The Iola register., 1881-07-29

NUMBERS of farm laborers IN County
Cork, Ireland, have struck for higher wages,
and are marching through the county, forc-
ing others to Join in the strike.
Two express trains on the Fitchburg
Railway collided while at full speed, near
Charlemont, Mass, on the 18th. Two train
men were killed and two badly wounded.
A DISPATCH from Quebec says the
Roman Catholic Presbytery at Roxton Falls
burned on the 18th, and Father Larue per.
ished in the flames. A nephew escaped by
leaping from an upper window. Father
Larue had been i'll for some days.
THE propeller Winnipeg burned at
Duluth on the 10Th. The passengers es.
capped, losing most of their clothing and bag.
gage. Joseph Smith, fireman, aged 35;
James Branscom, head waiter; VIM. How
cry, aged 16, second porter; q pantryman,
name unknown, are missing, and are sup
posed to be burned.
Col. r. L. MOTT, a prominent citi-
zen of Columbus, Ga, was mangled to
death by locomotive on the 10Th.
Two men were killed and three 9TH
ers fatally injured by the explosion of q
portable engine near Watertown, O., on the
18th.
The Universal Life Insurance Com
pany of New York is again in trouble. In
1879 the Company forced its policyholders to
compromise their claims, and now the State
Insurance Department, in view of the ina
bility Of the Company to meet the require
ments of the law, has taken measures to
wind up the concern.
WASH. ALLEN, colored, who mur-
dered W. Judd Scott, Kingston (La.)
merchant, and then robbed his store, was
taken from the Mansfield Jail and hanged
by mob. He made confession, implicat-
ing four or five other colored men in the
plot, who have been arrested and it was
thought would meet the same fate.
An independent cable will be laid
from Germany to Valencia, Ireland, and
thence to the United States.
A DEAF MUTE named Seaward has
been arrested in Philadelphia for soliciting
aid to defend Guiteau and commencing his
attack upon the President.
T. L. BRAYToN, United States Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue, was mur-
dered by illicit distillers in Pickens County,
S. c., on the Goth.
FRANK PELToN, formerly Assistant
Teller of the Montreal Bank, Canada, has
been arrested at Santa Fe by Canadian de-
tective who has been hunting him for some
months. Pelton absconded in April last
with $4,000 in cash, but it is believed was
himself robbed Of the larger part of his plum
der by woman who accompanied him in his
flight and who subsequently ran off with a
handsOmer man.
A REPORTED oil discovery near May
flower, Ark. twenty miles from Little Rock,
is causing great excitement among prospect
ors and spectators.
JOHN EBERLY committed suicide on
his wife's grave at Marion, o.
A ROCK slide in the Washington quar-
ry, near Slatington, Pa, resulted in the
death of VIM. Coffin and Charles Erdman.
Mrs. MERKs and Miss Blitz were kill
ed by runaway horses in Jersey City, N. j.
A YACHT containing six young men
belonging to South Boston, Mass. capsized
in Squantum Gut on the Goth, and all were
drowned. The bodies were recovered.
THE open cut of the Caledonia mine,
at Terravile, d. T., caved in on the Goth,
burying seven miners. VIM. Gill, Daniel
Cameron and Andrew Latson were taken out
alive. John Costello. James Roach, Pat
Hawkins and l.. H. Hamilton are supposed
to be killed.
AN express train on the Delaware &
Hudson Railway struck rock, near Dres-
den, n. Y, OH the 21st, three cars leaving
the track. Charles Carswell, engineer, was
killed, and the fireman and two passengers
were injured.