The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-05-27

| DR.. CYRUS r. TKED, the so-called Kore
shan Christ. has been arrested at Chicar
60 on a charge of criminal intimacy
with Mrs. Annie Cole. The arrest wa:
made near Teed's new heaven" al
Washington Heights, of which Mrs
Cole is said to be an inmate.
The streets of Detroit and all the
buildings depending upon the Detroit
Electric Light & Power Co, We're in
utter darkness the other night because
of an explosion in the power house.
The first guns of the campaign OF
1892 We're fred at Ann Arbor, Mich,
the other day by Gov. Mckinley, Hon.
John NJ. Thurston. Gen. Alger, Hon. j.
Sloat Fassett and other prominent re-
publican leaders. The occasion which
brought all these men together in Ann
Arbor was the organization of the Ma
tional League of College Republican
clubs, for which delegates were present
from eighty colleges from Maine to Cal
ifornia.
THE Floyd river at Sioux City, Ia,
rose four feet in an hour the other day
and overlooked one-third of the city.
twenty-five persons, it is reported, have
lost their lives.
IT has been definitely decided that
Gov. Mckinley will deliver the formal
opening address at the dedication of the
big convention hall at Minneapolis ON
the night before the opening of the re-
publican national convention. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, or some other prominent
person, will also deliver an address.
The rest of the programme will be mu
steal. There will be a great chorus of
1,5OO voices in patriotic songs and some
soloists of note.
A MINER named Walker and Next
can were fired upon from ambush near
Miller's ranch, Arizona The men es-
capped, but found their cabin had been
looted by four Indians. The outrage is
supposed to be the work of the renegade
Kid.
The Egyptian levee, which protects
vast area of bottom lands five miles be-
low Keol1uk, Iowa. broke recently. The
waters of the Des Moines river flooded
the entire district The high wind pre-
vailing did inestimable damage. The
whole town of Alexandria was COM
pletely submerged. All trains on the
keol1uk q Western and st. Louis. Keo-
kuk IL Northwestern railroads south of
that point were abandoned.
A TORNADO of fierce violence passed
over the northwestern part of Hamilton
county. Ohio, blowing a furrow of de-
nearly three miles in length.
THOUSANDS of acres of wheat lands in
the Mississippi bottoms of Union and
Alexander counties, Hi, were flooded
by the overflow of the river. Farmers
fled to the hills and the merchants at
the river landings removed merchandise
from their stores in slziffs. There was
much suffering and the loss of property
was great.
JUDGE THOMAS A. DAVIDSON, one of
the most distinguished jurists in Indi-
ana, died at his home in Charlottesville
the other day, aged 50. The cause of
the death was erysipelas, resulting from
the grip.
A SAD accident, in which a man lost
his life in a vain attempt to rescue
child from moving train, occurred the
other day at Elyria, a suburb of Denver
Little four-year-old Anna Sophafe at
tempted to cross before a rapidly-run-
ming passenger train, and v G. Burn
ham. foreman of switch train, seeing
her danger sprang in front of the en-
CINE to rescue her. He had just reached
out his hands to grasp the child when
the engine struck them both, crushing
them horribly. The little girl died in
stantly, while Burnham fingered for a
short time after the accident
PENTwATER, Mich, Odd Fellows are
trying to solve the mystery of the death
of Benjamin Moore.