The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-27
Personal AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
TIE residence of George C. Smith. q
miner, Lewis Station, Henry County, No.,
caught fire on The night Of the 18th. Before
the occupants were awakened the house was
completely wrapped in flames. and Mrs.
Smith, Elizabeth, Rachel, Ella. and Theo-
dore were burned to death. Mr.. Smith was
badly injured in heroic efforts to save his
family. Hattie Matthew'S, young visitor,
barely escaped.
The new turnpike bridge spanning
Rolling Fork, near Lebanon, KY, was I'M
dermined by freshet and fell while six men
were working on it Aloysius Hayden was
instantly killed, John Black had An arm
broken, and man named Mattingly was
severely cut on the head. James Wathen
leaped into the water, distance Of sixty
feet, and swan out unhurt. E. Perkins
was severely wounded aud suffered concus-
sion of the brain, causing delirium. Joseph
Shively had an arm broken.
JAMES r. WILMoTT, farmer living
near Lancaster, Garrard County, KY, killed
his wife, mother and two grown daughters
with an AK and then hanged himself. After
cutting his mothers throat, he went into an
adjoining room where his two daughters,
aged 81 and Il, were sleeping. The younger
was killed by blow on the back of the neck,
nearly severing the head from the body.
The elder girl had her throatcut in the same
place that he had cut his mothers. His wife
got up and met him coming into the room,
ak in hand. She caught hold Of him and In
the struggle she was cut in several places
once in the back, once in the side OF the
head, and once in the throat. Death with
her was almost instantaneous.
A SEATTLE Nv. T.) dispatch says:
James Sullivan and VIM. Howard, arrested
for the murder of Geo. R. Reynolds, were
taken before q magistrate for preliminary
and the evidence of their guilt
was so conclusive the Committee OF Safety
forced their way into the courtroom, took
the prisoners short distance, and hanged
them. A crowd numbering four hundred
then proceeded to the County Jail and,
the guards and breaking down
the doors of a cell, took out Benjamin Payne,
confined for the murder of Police Officer
Sears, and strung him up with the others.
Ex-Gov. BULLOCK dropped dead on
the sidewalk in Worcester, Mass, 18th.
Apoplexy.
BUSINESS difficulties between VIM. B.
Simmons and his son-in-law, Albert
Branson, of Hornitos, Mariposs County,
CAL, were settled with a revolver in the
hands of the former, who killed the latter
and then committed suicide.
A. A. COIN, recently in the service of
the Alaska Commercial Company, took his
life with pistol in San Francisco. He was
short in his accounts, and gave notes which
it is presumed he could not meet
w. T. LITTLE had a difficulty with a
negro named Milus Matthews in saloon at
La. Little got shotgun land
killed his adversary.
COWBOYS rode into Long Pine, Sioux
County, Neb., and took possession of the
town. They shot out the lamps in the sa-
looms, riddled the windows, fixtures and
walls, and terrorized the inhabitants by
firing fully thousand shots.
w. C. FITzsIMMoNs & Co., proprie
tors Of the Peoples Bank Of Tecumseh,
Mich, have made an assignment to E. B.
Wood. The matter creates great surprise.
is in Central America, where
be went last October in the interest of Van.
derbilt's railroad scheme.
G. STERNoNI, an Italian merchant of
Va, has been sentenced to
twenty lashes at the public whipping post
for receiving and selling stolen tobacco.
T. H. MARSHALL, time-keeper for
freight handlers at the Louisville & Nash
Vile Depot, Louisville, KY, has been ar
rested for conspiring with $50 others to de-
fraud the company by keeping false record
Of time.
Mrs. WIN. BARLOW, a former resi-
dent of Cincinnati, committed suicide at
o., cutting her throat. Tempo
rary insanity is supposed to have been the