The Iola register., 1881-09-16
PERSONAL AND G. xyERAL.

lilies, in the Cherokee Ma don. assembled at .
wedding recently, at W Aich an old feud was
revived, and the head of each family tool
part with knives and revolyers. Three were
slaughtered and Sc seral others injured.
IHE Saglna' Valley, Michigan, is
overrun with II rest fires, caused by the ex.
cessiVe drout Il Enormous damage has been
done 10 1arT IS and all kinds of farm proper.
~ stock' fc., in the neighborhood Of Wat.
rcusviiif Badaxe, Caro-, Vassar, Porter,
freeia I'd and Midland. At Vassar the in
nabn Auts all turned out to save the village
1ro a destruction. Travel on the Bay City &
Asinaw Railroad is entirely suspended.
The telegraph poles are burned down and
communication cut off.
HENRY LAWSON, colored, was hanged
at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the I'd. His Of
fense was an outrageous assault upon a
white woman.
WIN. WEBB, q prominent farmer OF
Pope County, Ark, living near Atkins, was
fatally injured by being struck on the head
with the limb of tree he had cut down.
THE verdict of the jury of inquest in
the Cramer case at New Haven, Conn, is
that Jennie E. Cramer came to her death by
poison and violence, and that James Malley.
Jr., is criminally responsible, and Walter E.
Malley and Blanche Douglass morally re-
sponsible for the same. The post-mortem
examination does not absolutely reveal the
cause or manner of death, but various por-
tions of the body contained traces of arsenic.
FRANZ SHALOSKY, Bohemian farm
er living near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was lit
orally torn to pieces by bull which he was
trying to lead. He became entangled in the
rope and the animal gored his head of, tore
his bowels out and limbs off. The bull was
shot six times before falling, and continued
running around field and through the
woods. He had one of the mans legs on
his horns when killed.
IMMENSE damage has been done by
brush fires in Ontario, Canada. The villages
of Nigo and Elmsdale are destroyed. In the
Upter Grove district twenty -seven families
were burned out, and in the vicinity of New
Lowell many barns and other buildings were
burned. Prayers for rain have been offered
in all the churches.
A FIRE at Tuscola, ILL.,, on the 5th,
destroyed the entire business portion of the
city west of the Illinois Central Railroad
track. The entire loss by the confagratiOn
is variously estimated at from $50, 900 to
500, 1000; the insurance is probably third
of that amount. The railroad tracks were
so badly twisted by the heat as to delay the
passage of trains for several hours. During
the excitement caused by the fire gang of
about fifty tramps began pillaging. The
militia company was called out and, armed
with revolvers and clubs, drove them from
the town.
By a railway collision at Charenton,
France, on the 9Th, nineteen passengers
were killed outright and twenty-five in
jured, some of them probably fatally.
THE census of India has been COM
pleted, and shows a population of 252,-
100000.
MORE rioting has occurred in Liner
ick, Ireland. The police fired upon the mob,
but without fatal result. The soldiers subse-
quently charged and dispersed the crowd,
who used stones and other missiles freely.
AT Sparta, Tenn, in a recent en-
counter, T. j. r. Swofford shot and killed
Eli Paul and severely wounded one of Paul's
sons. James Scott, brother-in-law of Swof-
ford, endeavored to separate the comba-
tants, and he too was killed by Swofford.
A GENERAL court-martial has been
ordered to convene at Fort Davis, Texas,
Sept. Is, for the trial Of Lieut.. Flipper,
charged with embezzling 81, 700 of Govern
melSt funds.
WILLIAM CASEY, who murdered Bur-
CESS James, wealthy planter, in Yell
County, Ark, in 1879, was tried and sem
fenced to be hanged, but escaped pending
proceedings for a new trial, has been re.
captured in Carroll County, where he has
been palming himself off as a Methodist
preacher and obtained no little fame as
pulpit orator. A reward of s., 900 was Of
fered for his apprehension.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has arrived in Lon
don. He declined to be interviewed.
The Chicago express on the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad ran into the Cumber-
land accommodation at Thornton Station,
about ia miles from Wheeling. w. Va, on
the afternoon of the 9Th, completely demol-
ishing the rear car of the local train and Sc.
riously scalding and otherwise injuring ten
or twelve passengers. Miss Nellie White,
the young daughter of eX-Attorney General
White, of Wheeling, died soon after from
her injuries, and several others were not ex-
pected to recover.
In Greenville County, Va, j. w.
Saunders, magistrate, attempted to arrest
Brown Davis, when the latter shot him, in
fiicting probably fatal wound. Saunders
then returned the fire, killing Davis in
stantly.
VEsUvIUs is in a state of eruption.
The residence of John A. Kimble,
in Saldier Canyon, near Stockton, Utah, was
destroyed by fire, caused by the explosion
of a coal.oil lamp. Mr.. Kimble's five chill
dren, whose ages ranged from two months
to three years, all perished in the flames.
The wife of, Senator w. B. Allison,
of Iowa, who is patient at Silver Lake
N. Y. water-cure establishment, during a
fit of temporary insanity, attempted to
drown herself. She was rescued.
THE Mark Lane Express gives an un-
favorable report of the British harvest.
THOMAS A. MARVIN, the bigamist
and forger, now confined in the Richmond