The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-20

| and besides the men engulfed took in all
the mine machinery, including four boilers,
falling distance of 100 or 200 feet. Il was
thought the recovery of the bodies would
require week or more. $3.50
! AT Muncie, Ind, recently, Chas. Rhoades,
aged Is, and Beach Tinsley, aged 35, started
into the country, carrying can Of Her
cules powder. Half a mile frsn the city
the powder exploded, instantly killing
Rhoades, tearing him to atoms. Tinsley
was thought to be fatally injured.
HELEN NJ. COUGAR, editor Of Our Herald
Lafayette, Ind, and public lecturer on
woman's suffrage, was recently awarded
s., 900 by the jury in her suit against Henry
/. Mandler, Chief of Police of Lafayette,
\ for libel and slanderous words spoken OF
plaintiff by defendant. The defendant
pleaded justification. In the trial before
Judge Gould, of Delhi Circuit, the fight was
a bitter one, lasting eleven weeks, and was
given wide publicity.
| A YOUNG Indian of fifteen died on the
west bound Fl. Wayne train, near Valpa.
raise, Ind, the other day. He was a son OF
the celebrated Indian Chief, Red Cloud,
and was ON his way to join his tribe from
Carlisle, Pa, where he had been at school.
JOHN GREEN, an employee of the Tele'
phone Company in st. Joseph, Mo-, fell
from the top of pole fifty feet high, the
other morning, and died in fifteen minutes.
His uncle, brakeman on the Kansas City,
st. Joseph & Council Bluffs Road, was run
| over and killed at Hamburg, Ia, the day
| before. ~ t2-a
| :, A. G. MowBRAY's Touring mill, at Stock
ton, Mimi, burned recently. Loss, $4,000;
partially insured.
The three-story stone grist mill owned by
A. McCuIlum, at Sandwich, Ills, burned
recently. Loss, $4,000; insured for $1,000.
THE burning of the Continental Oil and
Transportation Company's works the other
night in Denver, Colo, was one of the most
destructive fires in the history of the city.
Four hundred thousand gallons of oil and
extensive tanlSage buildings burned; prob
ably incendiary; loss, 500, 600, fully COW
cred by insurance. The gas and steam
heating works were threatened, but were
saved. ~. 81.
BY the explosion of boiler in basket
factory at Milwaukee, Wis, William
Paarka was killed.
The body Of Fred Wagner, brother of the
deceased palace car man, a native
of New York, and for whom an extended
search was made last fall, was found by
emigrants recently on the bank of creek,
eight miles from Powers Station, Colorado,
ON the Santa Fe Railroad. The body was
terribly disfigured. Considerable money
was found scattered about. A plain gold
ring, with the inscription, "a. B. to F.
W., Feb. L, 1884," was found near, also
business card of Frederick Wagner, sue
cessor to J. Bummiller, New York. A bull
let hole in the neck proves conclusively
that he was murdered for the large amount
of money supposed to be carried on his per-
son. -
ADIsPATcH from Tombstone, Ariz., tells of
adesperate fghtin the Swissbelm mountains
between the hostile Indians and party of
Americans. Two of the latter were killed.
Two Apaches were wounded and several
more killed. The Indians were armed with
Government rifles and were undoubtedly
from San Carlos. g..
Two boilers in Hitchcock & Bradley's
shaft and pole works, at Ashtabula, Ohio,
exploded recently, demolishing the build
ing, a three-story brick, also wrecking Nc
Cures carriage works adjoining, and kill.
ing Charles Grubham, night Waterman.
PACKER, the Colorado cannibal and MUIR
derer, who was on trial at Lake City for
the murder of five companions, was found
guilty.
The Denver g. New Orleans Railway has
brought suit in the United States Court of
Colorado against the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway for the sum of 81 ,0OO, 900
damages, sustained since last May by the
latter's refusal to exchange business with
the former, in accordance with the decision
of Judge Hallett, recently rendered.
CHARLES SMITH, a well to do farmer resid-
ing near Earlville, Iowa, went to his barn
the other morning where two sons, aged
nine and thirteen, were engaged at work,
and killed them with an axe. Returning
to his house, with the same weapon he
killed his wife as she stood by the stove
preparing breakfast. He then attempted
t slay his two daughters, aged eight and
twelve, the only remaining members of the
family, but they succeeded in reaching a
neighbours house and gave the alarm. When
they returned it was found that Smith had
killed himself by cutting bis throat with a
butcher knife. The cause was supposed to
be loss of property and financial embar-
rassment which unsettled his mind.
THE smallpox which broke out in the
southern part of the city of st. Louis some
time ago seems to be spreading to other
parts of the city, but the authorities are
taking rigorous measures to suppress it,
and no serious apprehensions were felt.
About sixty cases had altogether reported
from the district where it first appeared,
and about twenty from other parts of the
city. Meantime vaccination was going on
thoroughly.
As THE Sheriff of Dade County, Mo-, was
recently taking Chris. Dalton, a convicted
horse thief, to the Penitentiary, the convict
jumped from the car while the train was
under full Roadway, and as he was chained
tohis seat he only dropped outside the win
dow. The Sheriff, with the aid of some
passengers, pulled him back in the car.
Dalton was not aware he was fastened to
his seat by trace chain, hence his effort
for freedom through the window was frus-
trated, very much to his surprise.
A SENSATION was caused at the Scheller
trial in Milwaukee the other morning by
the testimony Of Linehan, Chief Engineer
in the Newhall House at the time of the
fire, who said he had been approached
by j. c. Mckinney, attorney for Scheller,
and a saloon keeper named Ad. Roth, who
asked him to swear that the fire was caused
by gas jet in the bottom of the elevator
shaft, as the testimony would clear the ac-
cused. 1t was shown that Scheller's debts
were over 81 600, and proved that he at
tempted to borrow 500 from DR.. Croker
before the fire.