The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-13

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for the Americas cup between the
American yacht Defender and the Eng
lish yacht Valkyrie Ill took place a
New York on the eth, the Defender win
ming the race by a margin of minutes
and 49 seconds
TIE masonic temple IN Boston. wa.
ruined by fire on the 7th. In less thar
an hour the roof of the magnificent
building fell in, carrying down wha
the fire had left of the three upper
stories and making hopeless the tasl
of saving anything but the two lower
floors The library and the museum
of relics escaped serious damage. II
was believed the loss would amount Il
$500, 900.
THE Nashville, Tenn, baseball clui
won the Southern league pennant
FIRE broke out in the osceola copper
mine, near Houghton, Mich. and abou
thirty miners were entombed, and i
was feared they had all been suffocat
ed by gas, all hope having been giver
up by the officials of ever rescuing any
of the men alive.
AT Specht's ferry, a small station or
the Milwaukee road, 12 miles above
Dubuque, Ia. boy was shooting hi
rifle off near his home under which 60t
pounds of dynamite was stored. Ht
was warned of the danger by passing
neighbor, but fired another shot aftel
the warning was given, when the dy
Mantle exploded and wrecked the
building, killing four people and also
the boy and injuring three others. be
sides doing considerable damage tc
property in the neighborhood.
GEN. J. B. GORDON has given notice
to the United Confederate Veteran:
that they have been invited to the At
lanta exposition on September 81 by
the authorities.
LATE on the night of the eth party
of Irishmen invaded Lion park, n. Y.
where the Lafayette guard was cele'
brating an anniversary, tore down the
British flags, which together with all
other nations formed part of the wall
decorations, and trampled them under
foot amid the shouts and jeers of the
onlookers. The appearance of the po'
lice alone prevented a riot.
A RECENT dispatch to the Novo
Vremya, at st. Petersburg, stated that
cholera was raging in China and that
1000 deaths occurred daily in Pekin.
A DISASTROUS fire visited Liverpool
n. s, on the sth and a great part OF
the town was destroyed, entailing q
loss of about $4,000.
MEXICAN customs officers reported
that the schooner Garlock, from Lake
Charles, La, was wrecked of the Mex
can coast in the storm of August 90,
the six persons on board being all lost.
FOUR Japanese belonging to the
Christian mission in San Francisco, had
a meal at a Chinese restaurant recently
and were afterwards taken sick and
the doctors pronounced them poisoned.
After a few hours of agony one died
and the lives of the others were de-
SPARED of. 1t was presumed that the
enmity between the two nations was
the cause of the crime.
AN edict has been issued by the Chi
cago Telephone Co. forbidding the
girls to report in bicycling costume at
any hour of the day or night.
THE Wild West show train of Paw
nee Bill was dashed into by wild car
running down a grade at Pine Bluff,
Ark, and about half dozen persons
were severely injured.
The Silver City and Delmar stage in
Idaho was held up by three masked
men near the point of previous hold
ups The robbers got the treasure
box, but there was nothing but small
package of jewelry in it.
JAMES WARD murdered his father-in-
law, Aaron Hunter, and his brother-in-
law, John Hunter, by cutting off their
heads at Sullivan, Ind. He was pur-
sued by mob, but just as he was about
to be captured took his own life.
Mrs NICHOLAS Ohm, JR., and her
father-in-law, Nicholas Ohm, Sr., were
killed by being run down on a cross
ing by the Cincinnati express on the
B. & o. railroad near Reilly station.
The steamboat Vern Swain, between
Clinton and Davenport, Ia, was caught
in storm and wrecked. The passen-
gers were panic stricken. and Stephen
Church, who went out in boat to cast
anchor, was drowned.
FRED SHELAND, in Jail at Duluth,
Mimi, charged with the murder oi
Peter Gordon, committed suicide in
jail a few minutes before the grand
jury acquitted him of the charge.
BRIG.-GEN. A. v. KAUTz, a hero oi
the Mexican and civil wars, died al
Seattle, Wash, on the 5th. He had
spent lifetime as a soldier, and since
1865 had served on the New Mexican
frontier. where he kept in check trou
blesome Apaches: in Arizona, Cali
fornia and Nebraska
FRED TITUS. L. d. Cabanne and
Charles NJ. Murphy, the suspended
class B men. have been reinstated by
Chairman Gideon, of the L. A. w. ma
tional racing board, pending an in.
quirv into the recent alleged LOB" al
the Pastime track in St Louis
THE propeller Christiana i. Forbes
running between Bay City and Sagi
nav, Mich, was burned to the waters
edge on the 4th, a load of prairie hay
on board taking fire The passengers
were safely landed, but they lost all
bnclr odgBdSc- Inc oodI was rdeCu ~
$50, 600 and was fully insured.
The commander-in-chiefo of the G. A.
E has made public an invitation to
the comrades of the organization to be
present at the Atlanta exposition on
blue and Gay" day, September 81.
and he trusts that large number will
be present
AT Elk Garden, w. Va, twenty
dwellings and stores were destroyed
by fire recently
The roundhouse of the Long Branch