The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-14

A LATE dispatch from Valparaiso
said that the Chilian government had
made formal denial of the report
that half the vessels of the Gillian
navy had been sold to China.
DR.. w. A. CoNKLING, one of the prin-
cipal physicians of Cassopolis, Mich,
was enticed from his home to his office.
As he did not come home man was
sent to the Office and found everything
in confusion, the furniture overturned
and broken and evidences of fearful
struggle. Stone lake, near by, has
been dragged. A brother says the
doctor is leading witness in murder
case in the eastern part of Michigan
and ascribes his disappearance to that
fact.
THE British warship Ringarooma,
eight guns, a twin screw cruiser of
2,575 tons and 1000 horsepower, de-
tailed for service in Australian waters,
was reported ashore on reef off Mali
colo island, New Hebrides, on the eth.
The Comte de Paris, the head of the
house of Bourbon and acknowledged
w a iCib idJoiitN VI iON do hCiI
to the throne of France, died on the
7th. aged So.
The Astor scandal has again broken
out, James Coleman Drayton having
instituted proceedings in the chancery
court at Trenton, n. j., for divorce
from his wife, Charlotte Augusta Dray-
ton. daughter of William Astor. The
bill charges his wife with disregarding
the sanctity of the marriage VOW, and
Hallet Allsop Borrowe is named as CO.
respondent.
JACK EvERHART, champion light
weight of England, has authorized the
issuance of a challenge to fight Jack
McAuliffe at 133 pounds for 81, 700
side and the lightweight championship
of America If McAuliffe refuses to
meet him, Everhart says the challenge
will apply to Horace Leeds, of Phila-
delphia, or any 133-pound man in the
world
THE match race for purse of $1,000
between Robert J. and Joe Patchen
was run on the 9th, before 10000 spec
tators at Indianapolis, Ind. Robert j.
won, making the second mile heat in
2.O21l, firmly establishing him on the
throne as the king of PAGERS.
Gov. WAITE, of Colorado, was renom-
mated on the first ballot at the populist
state convention at Pueblo.
SEVEN people were burned to death
in the fires at Marengo, few miles
south of Ashland, Wis.
THE Cook expedition to Greenland
arrived on the, 5th at North Sydney, C.
b., on the schooner Rigel, their steam
er. Miranda, which left New York July
with the excursion party, having
been abandoned in Davis strait. West
Greenland, in a sinking condition. All
the botanical, geological and ethnolog-
ical collections, and all the photo
graphs taken in Greenland. went down
with the Miranda. Prof. Dyche of the
Kansas university, lost lot of Labra-
dor and Greenland birds. The expe-
dition was total failure, from the sci
entist's point of view.
FRIENDS of Mr.. and Mrs. William X.
Vanderbilt were making efforts to
bring about formal reconciliation be-
tween the two with proba bility of be-
ing successful.
THE death list by the terrible forest
fires in Minnesota has been increased
by at least twenty-three Chippewa In
dians. who perished between Pohege-
ma and Homestead. They were out on
a hunting expedition.
A MOVEMENT has been organized
among the Kentucky turfmen at La
tonia to go against Breckenridge for
all they are worth. On the night OF
September II special train will leave
the Latonia race track to take the
horsemen to their homes to vote against
Breckinridge. 1t is said they have
promised $4,000 to the campaign fund
to beat Breckinridge, should he get the
nomination.
JACK DEMPSEY and Billy Mccarthy,
of Australia. fought drawn battle be-
fore the Auditorium Athletic club at
New Orleans. The contest was con-
fined to twenty rounds. The purse of
$1,000 was divided.
THE governor of Minnesota issued n
proclamation to the people of that
state appealing for aid to relieve the
destitution caused by the recent burn
ing up of towns by forest fires.
MINNESOTA forest fires have spread
to the Canadian side and were reported
burning the entire country along the
Ram river. Mrs. Gamsley and four
children were reported burned to death
near Winnipeg.