The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-06-14

A To:-SADo swept the district of Mo
tola "A the province of Locce, Italy.
Property 20 the amount of Loco, 90
Tires was damaged.
1T was said that Maj. McClaughrey
of Illinois, would be warden of the
new United States prison at Leaven'
worth, Kan.
THE town OF Cameron, w. Va, place
of l, 500 people, was almost entirely de
stroyed by fire on the 9th, and the
homeless people were camping on the
hills that surround the ruins. Many
of the inhabitants lost all they pos
sessed. The loss will probably reach
100000. A special train which left
Wheeling with fire engine for the
fire was wrecked 10 miles from Cam
eron and the engineer and fireman
were killed.
AT DAVID, I. T., on the 9th, Col A.
j. Blackwell. the eccentric and wealthy
Cherokee who founded the town OF
Blackwell, in the Cherokee strip, laid
the corner stone of Solomon's temple,
a structure he is going to build to per-
petuate the Indian religion. Black
well preached the sermon and an
nounced that the structure would be
completed within two years, at cost
of $4,000.
FIFTY masked men, heavily armed,
took Joseph Fossati and Robbie Allen.
a colored woman who runs house of
i'll repute at Walla Walla, Wash, and
| applied to them a coat of tar and
feathers and ordered them to leave
town. Although Fossati is a son of a
very respectable family he was per-
sistent in living with the woman and
recently they were married.
CHICAGO democrats were said to be
badly split on the silver question. Sec
rotary Hinrichsen's proposal to pro-
vide by law how the party shall select
its candidates aroused the indignation
of the anti-silver men, who said that
such a law would disfranchise them
unconstitutionally. From every Chi
cago district two delegations will
probably be sent to the next demo-
cratic national convention.
STRoICK's planning mill and lumber
yard and nineteen dwellings at Balti-
more, Nd, were Quilted by a fire on
the 9th. The property loss was placed
at S125, 900. One hundred people were
rendered homeless. The insurance ag-
gregates $4,000.
THE John VI. Learned silk mills at
Northampton. Mass, were totally de-
stroyed by fire. About $50 hands will
be thrown out of employment The
total loss is estimated at 500, 600; in
surance. $50, 900.
DAN CREEDoN. the Australian mid
dleweight, and Billy Hennessy, of Gin
ton. Ia, were matched to meet at the
Suffolk club at Boston on June Is. The
men signed to fight twenty rounds at
15s pounds.
THREE boys, Emmett Sweeney, Pat
rick Morris and Michael Sheridan, were
drowned while bathing in Lake Erie
at Cleveland, O., on the 9th.
UNITED STATES SENATOR JOHN B.
GORDON, of Georgia, announced in az
card his permanent retirement from
politics at the end of his present term
of Office.
THE great relay bicycle race of the
red and blue between Chicago and
New York, was finished at 1856 o'clock
on the morning of the Sth. The actual
time of the race was 65 hours, 50 min
utes. This has broken all American
records for a relay race.
1T was reported by courier from Hay
den, Col, that 500 armed cattlemen had
started for the Elkhead mountain coun-
try with the intention of driving the
sheep men out. 1t was rumored that
the sheep herders were accompanied
by $50 Pinkertons and would resist
LEE HARRIS and Abe Mitchell, col
ored murderers, highwavmen and
thieves. were hanged in the Jail yard
at Birmingham, Ala, on the 9TH, before
1000 people. Both bodies were turned
over to the undertaken who had pur-
chased them for SIS from the men them
selves
FIRE, which broke out in the grain
elevator attached to the Ballentine
brewery at Newark. n. j., soon after
midnight on the Sd, caused loss of
$3.50, 600
NEAR Strassburg, so miles south of
Birmingham, Ala, the body of Jim
Powell, a negro, was found hanging to
a tree recently. Powell entered the
residence of John Bussey, a farmer
near there, and assaulted a young
daughter of the farmer The father,
hearing the girls screams, went to her
assistance, but the negro escaped.
Pursuit was given the negro by posse
and he was captured.
Two farmers living 13 miles south
east of Pond Creek, Ok, quarreled
over the settlement of pasture rent,
and as one by the name of Snider
turned around to leave the other man,
Henry, emptied load of buckshot into
his back. The murderer was arrested.
THE Illinois democratic state conven-
ton on the 5th declared in favor of the
use of both gold and silver at a ratio
of 10 to without waiting for the ac-
ton of any other nation.
THE case against NJ. j. O'Brien for
the alleged embezzlement of about
SIS, 900 belonging to the Catholic
knights of America while he was treas
urer of the order, which has been in
the courts for some time, was called at
Chattanooga, Tenn, recently, and it
was shown that the indictment was
faulty and Judge Moon said it would
be impossible to hold the prisoner on
it, but the judge said he would consider
0'Brien as prisoner who had never
been indicted by the grand jury and
his bond was fixed at $4,000, $50. 900
less than the bond he has been under.
SCULPTOR T. H. PARKS, of Chicago, is
to make bronze bust or statue of the
late Secretary Walter q Gresham.