The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

ELEANOR and May, aged eighteen and
twenty, daughters of Lewis d. Vail, oil
Philadelphia, were drowned recently
while bathing at Ocean Grove, N. j.
THE conductor of an excursion train
from Scranton to Mountain Park, Pa, re-
Gently put John Kerrigan, aged nineteen,
with no ticket, off while the train was
going at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
Kerrigan fell under the wheels and was
killed instantly.
POSTMASTER WALSH, of Janvier, n. j.,
was arrested upon the charge of embezzling
postal funds.
THE New England States are afflicted
with a disastrous drouth. Crops badly
damaged.
THE Massachusetts Greenback State Com
mittee has issued call for State Con-
vention, to be held in Boston, September
18th.
THOMAS Brown, JR., a member of the
New York Democratic State Committee
has directed his attorneys to bring suit
against the New York Times for libel.
Damages claimed, $4,000.
THE WEST.
DIR. B. NEWELL, a physician of high
standing in Chicago, recently committed
suicide. Cause: Ill-health and financial
reverses.
A LATE hail storm did 100000 damage to
the crops of Rock County, Wis, and $3O,-
900 damage in the vicinity of Jerseyville,
Illinois.
A. A. ATHERToN, County Treasurer of
Roscommon County, Mich, has absconded
with $4,000.
THERE was an accident on the Panhandle
road the other morning atSteubenville, o.,
near Mingo Junction, within one hundred
yards of the great disaster of 1878. An
'east-bound freight, ten minutes late, col
lided with the Cincinnati express and
passenger train, on time. Both engines
and one postal carwere wrecked. Engineer
Chas. Woolf, of Dennison, o., and Clerks
VIM. NJ. Naoman and John b. Hoyt, both
of indianapolis, were injured, Hoyt fatally.
A DUEL was recently fought near Van
dalia, H., between Louis Phillips and
Jacob Rosenbrook, two young men of
Fayette County. Rosenbrook was killed
instantly and Phillips died soon after, both
being shot in the mouth. The affair had
its Origin in grudge of long standing,
growing out of disrespectful remarks by
Phillips concerning Rosenbrook's sister.
A CONDUCTOR on the Chicago & Alton
Railroad recently had private detective
arrested for following him about, and a
Chicago Justice fined the "spotter" so.
JACOB OLDENBARGER and Jacob Bush
had a law suit recently in a Justice court
at indianapolis, Ind, which was decided
in the latter's favor. Meeting Bush on the
street soon after Oldenbarger drew pistol
and fired, killing Bush instantly. Turning
from Bush, he shot Samuel Campbell, who
was passing at the time, probably fatally.
He then crossed the street, and putting the
pistol to his own head shot himself dead.
JOHN A. HEINE, who was wanted at
Brookfeld, Mo-, for burglary and safe rob-
berry, was recently caught at Baltimore,
while exchanging United States for Ger
man money, and about to take passage on
the steamer Strassburg for Bremen.
THE body of Miss Patterson who drowned
herself at the Stock-yards bridge at Kan
sas City, recently, was found few days
after the drowning floating upon the water
near the mouth of the Kansas River.
A FLY-wHEEL recently burst in the Col
lier White Lead Works of st. Louis, kill
ing one man and damaging the works
$1,000.
THE Democratic State Convention at
Omaha, Neb., nominated Hon. j. w. Saw
age for Justice of the Supreme Court, and
for Regents of the State University, DIR. d.
r. Daniels, G. w. johnson and Hon. j. NJ.
Woolworth.
W. A. TAYLOR, correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Ne,rS-,Journdl, and H. w. j. Elliott,
editor of the Sunday Capital, had an en-
counter on the streets of Columbus, Ohio,
recently. It was thought the affair would
grow into one of more serious consequences.
AT Rock Greek, Colo, the other day, Ed
ward Nottingham and William Maddigan
quarreled, but were parted before any.
thing serious resulted. The next morning
Maddigan appeared at Nottingham's
room, and on entering asked if he was
prepared for him, pulled revolver and
fired. The ball entered Nottingham's leg.
They clinched and desperate struggle en-
sued, during which Nottingham succeeded
in drawing a revolver and, placing it at
Maddigan's side, fired twice, killing Mad
digan instantly. Both were rivals for the
affections of young lady. ..H
THE Lowville, n. ", chair factory burned
recently. Loss $4,000.
ID. ]. mcknight, about eighty years old,
formerly a well known steamboat captain
of the Western rivers, but for some years
past a merchant at Lebanon, H., suicided
recently by shooting in the head. He said
he had lived long enough.
A FARMER near Springfield, No., named
Robert Alternately, recently lost AS bushels
of wheat by a fire.
THE railway postoffice service on the
North Pacific Railroad, which has been
ordered between Missoula and Helena,
Montana, and just gone into effect, will
make continuance of the railroad post
office service via Northern Pacific Railroad
from st. Paul to Portland, a distance of 800
miles.
A DISASTROUS fire recently fell upon
Petersburg, Ills, it being the third within
a year. The principal square was burned.
The loss was estimated at $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000. The principal losers were:
Pagan & Adams, drugs; the Press news.
newspaper; Miss Frank, milliner; Ham
mond & Parker, dry goods; Barrett & Son,
dry goods; Edwards & Ware, drugs; Citi-
zens' State Bank; T. e. Hammond & Son,
dry goods; Bellmeyer & Young, hardware;
Moses Frank, dry goods, and H. c. Gordon,
jewelry.
JOHN COIL, a convict in the penitentiary
at Chester, His, who was working as a
stone cutter, the other day deliberately cut
of several of his fingers with Ratchet to
avoid the work he was put at
SYLVESTER F. FULLER, the runaway CASH
Ter of the Second National Bank of Jeffer-
son, o., and II. L. st. John, his assistant,
were arrested at Cleveland, on a charge of