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

| OF IL years. Wllle hODlnsOn, Win II. In
boy was killed instantly. Newton had bot
legs and an arm broken, and died shortl
afterward. The others escaped with som
| bruises.
WHILE train on the Denver & Ri,
Grande Railroad, loaded with excursionist
from Boston and New York, was rounding
curve near Canyon City, few days ago, fiv
cars jumped the track, injuring fifteen per
sons, L. X. Kinyson. of Batavia, n. T., be
ing the greatest sufferer.
A BUNDLE of straw at Eau Claire
Wis, was ignited by sparks from steam
boat, the other day. Next large quantit
Of kerosene took fire, and within an hou
almost the entire business portion of tn
West Side was in ashes. The loss is esti
mated at 500, 200.
AT Georgetown, O., April "a, vii
liam Stull, discharged laborer, fired si1
bullets into the head of his employers wife
claiming that she had caused his dismissal
Escaping to the woods, he was pursued b!
Sheriff's posse, but refused to surrender
and fatally shot himself in the head.
THE bridge across the Los Angeles
on the Texas-Mexican Railway, 12O mile.
from Corpus Christi, burned . few nights
| since, intercepting traffic both ways. A
special train was dispatched from Corpus
Christi to free the train from Laredo for thu
purpose Of making transfer of passengers
and mails. On the return of the special
when within twenty miles of Corpus Christi
near Banquete, the locomotive Jumped the
track, seriously wounding Engineer Parson.
and the fireman.
Gus ROSENBERG, q Louisville (Ky.)
policeman, shot and killed A. T. Fielder,
with whom he had quarrel growing out OF
previous arrest. After few words
Fielder struck Rosenberg, who then at
tempted to arrest him. Fielder broke
away, ran into his house, and the officer
started for help. He had gone but short
distance when he discovered Fielder at his
heels with a Ratchet. The officer ran into
the middle of the street, followed by his as
sailant, and then turned and fired two
shots, one Of which passed through Fielder's
head, killing him instantly. Fielder, before
the war, was a prominent river man. He
owned the steamer Diana, and had other
property to the value of 100000. In 1861 he
was shot in the head, the effects of which
caused partial loss of reason. He from this
cause began wild speculations, and soon lost
all his property. Rosenberg gave himself
up, and was admitted to bail.
j. D. ROGER, of Rome, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, committed suicide BY shoot
ing himself through the heart with pistol,
April "a. Financial troubles are assigned Us
the cause of the act.
CALsEA, Secretary to Gen. Pacheco,
Mexican Minister of Public Works, was
shot and instantly killed by Gen. Alvarardo,
of the Mexican army, the other day. Alvar.
rardo is under arrest and will be tried by
court.martial. Calsea was very popular,
and achieved great fame for bravery during
the war in Mexico.
AUSTIN WOODS lost his life by inter-
fering in quarrel between a man and his
wife, in Liberty, Va, the other day. Mr..
and Mrs. John Hendricks were at variance,
and just as the peace-maker appeared the
irate husband was about to knock his wife
down. Woods rushed in to save her, where
upon the woman turned upon him, saying
it was no business Of his, and that they
could settle their own quarrels, and Hem
bricks picked up an Ak and crushed in his
skull, inflicting a wound from which he died
in few minutes. The murderer was ar
rested.
The American Forestry Congress has
been organized at Cincinnati to encourage
the planting and protection of trees. Hon.
George B. Loring, Commissioner of Agri-
culture, was chosen President, and D. D.
Thompson. of Cincinnati, Secretary.
In the Jennie Cramer murder trial at
New Haven, Conn.,, State Attorney Doolit-
tie informed the court that he would prove
that as the result Of q conspiracy the victim
was outraged at the house OF Edward NAL
ley, and that her protestations led to her be.
ing killed with poison and thrown into the
water at Savin Rock.
A DISPATCH from Atlanta, Ca, says
two carloads of convicts stopped at water
station on the Cherokee Road, on the 18th.
The convicts were chained together, and a
number Of them. thinking that they were
expected to get of, stepped to the ground,
while the others remained on the cars, which
moved on, dragging the men on the ground
several hundred feet by their chains, beat.
ing their bodies against the cross.ties and
iron. Six were terribly injured and are not
expected to live. The management is loudly
censured for inhumanity in not Enchanting
the unfortunates.
An express train on the Cincinnati
Southern, going fifteen miles per hour, was
derailed by . misplaced switch at Lexing-
ton, Ohio, April &c. David Driscoll, the en-
gineer, was killed and the fireman slightly
scalded.
ROsELIA ROsEBIRCHER, aged Is, liv-
ing in Newport, KY, went into commissions,
q few nights since, and died, to all appear
ance, before medical attendance could be
Next day the girl, rigid and
cold, was cofined, and twenty -four hours
later some one touching the body was
startled to find warmth in it, and saw the
eyelids twitching. The family physician
was summoned and he observed an I'M
wonted freshness Of color, and tried restor.
atives but did not meet with immediate
success. The burial, which was to have
taken place on the 18th, was postponed, and
. corps of surgeons from the Cincinnati
Hospital examined the body with view to