The Iola register., 1889-12-20

SISTER MARY KELLY, of the Roman
Catholic convent at Harrisburg, Pa.
tried to commit suicide by jumping
from window of the third story of a
house, but was prevented. She was
| insane.
MUNICIPAL elections were held on
the 10th in Boston, Lowell, Salem,
Worcester, Newburyport and Lynn,
Mass. Boston showed a Republican
gain on decreased vote. License was
the principal issue in most places.
AN awful panic occurred at the
Park Opera House, Johnstown, Pa, on
the night of the 10th. Thirteen resi-
dents of the unfortunate city were
killed and about IS injured. The
calamity was due to an alarm of fire.
A STRIKE was reported in progress at
Woburn. Mass. All the leather manu-
featuring shops were closed. Efforts
to adjust rates proved futile. Two
thousand men were out of work.
B. r. JOHNSON, clerk of a Detroit
jewelry firm, sustained fatal injuries
the other morning by falling from a
fourth story window of hotel which
had caught fire. Other guests had
narrow escapes.
THE Chicago Auditorium was dedi-
Gated on the 9th in the presence of
President Harrison.
COLONEL J. H. RATHBONE, founder
of the Knights of Pythias, died at Lima,
o., on the 9th.
THE deadlock over the selection of
Senators in Montana continued OH the
9th.
BY a collision between local freight
and a work train near Charlottesville,
Ind, the other day fireman was
killed and three men badly hurt.
THE Missouri Democratic State Cen
tral Committee met at st. Louis on the
10th and elected Frank Walker secre-
tary. Walker is a Francis or anti-Vest
man.
ROBERT SNYDER, who shot and killed
his wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Sarah Collins, at Eldorado, Kan, Au-
gust 10, has been sentenced to impris-
onment for life at hard labor in the
penitentiary.
JOHN TISSUE, brakeman, on a
gravel train, was accidentally killed at
Atoka, /. T. He fell under the wheels
and his head was severed from his
body.
THE new Union Depot at Moberly,
Mo-, was the occasion of demOnstra-
tion on the 11th. The building is an
elegant structure and the citizens are
justified in their pride concerning it.
GENERAL DAVIS ATWOOD, editor of
the State Journal, of Madison, Wis,
died recently. He served term in
Congress and was one of the leading
Republicans of the State. He had been
connected with the press nearly fifty
years.
1T is now openly stated that gross
frauds are being perpetrated Iii Kan
sas under the pretext of voting bOlids
for sugar manufacture.
A DISPATCH from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
says: "Kettle Jacks" gang of horse
and cattle thieves in the Big Horn val
ley, eleven in number, are reported to
have been lynched by band of settlers.
EXPERT burglars broke open C. A.
Whyland & Co. IS safe in their commits
sion office, near the Board of Trade,
Chicago, the other night and secured
5000 worth of negotiable bonds.
CHARLES CROOK, a well known char
acter living near Sioux City, Iowa, af-
ter hot race with a train, tried to
cross in front of the engine and was
torn to fragments.
JOHN MARTIN, aged eight years;
Ambrose Donnelly, aged ten and Bert
Sheldon, aged twelve, broke through
the ice while skating on mill pond at
Ironton, in Sauk County, Wis. Martin
and Sheldon were dead when their
bodies were recovered, ten minutes
after the accident, but Donnelly was
resuscitated.
JUDGE SAMUEL MAXWELL, men,
ber of the Supreme Court of Nebraska
since the admission of the State. has
been offered the position of chief at
torney for the Consolidated Street
Railway Company of Omaha, with
$1,000 salary.
ANDREW ]. DENIsoN, for thirty
years a merchant of Chicago and an
enthusiastic Democrat, died the other
night of pneumonia.
BEFORE adjourning the Indiana
State Grange declared in favor of Chi
cago as the place for holding the
Worlds Fair.
THE estimated damage by flood in the
vicinity of Colusa, Cal, will reach
81, zoo, 600, mostly to crops.
JOHN GILMAN, the murderer of
Mrs. Ettenhover and child, has been
hanged at Empire City, Ore.
THE current expenses of the State
charities of Kansas for the month of
November amounted to s26, ,S49.2S.