The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-06-17
PERSONAL AID aENERAL.

| ting of boat ct Rome City, Ind.
The steamer Glenlogan, from New
| York, for Para, Pernambuco and Bahia
took fire at sea and was abandoned. TIL
crew and passengers landed 1t Fort Alezs
Brazil.
The value of the exports from thi
country during the year ending April 90
1881, exceeded the value Of the goods i'm
ported during the same time by $259, 073, 1861
The excess in value Of the exports over tn
imports during the year ending April, 1880
was only SITS, 460,2lS.
News comes from Berlin, Ky., of tn
murder of William Sims by his brother-in
law, Mellow. When last seen together Nc
Low, who was drunk, was accusing Sims o
having stolen his money. On the 9Th Sims
body was found in the woods, stabbed il
eleven places. Mellow, when sober, foun'
the money on his own person. He has con
fessed the murder, and is in Jail at Brook
vile.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH was killed ant
three men were badly injured by boiler ex
plosion at Arkansas City, Ark.
In consequence of the prevalence O.
yellow fever in Vera Cruz the Mexican Rail
way Company has put on a special train tt
take passengers direct to Orizaba.
The most careful estimates put thu
cotton crop Of last year at 6,4OO, 600 bales, o.
nearly million and half bales more thar
the splendid crop Of 1879.
A FREIGHT train on the Denver, South
Park & Pacific Railroad jumped the track
near Buena Vista, COL, on the 9th. II.
Black, engineer, j. Lee, fireman and VIM
Arnold, brakeman, were instantly killed. j.
L. Kissick, conductor, had his ankle dislocat'
ed. The engine and number Of cars art
total wrecks.
A NUMBER of Pennsylvania blast
furnaces have suspended operations on &C.
count Of the alleged depression in the iror
trade.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD promises to at.
tend the Atlanta Exposition in November
next, public business permitting. The Pres
ident cordially indorses the objects of the
Exposition.
BETWEEN 100000 and 100000 in
bonds, from which coupons had just been
cut, were stolen from the Treasurer's desk
of the Erie County Savings Bank at Buffalo,
N. Y. A number of the bonds have been
traced to Baltimore.
WILLIAM MURPHY, the divorced hus.
band of Mrs. Newton McClarren, visited
that lady at her residence near Pittsburgh
Pa, the other day, and requested an inter.
view. When she appeared, Murphy threw
his arms around her neck, and, while thus
embracing her, shot her in the back and
breast, and then placing the revolver against
his forehead, fired bullet through his BRAIN
killing himself instantly. Mrs. McClarren
it is thought, will recover.
JAMES MALONE, Patrick Hunter and
Gerald Sanders, employed in the Andes
Mine, Virginia City, New, were suffocated
by gas the other day. Several miners were
made i'll in endeavoring to recover the
bodies.
LEADING manufacturers of agricultu.
raj implements in the West are said to have
greatly curtailed operations on account of
unfavorable advices regarding the coming
harvest.
LEWIS SWEDEN, an old farmer, Of
Van Buren, County, Ark, was assassinated
on the porch of his dwelling, recently, by
three men who sprang from the shrubbery
and riddled his body with bullets. Supposed
to be the work of moonshiners.
MUNLEY ELLIS and Wright Newsome,
two young men living near Wilson, n. c.,
met in a field and began quarreling on the
It'll. Ellis had pistol, and finally drew il
4 Oh Mo- ;v,< ha Inn
instantly. The two gentlemen had some
time ago been paying attention to the same
young lady, and this was the beginning Of
bad feeling between them.
A NEW ALBANY & Chicago Railroad
conductor named Davis undertook to clint
on top of a car near Pekin, Ind, and wa!
knocked off by the timbers of the bridge
across Blue River, and instantly killed. Hi
body fell into the river, and was recovered
by the train-men and taken to New Albany
He had only been on the road few days.
AT the village of Chesaning, Mich.
recently, party of roughs connected with I
circus, armed with clubs, proceeded to breai
up dance. Augustus Emery, policeman
| was pounded to death; Fred Wenzel wa.
fatally injured; j. B. Griswold, village Pres
dent, was severely wounded; Charles Ha'
mer received pistol ball in the side Of thu
face and dozen others were cut and bruised
Thirteen of the gang we're arrested, ani
with difficulty the people were restrained
from lynching them.
THE National A1illers' Association held
their eighth annual Convention at Chicago.
| beginning on the It'll. The Cochran patent
cases, representing claims for damages tc
the amount of $50, 900 against members
of the Association, were settled by compro.
mise, the terms of which are private.
THE completion of the Fayetteville
(Ark.) Branch of the St. Louis & San Fran.
| cisco Railroad was celebrated on the Sth, Al
Fayetteville, with great ceremony.
THE Theater Royal, Belfast, Ireland
was entirely destroyed by fire on the Sth.
THE negroes who murdered a farm
er named A. F. Hall, near Lockesburg,
Sewer County, Aek., were hanged by an in
furiated party Of citizens.
DURING severe storm near Wheel.
ing, West Va, on the 9Th, family named
Straub, living on Glenn g Run, were swept
away in the.night, the mother and five chfl.
dren being drowned and the father carried