The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-10-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

6000VNA0 AMI W0N6RA0o
GEN. JOSEPH c. ABBOTT, ex-United
States Senator, died 1t Wilmington, N. c.,
on the 9th.
THE burning of the Fourth Avenue
Horse-car Company's stables and . large
warehouse adjoining, in New York City, In
volved loss Of about s, 600, 900. Some 200
horses persisted in the flames. In the ware.
house was stored large amount Of furni-
ture and other valuable property belonging
to various wealthy families. Among the
property destroyed was one painting just
imported by Vanderbilt. valued at $4,000.
BARON Won HAYMERLE, the Austro-
Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs,
died suddenly of heart disease.
MRS. COOPER and child were suffo
Gated during fire at Oswego, N. Y.
THE italian brigantine Armenian,
bound from Barcelona to Marseilles, was
sunk by an explosion of kerosene, and eight
persons were drowned.
SERIOUS riots have occurred at the
villages Of Ballyragget and Atheny in Ire
land, and several persons were seriously in
jured by collisions between the police and
the people.
THE trial of sixteen persons, chiefly
workmen, has commenced at Leipzig for
treason against the Constitution and in
fringement Of the Socialist law by smug-
Cling into the barracks and otherwise dis
seminating revolutionary writings, includ-
ing the Socialist journal. the Freipost.
WASHINGTON BUTCHERS Sons, the
oldest wholesale provision house in Phila-
delphia, has been forced into liquidation,
owing to recent heavy losses in grain specu-
lations. The house was established In 1760
and has ever since been conducted by the
Butcher family.
FoxHALL, Keene's American three
year-old, won the Cesarewitch stakes at New
market, England. The odds against him
previous to the race were 9 to g Keene's
winnings are reported to be half million
dollars.
C. w. FONDA, Cashier of the Farmers
National Bank, Constantine, Mich, is de.
faulter to large amount and has fled.
. A RUNAWAY train on the Republican
Valley extension of the Burlington & Mis-
souri, Railroad collided with fiat car con-
tanning forty-five laborers, at Table Rock,
Pawnee County, Neb., killing three OF the
men instantly and injuring several others
severely. ,s-
A FEUD between Thomas Devereaux,
Chief of the New Orleans Police Detectives,
and Mike Hennessy, an assistant detective,
on the 21st in shooting affray
in which DevereauX was killed and Hennes
sy badly wounded. Hennessy began the
and Devereaux fired in self-de-
tense. It is alleged that Dave Hennessy,
brother Of Mixes, took part in the fight and
shot Devereaux through the back of the
head.
GEORGE 81. HOGAN, mail agent on the
Gold Dust, has been arrested at
charged with robbing registered
letters. He has confessed his guilt.
AT Philadelphia, on the night of the
18th, fire broke out in the mill of Charles
Randolph Street and Column
Dia Avenue, and the flames spread so rapid
y that the night operatives, forty-five in
number, had to Jump from the windows to
save themselves. Eleven deaths are report
I'd, and many Of the injured can not recover.
Most of the employees were girls.
Col. EDWIN P. MORGAN, Exon
gresham, died at Aurora, n. Y, on the
18th.
HENRY B. WHITE, Secretary of the
shoe and Leather Insurance Company, Bos-
on, is defaulter to the extent Of 5000
md has fled. Stock speculations.
THREE masked men entered the house |
II Allan Fairbank, in Wayne Township, Du-
page County, ILL.,, the other night, bound |
md gagged the inmates and robbed the
premises of cash, Government bonds and |
,ther securities to the value of several |
thousand dollars. They got of safely with |
heir booty.
FRENCH troops have entered the city
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