The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

1T Is eStlm0CeQ Ln3C not less IMAM lou per.
sons have been killed by the recent lorna.
does in Kansas, Missouri. Iowa, Nebraska,
Dakota and Minnesota, and that the total
amount Of property destroyed will exceed
>. 5OO, 200.
A RECENT dispatch from Mount Sterling
KY, says: The freshet in Beaver Creek
flooded the town Of Frenchburg. The water
Was six to eight feet deep in the streets and
houses. Three dwellings were swept away
and six of the inmates drowned. Their
names are Mrs. John Fox, Mrs. Byrne and
two grown daughters and two daughters of
Preacher Watkins. The flood covered the
eatfre valley and swept away all the fences
and crops. The Post Office at Frenchburg,
with all letters and papers, was carried
away and lost.
Ross BURNS, one of the ablest lawyers in
Kansas, who held the position of solicitor
for the Santa Fe Railroad for number of
years, and until paralysis compelled him to
stop all work, died at Topeka June %. Mr..
Burns distinguished himself at the battle of
Westport during the celebrated Price raid
of 1854.
AT Cincinnati, on the early morning of
the 18th, Henry L. Cole, lawyer, shot his
wife Sarah, and his daughter Nellie Jagged
49,, and then took his own life. The three
comprised the entire family. The tragedy
was not discovered until noon, when, the
house remaining unopened, q policeman
vas called and effected forcible entrance.
Mr. Cole and wife were found in the same
bed, the wife with bullet hole in her left
temple, and Mr.. Cole with one in the right
eye. The revolver was still in his hand.
Ills daughter Nellie was lying on lounge
In an adjoining room, with bullet hole in
the back of her head. Friends say they knew
Of no family trouble to cause this tragedy.
but Mr.. Cole has been observed to talk
wildly for the past two or three months, and
come now recall that he has said that when
his family died they would all die together.
THERE is still great restitution in Patrick
County, Va, nearly half the population
being forced to depend upon charity fol
food. All the corn and other provisions are
exhausted, and there are not five bushels Of
grain in the hands of any one except the
Distributing Committee. Harvest will soon
commence and relief will come with it.
A FEARFUL accident occurred on the Cen.
trail New Jersey Railroad on the morning Of
June 9th, by which the express train leav.
ing Long Branch at sos was thrown from
the bridge that spans branch Of the Shrews-
bury River, near Little Silver Station. The
care kept on the bridge until the train was
half way across, when four passenger
ceaches and q smoking car went over
into the water with . terrible crash,
The train was filed with prominent bust.
ness men of New York and other cities, and
their families, including ex-President Grant
Five passengers were killed and all the
Others more or less injured, quito number
thought to be fatally. Gen. Grant va,
taken from the wreck slightly injured. VIM.
B. Garrison, son of Commodore Gar
Tjson was among the killed, also e. d.
Bradley, g. w. Demorest, Chas. NJ Wood.
run and James e. Mallory, prominent
Business men Of New York. The accident
was the result Of carelessness in not properly
spikine frog at the switch while changing
the track for another train.
AT St Joseph, Mo-, Henry Lotschen, late
Of Lincoln, Neb., fell into vat Of boiling
water ut the glucose works and was scalded
70 death.
JOHN PARRISH, Of Lancaster, Pa, lately
committed suicide by taking morphine.
Cause, domestic troubles.
JOHN MILLRRs chief engineer of the
steamer City of New York, Of the Morgan
line, has been arrested upon the charge Of
kicking Patrick Whaler, his fireman, t.
death.
DIR. L. PERCY, Of Granville, Miss, re.
Gently committed suicide by poison at Eu.
reka, Springs, Ark, because his niece, Miss
Pace, who accompanied him, was q con.
armed invalid and gave no promise of re.
eovery.
THos. KINNEY, of Hutchins, Texas, ad'
ministered morphine through mistake fol
auinine to his two children. and both
died.
THOMAS A. TAYLOR, Of Connorsville, Ind,
Was found dead in his room at the Pacific