The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-22
PERSONAL AND e,MERAr

similar blow At the English land system.
A GENERAL, snow-storm prevailed
T. - Northwest on the 18th and
18th, causi' e another blockade Of railroads
In Mime sota and Dakota. Several inches OF
snow a 80 fell in New York and PenDsylva-
MIA.
DURING dance at Pelham, Hamp-
shire County, Mass, on the 18th, quarrel
arose over lady partner, and man named
Briggs shot the son Of James Stets0n three
times in the head, killing him instantly.
Mrs. AUGUSTA GEDELGA, aged %,
wife OF . cigar maker living in five.story
tenement house, AS Delaney Street, New
York City, becoming insane brooding over
the fact that her three children were ex-'
posed to smallpox, which had broken out
in the neighborhood, leaped from the roof to
the sidewalk and was killed.
DAVID DowNEY and Michael Brod-
erick were killed and John Murray severely
injured by the explosion of nitro-glycerine
cartridge, at Poughkeepsie, N. T., on the
18th.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has returned from
Florida in improved health.
TIE stern-wheel tug Daisy, owned by
the Missouri Furnace Company, was cap
sized with five men on board, opposite St.
Louis, on the 18th. Two Of the men were
drowned, the others being rescued by q
transfer boat.
MRS. A. G. HUNTER. wife of a we'll
known mining man, committed suicide at
Tucson, Arizona, by shooting herself
through the heart. Her husband had de-
serted her for another woman, and it is said
had squandered her fortune. She was an
English lady, from Newcastle-on-Tyne, and
was the mother of seven children.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed over
the country north of fernando, Miss, on
the 18th, demolishing everything in its path.
DR.. Undertakes house was blown down
and he and his daughter were seriously in
jured. A colored woman on Mr.. Memsone's
place was killed, also child on the Banks
place, and Mr.. Glover and his wife were
both injured. Johnston & Co.'s and Lack
lands stores were destroyed and their con-
tents strewn for miles along the path of. the
hurricane. Ben. Harwell was killed in his
own house, and Deputy Sheriff Skies John
legs broken.
ABEL WILSON, wealthy bachelor,
of North Andover, Mass, was awakened by
the noise Of footsteps in the house on the
morning Of the 18th. He remained awake
until about o'clock, when the door of his
chamber was burst in and two men rushed
into the room. He seized his rifle, which
was standing near the bed, and fired, hitting
the foremost burglar. Both fled down the
stairs after the shooting and Mr.. Wilson arose
from his bed. He found finger marks in
blood on the plastering at the west window,
and about 120 feet from the house found the
body of young man behind stone wall.
It proved to be that of Arthur Foster, a stu
dent Of theology at Phillips Academy. He
had been shot in the left arm, the ball pass
ing into his chest and through his heart. A
few minutes afterwards Luther Foster, twin
brother of the killed burglar, appeared on
the scene, and confessed that he and Arthur
had conspired to burglarize the house. He
said his brother fell dead after jumping from
the window.
STocKToN's gang of desperadoes are
still depredating in Arriba County, N. NJ,
and committing murder. Adjutant- General
Frost reports from there that he can not or
ganize his militia to fight the desperate gang,
being unable to obtain transportation from
here for his arms and other equipments.
L. II. PHILLIPS, farmer of Liberty
Township, Warren County, Iowa, horribly
maltreated his wife, and drove her from the
house. Twelve of the neighbors subsequent
ly armed themselves and went to Phillips
house, for the purpose, as alleged, of protect
ing his wife, who had meanwhile returned
to her home. A melee occurred, in which
Phillips was shot dead. The parties en-
gagged in the affair have been put under ar
rest and held for the Grand Jury to deter
mine their responsibility.
THE employees of the Consolidated
Street-car Company of Cincinnati struck on
! the 14th for an advance in wages, causing a
general stoppage af street-car traffic on all
the lines controlled by the company, which
comprise some thirteen different routes,
covering all the principal thoroughfares in
the city. The Covington and New
port employees also voted to take a
hand in the strike. The rate of
wages heretofore paid has been from $1.5O to
81. 70, employees being required to work fif-
teen hours per day, not excepting Sunday.
The advanced rate demanded is $500 and
1925 per day. The company express a de-
termination not to accede to the demands Of
the strikers, and say they will have no diff
cdlty in supplying their places at the old
rate Of wages.
JAMES DALEY, proprietor of the Con-
naught Ureland Telegraph, has been ar
rested under the Coercion act. The arrest
caused considerable excitement.
Rev. w. MORLEY PUNsHON, the dis
tinguished English preacher and author, is
dead.
DAVENPORT and Rock Island suffered
great loss from the rise in the Mississippi on
the 14th, caused by the ice gorge. All
along the river fronts and the adjacent
low lands the water was from one to five feet
deep.
At Marietta, O., Elmer McGirr, q
bright little fellow of IA, was instantly killed
by the accidental discharge Of pistol in the
hands Of playmate. Willie Schramm.
TIE COvernor of Dakota. the Mavor