The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-05-13
Personal AND GENERAL.

II FIVE children Of Fritz Nebin, afarmer
of Hayward, Cal, were returning from .
picnic, when In crossing the railroad track
their wagon was struck by the locomotive Of
an express train and completely demolished.
Three of the children were killed outright
and the other two died within ten minutes.
The eldest was IS years Of age, the young
est Z.
REPORTS of the death of the King of
Abyssinia are now said to be unfounded.
+ TIE switchmen employed upon the
various railroads centering in Chicago en-
tered upon q strike on the. I'd, their demand
and $2.75 per day. 7- .-,s.z1
NJ. SHILLING and j. Epstein, two
merchants of Palestine, Texas, were drowned
in Clear Lake by the capsizing Of their boat
while fishing. 5-
A TURKISH victory over the Alban-
ians at Prisrend is reported. The aggregate
losses in killed and wounded are placed at
1850.
JOHN H. FINK, retired New York
-four merchant, committed suicide by hang
| ing to the brake of freight car on the Hud-
son River Road.
Sixty THOUSAND emigrants arrived
at New York during April.
An engine and tender on the Mount
Clair & Greenwood Lake Railroad crashed
through the trestle work at Ringwood, n.
j., ON the LIST. Engineer Skully and fireman
Masker were killed. lgi -. d ~ ID. 20 St.
PROF. LEWIS SMITH, of Rochester, has
discovered new comet. 1t is located in the
constellation Andromeda.
GEN. JOHN PRESTON, of Columbia, s.
c., is dead. ~ "a
CoLoRow, the Ute Chief, and seventy
five lodges of the red men were recently en-
camped within three miles of the military
post on the White River, and it looks as if
they meant to be troublesome. 49,
BOTH the east and west bound stages
were robbed by highwaymen near Sabina,
Tex on the night of the 3Oth. Net result
small.
JOHN W. McCLUNY, one of the
Judges of johnson County, No., was struck
by lightning and killed near Warrensburg,
on the LIST. He was well known and highly
| respected. -gEa mr.. gErTF
A SAD accident occurred at Greneda,
Miss, the other day. Capt. Fowler, drug
gist, was charging soda fountain, when the
generator exploded, fatally injuring DIR.
Ray, the leading physician of the city, who
died two hours afterward. Capt. Fowler's
injuries, it is thought, will also prove fatal.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has received
an autograph letter from President Grevy,
announcing that the French Republic will
HAL anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown.
FRANK HAZEL, a conductor on the
Flint & Pere Marquette Road, was run over
by his own train at Farwell, fifty five miles
west of East Saginaw, Mich, and instantly
killed. He was twenty eight years old and
leaves young wife. -z.-.-..-
A MEETING of Oklahoma colonizers
was held at Wichita, Kans., on the Sd.
Capt. Payne was present and announced the
unfavorable result Of his trial before the
United States Court at Fort Smith Resolu-
lions were adopted denouncing the injustice
of the verdict and pledging renewed efforts
to effect q Judgment in the Territory.
The Executive Committee of the Ar
kansas Democratic State Central Committee
have called meeting of the entire committee
for the 24th Of May, to consider the question
of differences between Democrats in this
State on the debt question. .rr
Two hundred bales of cotton, in tran
sit from st. Louis to the steamer Asdrubal
for the Continent, were burned at New Or
leans on the Sd. Loss, 5000; insured.
ARRANGEMENTS have been consum-
mated for the consolidation of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas and Texas & International
and Great Northern Railways. The st.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Texas
Pacific will be consolidated the 18th inst.
| A TRAIN dashed into a carriage cross
ing the track at Camden, N. j., on the I'd.
Mrs. Valentine Grim was killed, and her
husband and Adolphus Butler were seri-
ously injured.
THERE are over 5000 applications for
Consulships now on file at the State Depart
ment in Washington. There are about 175
Consulates all told, and there are only about
half dozen vacancies.
AT banquet to Gen. Grant in the
City Of Mexico, he was toasted by the Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs as 1.-THE great, good,
and tried friend of Mexico"
SEVERAL passenger coaches were
thrown down an embankment on the Troy &
Boston Railway, near Eagle Bridge. No
lives lost.
WAR between Japan and China is
considered probable. ,g.l..e, -, ...,,...,-.
A TELEGRAM from Montevideo says
the British war sloop Doterel was blown up
recently at Sandy Point, Straits of Magellan.
Eight officers and 1S5 men we're killed, only
fifteen of the vessels complement escaping.
The following is list of the killed
and wounded in the two wrecks that occur.
red on the I'd on the Texas s. Pacific Road at
Sweetwater and Katula, near the western
terminus: Frank Lewis. engineer, and his
brother, J. Lewis, fireman, residence Knox
vile, Tenn; j. Langdon, brakeman, resi-
dence unknown; VIM. Dye, residence Fort
Worth; NJ. B. Sanders, engineer, residence
Dallas.
The President. has nominated Eliot
C. Jewett, Of Missouri, Assayer in charge of
the Assay Office at St Louis. xr ..,r.