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

demic form in New York City. For the
week ended Dec. "a, eighty-two deaths oc-
CURED from the disease.
HASKELL, HARRIS & Co., private
bankers ut Hillsboro, ILL.,, have suspended,
with liabilities Of about $115, 900 and availa.
BILE assets of probably less than half that
amount. The concern was an old estab-
lished one, Of good repute, but seems to
have been run for years with little or no
capital.
Two men charged with murder, rob-
berry and arson have been lynched in South
ampton County, Va.
The steamer Paris C. Brown exploded
her main steam.pipe when eighteen miles
above Arkansas City, on the 26th, scalding
thirteen persons, two very badly. Several
rousters jumped overheard, and three are
missing, supposed to be drowned. Only
one passenger was slightly injured.
JOHN EDMONDs, an old and respected
citizen of Paramount, Leavenworth County,
Hans, died from the carelessness Of young
physician. DR.. Coffin, who administered
powdered opium by mistake for powdered
rhubarb.
In attempting to cross the Kanawha
at Charleston, W. Va, Peter Herring and
his two sons were drowned.
Ar Fort Concho, Texas, on the Goth,
a street shooting affray occurred between q
gambler and bartender, in which both
emptied their revolvers regardless Of the
passers.by. Mr.. John Pendleton, we'll
known citizen, hearing the shooting, came
to his door and looked out, when one of the
flying bullets struck him in the breast,
piercing his heart and causing instant
death.
TWELVE prisoners escaped from the
Shreveport Ua.) Jail on the night of the
9th, by making breach through the iron
cage and then piercing the brick wall Of the
Jail. Three of the escaped prisoners were
under sentence Of death for murder, two Of
them to be hanged on the 30th. 1t was be-
lieved they would he recaptured.
MRS. NJ. F. KAPPEGE, of New Orleans,
gave her four ear-old boy a pistol to play
with, at the same time showing him how to
aim it. The child pointed the pistol at his
mother, it was in some way discharged, and
Mrs. Kappege fell to the floor dead, the
bullet having pierced her brain. or course
she ''did not know it was loaded"
A sANGUlNARY encounter is reported
from Round Oak, Jones County, Ga. A
young farmer named Jack VIM. Gray inter-
fered with a negro dance and was fatally
stabbed by three negro brothers, Bob, Henry
and AK Jackson. Gray fired into the broth.
ers, killing all three, one dying on the spot,
one before reaching the door, and the other
few hours later. Gray crawled out of the
house and died on the steps.
A TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from
Bellefont, Ala, small station on the NJ. g.
C. Railroad, forty -four miles from Chatta-
nooga, resulting in the probably fatal shoot
ing of w. D. Martin, his son John, and C.
NJ. Fennel. They are the only merchants in
the place, and the difficulty originated
through jealousy.
IT is reported that Col. L. M. Bell,
residing in Ashley County, Ark, near the
Louisiana line. has been hung by mob. 1t
is alleged that Bell habitually abused his
wife, an esiimable woman, and that on
Christmas she died victim of his cruelty.
Her death aroused the neighborhood, and
the sequel was the lynching of her husband.
The capture and execution of Chief
Arzate, long terror of Presidio Del Norte
and vicinity, and thirty Of his band, near
Chihuahua, Mexico, is confirmed.
AT Biddeford, Me-, on the 29th, Lean
Moore, a young man, shot and killed his
affianced, Miss Belle Cushman, and then
put bullet through his own head. Moore
was clerk in Boston store, at home on
holiday visit. Miss Cushman was school,
teacher. Each was about twenty zone years
of age. Their families are highly respecta-
BILE. 1t is supposed jealousy was the cause
of the tragedy.