The Iola register., 1881-02-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ANOTHER severe snow storm occurred
on the 31st, seriously impeding railroad
traffic throughout the Eastern, Northern
and Northwestern States.
LOUIS GRUMME, Chicago soap
manufacturer, was most determined SUI
eide, He first took poison, then opened the
veins of his wrist with pocket-knife, ana
finally hung himself. 1t is perhaps need
less TO add that he was dead when cut down.
He was about 35 years of age, unmarried,
and prosperous in his business, so that no
cause for the act can be assigned unless 1t
be insanity.
The propeller St. Adams, while en-
route from Milwaukee to LudingtOn, on the
Goth, was so badly injured by the ice that it
was found necessary to abandon her. The
TWENTY-FIVE persons on board took to the
boats, and after many hours of extreme hard
ship and peril succeeded in getting back TO
Milwaukee. There were several ladies'
among the passengers.
Two boys, named Rogers and Greer,
while coasting at Freedom, Pa, ran into
passing freight train and were so terribly
mangled that they can not recover
CONDUCTOR HALsEY and Fireman
Harding were killed, and Engineer Murphy
badly injured by railroad accident near
Gibsonville, n. c.
The business portion of Plymouth,
Washington County, N. c., was burned on
the night of the 3lst, caused by kerosene
explosion. Thirty-thr buildings, includ-
ing the Court house and Episcopal Church,
and 400 bales of cotton were destroyed.
Losses foot up $127 200, with but small in
surance.
AT Decatur, ILL.,, on the 1st, John A.
Hornstein, aged Sc. married to girl only
10 years old, attempted to beat his wife's
brains out with an iron kettle and then
stabbed her several times in the throat,
after which he committed suicide by shoot
ing himself twice through the head. The
il-assorted pair had never lived harmoni-
ously together, the husband being jealous OF
the wife, and for some time past they had
been separated.
THERE have been sixty cases OF
smallpox among the Canadian immigrants
in Union County, Dakota, one-half OF which
have terminated fatally. The Legislature
has authorized rigid quarantine.
THREE men in jail at Albuquerque,
n. NJ, charged with the murder OF Col.
| Charles Potter, some months ago, were
hanged by mob on the night of the 31st.
They were Escatastico Pera, Miguel Barrera
and "California Joe."
Mrs. STEHHEN u. LEWIS, of Helena,
! Ark. was burned to death by the explosion
of glass kerosene lamp. Her husband was
badly burned while trying to extinguish the
flames.
JOHANNA CALLAHAN and her son
William were burned to death in her dwell
ling at Dorchester, Mass.
THREE children of Rev. Manning
Hunter, colored, in Sumter County, S. c.,
were burned to death by lamp explosion
during the absence Of their parents.
MRS. GEORGE STONE and her daugh.
ter and son perished in the flames at the
burning Of a shop, at Union, Conn.
The mail stage between San Antonio
and El Paso, Texas, was robbed on the night
of the 1st. The mail-bags were ripped open
and relieved of their most valuable contents
FRANKTowN, Nevada, has been
swept away by the breaking of reservoir
dam. The inhabitants vacated their houses
in time to escape the coming flood.
The house of Tobias o. Chesner, a,
Audubon, Mimi, burned on the I'd, and
Mrs. Chesner and two children perished il
the flames. The fire was caused by kero
sene explosion.
ABE TwIGGs. colored, whose brother
was recently hanged for murder in Burrel
County, Ga, has been lynched, it is said b!
negroes, because he testified against hi
: brother.
The steam yacht Carrie, of Philadel
phia, exploded her boiler at Baltimore, kill
ing four men.
EIGHT Cinnamon engaged in cutting
timber fourteen miles from Santa Cruz, Cal.
were buried alive by landslide.
A SPECIAL from Fort Davis, Tex, Sd
, SAYS: State troops, 25 strong, commanded
by Col. Bayler and Lieut.. Nevill, surprised
and attacked strong band of Indians in tn
Sierra Diable, killing six and capturing thre
squaws. These are supposed to be tn
Indians who last fall attacked the Graham
party and recently captured stage ant
killed the driver, as clothing belonging t
both parties was found in their camp.
The boiler in steam Touring mil
at Kimmswick, Mo-, exploded on the 30
killing the two sons of Mr.. Smith, owner O
the mill, and another boy named Charlie
Boxer. The mill was demolished and sur
,, rounding buildings injured.
Two men were killed and several 9th
ers injured by the bursting of fiy-wheel
the Russian Mills, ut Niles, o.
3 The three Maclains and Hare, VIII
: murdered Constable Usher and settle
4 named James Kelly, in December, 1sa9,wer
hanged at New Westminster, B. c., on tn
1st.
FRANCIS A. DUR1vAGE, author an
l poet, is dead; age, 81.
: Ex-Gov. SCOTT, who shot and kille
r Warren G. Drury, drug-elerk, at Napoleon
O., last Christmas eve, has been found guilt
of murder in the second degree and release
l on bail.
n GEORGE SMITH and Catherine Mile
were hanged at WilliamspOrt, Pa, on th
Sd, for the murder of the latter's husband.
MICHAEL DAyITT has been arreste
for violation of his ticket-of-leave.