The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PEkSONAL AND 6ENEkALs
TIE most extensive conhagratior
known In Atlantis, Ga, since tho burning o.
the city during the war occurred on January
21st. It is said to have originated In Franz
Blocks bakery, corner Of Alabama :nd
Pryor streets. A strong wind was blowing
and for three hours the fire ragged with thu
greatest fury and threatened to destroy the
| entire business portion Of South Atlanta
The total loss Is estimated ut $300, 900. John
o. Wickham, of Richmond, Va, wa,
burned to death in his room at the Windsor
Hotel.
The National Board of Health has
declared smallpox epidemic In the United
States, and directed the inspectors OF several
of the NEST important quarantine stations t.
see that the regulations Of the Board are
properly enforced.
GOVERNOR MURRAY's message to the
Territorial Legislature Of Utah says that 'sin
no sense is sovereignty Of the church over a
State in the Union with constitution and
laws; that political power Is welded by
church authority throughout Utah; that the
officers of the church exercise authority in
temporal affairs; that the sovereignty of the
church is supreme and its practices are fol-.
lowed. the laws and courts Of the United
States to the contrary.
IA CONCESSION has been granted to
the Mexican Southern Railway for colonial
ton along its routes. The Government pays
$35 per Individual and $40 per family. Not
less than 500 families must be settled during
the first five and 1900 the first ten years.
Three-fifths of the colonized must be Euro.
peans. The company is negotiating to pur-
case the Tehuacan Railroad.
A. j. WAGNER, on trial ct Kansas
City for killing Norman Bander, has been
sentenced to eleven years. Imprisonment,
the jury finding verdict of murder in the
second degree.
Two young skaters, Willie Burchfield
and David Gardner, broke through the ice
and were drowned in the Ohio Canal, near
Coshocton, on the I'D. o.
HUGH SCOTT, son of DR.. James T.
Scott, of Greentown, Howard County, Ind,
was found drowned in Wildcat Creek, near
his home. He was nineteen years of age
and demented. He left home the other day
to 60 to neighbours, and the supposition is
that he attempted to cross the creek on the
ice and broke through. g.
A SHOCKING ARRAY occurred at John
Cavagnero's saloon in Comanche, Calaveras
County, CAL, on the 21st, in which one man
was MORALLY wounded and several others re-
ceived serious injuries. r. T. Pope, T. A.
Pope, Charles Brannock and one Wermoth,
excited by liquor, engaged in fight which
the destruction of windows,
tables, chairs and glasses. The proprietor
induced them to leave, but Brannock sub
re- entered the place with shot
gun and discharged its contents into Cavag-
nero's neck and head with fatal effect.
Michael Fox received a charge of shot in
the face and one of the Popes bullet in his
head.
H. A. LITTLE, guest at the St.
George Hotel, Dallas, Texas, walked up to
he desk about midnight, on the 2lst, and
handed F. Parker, the clerk, package to
deposit in the safe. Parker stepped to the
safe, when Little sprang at him with drawn
pistol, saying, ''Throw up your hands and
say nothing" and attempted to rob the
safe. Parker called for the porter to help
him, and wrested the pistol from Little and
fred, shooting him through the body with
fatal effect.
A PASSENGER train dashed into some
freight cars standing on the track at Mineral
Point, Cambria County, Pa, on the 23d.
The engine crushed through the caboose,
wrecking cattle-car Immediately in front
)f it. Several trainmen were injured. but
none seriously.
The jury trying the Ashland murder
srs, at Catlettsburg, KY, have returned
verdict Of guilty in the case Of Neal.
ELIJAH WILLIAMS fatally stabbed a
negro named John Bell, in a quarrel at
Miss, the other day. Williams
DR.. MoELLER, q travelling dentist,
Was fatally shot by Constable Alfred d. Gee,
It Washington, Texas, the other night.
FRED. MEYERS, farmer, living near
Fort Wayne, Ind, fell from the top Of q
cad of hay which he was bringing to mar
ket, the other day, and was 50 badly injured
hat death resulted in q few hours. He
caves a wife and several children.
MRS. ANGELINA STEEN, aged SO
years, was burned to death in Harrison
Fayette County, Ohio, the other
afternoon. She was subject to spasms, and
It is supposed she fell into the FIRE place
during q 6t and was unable to extricate
herself.
SAMUEL WATSON, q farmer residing
near Bloomfield, Nelson County, KY, COM
nitted suicide by shooting on the 2sd. He
was kicked in the head recently by . mule,
which caused mental arrangement.
FOUR HUNDRED shoe-lasters at Roches-
er, n. Y, quit work by order Of the ANAL
yamated Relief Union on the 9th. They
lsk 25 to Is per cent. advance In some in
stances, and their strike throws 1000 ma
thine operatives out of work.