The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The investigation into the affairs Of
tho World Mutual Relief Association. Of
Lebanon, Pa, shows that during its exist.
ence Of ten months It issued policies repre-
sentihg about SIS, ooo, 200, and the officers
divided 50, 900 among themselves. The
business recently has been confined almost
exclusively to Western States.
TIE Missouri River closed at Sioux
City Dec. 18th. Ice gorged around the pile
bridge Of the Omaha road, and swept away
three hundred feet Of the structure An
express messenger crossed on the ice.
Dr.. s. r. PATTON, who mysteriously
disappeared from Ripon, Wis.,, leaving the
impression that he had drowned himself in
Green Lake, has been found 1t Mechanics
Vile, Md, doing thriving business under
the name of Harmon. The girl with whom
he is supposed to have eloped is said to be
in Canada. The wife whom Patton deserted
is still in Ripon with her family OF small
children. She recently sold her home.
stead, which was quite heavily incumbered
ut the time of her husbands departure.
A COMMITTEE of telegraph operators
have called . convention OF the brotherhood
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the first Monday
in March, to form an international organi.
cation.
In Sing Sing prison, New York, the
other morning, Daniel Cash was killed by
Angelo Cordeta. Not word was spoken,
and the cause of the crime is . mystery.
WILLIAM HOWARD, aged Is, hanged
himself in woodshed at Buffalo, N. Y. He
was an orphan and adopted son of Lawrence
Moore. The boy had complained that his
adopted parents ill-treated him and this is
believed to have been tho cause Of the sui
eide.
A SALOON kept by two Germans at
Palestine, Kosciusko County, Ind, was
blown up by dynamite by unknown persons.
This is the second building lost BY these
men in this way within the past three
months.
w. E. GRAHAM, who killed, robbed
and burned Philip Egley, at venango. Els
worth County, Kans., on the night of the
18th, was hanged by q mob in front Of the
Courthouse Jan. 2. W. C. Rose would
have met the same fate, but was taken from
the Jail and secured by the Sheriff during
the excitement.
GEORGE w. SHoEMAKER, ex-Chief of
Police of Terre Haute, Ind, committed sui
eide at the Spencer House, Indianapolis, by
taking morphine. p. N. kimbsll, proprie.
tor Of the Kimball House at Msquoketa,
Iowa, ended his existence on account of
business reverses.
Rev. E. A. CHAMBERLAIN, of East
Springfield, Erie County, Pa, dropped dead
in the Post-ofice at that place on the Sd.
THE Vine Street Opera-house, Cincin-
natl, has been destroyed by fire.
PETER VIEWERS, of Milwaukee, trav-
cling for German newspaper, was thrown
from his carriage at Whitewater, Wis.,, re-
ceiving injuries from which he died.
E. D. HOPKINS, an ex-minister, who
has figured in the criminal courts of Yer.
mont for five years past as an alleged de-
faulting insurance agent, was convicted of
larceny. Two convictions for forgeries were
already standing against him, and the &C.
emulation has driven him into the most vio-
lent insanity.
j. WINsLow, JONES & Co., packing
firm doing business in Portland. Me-, and
owning fifteen corn factories, five lobster
factories, and fourteen lobster and salmon
factories in the provinces, have failed for
$4,000.
The explosion of locomotive boiler
on the Savannah, Florida & Western Rail-
way caused the death of an engineer and
fireman.
w. T. Brock, a prominent attorney
Of Florence, Ala, was shot to death by j.
Edgar Byrd, saloon-keeper.
Two aged brothers, named Rose,
building in Buffalo, refusing all offers of
aid. They were the architects of the build.
ing in which they persisted.
TWELVE Jews were killed and sixty
three wounded in the recent riots at War
saw.
A.V1ENNA cablegram states that in
an encounter between six gendarmes and
sixty Krivoscians, four Of the former were
killed and horribly mutilated.
N. NJ. LOWRY, leading member of
the West Virginia Legislature, became in
volved in quarrel with colored servant In
. Washington hotel, and the attendant
knocked him down. The gentleman from
Virginia, after recovering himself, asked
satisfaction from the proprietors Of the ho-
tel, and one or two Of his friends took part
in the demand. The result was . general
melee, in which the legislator came out
much worsted, bleeding and SCARED.
The recent tragedy in Ashland, KY,
having excited intense indignation and
threats Of lynching, the steamer Mountain |
Girl was chartered to convey the prisoners
from Catlettsburg to Msysville. While |
making steam, the train from Ashland |
rolled in with about 500 determined regula- |
tors on board. The Sheriff, with guard Of |
ten men, by an adroit movement took the |
prisoners from the jail to the wharf. As soon |
- the crowd beheld the prisoners they |
started down the bank with loud yells Of in. |
dignation, gathering arms and missiles |
ready for an assault The Sheriff, seeing |
The mob descending, boarded the ferryboat |
with his party and turned her down stream. |
The mob took possession Of the Mountain |
Girl and commenced q determined chase.