The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-05-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

wants in the Imperial Palace at Constanti-
1 nople, have been arrested; chafged with the
| sssassination Of the late iSultan Abdul Aziz.
Mrs. THoMPsoN, wife Of ex.Repre-
sentative j. d. Thompson, Of Lewis County,
Ky, was drowned while crossing creek in
] q small boat with her husband. s
~AfrwELvE-YEAR- daughter OF
Daniel Spicer, living nine miles north Of
| Newark, o., was burned to death by her
clothing taking fire from burning brush
heap.
Ar Marshantown, Iowa, on the oath,
young and pretty Bohemian girl, Mary
Brooks, was shot through the heart by her
sweetheart, James Oderback, while she was
drawing water from well. They were on
| good terms, and no cause for the act is
known. He was arrested.
j. w. ROBB, prominent lawyer of
Astoria, Ore, was shot dead in his Office ON
the 26th. The murderer is believed to be j.
G. Robson, with whom ,Robb had some
legal difficulty.
The steamer City of Austin, of the
mile inside Fernandina bar, Florida, on the
18th. and Is total loss. Boat and cargo both
well insured.
LEVI HEcHr & Co., merchants, Po-
cahontas, Ark, have failed; liabilities,
100000.
ADvICEs from Panama state that the
town of Buena Ventura was destroyed by
fire on the 10Th. Loss $1,OO0,O0O. Three
persons were burned to death. Fifteen
thousand peopletare homeless, ia ru..
The Minnesota and Red Rivers in
Minnesota have overlooked their banks,
causing great destruction to property.
JAMES T. FIELDS, the well, known
publisher and author, died suddenly at his
home in Boston ON the Oath. He was born
at Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 81, 1870.
A NUMBER of persons, mostly en-
ployees, were seriously injured by the burn.
ing OF a box factory at Greenpofnt, ny.
AN Omaha dispatch of the Goth says:
All the buildings on the levee have been
abandoned, the water being twenty inches
higher than during the late flood. On the
Council Bluffs side the Chicago railroads
send their passengers two or three miles in
skiffs to the transfer depot. u - SO
WILL LITTLE and Nathan Lynn, en-
ployees in q mower and reaper works at
Youngstown, O., were crushed to death by
a car of lumber.
"a ANOTHER audaciouS address to the
Car has been issued BY the Nihilists, point
ing out that the indiscriminate execution Of
those concerned in the assassination of Alex
ander II. has only served to strengthen the
ranks of the Nihilists by driving many luke
warm malcontents into the extreme faction
of the party.
HATTIE MosLEY, q servant girl at
Middlesex, Pa, is thought to have UNDER
gone the supreme agony of being buried
alive. Upon opening her coffin it was found
that she had tried to free herself, and her
coumtenance plainly exhibited the most in
tense suffering. 81 5sE
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has appointed
the following Government Directors of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company for the en-
suing year: s. T. Everett, Cleveland, o.;
r. h. Baller, Racine, Wis; Chas. B. Peck,
Port Huron, Mich. Geo. w. Frost, Omaha,
Neb. and A. Kountze, New York. \
THE President has designated the fol-
lowing as Board of Visitorsfor West Point:
Arson Stager, Ill.,; Milo s. Hascall, Ind;
Chas. A. Bautille, Maine; Geo. s. Green,
Rhode Island; Henry B. Ledyord, Mich; s.
S. Laws, Missouri; d. C. Buell., Kentucky
/ SEVENTEEN indictments yhave been
found against r. L. Lindsay, Of land fraud
notoriety. Seven are for forgery in the first
degree and seven in the fourth. Nine in
dictments were found against John Brady
and four against Herman Schuster.
NORTH CAROLINA will vote upon q
prohibitory amendment to its Constitution
on the first Monday in August next. A
State Prohibition Convention, recently held
at Raleigh, was attended by delegates from
every county in the State, and an active can
vass will be inaugurated by the friends of
the movement.
MRS. SARAH E. HOWE, President of
the Ladies' Deposit Bank at Boston, has
been convicted of the frauds with which she
stood charged.
TIE Texas & st. Louis Narrow gauge
Railroad is now open for business to Corsi-
cana, 20S miles from Texarkana.
w. L. PAYsoN, builder and contractor,
lately of the firm of Pays0n & Lindley, miss
ing from Halliston, Mass, is alleged to be a
forger to the amount of 900. Besides this
his liabilities are large. t#.A
LORD BEAcONsFIELD's will leaves
Hughenden Manor and all his other prop
ertv to his nephew, Conyngsby Ralph Dis
raeli.
Two cadets and four sailors were
killed, nine men seriously and two officers
and seven men slightly injured by the burst
ing of shell on training at Wilhelms-
haven, Germany.
CRAIG MITCHELL, colored voudoo
practitioner, was arrested at Louisville, n.y.,
charged with an indecent assault upon
young girl at Frankfort, who died from the
effects. The penalty for this crime is death.
TEABoNr. & VALLEAU, dealers in
stock, grain, ETC., at DEBORAH, Iowa, have
failed for about 500, 900.
A SINGULAR and most terrible disaster
by lightning occurred at Louisville on the
2Sth.S Four boys, Lee Fleck, Joe Shulty,
Will Tahalser and Harry Soete, attending
school at Twenty-sixth and Market Streets,
had just finished game of ball at recess and