The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-05-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

latter were preparing for their return the
burglars drew two revolvers each and or
dered them to throw up their hands.
then leaped into the officers carriage and
drove of.
CAPTAIN JACK, of the White River
Utes, recently imprisoned at Fort Wassakie,
Wyo., made q dash for liberty the other
day, killing Sergt. Richard Casey, of the
I Third Cavalry. A mountain how;tzer
transported the noble chief to the happy
hunting grounds. Jack was leader In the
Thornburg and Neeker massacres, and was
| . very bad man.
An attache of weekly journal in
New Orleans was called to account by the
SON of Attorney General Egan for an abu.
sive article, few days ago. Shots were ex.
changed in st. Bernard Parish, without eff
feet.
THREE masked men broke into the
house of Mrs. j. Stump, near Greensburg,
Pa, on the 1st. Mrs. Stump and her
daughters were bound and gagged; one was
strung up to the rafters in order to extort
information Is to where their money was
secreted, and another was brutally beaten,
but all refused to give the information. The
burglars got about $500 and escaped.
A CHURCH in Dover, N. H., was near
ly destroyed by FIRE on the morning of the
I'd, and at night number Of persons were
crushed beneath its falling walls. The crash
of falling brick and timbers, with the first
shrek of the victims, were heard q great
distance, and hundreds of citizens ran to
their assistance. Within an hour four limp
and almost lifeless forms were taken from
the debris and removed to their homes,
while excited citizens continued the search
for missing relatives and friends. Judge j.
r. varney. editor Of the local paper, was
killed. Mrs. Whitney, Stewart Clifford, J.
81. Burleigh. and jerome Bennedot were
probably fatally injured, and others were
missing. l
EDGAR CHIrTENDEN, son of Dr. Chit
tenden, of Anderson, Ind, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by man named
RYAN, the defeated candidate for Town
Marshal, May 2. The cause Of the shooting
was Chittenden's hurrahing for the success.
full candidate. Three shots were fired. Ry-
an was arrested.
ELLEN GoFF, an old woman who
lived in a shanty near the water tower in
Cleveland, O., was found dead in bed the
other afternoon, her body horribly mutilated
by rats. The ears were partially eaten of,
the side of one hand had been nibbled to the
bone, the eyelids were entirely gone, and the
flesh had been devoured from the forehead
by the voracious vermin. leaving q spectacle
in its ghastliness. The coroner
decided upon epilepsy As the cause Of death.
THREE persons were killed and many
injured ny the explosion of gunpowder
factory at Bilboa, Spain, on the I'd.
w. G.. KRUGER, who recently OBJ
tanned patent for . fying-machine, and
had become penniless in making further ex-
periments, put bullet through his brain in
New York the other day, after breaking up
his models.
ALFRED DRAKE, 16 years old, q pu-
pill in the Public School at st. Paul, Mimi,
cherisheda boyish attachment for fellow.
pupil named Jennie Faulkner. The girls
parents lately interfered to check the init.
macy. The boy sought an interview with
the girl on the Sd, to urge secret marriage
and elopement. When she refused he be-
came frantic and fired three shots at her
with revolver, one Of which made flesh
wound in her shoulder. The shooting oc.
Cured on the sidewalk, and the girl ran in
to the house. The boy ran down the street
q short distance, and then put the revolver
to his head, killing himself instantly.
ALBERT SoLEsKI, of Milwaukee, Wis,
went out with his intended bride the other
day to invite friends to the wedding, which
was to occur shortly. He left the girl with
a friend until he went to invite others. He
was not seen afterward until the Sd, when
he was found dying by the roadside Is miles
from town. He had $50 when he disap-
peared, and had evidently been robbed.
WHILE Hugh Rapp, well-known
gambler, was purchasing ticket in the
Union Depot at Leadville, Colo, May 3,
much attention, slipped quietly up to the
window and threw bottle of vitriol in his
face, making her escape in carriage watt
ing at the door. The unfortunate Rspp,
who was fine-looking fellow, suffered the
most excrutiating torture before relief
could reach him, and it is not unlikely he
will pass the rest of his days with one Of his
eye-sockets empty and other dis6guring
marks about his face. He fears the woman,
and says he will not prosecute her.
NINE inmates of q boarding house
kept by Mary Robinson, in Pittsburg, Pa,
were poisoned on the Sd, some of whom
can not recover. Nelson Fry, boarder,
purchased poison and gave it to Julia Wat
kins, domestic, with instructions to mix
it in the dough. The girl was arrested, but
Fry managed to escape.
THE Duke of Manchester and party
are on American soil. The leader says his |
purpose is to proceed to Manitoba and pur-
chase large tract Of land, to be retailed to
farmers on easy terms. He might make an
investment on the American side il the land
were offered cheap.
The white outlaws of Arizona are
by Presidential proclamation to
dispense, after which regular troops will be |
used to quiet the cowboy.
An emigrant train on the Santa Fe
Road, while side-tracked at Glorieta, N. |
Mex, the other day, was raided by three |
who secured from the passen- |
gers about $500 in money and goods. The |
leader of the gang was formerly night |
uatchman at Tamv