The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-24
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

/ PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
CHARLES bowers, German black
smith, Fred Douglass cook, and SUD
contractor of the Sunset Railway, nance
Allen Murdoch, were murdered for money
!. while asleep near Lampasas, Texas, few
nights ago. Ian three were shot in the bach
of the head.
JOEL A. DIX, wholesale fish and pro
visions, and 81. o. Kenyon & Co., grafr
commission firm, Of Chicago, have failed.
AT Osnaburgh, Stark County, Ohio
Feb, "A, a telegraph operator named Leon
ard Murphy was killed by blow IN the
chest from companion, Daniel Rice' Will
whom he was boxing.
A DISPATCH from Grand Haven,
Mich. dated Feb. IA, says the iron steamer
Wisconsin struck the end of the north piel
a she was entering the harbOr, knocking q
hole in the vessel twelve feet abaft the stem,
on the port side, twenty feet long and five
feet wide. She had 1 ZOO tons of freight on
board. The steamers bulkhead at once
filed with water, and she was able to get up
only to the head of the river by the side Of
the pier.
JOHN MUNDAY died at Rogers Hotel,
St. Paul, MIMI, Feb. 18th, from an over.
dose of hydrate of choral administered by
himself. He was until recently an orderly
at Gen. Terry's headquarters, but was dis
| charged from that position on account of
excessive drinking.
WOOD HIGHT, cousin of the famous
hnu IN ho
14th, heavily handcuffed and manacled, and
was locked up in the County Jail with great
secrecy by officials from Clay and Jackson
Counties. Hight was arrested near Cross
Plains, Tenn, upon warrants sworn out in
Missouri charging him with being one Of the
parties who robbed the Chicago & Alton ex-
press train in the cut near Glendale last
September.
The fall of a scaffolding at Carrolton
Market, New Orleans. Feb. IA. killed two
workmen, named Zebeck and Keelmegg.
A NEGRO named Smeal, living on
billiards. plantation, Guerney County, Ca,
was visited by mob the other night, who
whipped him until he acknowledged horse
stealing and then hanged him to tree.
The ship Glenmorag arrived in New
York on the 18th with thirteen survivors of
the Bahama disaster, who were found toss
ing about in an open boat. They abandon ed
the Bahama while it was sinking, with
twenty persons on board.
The Coroner's jury investigating the
fire in the old World building, New York
City, found that the fire originated from a
defective flue; censured Potter and his EN-.
ployees for negecting to apply for proper
permit for repairs, and the carpenter for
not giving the alarm of fire promptly, and
commended McDaggert, fireman, and
Charles Wright (colored), bootblack, for
bravery In saving life.
A GERMAN gardener named Schapp
was arrested in Columbus, o., the other
day for stealing food from his neighbors.
When he told his pitiful story of q starving
family he was released. A visit to his home
revealed most deplorable state of affairs.
His wife, confined to bed with a newborn
child, was a raving maniac, and three small
children lowered about her crying for
bread.
THOMAS DALTON, an Irish laborer, of
New York City, died recently from hydro
phobia. He was bitten by dog in Novem-
Der last, receiving slight wounds on the left
arm and hand. The dog was killed, al
though there was no indication that it was
mad. The wounds inflicted by the animal
soon healed, and Dalton suffered no trouble
from them until the 10th, when he was at.
tackled by numbness and violent pains in
his arm. During the night and until his
death he continued to suffer intensely. His
throat was parched, and, although he was
constantly afflicted with a burning thirst,
the sight of water threw him into convul.
sions. He had neglected to have the wounds
on his arm and hand cauterized.
REVENUE officers raided an illicit dis
tillery near Franklin, Macon County, N. c.,
on the 18th, making two arrests. Jesse
Estes and Noah Wilson were left to guard
the still, while Ray and Birch marched the
prisoners to Jail. During the night Estes
was killed by a bullet from the woods, and
Wilson managed to escape by crawling
through the bushes on his hands and knees.
A RECENT dispatch from Akron, O.,
reports collision on the Valley Railway,re-
sulting in the death of q brakeman named
John johnson and serious injuries to three
other persons.
JOHN LANAHAN, farmer of Sibley,
Iowa, was murdered few nights ago while
standing on his own hearthstone. Maggie.
his oldest daughter, has not only confessed
that she did the shooting, but duplicates
her mother, her sister Anna, and the latter's
lover, . young man named Birch. The girl
testified that it had been agreed between
them some time ago to "put the old man
out of the way" at the earliest opportunity.
Birch furnished the pistol, and when her
father came home from . farmers club
meeting and was about to sit down she
stepped up behind him and fred, kill
ng him instantly. She then arranged the
body so as to make It appear that some one
had shot him through the window, while
Anna went out and broke the glass. Mag
gle says Birch wanted to marry Anna and
her father refused. He also did not pro-
vide well for them. Birch at one time lived
with the family, and was driven from the
house by Lanahan, who suspected him of
criminal intimacy with his wife and daugh.
ter.