The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
ON Christmas Day the village of Du-
rand, Wis.,, famous as the scene Of the
lynching of Ed Maxwell, was visited by q
terrible conaagration, which swept away
the entire business portion Of the place.
JOHN WELLS, on trial at Leaven-
worth, Klns., for the murder of John Wad-
del, his father lin law, has been found guilty
OF murder in the first degree. The law, &C.
oording to the verdict, imprisOns Wells fol
one year, and at the expiration Of that time
he can be hung, provided the Governor is
he remains in the Penitentiary, so the YER
dict is virtually life imprisonment.
HATTIE LLOYD, aged 16, eldest
daughter of Rev. VIM. A. Lloyd, OF
Ravenswood, Chicago suburb, attempted
suicide the other evening by shooting her
self in the breast with a revolver. 1t was
thought the course of the bullet had been
DETECTED by striking rib above the heart,
and thereby instant death ayerted. The
girls family say there was no known cause
for her rash act, but think she was tempo
rarily deranged, caused by falling down
stairs and hurting her head few days pre-
vious.
The Emperor Francis Joseph pro.
poses to erect charitable institution on the
site Of the burned Ring Theatre at Vienna.
SQUIRE CLARK, colored, was hanged
at Lexington, N. c., on the 23d, for the muir.
der Of Scott Cook, young man to whom
he was owing small sum Of money.
THE boiler in Taylor's mill, Toledo,
O., exploded on the 22d, killing the engi-
neer, Lewis Monnata.
GEORGE TRAVIS, Postmaster at
Waverly, Neb., in fit of insane jealousy,
stabbed his wife thrae times and then at.
tempted to take his own life. Mrs. Travis's
wounds were thought to be fatal, but his in.
juries are not serious.
VIM. V. BROWN, an assistant book
keeper in the Poughkeepsie IN. W National
Bank, has been arrested for completely in
the embezzlement so successfully carried
out by Teller Holloway. The latter is now
in an insane asylum.
STEWART, alias Brown, alias Davis,
said to be notorious train and bank rob-
Der, has been arrested at Houston, Texas,
several indictments for various offenses,
chief among which is the robbery Of Chi
cago & Alton train Of $4,000.
THE cost of mail transportation for
the year ending June 80, 1881, was SIS, $685.
$50; cost of star-route service for 1881 was
1885,, 355; decrease 4.97 per cent in cost
compared with amount expended in 1880.
The appropriation for the year ending June
80, 1882, is $7.9OO,OOO, being S94a,647, or
1866 per cent in excess of the cost
of this service for 1881. 1t is
thought that the estimate for star
service can be safely placed at $780, 900, a
decrease Of $65O,OOO from the appropriation
for 1882, and $242, 645 more than the rate of
expenditure June 80. In this estimate pro-
vision is made for new service that may be
petitioned for and established after exam.
ination looking to the requirements Of the
sections interested and postal facilities now
furnished. Had no orders been made re-
ducing star service there would have been
needed at the rate of the past increase about
$1,000, 900 for 1882.
The latest reports from Lima repre-
sent the whole interior of the country as
broken up into local factions or political
parties. Montero has not reached Lima,
but continues to exercise unlimited author.
ity on his own account in Gaia
marica. In the south various. en-.
counters have taken place between political
factions, in which the Pierolists were gen.
orally vanquished. Meanwhile the Chilians
can do nothing to secure peace, and are ap-
parently bent upon complete conquest of
the country.
THE three men who wrecked a freight
tain on the Iron Mountain Railroad near
Traskwood, Ark, have been arrested. It's
believed there was plot to rob the south
bound passenger train, after throwing it off
the track, but the miscreants miscalculated
the time of the passage Of the train and
caught the freight instead.
A DESPERATE encounter is reported
to have taken place in the northwestern part
of Clay County, Texas, near the Little
Wichita, between party Of freighters and
a gang Of desperadoes, in which the former
had Albert Boiand and George Armstrong
(colored cook) killed and Peter Ethridge
wounded. Their horses were taken and
wagons burned. The desperadoes had one
man wounded, but how badly is not known.
In an overcoat left by the wounded man was
found a cipher letter from Captain Payne,
dated at Hunnewell, Kans., Dec. IS. 1t will
probably lead to establishing his identity.
Mr.. j. w. GIBBONS and wife, who
reside near Ashland, KY, went visiting the
other night, leaving daughter, fourteen
years, Miss Emma Thomas, seventeen years
old, and son, Robert Gibbons, at the Glib
bons homestead. During the night villains
came to the house and horribly maltreated
the girls, after which they saturated their
clothing with oil, set the house on fire, and
killed young Robert Gibbons, who was at
to give an alarm. All three of the
dead had their heads split open with a
Ratchet. There was no clue to the murder
ers. One thousand dollars reward is offered
for their capture. The Gibbons house was
burned to ashes.
EDWARD HOPPE, German resident of
College Point, Long Island, on Christmas
morning put two bullets through his wife's