The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-15
GENERAL NEWS.


ing Office since congress adjourned.
GENERAL NEWS.
FIRE broke out on the 10th at the Ole
Abe mine at White Oak, n. NJ, and il
a few minutes the hoist structure was
a mass of flames. The damage runs w
into the thousands. but the most dis
tressing feature was that eight miner:
were imprisoned in the depths whose
fate was unknown, but who were
thought to have been suffocated. Res
cuing parties tried to work, but the
smoke and gases from charred wood
had penetrated the upper levels and
they could not be passed for some time
THE cable chess match between the
Manhattan Chess club, of New York
and the British Chess club resulted in
a draw. When play ceased at 6:3(
o'clock on the 9th only one game was
finished
The military commission appointed
by Gov. Mckinley to inquire into the
shooting of certain citizens at Wash
ington Court House, O., by troops un.
der Col. Colt, while defending a negro
prisoner from being lynched, sustained
Col. Colt and the governor has indorsed
the report
JOHN SWEENEY, of Allegheny, Pa.
was literally roasted alive at his home
early on the 10th. His wife was sc
badly burned in her efforts to rescue
him that she bad to be taken to the
hospital, where she was lying in very
serious condition. An exploded lamp
was the cause of the fire.
THE police were called out to quell a
disturbance by tramps at the rail mill
east of Boone, Ia, which the tramps
had taken possession of. When the
officers arrived at the mill they were
attacked bv the tramps. The police
used their revolvers and Jim Freeman,
alias Riley, was shot through the heart
and instantly killed; Tim Lanman, an
other tramp, was shot through the
breast and fatally wounded: third
tramp was shot through the arm.
Twelve of the tramps were captured
and jailed.
A TERRIFIC explosion of the tank OF
the steamer Bawnmore, lying at the
Arctic oil works dock at the Potrero,
San Francisco, caused great excite
ment in that section of the city on the
sth. Two men were terribly bruised
and burned, receiving what are
thought to be mortal injuries, and the
vessel was badly strained.
THE tunnel on College hill, Provi-
dence, R. l., was blown up by a gas ex.
plosion which shook the city. One man
was killed. The explosion seriously
crippled the counter weight system
used in connection with the electric
cars.
FREDERICK E. SICKLEs, a well known
inventor in the engineering line, died
suddenly in Kansas City, Mo-, on the
sth of heart disease, aged 76 years.
The steamer Rosedale sunk in the
Wabash near New Haven, Ill, on the
Sth. One man was drowned. She was
loaded with corn. The boat was val.
ued at $1,000.
The principal of the Burroughs
school at Chicago, Samuel Harrison,
was severely beaten by Albert Rolston,
a constable. Rolston claimed that
Harrison had blacked the eyes OF
Rolston's son and badly marked the
boys face. The fight lasted so long
that the patrol wagon was sent for.
Rolston had Prof Harrison arrested on
the charge of assault and battery.
DRIED beef poisoned the entire fam
lily of Mrs. Eliza Cowen, of Northfeld,
O., and Mrs. Cowen and her three chill
dren were lying at the point of death
on the 9Th. The members of the fam
ily were taken i'll within fifteen min
utes after partaking of the dried beef.
In New York Mrs. Rose Kennelty, SO
years old, perished by fire in six-story
double fat building, and for time the
forty or fifty other occupants of the
building were in great peril of sharing
her fate.
CYRUS CowEN killed Burt and Willie
Coleman. aged respectively 90 and 16,
by shooting them, near Newkirk, Ok.
Cyrus Cowen was arrested. The trou-
BILE was over a claim of thirty acres
lying in the Arkansas river bottoms.
Mayes and son were also arrested for
being implicated in the affair.
THE seventh annual congress of
Scotch-Irish of America will be held
at Lexington, Va, from June 20 to %
inclusive. The announcement was
made by the secretary of the society,
A. c. Floyd, of Chattanooga, at the
direction of Mr. Robert Bonner, of
New York, who is president of the
organization.
Ton WATKINS, the negro who MUIR
dered T. w. O'Bannon in Little Rock,
Ark, August IL last, for the purpose
of robbing his store, was hanged on
the sth. He tried to fasten the crime
on 0'Bannon's partner aud his last
words were: Before God, / am inno-
cent"
AT Adel, Ia. mob of masked farm
ers attempted TO get Crawford, the
bank robber, from the sheriff, but
were unsuccessful.
THE National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers association concluded its an
nual session on the eth in Philadelphia
by the election of officers, all of whom
are eastern men.