The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A FEW days since . woman obtained
employment as nurse at the institution OF
the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society,
Fifty.seyenth Street and First Avenue, New
York. During the night she went down IN.
to the kitchen and kindled fire OF wood ana
shavings on the middle Of the floor, with the
evident design of burning herself to death,
as when discovered by the Superintendent,
who had been awakened by the smell OF fire,
the woman stood in the center Of the pyre, her
clothing all aflame. He speedily res
cued her from her terrible position,
but not before she had received
fatal injuries, from which she. died
few hours later. The fire communicated to
the woodwork of the building, and it was
with some difficulty extinguished. There
were in the institution at the time sixty live
children and eight grown people. It was
subsequently ascertained that the woman
was partially insane, and had wandered from
the house Of her brother on Forty first
Street. She is said to be the wife OF Morris
Kerstine, of Ashley, H., and has brother
and sister living at Marion, Ill.
A SINGULAR and unaccountable crime
is reported from Lapeer Village, Mich:
While people were at church, Mrs. Barnard
went to the house of Rev. E. Cur
tbs, the Baptist pastor, attacked his
wife, an old lady about IS, threw her
down, poured gasoline over her clothing
and set it on fire. The poor woman was SO
shockingly burned that she lived but few
30 oh
the wife of prominent citizen, and has
been conspicuous in her attention to church
affairs. Some think she was crazed by re.
ligious excitement. She was arrested.
A HORRIBLE triple murder was COM
mitted during the night Of the 18th, near
Plain City, in Madison County, o., the vic
Tins being Mrs. Matilda Scott, a colored
widow, her daughter, aged %, and adopted
son, aged IA, named Charles Goode. All
three had their brains beaten out with club.
Information of the crime was first ascer-
tanned from colored man named Robert
Garrett, who came into town and reported
the affair in an excited manner. He was at
once suspected of being the murderer and
placed under arrest. Garrett formerly
worked on the Scott place, and three months
ago left in anger because the widow would
not rent him the farm.
In Guilford Township, 10 Davies
County, ILL.,, the other morning, 17-year-
old son of Martin Ehredt, appointment farm
er, took up rifle, supposed to be unloaded,
and pointing it at his elder brother, in bed,
ordered him in joking manner to get up
or he would shoot him. The latter, entering
into the spirit of the joke, told his brother to
fire away. He did, taking deadly aim, and
bullet penetrated his brothers neck, pass.
ing through and lodging in the base OF the
brain, causing instant death.
| CAPTAIN HENRY M. SHREvE, of St.
Louis, in 1929 invented and put in operation
the steam snsg-boat now in use upon the
Mississippi and tributaries. In 1884 he ap.
piled to the Government for compensation
for the use of said patent, and since that time
the claim has been theoretically pressed
and nine different Congressional committees
have reported favorably on the claim. Cap
tain Shreve died in 1851. His heirs have JUS
received the sum of $4,000 awarded upor
the claim by the present Congress.
MARTINS morocco factory and Ian
casters carriage factory at Lynn, Mass.
burned on the 10th. Losses about $15O,OOo
Several hundred hands are thrown out O
employment.
A BIG lumber fire occurred at Mich
igan City, Ind, on the 10Th. The principa
; losers are Peck & Son, $4,000, and Wilson
Martin & Co., 13,0OO-the former insure'
for $95, 900, the latter for $4,000.
THE young wife of Adolph Buettner
of Detroit, Mich, being advised to take al
} alcoholic sweat bath, placed a saucer full o
. alcohol on the floor and deliberately stoo
over it without taking any precautions rela
tive to her clothing, which took fire. TIL
unfortunate woman was terribly burned
and alive at last accounts, but in critics
condition.
! Miss BESSIE WERTs, daughter 9
. William Werts, living near Prosperity, New
= berry County, S. c., was brutally assaulte
n and murdered the other evening while goin
, from her brothers house to her home. Tw
z negroes were arrested on suspicion, an
e lodged in the guard-house. They confesse
+ their guilt, and at night large body of me
took them out to lynch them. One was sht
i to death where the crime was committed
the other made his escape, but was subst
quently recaptursd and hanged near Pro:
3 perity by crowd Of whites and blacks.
e THE diphtheria is raging in an ep
:. demic form in the western part of the tow
:. of Wayne, Washington County, Wis. Whol
!. families of children have been swept away
e The schools have been closed all winter
v consequence Of the malady.
n A BAND of Indians killed eight mel
= two women. and child in the Province
|; Chihuahua not long since. The Indial
t, were attacked next day by body Of Mex
t, can troops, who failed to dislodge them.
A FIRE at Wilton, N. H., on the 2Otl
~ destroyed thirteen stores, a bank and 9th
:, business buildings. Loss about SCI, 600.
Two more fatal coasting acciden
=. we're reported on the Goth. At Woodruff
\ n. j., Harrison White was almost instant
IN killed by his sled striking a stump; aud
N Port Jefferson, Long Island, Frank Tooke
~ college student, and j. Samuel Ackerly,
ID printer, were both seriously injured by
y. similar accident. 1t was not thought eth
70 could recover.
Of By the explosion of boiler at Dew
ne bury, York County, England, eleven perso