The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05
GENER Al NEWS.

prohloltlon candldate Tor president OF
the United States
GENERAL NEWS.
A LARGE proportion of the liquor
dealers in the upper forty-nine coun-
ties of Iowa retired from business on
the 29th. 1t was said that the falling
of of business had been such that it
would not be profitable to renew the
government license and pay the sec
Und installment of the mulct tax.
The failures for the week ended june
IS (Dun's report were 255 in the United
States, against PA last year, and % in
Canada, against 35 last year.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi. Harry T. Hay
ward, now in Jail under sentence of
death for the murder of Catherine Cling,
has made formal application to the
New York Life and Travellers Accident
insurance companies for the SO, 600 in
suraGoe On the life of his victim. The
executors of Miss Ging's estate will
bring action to have the assignment of
the policies to Hayward set aside as
fraudulent
THE international supreme lodge of
Good Templars opened its convention
in Boston on the Goth. Secretary B.
E Parl1er's report showed a loss of
1900 members in America, Canada and
Australia, while gains had been made
N Africa, India, Germany. Switzer.
land, Scandinavia and Great Britain
The total membership in this country
Is now 500, sos.
A DISPATCH from Cleveland, O., on
the 27th said that tornado occurred
At Put-in-Bay islands late on the after
noon of the Goth. One wall of the
brick town hall was blown down, half
the trees in Victory park were up
rooted and great havoc was wrought
IN the peach orchards. The storm
lasted half an hour, and was said to
have been the worst in the history of
the place. 1t caused CONSERVATION
among the campers and summer board
erS
IMMEDIATELY after the adjournment
of the recent silver convention in
Memphis, Tenn, a number of leading
democrats outlined plans for an organ
ization of free silver men within the
democratic party for the purpose of
carrying on the silver campaign with
IN party lines. An address has since
been sent to democratic leaders
throughout the country inviting them
to meeting in Washington on August
Il for the purpose above mentioned.
The call is signed by Isham G. Harris,
J. K Jones and David Turpie.
A MISSOURI. KANSAS & TEXAS freight
train was badly wrecked near McAles-
ter. l. t. on the 26th. Eight or nine
Ears including one car of stock, were
derailed and the cars smashed.
AT McRae's lumber camp, near VAL
nOsta, Ga, where convicts are en-
ployed, Henry Williams, a guard. was
IN the act of tying chain with which
the convicts were chained together,
when Sam Johnson Drained him with
m Ak. Another guard was attacked
by Abe Williams at the same time and
viii die The convicts literally cut
their way to liberty.
TKE convention of the Railway Yard
masters association of the United
States and Canada convened at Dem
yer, Col, disbanded the old organiza-
ton and formed new one under the
name of the National Yardmasters' as
sociation
Two boys. aged and s, were drowned
while bathing in the stock tank near
Lovelady, Tex.
Gov ALrGELn, of Illinois, informed
committee from the democratic house
caucus at Springfield that if the legis-
Isture now convened in special session
adjourned without acting on the mat.
tiers mentioned in his proclamation he
world in week or two reassemble the
legislature
WESLEY BIRSEY. farmer, at Cadiz,
O., left his 5-year-old boy TO attend
horse while he picked few cherries
The boy tied the hhitehing strap about
his waist. The horse ran of, dragging
the boy under his hoofs through three
fences His body caught in the rails
of one fence and was pulled through
crushing it almost to jelly.
DURING religions p.5c5ss:on at San
MatteO. near Ferrol. port and one of
the principal arsenals of Spain. dis
pute arose as to who should carry the
picture of the patron saint. The crowd
fought with knives. sticks and revolv-
ers and forty were injured, including
the parish priest.
A wINDsroRM, accompanied by rain,
thunder and lightning, swept over
Quincy. Ill. on the evening of the 2eth
and did great damage. Trees were
torn up by the roots. telegraph. tele-
Phcne and electric light wires pros
trated and windows broken in all parts
of town. Several small buildings were
struck by lightning and burned.