The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08
Personal AND GENERAL.

Personal AND GENERAL.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, proprietor OF
restaurant at Cleveland, O., was killed on
the 95th by William Fri.ch, of Columbus,
who is probably insane. Fritch says ne
went to the desk to pay for some refresh
ments, and discovering that he had no money
he felt an irresistible impulse to shoot the
proprietor.
SEVENTEEN persons were killed and
five wounded by an explosion In the Louise
Tieffan colliery, Austria.
AT Washington, D. c., on the 2otn'
J. Y. Christmas fatally shot his partner. w.
G. Whitney. Whitney was the son OF MIS-.
General Gaines by her first husband, and
| Christmas her son-in-law. There had been
bad feeling between the two for some time.
WoRKMEN on strike, having at
tackled the Town Hall at Dramnien, Nor
| way, to release two comrades arrested, were
fred upon by troops. One man was killed
and several wounded. One officer and some
soldiers were injured.
C.P. CoYLE shot and MORALLY wound
ed Joel A. Phillips, the other day, at Jasper,
Fla. They were both from Madison, attend
ing as witnesses in the trial of Savage and
James for the murder of Frank Patterson,
in Madison, in February last, during the
taking of testimony in the Finley -Bisbee
contested election case.
| HON. HENRY STANSBERY, Attorney
| General in President JOhnson's Cabinet, is
dead, aged Is.
| WORKINGMEN's organizations in New
York City are making an effort to obtain
half-holiday on Saturday. Some establish
ments have already yielded to their de-
mands, and the workingmen express de-
termination to press the matter to general
adoption.
A DISPATCH from Tunis says the Bey's
steward has taken refuge at the English
Consulate with securities and jewels worth
million francs, and that he embezzled the
accounts of the stewardship for many years.
SIDNEY Nj. STRAY, formerly a Metho-
dist minister located at Warrensburg. n.
Y, and for some time resident of Leaven-
worth, Kans., where under an assumed
name he had been employed as bookkeeper
by prominent business house, committed
suicide bv drowning himself in the Missouri
River. His body was recovered at Kansas
City. About three years ago Stray's wife
was wounded by the discharge OF a revolver
| in the hands Of her husband. He then sho
himself, confessedly with suicidal intent
Stray said the shooting OF his wife
was accidental, and she corroboraed
his story at the time, but has since, il
is said, expressed her conviction that he in
tended to take her life, and her brother hat
announced his intention of hunting
Stray out and avenging the wife's wrongs
The church authorities investigated thu
shooting and other irregularities Of an i'm
moral nature charged against Stray, and
he was expelled from the ministry.
EUGENE GUYN, wealthy young
West virginian, was fatally stabbed on ar
named Thomas Graves, with whom he hao
an alteration about trivial matter. GUY
first struck Graves blow with his fist, whel
the negro retaliated.
AT Kingston, Madison County, Ark.
jeff. Carroll, son of the Mayor of Eurek
Springs, was shot and killed by Frank Jen
kins. A companion Of CarrOll's, names
Garrett, was wounded in the hand, render
ing amputation necessary. The shootin;
grew out of an old quarrel. jenkins fled.
MOSES TIrcoMB, aged 80, Superin
tendent of the Document Room, United
, States Senate, for over a quarter of cen
t fury, has just died. Titcomb watched owe
! Calhoun in his last sickness, and laid on
, with his own hands the body of Henry Cla
in 1851.
SAMUEL DIsMUKE and j. r. O'Neil
of Columbia County, Ark, while returnin
home in a wagon, got into quarrel con
g corning who should shoot a bevy Of par
tridges by the roadside, when O'Neil DIRE,
from his pocket small knife and attacke
$ Dinsmuke, cutting his breast arm and shoul
/, der, and inflicting six wounds, from whic
e he soon died.
= A PROCLAMATION has been issue
:; prohibiting the importation of arms int
' Ireland, except at Dublin, Belfast, Corl
Limerick, Londonderry, Waterford, Gal
!. way, Sligo, Drogheda, Dundalk, Greenor'
!, Nora and Wexford. The City and Count
4 of Waterford have been placed under I'll
Protection act. Arrests under the Coercio
d act continue, among the more prominel
r persons being Cox, League organizer, an
Hozel, Secretary of the Government branc
of the Land League.
In Bedford County, Tenn, the vii
of Rev. Ephraim Anthony, formerlya Lutl
eran ministe accidentally shot herself viii
cunning for hawk. Death was instant
aneous.
CAPTAIN EADs has gone to Toronto
:. where, at the request Of the Canadian Go,
j.. eminent, he will begin an examination
that harbor with a view to devising meal
q. for its permanent improvement.
I, SOME farmers of Searcy County, Ark
d the other day got into difficulty with hero
d ers who have brought cattle from Nilsson
!. and elsewhere to feed upon the range.
e pitched battle took place, in which Geors
/. Youngblood, aherder, was fatally wounde'
d and others received slighter wounds. tt
It stockmen held the ground at the close Of Il
e fight.
e CONCLUSIONS at Cambridge Observ;
). | torx, ora fbat tho comet now visible h: