The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-23

I IHE Uumry nObel db DcuNSF, NO1.,
was blown to pieces by an explosion
early on the morning of the 10Th. and
it was feared that from forty to sixty
people had lost their lives 1t was
supposed that the battery of boilers
had exploded in the basement. Fire
added to the horror of the situation,
the firemen having to abandon several
victims to their fate just as they had
been almost rescued.
PRESIDENT w. w. KENT, of the West
ern Baseball association. has trans
ferred the Jacksonville franchise to
Springfield, Ill Poor patronage al
Jacksonville was the reason given fol-
the transfer.
To AVOID further complications over
the Mexican mission, Minister Ransom
is to be reappointed.
The wife and little son of Arthur
France, of Englewood. Ill, were acci
dentally drowned in Spring lake, Mich
igan. The child was in bathing and
got beyond his depth, when the mother
went to his rescue and both were
drowned.
BY the overlooking of a small pleas
ure boat near Oceanside, Nd, on the
18th seven persons were drowned.
Az Chicago Saturday Patrick Quin-
Ian, the Holmes castle" janitor, and
his wife were released from custody,
and the last semblance of a chance to
prosecute II. II. Holmes in Chicago for
any of his alleged crimes probably van.
isked with them.
AT the populist rally at Guthrie, Ok,
recently resolutions were adopted sug-
gesting ]. S. Coxev, of commonweal
army fame, for president.
JAPAN was visited by terrible storms
recently, inundations adding their de-
Yastating effects to the havoc wrought
by the wind! 1t was calculated that
over 1000 people lost their lives, many
being drowned.
AT Spring Valley Sheriff Clarke. OF
Princeton, arrested over thirty of the
men who ran the negroes out of Loca-
tion. He was assisted in the work by
fifteen armed deputies.
THE queens speech was read to the
lords and commons on the 18th by the
L
said that no international complica-
tions threatened the peace of Europe;
that representations had been made to
the Chinese government concerning
the recent massacre of missionaries in
that country and the perpetrators
would be punished; that the atrocities
committed in Armenia had been viewed
Nd fofr hal
been suggested to the sultan and were
being considered.
A BLOODY battle occurred in British
Honduras near Belize August be-
tween 1000 Caribs and about 1000
Jamaica negroes. Between 500 and
600 negroes were killed and the Caribs
had 800 killed and twice as many
wounded.
TIE failures in the United States for
the week ended the 10th Dun's report)
were 196, against 299 last year.
THE American Protestant associa-
tion. in national convention at Cincin-
natl, elected T. G. Schrifer, master; F.
G. Cruger. of st. Louis. secretary. and
F. Dickroger, of st. Louis, treasurer.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Republican league met at Chi
cago on the 14th and discussed plans
for the fall campaign. Much dissatis-
faction with Chicago as league head
quarters was expressed. but the mat
ter was left over until the regular Oc-
tober session. The meeting was pre-
sided over by Gen. McAlpin, of New
York, the newly-elected league presi-
dent.
UNDER authority of Federal Judge
Showalter, of Chicago, Gen. John Nc
Nulta, receiver of the Distilling & Cat
tie Feeding Co., sold the property of
that corporation to the reorganization
committee for So. 100000.
A HUGE iron beam fell from the top
of the coliseum. in course of erection
in Chicago, on the 18th, instantly kill
ing Sam McCarny and r. McNeill.
The accident is said to have been
caused by the breaking of a cable by
which the beam was being hoisted.
THE town of Hindoostan. near Bloom
ington, Ind, was literally wiped out
by fire, the work of incendiaries.
SAMUEL VINsoN and his son Charles
were taken out of the county jail at
Ellensburg, Wash. on the 14th by a
mob and hanged to a tree. The two
men became involved in a saloon row
and murdered Michael Kohloph and Jo-
seph \. Bergman.