The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28


21st, aged sc years.
SIM Bowen, of Troy. Ala. aimed his
gun in sport at two little daughters of
Zeke Bryant, a friend. The gun was
accidentally discharged and both chill
dren were killed.
WHILE Capt. James Clegg, foreman
of pipe line gang for the New Mar
tinsville CIV. Val Natural Gas Co.. was
caulking pipe under 1000 pounds of
direct pressure, the pipe broke, throw
ing him nearly 100 feet into the air and
killing him instantly, his neck being
broken. Half dozen OF The other
workmen about him were knocked
down and severely injured.
BRADsTREET's review of trade said
tie general volume continued small,
unreasonable weather checking the
distribution of coal and heavy cloth
ing. Improvement in prices was re-
corded in only a few leading lines.
Cotton goods were weaker and the
feeling in wool was dull. The outlook
for trade after the holidays was said to
be fair
THE new Dominion cabinet, which
was sworn in on the 2lst at the tenn
porary residence of Lord Aberdeen, the
encouragement in Montreal, Que, is
as follows: Premier, Mackenzie, Bow
ell; minister of fisheries. John Costigan:
minister of justice, Sir Charles Hubbard
Upper: minister of trade and COM
merce, w. b. Ives; secretary of state,
\. K. Dickey, DIR. Montague, without
portfolio.
A VIOLENT earthquake shock lasting
one minute was experienced at Or
avicza, South Hungary. Many houses
fell and the walls of others cracked.
roofs fell in and cornices tumbled into
the streets. The inhabitants of Or
avicza became panic stricken after the
first disturbances and passed the night
in the streets in spite of the severe
cold.
JAMES l.. ALCORN, ex-governor and
eX-United States senator. of Mississippi,
died on the Goth on his estate at Eagles
Nest, Miss. He was rs years cid.
FIRE at Napoleonville. La. recently
destroyed seven blocks. including most
of the business portion of The town.
Loss, S125.OOO.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND declared that
he had enjoyed his visit to Georgetown,
s. c., having been freer from Interrupt
ton than ever before. The sport had
been plentiful and the weather splen-
did.
CHINESE highbinders have inaugural
ed reign of terror in the Monaghan
quarters at San Francisco. These
bandits, among them many ex-convicts,
who have escaped the deportation
clause of the exclusion law, are driven
to desperation through poverty, and
burglaries. robberies and shooting and
stabbing affairs are a daily occurrence
Chinese women of the worst class and
small traders are the most frequent vic
Tins of highbinders who are pillaging
right and left.
A SANDSTONE and terrific gale visited
Monument, Col, on the Goth. Not n
building in the whole town escaped
without some damage. There was no
loss of life. however
The doll carnival was opened at Chi
cago on the evening of the 18th.
UEOk6E DiNON- champion leather
weight pugilist, and Young Critic
have been matched to fight twenty-five
rounds before the Seaside Athletic
club. Coney island, on January 10, for
a purse of 50. 600.
TIE coroner's jury at New Orleans
declared that the Auditorium Athletic
club management was responsible for
the death of Andy Bowen, the pugilist,
in not having the ring padded. doctor
testifying that had Bowen fallen with
out having been struck at all the result
would have been the same. Lavigne,
therefore, was not blamed.
TIE Cologne Gazette has publishe da
letter about the massacres in Armenia.
Those Armenians, it states, who sub
mitted were bound to stakes and their
limbs were cut off with saws. In other
cases the victims were disemboweled
and their eyes gouged out. Children
were thrown into boiling oil and women
were tortured and burned to death.
The churches were plundered and
burned and about forty priests were
massacred.
A RECENT letter from the Catholic
missions in Corea stated that the situa-
ton of the native Christians was grave.
Hordes of Tonghaks threatened to in-
wade northern Corea.