-post and fire
hydrant. Two large trees and two wagons
in the street were entirely de.
stroyed. The horse and cart Of John
Adams, which his son, aged eleven, was
driving, were struck by the flying boiler.
The vehicle and horse were literally cut to
pieces, and the boys right leg was severed
from his body. The cause of the explosion
was carelessness.
THE business portion of Beaver,
Utah, has been destroyed by fire.
THE Chickasaw Legislature is in ses-
sion. The Governors message was remark.
ably mild and conservative.
IT is reported that 1000 coolies are
now en- route from Pekin to San Francisco,
under contract to work upon railroads in
Texas and New Mexico.
AT the recent election in the Chicka-
saw Nation for member of the Legislature it
was decided in favor of B. f. Overton, the
present Governor.
The citizens of Deadwood have held
a mass-meeting to promote the division of
Dakota on the forty-sixth parallel and the
admission Of the southern portion as State.
A PARTY of fifty tramps boarded a
Pennsylvania freight train near Harrisburgh,
Pa, and threatened vengeance II any at.
tempt were made to put them of. The train
was delayed until load Of police could
be transported to the scene Of trouble, when