The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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for contempt Of Court, but ran cat, followed
BY two Deputy Sherifis, upon whom he fired
without effect. After . short chase hs
Twas captured and brought to the court.
room. He was accompanied by his father;
Champ Mullins, who was also intoxicated
John was ordered to jail BY Judge Brady.
When the jailer and the posse started with
John to the Jail the prisoner and his father
resisted, and scene ensued which beggars
description. The large crowd In the court.
room broke into the widest disorder; men
were knocked down, pistols drawn, guards
rushed in with shot-guns, and the rush fol
the doors and windows was tremendous.
The Mullinses and officers fought their way
out of the courtroom and down stairs into
the street. Judge Brady left the bench
and shouted: 81 call on every man in this
house TO help arrest these men, and will
assist myself" the men were overpowered,
and lodged in Jail, the jurymen were dis
charged, and the case continued till next
term.
HAMPTON, Franklin County, Iowa, is
much exercised over the discovery that the
late County Treasurer, S. C. Mckenzie, is a
defaulter to the amount of $500. The
Board Of Supervisors are investigating the
matter.
A BATTLE took place at Westport,
La. between j. w. Moore and party and .
mob of belligerents. The windows were
shot out of Moore's house, and three men
were killed.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at the
Hercules Powder Works. near Penola Sta
ton. CAL, killing two men, fatally wound
ing three, and dangerously injuring several
others. The explosion took place in the
mixing room, and seven buildings were
wrecked.
THE Missouri delegation in Congress
has abandoned the idea of consulting with
the Mississippi Valley Representatives in
regard to the appointment of special COM
mittee to consider the interest of the Missis-
sippi River. All bills relating to the same
have been referred to the Commerce Com
mittee.
CONGRESS has been invited to coop
crate in the celebration on April 8, at New
Orleans, of the 200th anniversary of the dis
covery of the mouth Of the Mississippi Riv-
er by Robert Cavalier de Ia Sale.
The Springer bill defining the law of
insanity in criminal cases provides that
no person indicted in United States Courts
shall be acquitted on the ground of insani-
ty, idiocy, lunacy, or other unsoundness of
mind, except upon proof that at the time of
committing the offense he was laboring I'M
der such defect Of reason as either not to
know the nature and quality of the act he
was doing or not to know that it was UNI
lawful or wrong. A morbid propensity to
commit prohibited acts existing in the mind
of the person who is not shown to have been
of knowing the unlawfulness or
wrongfulness Of such acts shall form no de-
tense for prosecution therefore.
SOME seventy operators have been
thrown out of work by the burning Of a
wool mill at Charlottesville, Va. The Adiron.
dack Springs House. Whitehall, N. Y,
burned. w. h. Collins, fireman, was
killed.
CHARLES REvELL was found dead in
a hut near Des Moines, Iowa, where he had
lived in hermit seclusion many years, very
poor. Entries in Bible show that he was
born in the Isle of Jersey, October 81, 1872;
raised near Gainesborough, Lincolnshire,
and left England in 1861. ..o
THos. MORGAN, of Covington, KY,
while delirious from smallpox, jumped
from second.story window and crushed
his skull.
A DISPATCH dated Yakima, w. T.,
18th, says Toma Hop Towne, an Indian, was
executed for the murder of Lorenzo D.
Perkins and his wife. The murder was
at Rattlesnake Creek, Yakima
County, during the raid in the summer of
1878. Seven Indians were engaged in the
murder. Three have been executed, three
have been shot while resisting the Sheriff
and endeavoring to escape Jail, and one re-
leased, having turned States evidence.
A LARGE portion of the Maltby mines,
near Wyoming, Pa, has been flooded. The
water gained such Roadway that it will
take several weeks to repair damages.
A CASE of either lynching or very
strange suicide has come to light near
Monroe County, N. Y. The
body of young man was found hanging by
, halter from the limb of tree. The man
had evidently been dead but a short time.
He was we'll dressed, and appeared to be
about 26 years old.
ONE seaman was drowned and two
others probably fatally burned while fight.
ing flames on the schooner Eugene, at
s. C.
THE mother and daughter Of John
Nebb, Newark IN. J.) saloon-keeper,
we're suffocated by slight fire.
THOMAS WATERS and Joseph New
ton, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, were overpowered
by foul air in coal mine. The former died;
The latter will not recover.
TOPL1FF, an old resident of Alama-
kee County, Iowa, committed suicide by
hanging. ass
A CHILD of j. B. Coles, residing near
East Liverpool, o., died from drinking con-
I've left within reach.
FRANK TAYLOR, of Napoleon, o., a
Wabash employee, was run down by
!. yard engine at Toledo, O., and instantly
killed.
FORTY.SEVENTH CONGRESS-.
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