The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-11
Bet io-severa, hundred people severely,

Oct io-severai hundred people severely
many fatally, injured by collapse OF platform o
GU ncy, H.. Nearly sixty persons killed and
over forty others seriously injured in railroad
wreck near Penn Haven, Pa. -. Several persons
fatally injured in railroad collision near Mas
silon, o. 81
Oct "a wagon-.oad Of seven people STRUCK
by locomotive on railroad crossing near Hoop
er, Neb.. three being instantly killed and two
fatally hurt.
Nov Five men killed and a number OF 9TH
ers injured by explosion of boiler OF threshine
machine near Reading, Pa
Nov 3-Fffteen persons killed and others in
jured in mine explosion near Lock Haven. Pa.
Nov. 9-Nearly fifty lives lost in burning
steam gauge and lantern works at Rochester,
n. Y....E ghty lives lost by explosion in coal
mine near Pittsburr, Kan.
Nov. I0-Four persons fatally burned by
after-damp mine explosion near Boston, Pa.
-. Man, wife and daughter perish in burning
Nov. ia crazy woman named Berthune,
at Pittsburg, Kan, and her four children per-
ish in their burning dwelling which she had SET
on fire.
and killed on railway bridge at Circleville, o.
-. Seven men killed in railroad collision at
Valley Falls. w. Va.
Nov. 2o-Forty passengers injured, many
seriously, in railroad accident near Harrison,
o.. House of Jack Grigg, Bowling Green.
KY, destroyed by fire and all the family Give
persons), except Gregg, who was absent from
Nov. 23-Two little children of Carl Woeb-
beking, near Waterloo, Ia, suffocated TO death
in burning dwelling
at Cochran Ind Three men killed by boiler
explosion at CentervIlle, Pa, and George Pal
mer and his 10-year old daughter killed by
powder explosion at Scrufftown, Pa.
per mine at Calumet, Mich. -. -Four men killed
and several others dangerously injured by dy-
Mantle explosion near Lex ngton, Ky.
Dec five men horribly, three fatally,
burned by molten steel from an overturned
ladle in Pittsburgh. Pa 49,. Three colcred chill
dren. locked up at home. perish in burning
dwelling near Lexington. Ga.
Dec. 5-ConGuctor and three other men
fatally hurt in railroad collision near Youngs-
town, O...-Lake navigation closed; during
the year Is boats were lost, valued at S39, 404,
lives lost, against 1l6 the previous year.
Dec i0-F'lour dust exploded in an oatmeal
mill in Chicago. destroying that and adjoining
buildings and killing three men.
Dec. l3-Three men lost their lives in burn
ing mattress factory at Prov dedee, r. i.
Dec. 1i-Four men killed by the falling Of a
trestle at Stevens Point, Wis.
Dec ia mother and two children rerish in
burning dwelling near Huntington, w. Va.
Dec. 2l-Engineer killed and two men fatally
injured by boiler explosion at Frankfort. Ind.
Two I ersons persisted in burning hotel at
Missoula, Nj. 7.
Dec. a2-Three nitro-glycerine magazines
at Buchanan Hollow. Pa, blew up. killing two
men and doing great damage to properly.
Dec. g3-Mississippi steamer Kate Adams
burned near Commerce, Miss: 25 lives lost
Dec. 24-Four men killed by boiler explosion
al Boulder, CAL. Mrs. Priestly and grand
daughter burned to death in house at Forest
CITY Pa, Seven lives lostin burning steamer
at Alki Point, W. I.
Dec s5-Over 25 persons persisted in burning
or steamer John ii. Hanna at PlaQuemine, La.
CRIME.
Jan. 6-Burglars in Cumberland Mills, No.,
beat Mrs. Stock so that she died.
Jan. "A man named Murray, Sioux Falls,
D. T., fatally shot his wife ami then himself. 90.
At New Orleans n. L. Edwards fatally shot his
wife and another man. At Camden, N. j.,
Isaac Merrick shot and killed his young daugh-
ter and then himself.
Jan. 1l-A man IN Beauford, Co.. S. c., threw
his wife into fire and she was fatally burned.
Jan. 16-A Swede near Princeton, MIMI,
killed his wife and seven children.
JAN 1S-In Pike Co, ky., the Hatfield gang
shot and killed Mrs. Mccoy and her two eldest
children, and burned TO death her husband and
two youngest children. =. Frank Touckner,
South Brooklyn. n. Y, killed his wife and then
hImself. 80 James Grinder, Rochester, n. Y,
fatally beat mis- wife with Ratchet and then
killed himself.
Jan 2I-In a prize fight at Fort Hamilton, L.
L, Tom White struck Billy Dempsey in the
stomach, and the latter died in a few minutes
Jan. s7-Three negro prisoners shot TO death
ny hdShcu mtu al tly u1Ouli, N. u.
Feb. ga ten-year-old colored boy near Long
View, Ga, made drunk by party Of men,
killed three of his brotherin-law's children -.
A colored farmer near Macon, Ca, murdered
killed himself.
Feb Near Stewartsyille, NO., VIM Ball
shot young woman who refused to marry him.
and then killed himself
Feb. S-A. J. Smell. prominent citizen Of Chi
cago, murdered in his residence by burglars.
Feb. "a farmer named Janarschek, near
New Prague, MIMI. in quarrel over money.
k lied his wife, his daughter and then himself
Feb. l0-John Butte,y, Merchandising, Ind.
shot his STEP sister, with whom he was in love-
her afianced and then killed himself.
Feb. l4-At Berlin, Wis, II. W. Hacker. in a
fit Of jealousy kiled his sweetheart and then
himself -. At Altoona, Pa, Chester Evev while
drunk. killed l'-year-old daughter and then
himself
Feb. $50. p. Truett, York, Pa, shot his
wife and then killed himself: cause. jealousy.
Feb. 23-Express car robbed by masked men
in Arizona.
Feb. aS-Because OF land suit decided in their
Camp, Tex, was set on fire by whites, and five
OF them shot and killed as they sought to es-
cape, one ether severely wounded, two burned
to death in the cabin and one other was caught
and hanged to a tree.
Mar. 14-Near Polo, Ill, Samuel Whitmeyer
fatally shot George Abr ght and sister, and then
himself, because the young lady rejected him.
Mar. I'D. n. Warren, Benton, Me-, under
arrest for numbering his wife, when taken into
the presence OF his two daughters fatally shot
them both and then killed himself
Mar. IA Ma Mason and wife. near Ithaca,
n. v, murdered by farm hand.
Mar. 30-J. L. Gillespie and wife, Chillicotbe,
Mo-, fought with knives and fatally wounded
each other. -. Near bingham, ILL.,, Henry Lane
killed his wife and then himself.
Apr. l0-Fve men killed in fight between
railroad employees and strikers at Cumberland
Gap, Tenn.
killed his vile and then drowned himself.
Apr 21-Whlle in a frenzy a man named
Likins, Cabool, Mo, X. lied his little boy and
girl and then himself Fred Held, LIE Mars.
la, killed his mother n quarrel about land.
Apr. 23-At Cooper. Tex, II. F. Boydston shot
his tiancee and then himself because of post
ponement OF their marriage by the young lady.
Apr. 24-James Smalley, L cking. Mo, though
well on, killed his two children and then cut his
own throat because OF fears OF the poor-house.
Apr. a5-W. Bullock. Newark, n. j.. shot his
w:fe and then himself because OF jealousy.
May 2-John T. Rand. Helena, NJ. T., killed
lis wife and child and then himself.
May flames xon. Greentown, Ind, killed
his wife and then himself.
May l0-Charles Turner, Pittsburgh, Pa, in a
fit of jealousy killed his wife and then himself
May ;0-Edward WIman. near ST. Charles,
Mich, fatally shot his wife and then himself
because she had joined church contrary to his
" shes.
May s1-Geo. Thomas, Cincinnati, killed Mag
r:ie Wise and then himself: jealousy.
May 23-W. J. Mcfarland, Cleveland, o,
while drunk shot his wife ano daughier and then
himself. Mrs. George Reed, Nappanee, Ind,
leaped into "a well with her child in her arms:
both drowned.
May 25-Reuben Drake, his wife and two
murdered in their home IN KICK
apoo, Wis.,. Will am Miller. Brunswi Mo-,
shot and killed his wife ana man named Nor.
gan.
May ae-Joseph Sherer, Albany. N. V. shot
and K lied Lizzie Mccarthy and thea himself
because she would not marry him.
Jun. &c. c. Herk mer. FaIrchild. Wis, shot
his wife and then himself: domestic troubles
Jun. 1l-Peter Shannon, Portland, Ore, killed
his wife and then himself; jealousy. =. John
Detroit, fatally shot his wife and
then committed suicide.
Jun. l4-Ellsha Prince, Emanuel Co, Ca
killed his wife because she refused to live with
him and then committed suicide.
Jun. 13-George Taylor, Indianapolis, fatally
Miss Belle Brown and then killed him
all