The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-24
GENERAL NEWS.


A TURKISH pilgrim steamer, carrying
Mahommedan pilgrims going to Mecca,
was wrecked on the Red sea on the
18th. There were 700 persons on board,
but all were saved.
THE oldest business block in Ben
nettsville, 5. c. was burned on the 10th,
seven stores being destroyed. Loss,
SIS, 600
FIRE destroyed Foster Bros grain
house and E. L. Smith & Co.'S feed
store at Guthrie, Ok, recently.
JOHN BARRY, shift boss. and James
McGarvin, miner, were killed in the
Anaconda mine at Butte, Mont, re-
Gently. The former was blasted, -
while the latter was struck by a de-
scending cage in a shaft.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, was gaily
decorated on the 18th in honor of the
opening of the silver conference
Everywhere fioated flags, bunting and
free coinage emblems. The first car.
riage in the big procession contained
the governors of Utah, Montana and
idaho, with ex-Gov. Prince, of New
Mexico. The Tabernacle was reached
at noon, where an immense audience
had assembled. Gov. West delivered
an address of welcome, saying that all
conditions were favorable to the silver
sentiment in Utah.
TIE failures for the week ended May
l. Dun's report were 211 in the United
States, against PIG last year, and 81 in
Canada. against "a last year.
JOHN HOwERToN, a white man, was
recently strung up by the neck by a
mob at Marion, KY, for an assault on
a 16-year-old girl. The jail where the
man was confined was stormed and the
prisoner was seized and strangled in
slaughter house.
A MAD dog recently attacked big
flock of sheep belonging to William
Keller, of Tiffin. o., biting a large
number of them. Nineteen were killed
outright. Nine more went mad and
had to be killed and on the 18th, on
the order of the township trustees,
Keller killed the remaining $50. Their
carcasses were burned to prevent a
further spread of the rabies.
A RESOLUTION ordering a general sus-
pension of work in all the mines in the
Pittsburgh, Pa, district was adopted
at the miners convention on the 10th.
The operators say they will now bring
new men into their mines. If they DO
there will likely be serious trouble.
A QUEER suit in the circuit court at
Hodgenville. Ky, on the 18th resulted
IN hung jury. 1t was a suit over
i-20Oth part of an acre of land, which
E7as valued at S. per acre. The cost
tas amounted to over $500, while the
and was valued at 21I cents.
THE Illinois house has passed the
senate bill appropriating $685. 200 to
erect monuments to mark, the position
occupied by Illinois troops at the bat
lies of Chickamauga. Lookout noun
tain and Missionary ridge.
THE convention of the Catholic
Knights of America at Omaha, Neb.,
On the 18th considered the proposition
Of inviting Catholic bodies of similar
character to consolidate with it. No
definite action was taken, but the indi-
cations were that something of the
kiAd would be done.
An explosion occurred in the new
school building at Sleepy Eye, Mimi,
at midnight recently and in an instant
the structure was in flames from found
alton to tower. In the basement was
the village electric light plant. The
total loss was So. 500; insurance, S2S,-
800. The cause of the explosion was
mystery.
IT was learned on the 18th from the
driver of the mail stage between San
Carlos and the abandoned post, Fort
Thomas, Ariz, that the renegade
Apaches had a fight with the Indians
on the reservation, killing one squaw,
iujuring several others and carrying
one away.
NOSES KRoHN, of Cincinnati, has
been elected president of the Cigar
Manufacturers National association in
session at Chicago.
THE La Fama cotton mills, at Mon
terey, Mex. have been destroyed by
fire. They were the largest in north
ern Mexico, and the loss is placed at
Sc. 900