The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
GENERAL NEWS.

Ex-Gov. E. A. STEVENSON, of Idaho,
committed suicide at Paraiso Springs,
Col, on account of failing health.
SCOTIA, Cal, was visited by disas-
trous fire on the 9TH. The property
loss was estimated at $500, 900
THE agreement to issue the $50. coo,
600 per cent. gold loan TO China un-
der Russian guarantee was signed at
ST. Petersburg. The loan is secured
on the customs revenues of the treaty
ports of China.
AT Chicago c. Arnold Wescott, of the
Lake View Cycling club, on the 7th
broke the record for the Elgin-Aurora
Century course by making 100 miles in
hours. 9 minutes and 20 seconds.
CHILDREN playing in shed in Lorne-
vile. Ont, started a fire on the 7th
which burned twenty buildings and
rendered fifty families homeless. Loss,
$50. 900, with very little insurance.
A TERRIBLE riot occurred at picnic
at Siberia. Ind. on the 4th in which
1000 raen and women participated.
Three men were killed outright and
fifty-four persons wounded, many of
whom were women. The dangerously
wounded were taken to a Catholic
church and twenty were expected to
die. The occasion was a German
Catholic picnic and an interruption by
anti-Catholics, loaded with bad whisky,
was the cause of the trouble.
A NUMBER of men were drinking in a
beer garden at Bernadotte. H., on the
5th, when a fight was started about a
woman. Knives, revolvers, stones and
all kinds of deadly weapons were at
once brought into use. A desperate
battle took place in which 100 men
took part, and the result is that three
of them were fatally wounded and
ground suffering from various kinds of
wounds.
AT Mobile. Ala, Thomas Norville,
colored, was hanged in jail on the 5th,
for the murder of Louis Coleman, coli
ored, whom he killed last summer.
This was the third legal execution at
Mobile in a year.
AT Boston on the 4th the patriotic
societies paraded and a pitched battle
ensued between some of the paraders
and the spectators, in which sticks,
stones and revolvers were used with
fatal effect John Wills, laborer, of
East Boston. one of the spectators, was
shot and instantly killed; Michael
Boyle had his head split open by
club. and was reported dying in hos
pital: a man named Stewart had his
nose cut off with a saber, and several
Others were more or less severely
wounded. A float representing the
little red schoolhouse" was the cause
of the trouble.
THE city of Wellington, O., was al
most completely destroyed by fire
early on the morning of the 5th.
THE Spanish government has ap-
pointed a committee to consider the
claims of the United States regarding
the confscation during a revolution of
the estate of Antonio Maximo Mora.
an American citizen residing on the
island of Cuba The value of the prop
erty taken from Mora was alleged to
be about 81, 100000
By the upsetting of a boat on Lake
Chautauqua, New York, John Swan
strom and two girls, Hedrick Lawson
and Christine Hegelwin, were drowned.
There were five people in the boat A
man and boy swan ashore, but the
two girls elung to SwanStrom and
pulled him down with them
A SPECIAL to the New York Herald
from Santiago de Cuba on the I'd, said
that Gen. Navarro had left Songo for
the purpose of attacking Gen. Maceo
in the mountains of Jarajueco. An
important engagement was expected
TO occur soon. The reported appear
ance of cholera at Santiago was OFF,
ciallv denied.
A TELEGRAM from the Elkhorn mining
region in West Virginia indicated that
the situation was hourly growing more
serious The 5000 miners who had
been out on strike were reduced al
most to starvation, and were growing
desperate. The .-trike has lasted two
months.
a SOUTHERN PACIFIC passenger train
was hello up and robbed at o'clock on
the morning of the I'd al point known
as Riddles IN the Cow creek canyon,
California. The robbers took jewelry,
ma3ey and other valuables from the
passengers and rified the mail pouches.
bus failed in their effort to break open
the express car.