The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
PRoFEssoR DRAPER, of New York, has


Mr.. JOHN M. HUBBARD, q prominent
adherent of Blaine at the Chicago Conven-
ton, who was recently removed from the
position of Superintendent OF DeIvery III
the Chicago Post-offce by Postmaster
Palmer, visited Washington and obtained q
letter from President Garfield to the Chica-
90 Postmaster to the effect that the Presi-
dent did not wish any removals made for
political causes. Mr.. Palmer now tells Mr..
Hubbard that the letter does not affect his
case, inasmuch as he was not removed Tor
political reasons.
YALE defeated Harvard by two boat
lengths in the race at New London, Conn. /,
on the LIST.
AT Greenfield, Dade County, Mo-, on
the night of the LIST. an Infatuated mob went
| to the house of Sheriff Whitesides and bound
him while they secured the keys Of the jail.
] They then proceeded to the Jail and released
therefrom three orse-thieves-FrankC Craft,
William Underwood and James Butler
| took them out into the courtyard and
hanged them to trees until life was extinct.
| A fourth Of tae gang, Mitchell, they suffered
to remain in Jail, thinking he would be
needed for witness against the members OF
the gang who are at large, and for whom
vigorous search is being made.
A DISPATCH from Tunis says: The
Arabs at Sfax fred on French steamer
conveying Tunisian troops thither, to keep
them from landing. 1t is stated that the
French Vice Consul was wounded. Great
excitement prevails at Mehedia, the inhabit-
ants fearing an attack from the Arabs.
An accident on the Kentucky Central
Railroad, twelve miles south of Covington,
on the 4th, caused the deaths of seven
persons and the injury of twelve others.
The names Of the killed are John Pye,
Michael Dixon, William Callapy, Will
liam Weichoug, John Cotter, and two
boys, names unknown, stealing ride.
Pye was fireman, the others were passen-
gers. All were residents of Covington. The
accident was caused through negligence of
the conductor of the cypress train, who
failed to obey orders to side-track his train
in order to let an excursion train 60 by.
Both locomotives were demolished.
THE official report regarding the acct
dent on the Morilos Railroad, Mexico, states
that ninety-fve soldiers, thirty-fve women,
five children and fifty other passengers were
killed; ninety-eight soldiers, twelve women
and two passengers were wounded; forty
nine persons escaped and about forty are
missing. The Government has commission
ed seven engineers to examine the fallen
bridge and condition of the railroad.
JERRY YANCEY, Agent of the Keokuk
Packet Company for many years, and VIM.
j. Conner, of DeSoto, NO., were run over
and killed by cars, on the 9Th, at Hannibal,
Mo.
Two young men, Bert. Christler and
Cyrus Bourne, aged respectively Is and IS
years, were drowned while bathing in Cedar
River at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They went
down at the same time and place, and in a
mysterious manner, as the water was not
rapid, and both were good swimmers.
The Chicago, st. Louis & New Or
leans Railroad have made all arrangements
to change the gauge of that road, on July 2S,
from five feet to the standard gauge of four
feet eight and one-half inches. This is to
obviate a change of trucks at Cairo which
has been the source of great delay.
A FIRE at Rolla, Mo-, on the morning
of the 4th, destroyed the Post-office, Bank,
Crandall House, Public School building,
Hoyt's grocery, Lang's liquor store, Paul
SELLS dry-goods store, three saloons, two
boarding houses and four dwelling houses.
Two runners from the camp of Sit
ting Bull have reached Poplar River Agency,
and are negotiating for the surrender of
twenty mine lodges of hostiles who are en-
camped just north of the border-line. This
would leave Sitting Bull with only thirteen
lodges to cope with the Crees, who are in
the field after his scalp.
AN insane man, named Daniel McNa-
mara, has been arrested in Washington who
says his mission is to kill Blaine. He said
some time ago set d spiritualistic mediums
formed a. plot to shoot Gen. Grant, and he
had been selected to do the shooting. This
was abandoned, however, as Grant prom
ised to stand by them in a scheme they had
formed.
ADvIcEs received at Las Cruces, m
NJ, state that an Ell Paso and chihuahua
stage was attacked by Indians, about one
hundred miles south of Ell Paso, and four
passengers and two drivers were killed. A
report was current that the entire surveying
party of the Mexican Central Railway had
been killed by Indians in Old Mexico.
AT Helena, Mason County, Ky, Ben
Higgins in a fit Of jealousy shot his wife
through the back of The head, the ball COM
ing out at her mouth Surprising her dead,
he placed the pistol to his own breast and
sent two balls through his body, one above
and the other just below, the heart. There
is bare possibility of Mrs. Higgins recov-
cry.
THE vast comet in the northern heav-
ems which has been seen by everybody has
naturally attracted much attention, and there
have been many speculations as to who will
receive the 5000 prize which Mr.. H. H. War
ner. the well-known proprietor of the cele-
brated Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and
founder of Warner Observatory, Rochester,
N. Y, has made. Whoever receives the
reward, one thing is certain: the cause of
science has received a great impetus by rea.
son of this immense comet, and the interest
which has been taken in it.
JAMES HIRBE, boiler-maker of Erie,
Pa, was the victim of remarkable accident
the her day While inside of boiler IL be.