The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.
q CONDENSED ARRANGEMENT or
THE OCCURRENCES OF THE PAST
WEEK AT HOME AND ABROAD-rHH
PIrH OF THE DISPATCHES.
Domestic.

| Inc senate OF Lne NaLlOnal UNION me
at Milwaukee. A membership of 30,
. AS was reported, the increase for the
past year reaching 1921. The year,
disbursements from the benefit fund ag
gregated 100000.
Fire broke out in the city hospita
at Cincinnati. The promptness anf
heroism of the nurses prevented los!
of life. The flames were soon subdued
Lightning struck an outbuilding in
which picnic party had taken refuge
near st. Louis, killing girl aged /:
and iniuring three others.
Secretary Mohler, of the agricultural
bureau, said that the reports about big
wheat crop in Kansas has been greatly
exaggerated. He says there will be
three-fourths of an average crop.
Cogar, Paas & Co.'S hemp hacking es-
Enlistment at Danville, KY, burned.
The loss is $4,000, and the insurance
1874. 900.
State Comptroller Colgan of Califor-
mia. denies the rumor that he would
refuse to sign the warrant for the $780,
| 600 appropriated for the worlds fair.
Father Mollinger, the priest-physi-
clan. treated 500 individuals at Mount
| Troy. Pa, in one day last week.
A rumor is in circulation in London
to the effect that Lord Brooke has sued
for divorce, naming the prince of Wales
as correspondent.
Washington G. Wolfe, the Oldest
| type setter in The country, drowned
himself in the Muskingum river near
| Coshoctou. O. He was s. years old.
The nineteenth annual meeting of the
Supreme Lodge A. o. U. W. met at
Detroit, Mich.
Owing to public opposition to the
measure the senate of the Argentine
/ Republic has decided to reconsider the
passage of the bill to suspend gold pay
meuts for the period of six months.
The secretary of the treasury has
amended the general regulations of
1854 relative to the executions of bonds
SO as 10 provide that "a corporation
other than trust company can in no
event be accepted as a security"
The brig Sea Wait left Apia, Samoa,
April IS with cargo of wreckage from
the vessels sunk in the hurricane of
March. 1889. and the bodies of twenty
American sailors drowned at that time.
Their remains will be inferred at Mare
Island. Cal.
Geronimo. the Mexican bandit, was
killed near Tucson, Ariz., by sheriff's
posse.
Fire was discovered among cotton in
the hold of the City of Richmond while
at sea in time to extinguish it.
One hundred and sixty Odd Fellows
and knights of Pythias contributed
their flesh to save a. c. Fulkerson, of
Kansas City.
The Ohio republicans met at Column
bus. and nominated Hon. William Nc
Kinley. jr., for governor, on Mckinley
tariff platform.
Twenty-Five thousand mill operatives
in Fall River, Mass, may be asked to
accept a 10 per cent. reduction.
Eight men were injured by an ex-
plosion of gas in Yonkers, n. Y, caused
by a drunken laborer dropping a large
stone on a gas main.
A tie placed on the bridge over Coon
| River. To-, caused a wreck in which two
persons were killed and score in ured.
A discharged employee is suspected.
| A report has reached New York that
| President Hippolyte of Hayti has been
assassinated. Stories of frightsul as
trocities upon anti-Hippolytes have also
been received.
Robert Marley, collector for David
Dudley Field, the New York lawyer.
disappeared Monday and found two days
afterward, deaf and dumb, having, as
he says. been drugged and robbed.
The Westmorelands are under arrest
at Fort Smith, Ark, for wholesale muir
ders on the Bender plan.
r. W. Durham & Co., Chicago com
mission merchants, failed for $500, 900.
| A customer has sued them for $500, 00C
| damages, alleging fraud.
Mayor Stuart of Philadelphia Is en-
| deavoring to bring about a reorganiza-
ton of Philadelphia's financial methods
so as to make a defalcation impossible.
| At a meeting of Jewish ministers in
| New York DR.. Maez stated that Secre-
| ltary Blaine had sent strong letters tC
! st. Petersburg relative to the hardships
| of the Jews in Russia.
i An agreement for a closed season IN
Behring sea was signed by representa-,
! tives of the government of the United
States and Great Britain.
The visible supply of wheat as report,
ed by the New York produce exchange
was 1901. 543 bushels. a decrease OF
go. So bushels. and of corn 1855, ca
! bushels. a decrease of Col, 210.
Joseph X. ("Fritz'0 Emmett, the
comedian, died in his home at Corn
wall-on-the-Hudson, aged 80 years.
Charles NJ. White, a Cincinnati at
torney. was shot during an alteration
| with J. P. Slough, his son-in-law. The
| trouble arose from remarks made by
Slough regarding his wife. from whom
he is endeavoring to obtain a divorce.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania
hrs vetoed the compulsory education
| bill.
Major-General John NJ. Scofield and
Miss Georgia Wells kilbourne were
married at Keokuk. Iowa.
Labor unions in Chicago are making
| a determined effort to get good terms
from worlds fair afficials.
At Vandalia, Mo-, G.. W. Daniel has
received from a reformed sinner" prop
ertv stolen from his store some years
ago.
A suit for defamation of character has
been brought by Rev. a. II. Tevis. OF
Kansas City, Kan, against Elder Z.
| Gill OF LeaveuwOrth.
| Judge Riner of the Z. S. circuit court
pronounced the sentence of death upon
| Chas. Albert Benson for the murder Of
Mrs. Mettman. The execution of the
sentence to take place Nov. ), next, al
the Leavenworth county Jail.
Jacob Schele was hanged at Bridge
| port, Conn. He was an old saloon
! keeper and shot a constable who was
! irving to break into his house to arrest
him COR selling liquor, the town being
| anti-license.
! Foreign
France will be asked to appropriate
! 1000. 600 francs for her exhibit at Chica-