The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

fixed bayonets, injuring several persons.
WIN. WHITE, q feeble Irishman, with
out home or friends, threw himself in front
Of train at Indianapolis on the 21st. The
engine knocked him aside, breaking his left
leg and arm, and inficting internal injuries
from which he died in few hours. He had
recently been discharged from the Insane
Asylum.
SAMUEL MAY & Co., Of Boston, Mass,
the largest iron house In the country, have
made an assignment to William F. Jones.
Ample assets are claimed, but the concern
owes $500, 900 or more.
HENRY HILGENMEYER, aged II, and
Ella wenning, aged 10, of Indianapolis, re.
Gently resolved to die together rather than
be parted. They bought some laudanum
and went to q German picnic. Toward
evening they drove to the neighborhood of
Greenwood, twelve miles distant, spread
the buggy robe in a fence corner. sat down
side by side, divided the drug into equal
portions, kissed and bid each other an eter.
nal farewell, swallowed the poison and
went to sleep. Late in the night the girl
awoke, and soon after her lover also was
aroused, both surprised and disappointed to
find that they were alive. They agreed to
wait until morning, when they walked three
miles and purchased another supply Of the
drug. Returning to the robe in the woods,
another eternal farewell was exchanged and
the boy and girl this time swallowed a
double dose. Henry's body was found OH
the 22d. Ella went home in a very forlorn
condition. Her appearance indicated that
she had been through terrible ordeal.
MRS. HIRAM WILLIAMS, of Young
Hickory, Ohio, was drowned in Lake Erie,
May q. She was visiting relatives in Cleve-
land, and her brother-in- law, named Ernst,
took her out fishing. The skiff capsized,
and Ernst was found clinging to the keel.
MRS. MARIA BRUCE, of Rappahan-
mock, Va, on the 22d, murdered ten-year.
old step daughter, beating her helpless and
unoffending victims head to jelly. After
committing this crime the wretched woman
bore the body to neighboring cabin, and
saturating the clothing with kerosene oil set
it on fire. The flames spread, however, and
attracted some neighbors, who saw the half
roasted body of the girl lying on the floor,
and caught the step-mother as she was
hurrying away.
JOHN T. JACKSON and Charles Sam
son, of Bedford, Ind, became engaged in a
quarrel over game of cards, May %, and
adjourned to settle the matter in a fight.
tally shot him before he arrived at the des-
ignated place. Samson escaped.
VIM. CALDWELL, of Waterloo Town
ship, Ind, aged 90, died the other day from
the effects of a rat-bite.
SIMON TUFFLE, IS years old, shot
and dangerously wounded Willie Cooke,
aged, IL, at San Antonio, Tex, on the 21st,
because Willie refused to surrender apeach
he was eating.
A DISPATCH from Eureka, New, says:
Fire broke out in the shaft of the Shoo-Fly
mine, Ruby Hill, May p. Four men were
below, and they: climbed out badly burned,
one probably fatally.
JOHN MCGEE, hard citizen, fatally
shot Hiram Knapp at St. Joseph, Mo-. the
other day, because Knapp called him a
worthless cur.
FIVE men who recently attempted to
destroy bridge on the Mexican National
Railroad were caught on the 21st and in.
stantly shot.
AT Bolton, Texas, the other day, a
hundred masked men took from Jail Sam
Hilton (white) and James Keys (colored)
and hanged them. Both were charged with
murderous assault on deputy.
HENRY PRoNGE, farmer living near
Washington Mills, Iowa, was watering his
horses the other night, when one of them
kicked out viciously, striking him in the
neck and killinSs1!m almost instantly. A
neck was broken.
THE Touring mill of Hanes & Porch,
Wiliamsport, Ind, was destroyed by ar
explosion of the boiler and seed stem.
spring, on the oath. The engineer was in
stantly killed. The main portion of the
boiler was thrown 200 yards.
SCOTT ROBERTS, a farmer, was
drowned while fishing in the Ohio Canal,
near Coalport, on the 23d.
G. w. FONDA, embezzling cashier
who stole several thous and dollars from thu
Constantine National Bank eighteen months
since. has been sentenced to five years. i'm
prisonment in the Detroit House of COrrec
ton.
AN attempt was made to wreck a
passenger train near Madison, Conn.,, Ma!
%. A number of ties were placed on thu
track and nailed down, and a disaster would
have occurred to the mail train from New
. York to Boston had not Station Agent Wa.
succeeded in signaling and stopping it. Th'
parties who DISTRACTED the track fire.
on Way while he was attempting to remove
the Instructions, wounding him slightly.
A TRAIN on the Grand Trunk Rail
way, with 1000 emigrants for Manitoba
crashed into freight train of sixty cars a
Montreal, Cam, the other day. Four bag
gage cars were thrown of the track ant
smashed. The passengers were badl
! knocked about, and received terrible bruises
The engineers and iremen escaped b.
, jumping off before the collision occurred
The locomotive Of the emigrant train and on
attached to the freight train behind wer
completely wrecked.
AT Columbia, Tenn, on the gath,
,, colored preacher named Cannon struck hi
wife on the head with an AK, laying her skul
wide open and scattering her brains owe
tho room. He then laid her babe on tn