The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-25

which caused great loss of life. On
. hundred women who were in a bat
house were crushed to death by tn
, falling walls.
THE body of Barrett Scott, the Hol
county, Neb., defaulting treasurer. ha
: been found in the Niobrara river. IL
had been hanged.
JUDGE LYMAN TRUMBULL died sud
denly at his home in Chicago.
STEAMER State of Missouri struck g
rock in the Ohio river and sunk in tel
minutes Thirty-ive people said to b
drowned.
THE Quapaw Indians have petitioneC
the secretary of fhe interior to allo
them 200 acres of land each.
The Interstate Fair association o.
Sioux City, Ia, has been placed in tn,
hands of receiver. There are $40, ,OOt
in claims against the institution.
AT South Whitley, Ind, Misses Nora
and Alice Norris were run down by g
freight train on the Wabash railroad
while driving across the track. They
were dragged quite a distance and
killed.
The japanese general, Nodsu, has
won another victory over the Chinese
at Hal Chang.
A MONSTER meeting of secret socie-
ties was held at Seattle, Wash, on the
Goth to denounce the pope's bull in
reference to their organizations An
other meeting was called for the fol-
lowing Sunday.
A LONG expected meeting of district
assembly No. 90, K. of L., was held in
Providence, r. l., and it resulted in
the passage of resolutions denouncing
the high officials of the organization
and cautioning workmen to beware of
them.
In the vicinity of Dunsmuir, Cal, the
snow was to 10 feet deep on the goth.
OWING to masses of timber, etc,
swept by the thrush of water in the
Dig Lake mine at Audley, Stafford
shire, Eng, all hope of rescuing the
ninety-two men who did not succeed in
escaping has been abandoned. Gangs
of rescuers have been at work night
and day in efforts to reach the en-
tombed men.
Four prisoners escaped Jail at Perry,
Ok, on the 18th. A negro trusty caught
the night guard, tied his hands behind
him, gagged him by stuffing his mouth
with old rags and then pried the bars
from several doors and escaped. Three
horsethieves got away. L. ). Gardner,
who was in Jail for murder, united the
guard and gave the alarm.
ALL business was suspended in
Butte, Mont, on the 18th, wher the
bodies of thirty victims of the terrible
giant powder explosion of the 18th
were consigned to their graves. The
military, civic societies and all fire de-
partments of the state marched in the
procession and all buildings were
draped. Behind the dead firemen rode
James Flannery, sole survivor of the
crew.
SAM G, HOTALING, a farmer living
near Fairmont, Mimi, bought Win
chester rife and killed his wife and
her mother and father. He then fed
to an unoccupied house, where a sher-
ifs posse pursued him, and he was
killed by a shot in the temple, the
posse stating that it was self-infiicted.
News has been received of a revolu-
tion in Hawaii. Nearly POO rovalists
were arrested. There was much fight
ing, but the government forces had
practically overcome the revolutionists.
FAILURES for the week ended the
18th Oun's report were 373 in the
United States, against 4O7 same time
last year; in Canada 60, against 46 last
year.
JOHN HANCE, a resident of Cowden,
Ill, was standing in front of store
when he was shot by some person or
persons who were some distance away
in the darkness. Five bullets pierced
his body. causing instant death. A
woman was the supposed cause.
NJ. FELIX FAURE was elected presi-
dent of the republic of France by the
national assembly on the 18th. In
spite of the political crisis there was
hardly trace of excitement in Paris.
THE Oregon republicans in caucus
nominated Senator Dolph to succeed
himself in the United States senate.
The vote stood: Dolph, 40; Fulton, II;
Tongue, IL: scattering, 9.
IL the Idaho house a resolution TO
submit the woman's suffrage amend
ment to the voters at the next general
election passed. 1t will be signed at
once by the governor.
JAMES URQUHART, aged 75, a wealthy
resident of Chehalls, Wash, was dis
suaded by his children from marrying
Miss Myrtle Blanchard, a girl of Is,
and in two hours from the time fixed
for the marriage ceremony the old man
was served with papers in suit for
breach of promise, claiming $4,000
damages.
Gov. Brown, of Kentucky, pardoned
George McGee. convict in the peni-
tentiary. McGee, while serving three
years sentence, murdered Charles
Thomas, colored, a fellow convict. lie
was tried and sentenced to be hanged.
The pardon was issued in order to al
low his latter sentence to take its
course.
AMONG the passengers by the Empress
OF Japan, who arrived at Vancouver, b.
c., from the Orient, was Paul Jones'"
who started from Boston to travel
around the world on a wager. He left
without cent or clothes and had to
accomplish the trip in a certain time
besides earning 5000. He had 81, 500
and had three weeks in which to get
back to Boston.
Two men were killed and two others
injured by boiler explosion at the 40
inch mill in the Carnegie steel works
at Homestead. Pa. The boiler room was
completely wrecked, entailing a loss of
$4,000.
CHIEF KEoKUK and three associates
of the Sac and Fox Indian delegation