The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-05-27
PERSONAL And GENERAL.

| QTeQ Oy one Oh AlCuIs Nu0iAy V"u S~-A-
mand, . soldier named Thomas Locke, who
was riding at the rear, in company with
James Conroy, Lieut.. Cherry and Sergean,
Harrington riding together at the front. Only
these four were present, Lieut. Cherry having
divided his party into several detachments
| After shooting his Lieutenat the assassin
turned and fired at his companion, Conroy,
| wounding him and knocking him from the
saddle. He then put spurs to his horse and
fed. There is no known reason for the as
sassination. Lieut.. Cherry was general
fayorite with both officers and men, and had
gained great distinction for gallantry in sew.
eral Indian campaigns. He was engaged to
be married to q daughter of Congressman
Harry White, of Pennsylvania.
JOSEPH REIMERs, toll-collector of the
drawbridge at Vincennes, Ind, was shot
and instantly killed by farm laborer named
w. j. Swallow, who insisted upon crossing
the bridge without paying the five-cents
fare. The murder was entirely unproyoked.
Swallow fled.
The Trustees of the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad invite bids for the purchase or
lease of that road.
Mr.. L. A. GoBR1GHT, for thirty years
prior to 1878 Associated Press Agent at
Washington, is dead, aged 67.
JAMES Ross, a farmer, with four
horses, took refuge under a tree during a
storm near HilIsboro, O. A lightning stroke
instantly killed both man and horses.
THIRTY-FoUR buildings in the bust
ness part of Nashville, Tenn, were burned
on the 18th. Losses are estimated at half a
million; insurance, 100000.
LIGHTNING struck the house of George
Campbell, near Cedarville, Ark, while the
family, consisting of husband and wife and
two children, were eating supper. The bolt
came down the chimney, striking Mrs.
Campbell, killing her instantly and setting
fire to her clothes. The father and children
were badly stunned. The cabin was nearly
demolished.
GEORGE BLAIR, member of the As
sembly from White Pine County, New, be-
came engaged in quarrel about family mat
tiers with one Middleton at Osceola. Blair
struck Middleton, when the latter retaliated
with knife. Blair died from the wounds
soon after.
Miss BERTHE DRAwANCE, aged fifteen,
was killed by lightning during storm in
Davis County, Kans., the other day.
A SANTA FE dispatch of the 18th
says: The mail-coach belonging to Kains &
McConkey's stage line, which left San Mar
cial, on the Atchison & Santa Fe Railroad,
for Chloride City, a rich and new mining
camp in the Black Range, containing one
man, two ladies and three children, as pas
sengers, and much mail and express matter,
was attacked by masked road agents twenty
two miles from San Marcial. They ordered
the driver to stop, and commenced firing. The
driver did not stop, however, and John
McConkey, one of the proprietors Of the line,
sitting with the driver, returned the fire with
Winchester, killing two of the road agents.
The dead robbers, whose bodies were buried
on the roadside, are not known. None of the
passengers were hurt, although dozen bull
lets hit the coach. The coach that arrived
at San Marcial was fired upon, but not stop
led by Chilly the Kid"
AT Grand View Hotel, near Denver,
Colo, S. D. Rhyners murdered his wife
while she was asleep. They had been con-
Quoting an insane asylum on q new principle,
which proved a failure, and they became
discouraged. Rhyners' intention doubtless
was to commit suicide, but his nerve failed
him.
The British steamer Gresham, loaded
with so 900 bushels Of corn for Hamburg,
collided with another vessel in the harbor at
New Orleans and Immediately sunk. Vessel
and cargo total loss.
FOUR railroad hands repairing tres
tle-work at Sunbury, Pa, on truck car, were
overtaken by freight train and killed.
o. M. OPsAHL and Jacob jacob, of
st. Paul, fell from an excursion steamer into
the St. Croix River and were drowned.
EDWARD Posi-, aged eighteen, Annie
Post, his sister, aged nine, and Myrtle Col
Inns, aged thirteen, Of Des Moines, Iowa,
were drowned while boating at the conflu-
ence of the Des Moines and Coon Rivers.
In New York City the other day, Fife
Person, a girl Of fourteen, shot and killed
herself because her father, who had lost
money, suspected her of taking it.
A FARMER named Arnold, while en-
gagged in planting corn in his field near
Black Springs, Montgomery County, Ark,
was shot down and killed by an unknown
assassin. No clew to the murder.
Two villains entered the house of
Miss Eliza Noyes at South Hampstead, N.
H., the other night, bound and gagged the
lady and then robbed the house of about
300. Miss Noyes is So years of age and re-
sided alone.
A MAIL-COACH was overhauled by
three road agents near Lake City, Colo, the
other night. Before ordering the driver to
stop the robbers fired three shots, danger
ously wounding Frank BARTLETT, "a Denver and
Rio Grande engineer. They then robbed
him of 500 and gold watch, and took the
and all the mail sacks. The
inside were unmolested.. Citi-
zens of Del Norte offer $3.50 and the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway $500 reward for the
capture of the robbers.
MARTIN KOMK0wsKT, alias Louis
Kettler, is under arrest in New York City
charged with the murder of Nina Muller, or
young German woman whose
dead body was recently found in the Gutten-
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