The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-01-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

or ssDiamond Bessie, was found not guilty.
There was great excitement In the court
room at the announcement Of the verdict,
which was probably based upon the theory
advanced by Rothschild's attorney, that the
girl committed suicide, inasmuch as the dead
BODY could not have remained exposed 1or
nearly fifteen DAYS without showing greater
signs of decomposition.
PREsIDENr-ELECT GARFIELD, on the
9Th. formally rendered to the Ohio Legisla-
ture his resignation as United States Sena-
tor, and at the same time notified the Unlted
States Senate Of the fact.
BID. BUFoRD & Co.'s pillow manu-
factory at Rock Island, ILL.,, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 3lst ult.
Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance, $66,OOO. Inc
works employed 400 men.
The Marion House and the bank
building at Jackson City, Mich, burned on
the S1st, involving . loss Of some $4,000.
Two negroes, Fred. Harris and Henry
Peters, were killed by the collision of bal
last train and hand-car near Glencoe, KY,
on the LIST. VIM. Devine, conductor, and
several employees were injured.
HENRY WASHINGTON, colored, was
hanged at jackson, Miss, on the 31st, for
the murder of Mr.. Hill, a worthy white citi-
zen of Hindes County.
MAJOR BLoss, of the Oklahoma colo
nists, has challenged Lieut.. Wood, Of the
Army.
ANDREW EHRUKE, of Davenport,
Iowa, celebrating with cannon on New
Years Day, was SO badly injured by pre-
mature explosion that he will probably die.
BEVERLY MITCHELL and Henry Tay-
lor were badly injured by the explosion OF a
boiler in the Dupont Paper-mill at Louis
vile, KY, on the LIST. The latter is not ex-
pected to live.
AT the Lockwood House, Sidney,
Neb., recently, Detective James l.. Smith
ended the career of q bad character named
Black by shooting him in self-defense.
JAMES SNOW and George Chamber
lain, responsible for the recent railway acci-
dent near Tiffin, O., have been arrested for
murder.
A LITTLE son of Isaac Shane, OF East
Springfield, O., was lighting pieces of paper
at a stove, when his clothes ignited and he
was roasted alive.
| THE Fond du Lac accommodation
train on the Northwestern Road was thrown
from the track near Milton Junction, Wis,
the passenger-car going down an embank-
ment. Six persons were injured, among
them Rev. A. j. Mead, Presiding Elder OF
the GAINESVILLE District, who suffered 1rac-
ture of the right shoulder.
The long-delayed verdict OF the Cor
| ~ f1o A0ronQ
ter on Lake Michigan, in October last, mas
finally been rendered. The Jury hnd that
the vessel was in bad condition and gener-
ally unseaworthy, and that the Goodrich
Transportation Company should be held re-
sponsible for all damages.
AT Memphis, on the morning OF the
Sd, Henry Burton twice shot barber named
Tate and then shot his own wife. Tate re-
turned the fire, MORALLY wounding the in
iured husband. Mrs. Burton's wound is
not serious; Tate will probably die.
FIVE persons out of six in the family
of Samuel Krump, well-known New York
printer, have died from diphtheria within
six days at Mr.. Krump's mansion in Mont
Clair. NJ. A defective sanitary arrange
ment threw fetid gases into the sleeping
apartments.
. THE steamer Natchez, while passing
Plaquamine, La, was the scene OF q trageo!
t in which one man was killed and another
e probably drowned. Thomas Cumming
e was stabbed six times by James Kelly, VIII
: plunged into the river to escape arrest ant
: was seen no more.
$ The Laredo stage was robbed by high
e waymen, sixteen miles south of San Antonio
on New Years night. The robbers secures
about $1,000 in cash, and 600 in ban
checks, which will do them no good. In
! mail bags were cut to pieces and the letter
. all opened. The passengers made no resist
y ance and were unframed.
!, THE Tennessee House organized o.
y the Sd by the election of w. B. Ramsay, he
!. publican -Greenbacker, for Speaker.
- STEPHEN JOY and Jacob Schoonmake
# lost their lives by falling walls at a fire :
" Kingston, n. Y.
n In Brooklyn, N. T., on the night
:. the Sd, James Walsh, aged 10, killed Bal
u bara Granthal, aged II, by stabbing her
:. the heart with q dirk, because she refuse
1t to marry him. He then attempted to drow
10 himself. but was fished out of the canal an
,r taken to a hospital.
t. CHIEF CALLS band of Uncapapa II
l. dians, numbering about 100, we're captures
re after short fight, by Major Ilges, and wi
m be taken to Fort Buford. One Indian WI
ne killed and two were wounded. The trool
re suffered no casualties. 1t is expected tn
OF Sitting Bull will surrender without al
fight.
A N1NE-YEAR-oLD girl, named WI
=, son, was frozen to death in Wayne Count
=. o., while on her way home alone fro
10 school one cold day recently.
=. SEVEN men, shoveling out q cut
h. the Nebraska Division of the Chicago,
m Paul & Omaha Railroad, near Oaklan
y Neb., we're run down by passenger ira
~ and six of them killed. Their nam
y. are Charles Meyer, Thomas Broughman,
70 H. Swanson, Gust. A. Herman, Ole Ande
on son and John Erickson. The seven'
~ named John Adellur. was badly injurt
he but will likely recover.
N. FLAr-BoAT containing eight froz
ed corpses was picked up by Governme
We ,.,,noh haturoon ReaufOrt and IL