The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-12-06

| fifteen fierce rom rPf,re Que of ti,.
| largest crowds ever seen at the clu'
| Law ne foug II ame,y AMI vas tn,
aggres>or i'm the last round when tn
referee rave him the decision.
THE New Orleans cham ,er of com
MERGE has decided to favor the hold
i'm in New Orleans in 1908 of an inter
national exposition To commemorate
the centennial of the purchase o
Louisiana by the Unite States. A
committee of. 100 will he appointed t.
examine into the movement. select g
site and devise WAYS and means.
A NEW counterfeit 81 silver certiti.
cate has been discovered. 1t is of the
series of 1891, check letter c, plate No
IL, j. Fountilman, re lister; s. ID. n.
Morgan, treasurer; portrait of Win
dom; small scalloped seal. The note
is much smaller in every way than the
genuine.
CHARLES WILLTER, bookkeeper of the
Cincinnati Abbatoir Co., committed
suicide recently to prevent arrest for
the Reimbursement of several thousand
dollars from his employers. He alb
seconded with Sc, 600 from the safe six
weeks ago and took a woman with him
to Chicago, leaving his wife and five
children. Becoming reconciled with
his family, he had quietly come home
to take them with him to Chicago.
The woman with whom he had eloped
in a Gt of jealousy gave the tip to the
officers. When the officers surrounded
the house at Camp Washington he
escaped to the garnet and shot himself
through the heart as they pursued him.
PROF. ESoTR. an aquatic performer
at Detroit, Mich, recently accom-
plished the feat of staying under the
water four minutes and eight seconds,
which he claimed broke all previous
records in that line.
The London Central News eorre-
spondent in Vienna said that report
was in circulation there that a pro-
jectile had been thrown at the car in
st Petersburg on the I'd. The mis-
sile graZed, his maiesty's cloak and fell
harmlessly to the ground The report
SAYS that fourteen arrests had been
made In connection with the affairs
Con 6rmation OF the rurnor was lacking.
The Alpena (siich.) Hide & Leather
Co. has started 10 work its new plant,
ole of the largest hemlock tanning
concerns in existence. The plant will
tan LOCO hides day to start with.
This is only one of a great many plants
now building in the pineries of Michi-
gan, where bark is cheap and where
hides can be tanned as advautageOusly
as they were in Pennsylvania and
western New York ten years ago. 1t
is understood that Kansas City and
other western packers are backing
this concern to get rid of their hides
without selling them to the trust.
THE New York and Philadel-
phia express on the Delaware,
Lackawanna e Western railroad was
wrecked 26 miles south of SYRIA
cuse, n. Y. early on the I'd. The
siding at Prcble had been left open
and the train crashed into the freight
cars, completely telescoping three of
them The engine and tender of the
express were completely demolished,
the engineer and fireman killed and
a dozen passengers badly injured. No
sooner had the wreck occurred than
the baggage ear caught fire. The
panic-strickcn passengers had hardly
time to get out before the whole train
was in blaze.
The football games played on
Thanksgiving day were as follows: At
Chicago. between the Ann Arbor and
Chicago universities. score l2 to in
favor of Ann Arbur At Philadelphia,
between the Cornell and Pennsylvania
universities. score - to > in favor of
Pennsylvania. At Kansas City, be-
tween the Missouri and Kansas uni
versities, score 10 TO . in favor of Mis-
souri, At Chicago the Boston and Chi
cago Athletic associations played
match game which ended 10 tic OF
to4.
DURlXG the progress of Il church fair
at Wooster, O., au immense, crowd was
packed into the city armory, when a
lamp in one OF the booths exploded.
setting IRE to the draperies OF Miss
Myrtle Elser, an attendant. A rush
for the single exit occurred and many
women and children were tranpled
upon. Fully 100 persons jumped from
the windows. many being badly cut by
glass. Mrs. Carrie Mckee was thrown
through window, sustaining injuries
which will likely prove fatal Jennie
Putnam, 1O-year-old cripple, could
not help herself and received internal
injuries which will cause her death.
REV f. +. pAssMoRE. formerly pas
tor of a church at Breckinridge. Col.
has been cited for trial on December E
before the Colorado conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church. being
charged with falsehooi and disseu-
sion. In articles published by the
minister he alleged that the bishops
and ministers of the Methodist church
had Joined hands with gamblers
Sabbath breakers, >aloonkecpers and
harlots' aud were SgpportiDg every
sin and crime of the age.
WHEN Frank Brown. a night rail.
roader, left his home at Cleveland, O..
on the evening of 9th his wife set
about clearing away the supper table.
frankie. their i5-month-old baby.
pulled the cloth off the able. and with
it coal oil lamp. There was an ex.
plosion and flames burst forth. Mrs
Brown hurried three of her chill
dren out of the house. and then found