The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-03-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BY DR.. Sims, nephew Of Quantrell. of wa
notoriety. Sims, who Is . newcomer, NAT
received several anonymous notes addressed
to Bill Quantrell, ordering him to leave o.
take the consequences. He heard Tayiol
had reported that he wrote them himself, II
create sensation, and demanded that Tay'
lor should print IN the Rscieao retractiol
4 and apology. Taylor would neither retrac
nor apologize, and Sims used shotgun.
The lower packing house of the Lake
Superior Powder Company's mills, neal
Marquette, Mich, exploded on the 9Th
Herman Eckstone, Charles d. Hatch, Nc
Donald. and Peter Doyle were killed. TIT
building contained about a ton and half o.
powder, and nothing remains to show where
it stood.
SOME time ago the entire family Of
Geo. Cass, consisting Of father, mother and
eight children, residing near Tampico, How.
ard County, Ind, were suddenly taken
sick, and the symptoms indicated arsenical
poison. The other day the smallest child
died, and the Coroner was summoned to
hold an inquest over the body. There are
only slight chances for any of the family to
recover. A chemical analysis Of the well Of
water on the Cass place and the dead child's
stomach will be made.
JOSEPH B. WARNER, aged IA, q
| nephew of Captain Williams. of the New
York City Police, applied for admission to
St. Luke's Hospital, the other day, saying
he had shot himself. He was received, and
it was found that bullet had lodged just
below the heart, making fatal wound. The
boy refused to give any information about
himself or to tell why he took his life. In
his possession were found three cards of
merit, signed by the superintendent and
secretary of the Sunday-schoof of the First
Baptist Church at Greenpoint, L. l., and q
handkerchief on which was written with
lead pencil farewell message to his mother.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, was startled by
a report that resembled the shock of an
earthquake, on the 9Th, and the fact that
many buildings in the northern part Of the
town were visibly shaken gave rise to the
belief that something of the kind had occur
red. It was caused by an explosion at gas
house in the suburbs. The news spead like
wildfire, and thousands Of people flocked to
the scene. A large brick building, in which
the machinery stood, was riddled and torn
as If dozen batteries of artillery had bonn
barded it. No one was seriously hurl.
SWEET & Co., Boston bankers, have
suspended. The liabilities amount to be-
tween $1,000, 900 and 81 ,0OO, 900.
A CHESAPEAKE & Ohio passenger
train was thrown from the track by a large
bowlder, near Clifton Narrows, w. Va,
March 9Th. Thomas Smith, the engineer,
was killed, and the fireman was fatally in
jured. The engine and baggage-car rolled
into the Kanawha River.
4 The American Powder Company's
Works at Sudbury, Mass, blew up, March
sth. Frank Wilson was seriously injured.
JOHN O. MASSEY and wife, an aged
couple residing near Charlottesville, Va,
were murdered by robbers, March 8th.
AT Berlin, Bracken County, KY, the
other day, Mrs. Thomas O'Neal committed
suicide by taking morphine. She first cut
her throat and then took the powder. She
had been in delicate health for several years
and was laboring under temporary insanity
at the time.
A GERMAN named Otto Harder COM
mitted suicide at St. Joseph, Mo-, the other
day, by shooting himself in the heart. He
was formerly book keeper of the Bismarck
Bank and other German societies of Chicago,
and was about 60 years Of age. He was
buried in Potter's field.
THE farm house of John Taylor, near
Meadow Lea, Manitoba, was burned down
during a recent storm. His wife and three
daughters were frozen to death, not being
able to find shelter of any kind. Mr.. Taylor
was also severely frozen. Miss Reid, who
was visiting the Taylor family, barely es-
capped with her life.
THE City of Mexico has been visited
by storm which demolished market and
killed several people.
ABOUT thousand strikers paraded
the streets of Omaha, Neb., March Sth, with
banners and music, and then proceeded to
the B. & NJ. track, where seventy five i'm.
ported laborers were grading, under strong
guard of special police. A rush was made
and the laborers and police driven from the
grounds. A good deal of clubbing was
done. but no one was seriously injured.
TROOPS have been dispatched from
Poplar Creek Agency to rescue from their
Indian captors Sheriff Healy and his depu-
ties, of Choteau County, Montana.
The residence of Joseph Mellen, Nor
walk, Ohio, was destroyed by fire early on
the morning of the 9Th. The inmates were
aroused, but the flames spread with incon.
ceivable rapidity. Two young men were in.
jured by jumping from the second story.
Miss Mary Nagle, IS years Of age, persisted
in the flames. Her body was recovered.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
A TRAIN went through a trestlework
on the Knoxville & Ohio Railway, March
It'll. Eight men were injured.
CHARLES SHELTON, John Redmond,
and Harry French were taken from Jail at
Los Lunas, N. Mex, March Sth, and hanged
to trees by masked men. Shelton murdered
Foreman Woodruff last fall. Redmond
killed James McDermott last January at
Galley's, on the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
way. French, alias Simpson, was one of
the band of desperadoes who killed Deputy
Sheriff Jones at Cranes. The mob also
look two negroes from Jail, beat them un-