The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-12

A DISPATCH to the London II me-
from Calcutta said that sixteen men
were killed by an explosion in the Kolar
gold mines in Bangalore.
A NEGRO named Alexander Simms
killed colored boy at Jacksonville,
Fla, and the officers got on his trail.
The murderer took refuge in a barn
and opened fire on the officers, killing
one and injuring three others, one per-
haps fatally. He was finally captured.
THE annual convention of the A. P,
A. of the United States and Canada
will meet in Milwaukee May IL
On the Chicago & Alton cut-off, 4
mile north of East Alton, H., freight
train left the track and fifteen cars
were piled on top of one another. Four
men were instantly killed and two IA
tally injured. The victims were tramps
stealing ride. The wreck was caused
| by the train being too heavily loaded
behind.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the High
land and Homestead electric line,
Pittsburgh, Pa, jumped the track at
Salt Works station and crashed down
upon the Baltimore & Ohio tracks, 25
| feet below. In the car were five
Italians, and three of these jumped
when they saw the accident was about
to happen. Two were fatally injured.
THE City national bank of Fort
Worth, Tex, has suspended
SENATOR j. J. HURT, mayor of Cas-
par, Wyo., shot William Milne, sheep
owner, five times, killing him. Hurt
claims that Milne was too intimate
with Mrs. Hurt. Senator Hurt is one
of the largest sheep owners in that
section.
Hon. II. c. ST. JOHN, of Oklahoma
City, Ok, in a fit of jealous rage shot
his wife, causing instant death. He
was arrested. st. John is the son of
the noted temperance lecturer and ex-
governor of Kansas.
CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT, republic
an, was elected governor of Rhode
Island over George L. Littlefeld. dem
ocrat, by 10000 plurality. The remain
der of the republican state ticket were
all elected by pluralities of about TO-
600. The next assembly will include
thirty-two republican senators, sixty
nine republican representatives, three
democratic senators and three demo-
cratic representatives. This is gain
of one senator for the democrats.
A TERRIBLE shooting affair occurred
near Morrison, Ok, between Cook,
Bennett and n woman whose name was
not learned. 1t seems that the two
men and the woman were claimants for
the same quarter section of land and
that Cook bought out the woman's in
terest and as he commenced to move
into the woman's house a fight oc-
Cured, and Cook was shot by Bennett
and instantly killed. Cook shot Ben
net through the head and he will die,
and the woman was shot through a
leg. The woman used an AK on Bennett
and inflicted serious wounds.
1T is stated by persons in a position
to speak with authority that as soon
as Venezuela is convinced that Great
Britain has finally decided not to ar
bitrate or settle the boundary dispute
as suggested by the United States
through Ambassador Bayard, the
southern republic will resort to force.
ARMOUR & Co., the Chicago packers,
have begun their new refrigerator car
service for transporting fruit from
California east. They have made a
start with 400 new cars and promise as
many more as the business may re-
quire.
A DISPATCH from Brillion, Wis, of
the 4th said that unknown persons
made an attempt to wreck the limited
express on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway. The would-be wreckers piled
ties and planks across the rails and had
it not been for an extra freight train
going south, the engineer of which saw
the obstruction in time to stop, there
would have been a bad wreck.
MORGANTowN, KY, was in fever of
excitement on the Sd over the murder
of Maj. A. j. Hamilton, the famous
originator and executor of the escape
from Libby prison in 1864. A man
named Spencer has been arrested for
the crime.
MARSHALL FIELD, of Chicago, has of
fered to the w. C. I. U. S25, 900 provided
S275,OOO more be raised by January
next, to be applied on the debt over
hanging the Woman's Temple. Lady
Somerset wrote to Mr.. Field that the
financial failure of temperance work
in Chicago would be disastrous to the
cause all over the world, and Mr.. Field |
with his Offer