The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-08

| pool from New YORK. ana 5UO OaleS OF
cotton, 200 bales of hay. 200 bags OF
fodder and tons of fresh meat were
damaged.
Ex-QUEEN LILIUoKALANI, of Hawaii.
has been arrested on the charge OF
completely with the insurgents in the
recent outbreak and all of the in
surgent leaders have been taken into
custody and are being tried by court
martial for treason. Martial law is
maintained in Hawaii, but the recent
rebellion against the republic was q
| fiasco
AT the opening of the Cherokee strip
West Perry, Ok, was settled upon by
2,0G0 people. Six parties made appli-
cation for it as a homestead and the
1000 settlers as a townsite. the case
was tried by the register and receiver
of the Perry land Office and decided on
the cd in favor of Ii. T. Bowie, one of
the homestead claimants. This throws
1000 people out of homes and makes
the Bowie property worth over 500, 600.
A FIRE at McKeesport, Pa, destroyed
the Hotel Columbia and several stores.
The fire started in the kitchen of the
hotel and spread so rapidly that the
guests were compelled to leave in their
night clothes. One man was believed to
have been burned to death. Total loss
estimated at $4,000.
DETAILS of the burning of the ferry
boat Tiercera at Rio bay, Brazil, state
that over 100 lives were lost. The
Quinta, another ferry boat, went
alongside the burning vessel to save the
passengers, but the Quinta's passengers
compelled its officers to sheer off and
leave the burning vessel for fear their
own boat might catch fire.
FAILURES for the week ended the 1st
Dun's report) were 354 in the United
States, against $40 same time last year;
in Canada they were 54, against 81 same
time last year.
IN reply to a message of sympathy
from Queen Victoria, the agent of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Co. at
Lowestoft on the 1st telegraphed that
no hopes whatever were entertained of
any more of the passengers or crew of
the steamship Elbe having been saved.
DUN's weekly report of trade on the
2d said that things looked better near
tie close of the week because it was
believed a new national loan would be
negotiated, but business was still wait
ing. the hesitation being caused by the
condition of the treasury. During
January the prices for commodities
were the lowest ever known and the
exports of gold were the heaviest ever
made in one month.
FIRE started in the basement of the
Deaconess' hospital at Cleveland, O.,
rom the furnace. and before it could
be extinguished four of the fifteen
patients were dead and the building
almost entirely destroyed.
SPRING VALLEY, Ill, had a s2O,O fire
recently. Flames wiped out almost one
entire residence block. The insurance
was IS. 600 A little girl, in attempting
to escape from the second story of a
house, was very badly burned.
REV. w. E. HINsHAw, whose wife
was murdered by supposed burglars at
Belleville. Ind, a short time ago has
been taken to Danville charged with
the murder.
A BosToN telegram stated that the
Suffolk Athletic club had completed
arrangements for a meeting between
Peter Maher, the Irish boxer, and Jim
Hall. the Australian, before the club
on February 30, Washing.on's birth
day. The contest was to be for six
rounds, but it was understood that
Maher had promised to win in less
than that number. On March Is,
Maher and Jake Kilrain will meet be-
fore the Suffolk club.
HARRIS STEVENSON, colored, was
hanged at Dawson, Ga, for the murder
of J. G. Wells, white, last year. All
the testimony was circumstantial. He
protested his innocence on the gallows
and begged the sheriff to discover the
real murderer and bring him to justice.
THE officials of the North German
Lloyd say there were 334 persons on
board the Elbe, which was sunk
through a collision with another
steamship off the coast of England, of
whom twenty were known to be saved,
making a total of 314 persons drowned.
THE twenty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman's
Suffrage association was called to or
der at Atlanta, Ga, on the 3lst by Miss
Susan B. Anthony, its president. The
stage was decorated with the flags of
the national and state suffrage organi-
cations and the members of the conven-
tion all wore yellow badges. Rev.
Anna Howard Shaw opened the pro-
ceeedings with prayer. The roll of
delegates was called by Miss Alice
Stone Blackwell, recording secretary,
and a majority of the states were found
to be represented.
THE Denver, Col, Rocky Mountain
News published a dispatch from Gen
J. Il. Weaver saying that as the presi-
dent had ignored silver and reiterated
his purpose to force upon the people
the single gold standard and had called
for the destruction of the greenbacks
and the issue of gold bonds, the people
in all sections of the country ought to
unite in opposition to the scheme and
meet the issue presented.
WILLIAM WARD, who works at the
section house of the Houston & Texas
railroad near Millican, Tex, COM
menced shooting through the windows
of the section house, killing four men
and wounding two. He also set fire to
the house, but it was put out The
doctor who examined the dead and
wounded had his horse stolen from the
front of the house. Itwas supposed to
have been taken by Ward.
a MOVEMENT favoring annexation
with the United States has been in
augurated at st. Johns, y. f. The
town was placarded with bills advocat-