The Iola register., 1882-05-26
PERSONAL, Ind, GENERAL.

mitted suicide. Mr.. Bieber had been 1esl'
Gus Tor some time, not without cause.
Two masked men robbed stage Al
Black Hin, Texas, the other night. -.
s-DAH AeAsz.LkN, ansnp1oyee sofa the
Grant smelter, Leadville, Colo, met with
most horrible death on the 18th. He wa
engaged in dumping the Stag ore that had
been smelted, when he made Q misstep and
was pIecipitated . distance s@ 'twenty feei
into the molten mass below. As the man
fell he gave one piercing yell, that chilled
the blood of those who heard 1t. He wal
pulled out % soon a. possible, and present.
ed most horrible appearance; the meta
had burned the thick leather suit oil, and ir
many places the flesh fell from the bones.
He retained consciousness for more thar
twenty minutes, and then, under the influ-
ence of strong anesthetics, dropped of into
slumber which viii doubtless prove hii
last. ?. sf srr
A AD1sRArcHf from Minneapolis, Mimi,
says . number of students of the State Uni.
versity were out on . spree the other night,
and being followed by some Of the faculty,
who proposed to capture and discipline
them, started to run. Asa Paine was pur.
sued BY Professors Moore and Pike, and
finding he was likely to be caught he turned
and displayed revolver, whereupon Prof.
Pike drew pistol and fired, the short tax
ing effect in Paine's thigh, making pain.
full but not dangerous wound. Warrants
were Issued for the arrest of Professors
Pike and Moore, charging the former with
intent to do great bodily harm, and the lat
ter with assault and battery.
b" A BROKEN axle ditched a construc-
tion train on the Northern Pacific, near
Minneapolis, Minn., May 10. W. s. Tur-
ner, brakeman. of Stevens Point, q man
named Morris, of Racine, and another
named Lawrence were instantly killed, and
it is feared others missing are under the
wreck. The bodies of Turner and Morris
were taken to the Junction, with number
of seriously wounded whose names could
not be secured. ~. ..At .Erl-r
SEVEN hundred miners at Salineville,
Ohio, are out on strike for the restoration
of the ten cents ton cut of few weeks
ago. The mines are owned mostly in
Cleveland. >. H. .tb' 'tha-N' > -tEkr
JOHN CRETzELo, George Orswald,
George c. Knoll and Otto Gibson, of Chica-
go, went fishing few days ago and did not
return. After protracted search one of
the boats was found capsized at the upper
end of the lake, and the body Of Cretzelo,
entangled in the trotting line, was reeov-
cred.
DIR. H. r. PALMER's International
Normal Music School begins June 26, at
Meadville, Pa, and continues four weeks.
THE appearance of large quantities of
counterfeit silver dollars throughout Wis
consin has led the authorities to believe that
. regularly organized gang Of counterfeiters
are at work. This belief is strengthened by
q report from Crawford, to the effect that
another batch Of bogus coin has been dis
covered there.
A YOUNG daughter of Samuel Foster,
living at West Alexandria, Pa, attempted
to start fire by pouring oil on it from q
can the other day. It exploded, setting
fire to her clothes and burning her face and
person. She will die.
WHILE undergoing treatment at a
bathing establishment in Orchard, Iowa, the
other day, Alexander Ball fell into fire and
was fatally burned.
JOSEPH LEDwITH, young brakeman
on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, is under
arrest for killing tramp who was stealing q
ride near Sag Bridge, ILL.,, recently.
A BRAKEMAN named Phillip Nc
Laughlin was killed by cars at Ahrapee Sta
tion, Wis, on the 18th.
DANIEL SToCKER, an old resident of
Ravenna, O., committed suicide, May II, by
cutting his throat with a razor.
ROBERT BRECKENRIDGE went on q
spree in Springfield, KY, the other day, and
was robbed Of . pocket.book containing SIS
in money and 500 worth Of notes. Next
morning his body was found hanging to a
tree in the suburbs. ----- e..
ISAAC GARDNER and his three daugh-
tiers were drowned while attempting to ford
the Tuscarawas River at Newcomerstown,
O., on the 18th. -'
The steamer Rio Grande, from Gal
weston, Texas, arrived of the Delaware
Breakwater with a cargo of cotton on fire,
May II. The captain decided to sink her.
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A. c. RENAUDIN, q Frenchman, aged
twenty-five, entered the Protestant Episco-
pal Church of the Annunciation, New York
City, on the 18th. drew pistol from his
pocket and deliberately shot himself.
WHILE racing with the steamer Jay
Cooke, of Kelly Island, on the 18th, the
steamer American Eagle exploded her steam
drum with terrific force. Part Of her cabin
and hurricane deck were carried away, and
the boat caught fre, which was extinguished
without much damage. Two persons-F.
Battle, fireman, and Frank Walters. porter
were fatally and the engineer and four
passengers seriously injured. The unfor-
tunate passengers are Mr.. Gilbert, of San
du sky, and John Lutts and Mrs. Lutts and
daughter of Middle Bass Island. The boats
are rival passenger steamers plying between
Sandusky and Detroit: - t-'. , &C.
TIE widow of Charles o. Rogers, of
the Journal, of Boston, Mass, married an
English clergyman named William Cum.
ming. She then had fortune Of $500, 900,
nearly half Of which she conveyed to her
new husband. His drunken and lewd con-
duct has forced her into the courts as an
applicant for divorce.
WHILE the widow of James Quigley
was fling her account a. administrator in