The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-06-21

| a PORTION OF GraySon cUuz9y. Tex.
was devated by tornado on the 18th.
No lives were lost, but thousands OF
acres of crops were completely obliter-
ated.
A BOILER explosion at the Red Car
iron works near Guesborough, Eng,
resulted in the death of nine persons
and serious injury to twenty others
Four hundred persons were thrown
out of work.
THE Spanish cabinet council has de-
cided to act with the greatest vigor in
Cuba, and to dispatch $4,000 troops
there in addition to the 10000 already
under orders, and to purchase within
two months twenty gunboats.
JACOBS theater, at New York, was
almost completely destroyed by fire on
the 18th, from some unknown origin.
Immediately joining the building on
the north was a five-story tenement
house. All the people in the house
were asleep at the time the fire started
and policemen and citizens broke into
the building and drove them almost by
main force out of the building.
AN attempt was made to murder the
postmaster at Fishers Switch, north
of indianapolis, Ind, by sending him
dynamite Internal machine through
the mails. The machine contained
enough dynamite to have blown up
steamboat, but fortunately the post
master failed to observe the caution
on the box to open at given end and
opening the other end, the fuse was
not ignited. IL was sent from Cincin-
natl.
AT the general Lutheran synod at
Hagerstown. Md, on the 18th the board
of Sunday schools submitted their re-
port. 1t showed IL, 3S5 schools. 81, 500
officers and teachers and 40, 70S schol-
ars. The collection for the past year
was SIG OS2 "a, the amount for benevO-
lences being S3S. S37.4s.
THE gold fever which recently struck
Oklahoma territory is being dispelled.
An assay of the dust shows it to be
merely mica composed of zinc, cop
per and about 3 per cent. gold-nOt
enough to pay to wash. In spite of
this large numbers are still heading
for the field greatly excited.
GILBERT BowsHER, aged 4 years, of
Monticello, Ind. got angry because a
and he attacked her with stones and
killed her The authorities were puz-
zled what to do in the case.
SENATOR BRICE had a conference
with a number of party friends at
Lima, O., and he has announced his in
tention of becoming a candidate for
reelection as United States senator.
THE silver phalanX of Michigan has
organized. The organization is called
the Honest Dollar club" and claims
membership of 100, 600. composed of
all parties. A state newspaper organ
will be established.
AT Natchez Island plantation, n few
miles below Natchez. Miss, on the 18th
K. W. Dawson. a tough character,
killed Frank Macklin, manager of
the plantation. and a negro woman.
William Cont. brother-in-law of Mack
lin, had come upon Dawson and before
the latter could use his gun Shot him
dead.
THE ear and czarina of Russia re-
ceived the Armenian Catholics recently
with great ceremony at the palace at
st. Petersburg and accepted their petit
/ ton for the redress of Armenian
wrongs graciously.
THE japanese have made peaceful
occupation OF Tamsui and Taipehefu,
/ in the island of Formosa. They were
administering the customs and trade
was resumed. No further trouble was
expected.
! 1t is announced that Miss Ida Il.
/ Wells, the leader of the so-called anti
/ lynchlng crusade, will on June ~ be-
come the bride of Ferdinand L. Bar
rett, colored attorney of Chicago.
! Two small boys named Poyer were
drowned while playing on logs in the
river near Menominee, Mich, recently.
One fell in the water and the other
lost his life endeavoring to rescue his
brother The bodies have not been
/ found.
On account of $1,000 wages due the
employees of the Florence iron and
steel works at Muncie, Ind, from
the old management, 1000 men
stopped work on the 18th. The new
management wanted the men to work
I three weeks and draw one weeks pay,
but the men were afraid they would
receive no pay and threw down their
tools.